Australia-W vs New Zealand-W, Match 18

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ICC U19 World Cup 2020
Farhan Zakhil, the opening batsman, will lead Afghanistan's Under-19 set-up in the upcoming Under-19 World Cup to be held in South Africa in January and February next year. The 16-year-old, who has already played 13 first-class games, made his Under-19 debut when Afghanistan took on India in March this year. He also led the side in the Under-19 Asia Cup and the recently-concluded one-day series versus India. The right-handed batsman already has three first-class hundreds, including an unbeaten 167 against the Boost Region.

BBL09
Former Australia wicketkeeper Julia Price will be the first woman to coach in the Big Bash League. Price will join Brisbane Heat's support staff as an assistant to head coach Darren Lehmann.Price, who has previously coached the Hobart Hurricanes in the Women's Big Bash League for three years, confirmed her new role on Channel Seven's broadcast. "I'm pretty excited about that, I have to admit," she said. "I'm looking forward to the opportunity to be around the guys and seeing how they do it differently to what the girls do.

Ranji Trophy 2019-20
India's premier domestic competition will get underway on Monday (December 9) for the 86th time in its rich history. The BCCI has opted to stick to the same format as last year with the knockouts set to commence by the end of February. The top five teams from Group A and Group B combined will progress to the knockouts with the top two from Group C and the top team from the plate group joining them. With some of India's regulars expected to feature this time, we could well in store for a very competitive tournament in the league stage.

England Tour of South Africa, 2019-20
Faf du Plessis has endorsed South Africa's new power structure, which was installed less than three weeks before he is due to lead his team in a men's Test series against England. And he is mindful that not much time remains to stop the rot that has afflicted the wider game from leaping the boundary.

Sri Lanka Tour of Pakistan, 2019
Sri Lanka was dealt a blow ahead of the two-match Test series in Pakistan after pace spearhead Suranga Lakmal got ruled out of the tour with dengue. Lakmal has been replaced by youngster Asitha Fernando in the squad.

ICC Under-19 World Cup, 2020
Zimbabwe has named Dion Myers as captain of a squad with a few experienced players for the Under-19 World Cup, scheduled to be held from January 17 in South Africa. Wesley Madheverere, who has been picked as Myers's deputy, will be featuring in his third Under-19 World Cup after having debuted in the 2016 edition in Bangladesh at the age of 15. Zimbabwe has also picked left-arm spinner Milton Shumba, who was also part of Zimbabwe's squad in the previous edition of the tournament in New Zealand in 2018.

West Indies Tour of India, 2019
Virat Kohli, the Indian skipper, blamed his team's fielding efforts after their eight-wicket loss to West Indies in Thiruvananthapuram, on Sunday, and said that 'if you field like that, no total is big enough'.

Injury Update
New Zealand pace spearheads Trent Boult and allrounder Colin de Grandhomme have been cleared to tour Australia ahead of the first Test in Perth, on Friday (December 6). Both cricketers have made progress with their respective injuries and successfully came through a training session in Mount Maunganui. Boult sustained a side strain injury and was unable to bowl more than once over on the final day of the first Test against England. Meanwhile, de Grandhomme suffered a tear to his left lower abdominal muscle in the same game. Subsequently, both were ruled out of the second Test in Hamilton.

U19 World Cup, 2020
Rohail Nazir, the wicketkeeper-batsman, will lead a 15-man Pakistan squad for the Under-19 World Cup to be held in South Africa in January and February next year. Naseem Shah, who recently made his Test debut versus Australia, has also been included.

CSA Mess
Push came to shove for Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Friday (December 6) when the national men's team's title sponsor announced the imminent end of their involvement with the organization. The decision has everything to do with the toxicity of being aligned to a game in deepening crisis, and that is likely to hamper cricket's ability to secure new backing.

Pakistan News
Pakistan's drubbing in Australia has left Azhar Ali hurt but the captain believes the experience will help his young bowling unit fare better in the future. They lost the three-match T20I series 0-2 and then suffered heavy defeats - by an innings and five runs and by an innings and 48 runs - in the two Tests in Brisbane and Adelaide.

West Indies' Tour of India, 2019
During a crucial knock of 62 off 40 deliveries in the first T20I against West Indies in Hyderabad, KL Rahul became the joint third-fastest to 1000 T20I runs - reaching the milestone in 29 innings. With two hundred and seven half-centuries so far in his career, Rahul is joint third on the list for most fifty-plus scores by Indians, his average of 43.16 is the second-best for India after Virat Kohli, while his strike rate of 145.91 is the best among those the Indian players who have scored 1000 or more in T20Is.

