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The award will be given to the best overall performer in men's international cricket (Tests, ODIs and T20Is) during 2021. The winner, who will lift the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, will be announced on January 24.

Former England all-rounder Adam Hollioake has joined the team's coaching staff, who have been hit by a COVID-19 outbreak ahead of the fourth Ashes Test against Australia.

Mandhana was shortlisted for the top award along with Tammy Beaumont of England, Lizelle Lee of South Africa and Gaby Lewis of Ireland. The award is given to the best overall performer in women's international cricket (Tests, ODIs and T20Is) during 2021. The winner will be announced on January 23.

India's white-ball skipper Rohit Sharma and premier off-spinner R Aswhin were among four players from the country to have featured in the Cricket Australia (CA) XI of the year.

India produced a dominating bowling performance to restrict Sri Lanka to 106 for nine in the rain-hit U-19 Asia Cup final here on Friday.

The Indian team has not only won praise from former Indian cricketers but South African cricketing legends have also appreciated their performance. Former South African pace bowler Dale Steyn is all praise for Virat Kohli and company for the way they have played over the years.

​Sourav Ganguly will be in home isolation under doctors' supervision and has not been infected with the Omicron variant, hospital authorities said. He was rushed to the Woodlands Multispeciality hospital on Monday night as a precautionary measure after his RT-PCR test came positive for COVID-19.

South Africa wicket-keeper batter Quinton de Kock has announced his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect. The announcement comes after the Proteas' first Test match against India in Centurion, where the visitors won by 113 runs and took a one-nil lead in the three-match series.

Indian Test skipper Virat Kohli lavished praise on Mohammed Shami following the pacer's match-winning performance in the first Test against South Africa.

India's once-in-a-generation pace unit destroyed a listless South Africa with its relentless attack to fashion an emphatic 113-run win in the first Test on Thursday, setting the team on the path towards an elusive series-victory in the Rainbow nation.

BCCI president and former India skipper Sourav Ganguly continues to remain "stable" after being tested COVID-19 positive three days ago, the hospital where he is undergoing treatment said on Thursday.

James Anderson urged England's senior players to come together to help the side restore some pride with a competitive performance in the fourth Ashes test after a humiliating innings and 14-run loss to Australia in Melbourne.

New Zealand plan to give retiring Ross Taylor the perfect send off when they face Bangladesh in a two-test series beginning in Mount Maunganui on Saturday, with the tourists' hopes of playing party poopers dimmed by the absence of talismanic all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan.

The fourth Test is due to start next Tuesday with Australia having already retained the Ashes, leading the series 3-0 with two matches to play. Both England and Australia are due to fly to Sydney via a chartered flight on Friday morning.

England all-rounder Chris Woakes has supported Joe Root to continue as the team's Test skipper despite their humiliating Ashes capitulation to Australia.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday announced Jos Buttler, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mitchell Marsh and Mohammad Rizwan as the four nominees for the Men's T20 Cricket of the Year Award.

Seasoned India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Wednesday retained his second position in both the ICC Men's Test Player Rankings for bowlers and all-rounders. Ravindra Jadeja managed to hold onto his third position in the Test all-rounders list.

BCCI president and former India skipper Sourav Ganguly continues to remain "stable", the hospital where he is undergoing treatment said on Wednesday.

India head coach Rahul Dravid rang the bell before the start of play on Day 4 of the ongoing first Test against South Africa at the SuperSport Park, Centurion.

Virat Kohli's watertight grip over Indian cricket loosened significantly in a mixed 2021 bag, when the team's wineless run at ICC events continued but the 'Men in Blue' cherished a historic Test series triumph in Australia.

India white-ball skipper Rohit Sharma praised pacer Mohammed Shami as the latter completed his 200 wickets in Test cricket on Tuesday.

It was cricket in fast forward in the morning session on Tuesday, and the Indian batters were at the receiving end. Just like that, with a wave of Lung Ngidi’s bowling arm, the tale went topsy-turvy. A horror morning ensured that seven Indian wickets fell for 49 runs as the team went from 278/3 to 327 all out, the side’s sixth-worst collapse for the last seven wickets against South Africa, and second-worst away from home.

Magic unfolded from the Indian pace battery in Centurion on Tuesday. India bowled as a pack to seize control of the first Test, with the third day’s play showcasing Test cricket in all its dramatic finery. As many as 18 wickets fell across three innings, the most in a day at this ground, as the pitch awoke early to the contest before settling down again later in the day.

