Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab, IPL 2018, Mumbai

Talking Points: KL Rahul or bust for Kings XI

May 16, 2018: The opener has scored a third of his team's total runs in IPL 2018

BCCI news

Amicus curiae in favour of five-member selection panel, vote for Railways

May 16, 2018: Gopal Subramanium has also asked if the three current BCCI office bearers should demit office since their tenure has expired

Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab, IPL 2018, Mumbai

Bumrah and Pollard keep Mumbai alive

May 16, 2018: KL Rahul struck 94 off 60 and Andrew Tye claimed 4 for 16 but Kings XI finished on the losing side

ICC news

Lamichhane added to World XI for charity match at Lord's; Shakib withdraws

May 16, 2018: Shakib Al Hasan, meanwhile, has withdrawn from the squad for personal reasons

Canada news

Cricket Canada's inaugural T20 league to begin in June

May 16, 2018: The Toronto Nationals, Montreal Tigers, Ottawa Royals, Vancouver Knights and Winnipeg Hawks and the Caribbean All-Stars will make up the six-team tournament

ICC rankings news

O'Brien's fairytale debut makes ICC rankings history

May 16, 2018: Australia's Charles Bannerman, in the very first Test match in 1877, is the only batsman to score more rankings points in his country's debut Test

County diary

Surrey prepare to become Kohli's gym rats

May 16, 2018: News from around the circuit, including what Surrey can expect from Virat Kohli, the death of an umpire who became embroiled in a ball tampering affair, and why Stuart Broad won't be entering Fantasy Cricket

Australia news

Stanlake dumps Yorkshire to chase Australia Test dream

May 16, 2018: Ricky Ponting has suggested that Billy Stanlake can become one of the great Test bowlers and it appears new Australia coach Justin Langer is of the same mind

Betting news

Chennai march on to yet another knock-out

May 16, 2018: The group stage of the IPL is rapidly drawing to a close, and the race for the play-offs is starting to get especially hot

IPL 2018

Qualification scenarios: What if Mumbai beat Kings XI?

May 16, 2018: How Wednesday's result - whoever wins - will affect the two participating teams, as well as KKR, Royals and RCB

Bangladesh news

'I can see Bangladesh cricket actually keep its head high' - Greenidge

May 16, 2018: The West Indian great, who coached Bangladesh in the late 1990s, was in Dhaka this week, meeting with old friends in Bangladesh cricket

Royal Challengers Bangalore v Sunrisers Hyderabad, IPL 2018, Bengaluru

RCB bank on home advantage in bid to stay alive

May 16, 2018: RCB have relied heavily on Kohli, de Villiers and Umesh. They'll need others to punch above their weight against the best attack of the season

Bangladesh news

BPL likely to be delayed due to general elections

May 16, 2018: With security forces tied up in the month of October, the governing council is considering postponing the tournament to January next year

Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals, IPL 2018, Kolkata

Rahane at the heart of royal slowdown

May 16, 2018: After rollicking opening against KKR, Rajasthan Royals had the momentum to build a mammoth total. Their captain's batting robbed them of that

'The question is: should we have more suspensions for code-of-conduct violations?'

May 16, 2018: The ICC's general manager, Geoff Allardice talks about the work that remains to be done on the demerit points system, ball-tampering, and pathways for the Associates

Ireland v Pakistan, only Test, Malahide

Ireland's maiden Test: An occasion that even made the trains stop at Malahide

May 15, 2018: A community club hosted a community sport, as Ireland rose above the emotion of their overdue arrival at cricket's highest level

England news

Jos Buttler and Dom Bess selections about more than the numbers for Ed Smith

May 15, 2018: There had been much talk of analytics since Ed Smith's appointment as national selection, but his first squad came down to "cricketing judgement"

Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals, IPL 2018, Kolkata

Confidence and wickets return to Kuldeep's repertoire

May 15, 2018: Kuldeep Yadav claimed 4 for 20, his best IPL figures, to mastermind a stunning collapse and lead KKR closer to the playoffs

New Zealand news

Todd Astle bags his first New Zealand contract

May 15, 2018: James Neesham and Neil Broom were left out of NZC's list of 20 contracted players for the 2018-19 period

England news

Dom Bess' England call-up interrupted IKEA trip

May 15, 2018: England's spin role had become vacant after Jack Leach, Bess' Somerset team-mate, suffered a broken thumb in the nets yesterday and was ruled out for a month