Cricket news round-up – 17 July: India A continue to dominate, Bangladesh team announced for Sri Lanka tour

India A register one more win against West Indies A. Mashrafe Mortaza will continue to lead Bangladesh team in the tour of Sri Lanka. England Women announced their squad for the Ashes.

India A Tour of West Indies

India A continued to dominate the limited over leg of the tour and get to an unassailable 3-0 lead with their win in the 3^rd unofficial ODI against West Indies at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua. India made a few changes as Ruturaj Gaikwad, Khaleel Ahmed and Rahul Chahar were replaced by Anmolpreet Singh, Avesh Khan and Krunal Pandya.

Shubman Gill continued his good form and scored another impressive 77 runs at the top. The captainManish Pandey scored a brilliant 100 off 87 balls, his 9^th List A century as India A scored an impressive 296/5. Romario Shepherd and Rahkeem Cornwall took two wickets each.

West Indies started brightly as the openers John Campbell and Sunil Ambrish added 51 runs. But once the openers were gone they struggled. From 89/2, there was collapse as they lost six wickets for 20 runs. The main destroyer was Krunal Pandya who took five wickets for 25 runs. From 109/8 West Indies A were all out for 147 thanks to a late blast from Keemo Paul, the top scorer with 34 runs, who added 30 runs for the 10^th wicket scoring entirely by himself.

Bangladesh Tour of Sri Lanka

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has announced squad for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka and despite all the speculations, Mashrafe Mortaza continues as the captain of the team. The BCB has announced a 14-member squad for the 3-match ODI series in Sri Lanka. There are three changes from their World Cup squad. Shakib Al Hasan and Liton Das have been granted leave and the fast bowler Abu Jayed has been dropped. For replacements, they have brought in left-arm spinner Taijul Islam and batsman Anamul Haque Bijoy.

BCB has already announced Wasim Jaffer and Champaka Ramanayake as their batting and bowling consultant for the Sri Lanka tour. Both of them are working with the BCB High Performance Unit currently.

England squad for Women’s Ashes announced

England Women Ashes squad for the upcoming test match on 18^th July was announced on Tuesday. The 13-member squad includes pacer Katherine Brunt and left-arm spinner Kirstie Gordon as both were out due to the back problems in recent times. The rest of the team is pretty similar to the ODI squad.

The Australians are leading the Ashes race with 6-0 points, thanks to their three wins and need just two more points to retain the Ashes. Hence this will be a do-or-die test match for England.

Concussion Substitution to be initiated from Ashes

One of the key talking points in the ongoing ICC Annual Conference is to formally announce an option for a concussion substitute for the upcoming test championship. If agreed the option would be included in the Ashes for the first time. The rule is already there for Australian domestic cricket and now it will be implemented in international cricket.

There are still decisions to be made regarding the requirement of minimum medical standard by the team or an independent doctor to be involved in all matches.