Veteran coach Tom Moody on Thursday said the players' performance in highly-competitive leagues like IPL and ILT20 will have an added heft this time because of the impact it can have on the team selection ahead of the T20 World Cup.
The Asian Cricket Council could accept PCB chairman Najam Sethi's proposed Hybrid Model for conducting four non-India Asia Cup games in Pakistan.
Ending weeks of speculation, Cricket Australia on Thursday confirmed that India will make the trip Down Under starting October this year for an assignment comprising four Tests, along with three ODIs and as many T20 Internationals.
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The selectors were forced to go back to seniors Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli following injuries to key T20 players.
The T20 World Cup clash between champions Australia and England was abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain on Friday.
The PCB is still apprehensive about sending its team to India for the ODI World Cup but ICC is "confident" that the Babar Azam-led team will compete in the 50-over showpiece.
The series starts with the first T20I in Mohali on Thursday, and Afghanistan will look to take inspiration from their impressive outing in the ODI World Cup in October-November last year to prepare in earnest for the upcoming T20 World Cup.
Ackermann, 28, whose previous best figures in the format were 3-21, took six of his seven wickets in two overs, and said afterwards that could not quite believe he had broken the record.
The emerging nations compete against each other in the International Cricket Council's Inter-Continental Cup 2015-17 scheduled, with the winners getting a chance to play the bottom-ranked Test team on the Reliance ICC Test Team Rankings in the ICC Test Challenge in 2018.
Pakistan skipper Babar Azam said the recent experience of playing in Sri Lankan conditions will give his side an edge over India.
Contradicting reports have emerged about the ACC suggesting postponing the Asia Cup with India unable to travel.
In the current scenario, form in the IPL will carry a lot of weight for selection in the Indian team bound for USA and Caribbean.
The inaugural edition of the CSA T20 League is scheduled to be played in January-February 2023 and all the six franchises in the tournament have been acquired by current IPL team owners.
'Can I ask why in Sri Lanka where they get huge thunder storms they cover all the ground and get play back on quickly?'
India played the tournament's best cricket for nearly six weeks but it was the familiar sight of Australia celebrating with the trophy as fireworks exploded overhead when the 13th edition of the World Cup came to a close on Sunday.
The PCB said they were "disappointed and dismayed" with the behaviour of Faulkner, who also played in the Abu Dhabi leg of the PSL last year.
Following Pakistan's forgettable World Cup in India, Babar Azam stepped down as skipper of the national team.
Rohit Sharma led team won't travel to Pakistan, IPL chairman Arun Dhumal confirmed on Wednesday.
Ahead of the ODI World Cup, an inspection team from the International Cricket Council is checking the readiness of venues that will host the quadrennial extravaganza in October-November this year.
BCCI president Roger Binny and vice-president Rajeev Shukla have accepted the invitation of the Pakistan Cricket Board and will be in Lahore from September 4-7 during which they will watch a couple of Asia Cup games.
The PCB will try to get more matches of the Asia Cup to be staged in Pakistan when the ACC board meets in Dubai on Sunday.
Just like it happens in football, where everybody from around the world wants to play in European leagues, every cricketer would dream to play in the Big Bash, IPL and The Hundred, explains Abhishek Singh.
Sri Lanka legend Sanath Jayasuriya on Tuesday defended the choice of Pallekele as one of the venues for the ongoing Asia Cup, saying the city has witnessed "unusual weather" in the past few days.
With a little over four months left for the marquee event to begin, there has been an unprecedented delay in releasing the schedule.
Complete schedule of the ICC World Twenty20 Championship, beginning in West Indies on April 30.
Former Pakistan captain and all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez is a front-runner to become the national team's chief selector after the conclusion of the team's ongoing Sri Lanka tour.
India skipper Rohit Sharma is expecting the upcoming ODI World Cup in the country to be a highly-competitive affair since "the game has become faster".
2020 was supposed to be different for Zimbabwe with assignments against Ireland, Afghanistan, Australia, India and the Netherlands lined up. But COVID-19 pandemic has come in the way of what was supposed to be, for a change, a fairly busy international calendar for Zimbabwe.
The 1992 World Cup winner had given his consent last week to become a paid selector.
India skipper Rohit Sharma on Thursday said the team management will consciously put the players in uncomfortable situations ahead of the T20 World Cup in June.
The 45 games in the T20 World Cup 2022 will be played in Geelong, Hobart, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne.
'It was unfortunate that I got injured during the World Cup and missed it. But I took it positively and tried to improve my game.'
India's second and final warm-up game against New Zealand was called off without a ball being bowled because of heavy rain at The Gabba in Brisbane, on Wednesday.
Kiwi Bradburn served as the Head Coach of the side during the recently-concluded home series against New Zealand on consultancy basis. He is well-versed about the strengths and challenges of the national side having previously served as the fielding coach from 2018 till 2020 before he moved to the National Cricket Academy to work on development of coaches.
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 trophy returned to Dubai on Thursday after embarking on a world tour, which started at the ICC headquarters in the city on July 3. The trophy has so far visited India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Papua New Guinea.
Bangladesh will square off against Afghanistan in the opening match of the ICC World T20 in Mirpur on 16 February, while former champions India and Pakistan go head-to-head in the first match of the Super 10 stage at the same venue on March 21.
New Zealand next take on Afghanistan in Melbourne on October 26 while Australia play Sri Lanka in Perth on October 25.
Pakistan has been regularly playing international cricket in the UAE for around a decade
If India top or finish fourth in the 10-team table, then they will play in the first semi-final at Old Trafford on July 9. In the scenario of India finishing second or third in the points table, they will feature in the second semi-final at Edgbaston on July 11.
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