A round-up of the opening day of Group C matches in the fourth round of the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy

Queensland closed the third day needing a further 314 for victory with nine wickets in hand

Dean Elgar's 117, du Plessis' 102, and the pair's 179-run stand helped South Africa score 489 in their final warm-up game before the Test series

In a reflection of the strides they made in last week's agonising defeat in Chittagong, Bangladesh's odds to secure a Test victory over England have been hacked back from 13/2 ahead of the first Test

West Indies women have recalled Jamaican allrounder Chedean Nation after a gap of nearly seven years, for the ODIs and T20s in India next month

Martin Guptill, New Zealand's opener, flourished with an impressive 84-ball 72 that helped his side to their first victory of the tour by beating India by a 19-run margin in the fourth ODI played in Ranchi on Wednesday.

Centuries from Callum Ferguson and Tom Cooper put South Australia in a dominant position as they ended the second day of their day-night Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia with a lead of 203

The BCCI has submitted an affidavit with the Supreme Court saying that 12 state associations have transferred funds received from the board between September 26 and October 1, 2016 to a term deposit

Also: Vijay Shankar returns for Tamil Nadu, and Delhi coach KP Bhaskar urges Rishabh Pant to show match awareness

New South Wales closed the second day in Brisbane 48 runs ahead of Queensland after David Warner went to stumps unbeaten on 41 off 35 balls

The former first-class wicketkeeper Hemantha Devapriya will take charge of the team ahead of the ICC Women's Championship Qualifiers in November

Zimbabwe quicks Tendai Chatara and Tinashe Panyangara are unfit, and hence have not been picked for the upcoming home Tests against Sri Lanka

Several Pakistan players have risen in the ICC's Test rankings after they beat West Indies in Abu Dhabi to claim the three-Test series 2-0

A round-up of the fourth round of Quaid-e-Azam 2016-17 matches, also featuring a counterattacking hundred from Kamran Akmal

Having spent over three hours at the crease on his return from a hamstring injury, Shaun Marsh, not only led Western Australia's efforts against South Australia in the Sheffield Shield but also took strides to retain his spot as Test opener

Brett Geeves recalls his tour of South Africa with the Australian team in 2009 to illustrate the strange realities of working as a professional cricketer

West Indies A's bowlers combined to successfully defend their total of 267 and pick up a 165-run win in the first unofficial ODI against Sri Lanka A in Dambulla