The credit for India's world class pace attack should always rest "only and only" with its playing members, feels Mohammed Shami, whose five-wicket haul has put India in complete control against South Africa in the first Test. Shami's sixth five-for in Tests also brought up a personal milestone of 200 wickets on a day when the four-pronged attack bowled the Proteas out for 197.

Rishabh Pant on Tuesday became the fastest Indian wicket-keeper to reach 100 dismissals in the longest format of the game.

Batsman Temba Bavuma says South Africa's lack of red ball cricket this year has been a big disadvantage and a key factor in their disappointing performance so far in the first Test against India at Centurion Park.

England's humiliating surrender of the Ashes to Australia exposed not only a gulf in class between the two old rivals but also laid bare, in brutally emphatic fashion, the deep-seated problems in English Test cricket.

The opening ODI between the USA and Ireland has been pushed back by one day to Wednesday due to a small number of new positive COVID cases within the playing and support staff groups.

Australia Test captain Pat Cummins on Tuesday refused to speculate on head coach Justin Langer's future when his contract ends in June next year, simply saying that his team for now just wants to "savour" the convincing Ashes victory over England

The BCCI has decided to delay the selection committee meeting for the ODIs in South Africa till the end of this month to get a clear picture on new white-ball captain Rohit Sharma's left-hamstring injury status.

Shardul Thakur has had a good initiation into Test cricket and the India seam bowling all-rounder wants to replicate his impressive show in Australia and England in the ongoing series against South Africa.

A match-winning 65-run seventh wicket stand between Raj Bawa and Kaushal Tambe ensured a fighting four-wicket victory for India over a gritty Afghanistan as they entered the semi-final of the U-19 Asia Cup tournament on Monday.

The Indian team will look to reset its first innings target after the second day's play in the opening Test against South Africa had to be called off without a ball being bowled due to heavy and persistent rain since morning on Monday.

Duanne Olivier was recovering from Covid-19 and had suffered a mild hamstring strain according to South African selection convener Victor Mpitsang explaining why he was omitted for the first Test against India at SuperSport Park.

Former England skipper Michael Vaughan on Monday said Cricket Australia should act proactively in the wake of the COVID scare on the second day of the ongoing Boxing Day Test here and consider moving the Sydney fixture also to Melbourne.

Two England support staff and two of their family members tested positive for COVID-19, forcing a half-hour delay to the start of play at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as the entire camp waited to be cleared after undertaking rapid antigen tests. England then took three wickets in the first session to stage a mini comeback on Day 2.

Boland, who hails from the Gulidjan tribe in western Victoria state, is the first Indigenous man to play for Australia since Jason Gillespie, who won 71 caps and played his last Test 15 years ago.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday expressed grief at the death of former England captain Ray Illingworth at the age of 89.

The South African and Indian teams observed a moment's silence ahead of the opening Test in honour of anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday.

Australia's recent success notwithstanding, head coach Justin Langer will have to wait until the end of the home season to know if his contract will be extended, according to the chief executive of the country's apex cricket body, Nick Hockley.

England crashed to 185 all out on day one of the third Test on Sunday, leaving their Ashes dreams on the brink of ruin in the face of a relentless Australian attack.

Former South African captain and administrator Ali Bacher feels India will start as favourites in the three-match Test series against the home team as the tourists have the "best pace attack" he has seen in the past 30 years.

India have shed the vestiges of the Ravi Shastri days, pared the all-encompassing Virat Kohli’s wings down to just the Test captaincy and are under a new head coach. Rahul Dravid brings with him a daunting reputation and a more sedate, studied approach. It will be his job to calm the nerves, offer a new direction and steady the ship.

It wasn’t the Indian Test captain Virat Kohli who walked in to address the media ahead of the Boxing Day Test, as is the norm. Kohli’s last such interaction did not go exactly according to plan, from the Indian cricket board’s point of view. Kohli had cleared the air on a lot of things about how he had been relieved of the ODI captaincy, including mentioning that he had not been asked to stay back, as BCCI president Sourav Ganguly had claimed.

Hazlewood, who had taken three wickets in the opening Test against England, missed the second and third matches in Adelaide and Melbourne due to a "slight tear" in his rib cage muscle that was earlier believed to be a "side strain".

Cricket Australia boss Nick Hockley said on Sunday police were assisting the governing body after a confidential report made to its anti-corruption unit was leaked to the media.

South Africa are "wary" of India's overseas success but home conditions provide the hosts the edge going into the three-Test series beginning on Sunday, said Proteas skipper Dean Elgar.

The United States' one-day cricket international match with Ireland due to be played on Sunday has been cancelled because one of the umpires has Covid-19, USA Cricket said.