South Africa have called-up uncapped batsman Rilee Rossouw to replace injured Quinton de Kock for the second Test against the West Indies.
The 25-year-old has yet to play a Test, with his international experience limited to nine one-day games and three Twenty20 matches.
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Gary Ballance has been recalled to a 15-man England World Cup squad that includes neither Ben Stokes nor outgoing captain Alastair Cook.
Cook’s fate was sealed once Eoin Morgan’s appointment as the new one-day skipper was decided at Friday’s selection meeting, while all-rounder Stokes pays the price for a recent record of four wickets and 84 runs in eight games.
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England’s selectors will meet on Friday to decide whether Alastair Cook leads the one-day side at next year’s World Cup.
Defeat over seven games in Sri Lanka took Cook’s record as captain to five defeats in seven series, and it was a lean tour with the bat as the opener scored 119 runs in six innings.
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After falling to a 5-2 series defeat in Sri Lanka, we asked our team of pundits to pick apart what is going wrong for England in ODI cricket and if any positives could be taken from the series ahead of the World Cup in February.
Sir Ian Botham
“I don’t think he should be nailed down as captain and from his interview it seems that if he doesn’t score runs in the warm-up games he probably won’t be considered for the World Cup. He is a lovely lad but is he one of our best one-day players? I don’t think he is. So the selectors have to start thinking.”
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Sir Ian Botham is backing England to level the ODI series with Sri Lanka in Pallekele on Saturday.
The tourists kept the series alive using a critical five-wicket triumph in Pallekele in a rain-delayed match on Thursday and now trail 3-2 with two matches to play.
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Suspended away-spinner Sachithra Senanayake continues to be contained in Sri Lanka’s provisional 30-man squad for next year’s cricket World Cup.
Senanayake is serving a suspension after his bowling action was deemed illegal. He’s taken restorative work and is expecting results of a different test that will discover if he could be permitted to bowl again in international games.
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England will take to the West Indies and Pakistan in World Cup warmup matches.
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Kumar Sangakkara is in line to maintain wicket against England on Wednesday after Sri Lanka named a 15-man squad.
Dinesh Chandimal, who wore the gloves in the last two matches of a 5-0 series defeat to India, continues to be left from the group for the initial three of seven games against England.
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Australia Test opener Chris Rogers was made to pull away from a day-night game because he cannot see the pink ball on trial.
The new balls are being examined through the cricket world to find out when they are able to function as the most successful for the ever more popular day-night games.
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The West Indies Cricket Board has apologised “unreservedly” after the fall of its side’s tour of India.
A dispute with all the touring players came to your head through the fourth one-day international, leading the Indian cricket authorities (BCCI) to release a statement asserting the remaining five scheduled matches wouldn’t go ahead.
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Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale has been banned for two games and ordered to undertake an anger management course following an incident during last month’s County Championship clash with arch-rivals Lancashire.
The 30-year-old admitted the offence of verbally abusing South African batsman Ashwell Prince towards the end of the penultimate day of an ill-tempered Roses clash at Old Trafford.
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Middlesex batsman Dawid Malan has been rewarded for his good form with a new three-year contract which will keep him at the club until the end of the 2017 season at least.
The 27-year-old, who has played more than 260 first XI games for the club after joining in 2006, notched 1,137 runs last year at an average of more than 45.
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Scotland will soon be captained by batsman Preston Mommsen during their tour of Australia and New Zealand.
The 26-year old will take charge ahead of routine skipper Kyle Coezter, although the Northants opener a part of the squad which faces 50-over matches from the Tasmanian Tigers and Queensland Academy of Sport XIs before heading to New Zealand to play a Kiwi invitational XI and three national first class sides.
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Former Middlesex captain Neil Dexter has agreed a contract extension to stay at the county until the end of next season.
The 30-year-old all-rounder moved to Middlesex five years ago from Kent and has gone on to play more than 215 games for the club, scoring over 6,600 runs and taking 137 wickets.
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George Bailey has stepped down as captain of Australia’s T20 side in order to focus on reviving his Test career.
Bailey, 31, will miss the sole T20 against Pakistan in the UAE in October as well as the three games against South Africa in November, with opening batsman Aaron Finch the favourite to succeed him.
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