All-rounder Kayla Reyneke has been named as South Africa’s captain for the 2025 U19 Women’s T20 World Cup, starting on January 18 in Malaysia. South Africa are drawn in Group C alongside Samoa, New Zealand, and Nigeria.

Kayla is among seven players included from the squad that competed in the previous edition of the tournament, held in 2023 in South Africa, alongside Jemma Botha, Mona-Lisa Legodi, Simone Lourens, Karabo Meso, Seshnie Naidu and Nthabiseng Nini in the squad.

Diara Ramlakan, who served as a non-travelling reserve in the 2023 edition, has earned a spot in the main squad for the upcoming tournament. Leg-spinner Seshnie and wicketkeeper Karabo Meso are the only two players in the lineup who have earned their South Africa senior women’s caps.

Rest of the members in the South Africa team comprise of players who were a part of the series against Ireland, as well as in the tri-series comprising India U19 A and B teams in Pune held earlier this month.

All-rounder Henry Shipley will continue his long-awaited return from injury when he lines up for New Zealand XI in a one-off T20 warm-up against Sri Lanka on Monday at Lincoln University, the New Zealand Cricket said on Friday.

Shipley, who has represented New Zealand in eight ODIs and five T20Is, has faced a sustained period on the sideline since suffering a stress fracture in his back while playing for Sussex in the English County Championship in July last year.

He last featured in a competitive match in last season’s Ford Trophy final for Canterbury against Auckland, but a recurrence of the injury saw him sidelined for the New Zealand winter and the start of the 2024-25 New Zealand domestic summer.

NZC high-performance coach Bob Carter said he was delighted to see Shipley making a return.

Young opener Nathan McSweeney has been dropped while uncapped Sam Konstas earned maiden call-up to the Australia Test squad for the last two matches of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Melbourne and Sydney.

Konstas has been added at the expense of opener McSweeney, whose spot in Australia’s XI was being heavily debated following two single-digit scores during the drawn third Test at the Gabba.

McSweeney, who had never opened in professional cricket before this season, has made 72 runs at 14.40 in the first three Tests.

Konstas has made a blazing start to his first full summer in senior career cricket after starring at the under-19 World Cup in South Africa early this year.

He scored 152 and 105 in New South Wales' Sheffield Shield opener against South Australia, then made an unbeaten 73 for Australia A at the MCG against India A.

Amazon workers from many warehouses in the United States have announced a strike beginning Thursday after they failed to reach an agreement on labour negotiations with the online retail giant.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union representing 10,000 Amazon workers, said in an announcement on Wednesday night, US time, that the decision was made as the company refused to recognise their union and would not negotiate a fair contract.

The strikes will impact Amazon warehouses in New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco, Skokie, Illinois, and three other facilities in Southern California. Thousands of workers are estimated to be on strike.

Moreover, according to the local Press-Telegram newspaper based in Long Beach, California, Teamsters local unions would also put up picket lines at hundreds of Amazon Fulfillment Centers nationwide, news agency reported.

India were drawn against hosts Thailand, Kuwait and Lebanon in Group A of the AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup Thailand 2025. The draw, which saw 16 teams divided into four groups of four, was held at the AFC House here on Thursday.

India will participate in the tournament after 18 years, having last featured at the 2007 Asian Beach Soccer Championship in the UAE. The Indian national beach soccer team will be active for the first time since the 2008 Asian Beach Games in Indonesia.

Set to be hosted by Thailand for a third time, the 11th edition of the AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup will take place at Jomtien Beach in Pattaya from March 20 to 30, 2025.

The 16 teams were seeded into four pots based on their final ranking from the 2023 tournament, where applicable, with Thailand seeded first as the host association.

South Africa spinner Keshav Maharaj has been ruled out of the remainder of the ODI series against Pakistan due to a left adductor strain.

Maharaj suffered the injury during warm-ups ahead of the first ODI in Paarl on Tuesday. He was replaced by pace-bowling all-rounder Andile Phehlukwayo in South Africa's XI.

Maharaj will return home to Durban for rehabilitation while Bjorn Fortuin has been named as his replacement for the remaining two ODIs against Pakistan, scheduled to be played on Thursday and Sunday in Cape Town and Johannesburg, respectively.

