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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Australia have been fined for a slow over rate during the second Test against India in Brisbane which concluded on Saturday.
The elite panel of ICC referees found Steven Smith’s side were three overs short of their target and the skipper was fined 60 per cent of his match fee and his team-mates docked 30 per cent of their fees.
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Dale Steyn is the finest seam bowler on the planet, says Bob Willis.
South Africa star Steyn produced a breath-taking spell of bowling at Centurion on Saturday morning, taking 6-34 to help the Proteas skittle out West Indies and win the first of three Tests by an innings and 220 runs.
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Gary Ballance is set for a recall to England’s one-day squad this morning as the Eoin Morgan era begins.
Morgan will be confirmed as the replacement for outgoing captain Alastair Cook when a 15-man squad is named for January’s three-team series against Australia and India.
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Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal made his return to competitive cricket on Friday and hopes to play in next year’s World Cup.
Ajmal has spent the last three months remodelling his action after being suspended by the International Cricket Council.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board has chosen Headingley and Old Trafford as hosts for the 2019 Ashes Test Series ahead of Trent Bridge and Cardiff.
Lord’s, The Oval and Edgbaston will host the other three Ashes contests with Nottingham and the Welsh capital both missing out after being named as venues for the visit of Australia in 2015.
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Nick Compton has rejoined Middlesex a month after leaving Somerset.
The England batsman has signed a three-year contract and returns to the county where he came through the positions and spent eight years before leaving in 2009.
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Nathan Lyon believes Australia’s bowlers will fostered by the fact Virat Kohli shrugged off a hit to the helmet in Adelaide.
India batsman Kohli was hit by a Mitchell Johnson bouncer on day three of the initial Test, two weeks after Phillip Hughes got a fateful blow in a Sheffield Shield match.
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David Warner dedicated his “best” Test hundred to late teammate Phillip Hughes after racking up three amounts for Australia on day one against India.
Warner posted 145 at The Adelaide Oval on Tuesday in The Baggy Greens’ first match since Hughes passed away after being hit in the neck with a bouncer from Sean Abbott in a Sheffield Shield game.
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Pakistan all rounder Mohammad Hafeez continues to be suspended for an illegal bowling action from the International Cricket Council.
he’s the second Pakistan player after Saeed Ajmal to face sanction within the past three months.
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Hampshire threesome Jimmy Adams, James Tomlinson and Danny Briggs have all signed new contracts which will keep them at the county before the finish of the 2016 season.
The deals for the three players were due to expire in the conclusion of next season, nevertheless they’ve all elected to stay at Hampshire.
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England will soon be looking to claw their way back to the ODI series with Sri Lanka when match three takes place, live on Sky Sports 2, on Wednesday.
Alastair Cook’s side slipped 2-0 down in the seven-match series following defeats in Colombo by 26 runs and eight wickets respectively.
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South Africa have recalled left-arm spinner Robin Peterson for the three-Test home series against the West Indies.
Peterson returns as the sole specialist spinner as Imran Tahir has been dropped and Dane Piedt is ruled out through injury for the top-graded Test nation.
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Devon Smith has replaced Chris Gayle in the West Indies squad for his or her forthcoming tour of South Africa.
The lefthander last played a Test three-and-a-half years ago but has experienced good form domestically, scoring a hundred and two half centuries in his last three matches for the Windward Islands.
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Australia captain Michael Clarke has offered Sean Abbott, who bowled the ball which resulted in the departure of batsman Phillip Hughes, his total support in returning to the sport.
The 22-year old, that has played in three Twenty20 internationals as well as a one-dayer for Australia, is understood to possess experienced counselling because the injury at Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday.
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Quick bowler Boyd Rankin and batsman Sam Hain have signed long term deals with Warwickshire.
Rankin, 30, has put pen to paper on a three-year contract, while the 19-year old Hain has agreed a four-year deal.
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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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England were frustrated by rain in Colombo as their final warm-up match was abandoned without a ball being bowled.
The tourists were due to take on a Sri Lanka A side for the second time in three days ahead of the first one-day international on Wednesday.
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Glamorgan have signed South Africa batsman Colin Ingram on a three-year deal under the Kolpak ruling.
Ingram, whose deal is subject to clearance from Cricket South Africa, has played 31 one-day internationals for his country, although the last of those was more than a year ago against Pakistan in Dubai.
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Gloucestershire have awarded batsman Ian Cockbain a new contract which keeps him at Bristol until 2017.
Cockbain has scored 1751 first class runs in the past three seasons, plus 1005 in one-day cricket and 771 in Twenty20.
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