West Indies' Tour of India, 2019
Even superheroes are not infallible nor undefeatable and will have to sometimes find their way out. It's a theme that isn't often brought into the spotlight. If you'd look for a cricketing equivalent of the finale of Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight', then maybe Virat Kohli's Hyderabad knock in the first T20I against West Indies could feature as an option. Even Kohli wouldn't advise youngsters watching to pick up anything from the first half of his career-best T20I score.

BPL 2019-20
Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan has said on Friday that there will be an agent from the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) with each participating teams in the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League, scheduled to start from December 11.

IPL Auction
Bangladesh Cricket Board has allowed Mustafizur Rahman to register for the Indian Premier League auction to regain his form. In July last year, the board had barred the pacer from playing T20 leagues because of injury concerns.

New Appointment
Mickey Arthur has been unveiled as the new 'consultant' head coach of Sri Lanka's men's cricket team. The 51-year-old South African takes over from Rumesh Ratnayake, who served in the role in an interim capacity. Ratnayake filled in for the home series against Sri Lanka and the limited-overs series in Pakistan after then-incumbent Chandika Hathurusinghe had to be let go with the country's sports ministry dissatisfied with the team's results through the first half of 2019.

West Indies in India, 2019
As a part of ICC's latest technology trial, third umpires will call front-foot no-balls in the upcoming T20I and ODI series between India and the West Indies. The on-field umpires in the series will otherwise remain responsible for other in-game decisions as usual.

CSA Crisis
Some of Thabang Moroe's best friends are Cricket South Africa (CSA) board members. That remains true even as pressure, from inside and outside the organization, mounts on the under-fire chief executive to resign. But the previously strong bond between Moroe and CSA's president, Chris Nenzani, has been broken. Now Moroe's remaining allies on the board are aiming Nenzani for the mess the game is in. That is hardly surprising considering other alliances will need to be strengthened before Nenzani, having overstayed his welcome by a year, vacates his position in 2020.

Ireland Tour of West Indies, 2020
Ireland has picked a relatively young squad for the upcoming tour of West Indies. Josh Little and Barry McCarthy return to the T20I squad, while Shane Getkate, Stuart Thompson and David Delany have been left out, as the selectors have pruned the squad down from 15 members to 14 now.

New Signings
Melbourne Renegades have signed the Pakistani duo of Faheem Ashraf and Usman Shinwari for the upcoming season of the Big Bash League. While the left-arm pacer, Shinwari, will be available for the first seven games of the season for the defending champions, the all-rounder Ashraf will be there for eight matches. They will be replaced by England's Harry Gurney and Afghanistan's Mohammad Nabi respectively for the remainder of the tournament.

The Hundred
Eoin Morgan and Heather Knight will lead the London Spirit men's and women's team respectively in the inaugural edition of The Hundred in 2020. The franchise has also appointed Trevor Griffin as the women's head coach, who in turn announced Heather as the women's captain.

Back in the Set-up
Jeetan Patel has been appointed as the spin bowling consultant of the England national men's team for the tours of South Africa and Sri Lanka, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Wednesday (December 4).

ICC Test Rankings
Virat Kohli has edged ahead of Steve Smith to become the top-ranked batsman in Tests once again. Kohli is now on 928 points, which is five points clear of Smith's tally.

England in South Africa, 2019
Russell Domingo couldn't look sheepish if he tried. Not that he did try as he sat down behind the microphones at Sodden Park on March 29, 2017. Apologies: that should read Seddon Park. Perhaps not. All around, Hamilton was indeed sodden. The rain that had woken Kane Williamson at 4 am had continued to fall for several more hours: "I was sort of hoping that it might stop or it might come a little early and fine up."

KPL Troubles
Sudhindra Shinde, former Karnataka cricketer and member of KSCA's managing committee, became the latest person arrested concerning the KPL corruption scandal. Bengaluru Police arrested Shinde, 39, on Wednesday (December 4) for allegedly conspiring to fix games in the 2019 edition of the domestic T20 tournament along with the Belgavi Panthers team owner Ashfaq Ali Thara.

Rip Bob Willis
Former England captain and fast bowler Bob Willis has passed away, aged 70 after a short illness. Willis represented England in 90 Tests in an international career spanning 13 years between 1971 and 1984, finishing with 325 wickets at 25.2 - fourth-best for England behind James Anderson, Stuart Broad, and Ian Botham. He also played 64 ODIs.

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