In Case You Missed It: Farewell to Bob Willis, chaos at Cricket South Africa

This week cricket lost one of its luminaries, Bob Willis. While England mourned their Headingley hero, elsewhere cricket was dealing with chaos. Cricket South Africa went into crisis mode after a ban on journalists from covering a match precipitated a meltdown in upper management and culminated in the suspension of the CEO. In India, West Indies have brought a spirited battle to the T20I series that's currently level. Here's what this week looked like.

Simmons leads batting charge as West Indies level series
It's been quite the action-packed T20I series already, with an angry Kohli setting the first match on fire and a out-of-nowhere Lendl Simmons neatly stealing the second from India.

Nepal's Anjali Chand makes history with figures of 6 for 0
The 24-year-old claimed the best women's T20I figures in a match against Maldives, who were then skittled for 16. It was, incidentally, Chand's international debut.

Fawad Alam returns to Pakistan's Test squad for Sri Lanka series
A decade after he last played in Pakistan's Test team, Fawad Alam will be back in whites in Sri Lanka, a return he says will be "almost like a debut". Left-arm quick Usman Shinwari is also in line for a Test debut, after replacing Muhammad Musa.

PSL 2020: What the six teams look like
The competing teams have their list of 18 players following the draft held on Friday in Lahore.

Can Mickey Arthur and revamped coaching structure lift Sri Lanka out of chaos?
After Mickey Arthur was formally announced as Sri Lanka's head coach, in his first press conference he singled out Kusal Mendis and Lahiru Kumara as potential world-class talents.

Icon, survivor, grandee: Farewell Bob Willis, the man with the longest run
The cricketing world mourned the passing of Bob Willis, and everyone had a story to share from their time with him. Andrew Miller remembers England's mightiest fast bowler through the prism of the team's most storied victory. Mark Nicholas paid tribute to his colleague who was funny and acerbic on camera (here are some of Willis' best quips), but kind and warm behind it, while Mark Butcher joined the Switch Hit podcast team to remember a warm, generous and terrifying player.

Time to make South African cricket 'great again' after off-field problems - Faf du Plessis
Cricket South Africa went into meltdown last week losing senior members, their title sponsor, and eventually their CEO over allegations of misconduct and governance problems. Meanwhile, with the England team due to arrive in South Africa for Tests beginning Boxing Day, Faf du Plessis wishes they could just move past "all this crap that's been happening behind the scenes".

In numbers: Pakistan down and under - the bowling's to blame
Osman Samiuddin takes apart Pakistan's troubles with the ball down under, which go back a long time, he says, and 2019 was no different. Ian Chappell faults the bowling as well, but he has especially scathing criticism for Pakistan's inept captaincy.

'I'm salivating about the fast bowlers we have now in world cricket'
Ian Bishop surveys the state of pace bowling in the game, and talks to Saurabh Somani about what West Indies can aim to achieve in the India series.