"Keshav Maharaj has been ruled out for the remainder of the ODI series against Pakistan after scans revealed a left adductor strain. He will return home to Durban for rehabilitation and will be reassessed ahead of the first Test against Pakistan," Cricket South Africa said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Australia skipper Pat Cummins has confirmed that fast-bowler Josh Hazlewood will be out of the remainder of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) series due to calf injury.

Hazlewood hurt his right calf during Australia's warm-ups on Tuesday morning. He bowled one over in the opening session on Day 4 before leaving the field with calf soreness. The 33-year-old pacer then underwent scans to assess the severity of the injury. Medical scans later confirmed he had strained his right calf, which led the pacer to miss the rest of the series.

"In terms of Joshie (Hazlewood), yes, obviously not ideal. He'll miss the series. Yeah, take a few weeks to recover and then build up again from there. So not sure exactly when that looks like, but it'll be at least this series," said Cummins to ABC Sport after the day's play on Wednesday.

Veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has announced his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect. Ashwin revealed his decision at the end of the third Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test in Brisbane, which ended in a draw due to rain.

“This will be my last day as an Indian cricketer in all formats at the international level. I do feel there's a bit of punch left in me as a cricketer, but I would like to expose and probably showcase that in club level cricket, but this will be the last day. I've had a lot of fun.

“I must say I've created a lot of memories alongside Rohit and several of my other teammates, even though I've lost some of them over the last few years. We are the last bunch of OGs, if you can say that, left out of the dressing room. I'd be marking this as my date of having played at this level,” said Ashwin in the post-match press conference.

Big wins for Odisha and Uttar Pradesh on Day 5 of the ongoing 7th edition of the Men's National T20 Cricket Tournament for the Blind 2024-25, popularly known as the Nagesh Trophy at the KT Global Ground here on Tuesday. The win helped Odisha top the standings in Group C with Madhya Pradesh placed second despite losing their match on Tuesday. A total of five teams from Group C are battling for glory at the ongoing Nagesh Trophy, which started on December 13.

In the first match, Odisha took on Madhya Pradesh. Hosts Odisha won the match by one run, scoring 97/2 in 12.1 overs, while Madhya Pradesh managed to score 96/10 in 17 overs. Md Jafar Iqbal from Odisha was named Player of the Match.

In an unexpected turn of events, Jasprit Bumrah and Akash Deep put on an unbeaten 39-run partnership to foil Australia’s hopes of enforcing a follow-on on Day 4 of the Third Test at The Gabba.

With India’s top order once again failing to hit the mark, barring KL Rahul who continued his fine showing in Australian conditions with a valiant 84-run innings, Australia assistant coach Daniel Vettori believes the showing by Bumrah and Akash can propel belief back into India’s top order for the remainder of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series.

“I think we expect everything, I think we understand that any batter on any given day can step up and deliver, so I don't think we assume that anyone's going to live up to the average. I think you look at those averages and you think there's not much there, but Bumrah has proven that. He's been able to put on partnerships, he's been proven that he can attack and he can defend, and I think Akash’s better than a number 11, so the team within themselves all understand that every wicket's vitally important, so there was no reason to back off at all,” said Vettori at the post-day press conference.

Retiring fast bowler Tim Southee received a perfect sendoff from Test cricket as New Zealand clinched an emphatic 423-run triumph over England in the third Test on Tuesday.

It was New Zealand's biggest-ever Test win in terms of runs. While England had already clinched the series with wins in the opening two matches, the victory for New Zealand saw them rise to fourth place in the latest ICC World Test Championship standings.

England, meanwhile, fell to sixth in the standings and behind New Zealand (fourth) and Sri Lanka in fifth.

Southee picked up a pair of wickets during England's second innings to finish his career with 391 Test scalps in 107 Tests, with teammates Mitchell Santner (4-85) and Matt Henry (2-62) doing the majority of the damage to offset half-centuries from Jacob Bethell (76) and Joe Root (54).

Chasing a daunting target of 658, England resumed from the overnight score of 18/2. With Ben Stokes opting not to bat after injuring his hamstring, New Zealand were needed seven wickets to seal the victory.

Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan has made a return to the Test squad for the upcoming two-match series in Zimbabwe, said the country’s cricket body.

Afghanistan are currently playing the white-ball leg of the Zimbabwe tour before going on to play two Tests from December 26 to January 6 next year in Bulawayo.

Rashid had last played Tests back in March 2021, coincidentally against Zimbabwe in Abu Dhabi, ending in a 1-1 draw. Rashid then missed Afghanistan’s next Test assignments against Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Ireland due to a combination of rest and injury.

Afghanistan have also given a call-up to left-arm top-order batter Sediqullah Atal, who has already played ODI and T20I matches for the side. Ismat Alam, a young medium-fast bowling all-rounder, has been recalled to the Test squad for the first time after scoring 723 runs and taking 12 wickets in the Ahmad Shah Abdali First Class Competitions.

Left-arm spinner Zahir Shehzad and left-arm fast-bowler Bashir Ahmad Afghan have also been added to the team after putting in some impressive performances in the domestic first-class games.

Sonam Yadav and G Kamalini powered India to a massive nine-wicket win over arch-rivals Pakistan in their opening Group A match of the inaugural U19 Women's Asia Cup here on Sunday.

Pakistan won the toss and opted to bat first at Bayuemas Oval but the move backfired them as they were restricted to 67/7 in 20 overs with Sonam Yadav returning with the figures of 4-6 in her four overs.

For Pakistan, wicketkeeper-batter Komal Khan top-scored with a score of 24 studded with four boundaries as no other batter barring Fatima Khan (11) was able to reach a double-digit score.

India were completely disciplined in the bowling and bagged wickets at regular intervals to keep Pakistan at bay in the encounter.

England have revealed that seamer Matthew Potts will be replacing fellow pacer Chris Woakes in the side’s lone change to their playing eleven for the third and final Test against New Zealand, starting at Seddon Park on Saturday.

With England 2-0 up and the series already won ahead of their last Test of the year in Hamilton, Potts will be given a go and he is likely to take the new ball for England in Woakes' absence. Woakes picked six wickets in two games as England’s leader of the bowling attack.

"It's another opportunity to look at one of the fast bowlers that we see playing a big role going forward. Two-nil up, you obviously put yourself in an easier position to make the change. Pottsy's got a massive engine on him."

"He can go all day, bowl a lot of overs, but not just that, he's a very skilful bowler, which he's got better at by being here, working with Jimmy (Anderson) on a few things here and there. He's someone who is another versatile bowler, you can use him with the new ball, the short-ball plan that we go to because he's so fit.

Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batter Niroshan Dickwella has been cleared to return to cricket across all formats after a successful appeal against a three-year doping ban imposed in August 2024.

The 31-year-old cricketer, who had been sidelined since testing positive for a prohibited substance during a random anti-doping test, is now free to resume his cricketing career.

"Sri Lanka keeper-batter Niroshan Dickwella who was banned for three years following alleged anti-doping allegations, has been cleared to play cricket across all formats," the ICC said in a statement.

International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah held a meeting with Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee (OCOG) CEO Cindy Hook on Thursday.

Shah shared a glimpse of his meeting with Hook on his X account and wrote, "Very exciting time ahead for Cricket’s involvement in the Olympics movement - a meeting with the @Brisbane_2032 organizing committee in Brisbane, Australia today."

The meeting highlights ICC's goal of keeping the sport in the Olympic calendar after its inclusion in the Olympic programme for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles, marking the sport's historic return after its only earlier appearance in the 1900 Olympics.

Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has expressed confidence in senior batter Steve Smith to score runs in the third Test against India in Brisbane after accumulating just 19 runs across three innings of the series so far.

Smith had scored 0, 17 and 2 in the first two Tests of the series. With pressure mounting over his form, Marsh called Smith a 'class player' and backed his abilities to perform for Australia in the third Test following their emphatic 10-wicket win in the pink-ball Test at Adelaide Oval.

"We know he's one of our best players ever and I'm certainly backing him to get some runs. I'm probably not in a position to tell Steve Smith what he should work on. We know he's a class player and he's scored a lot of runs for Australia and we know at times when we've needed him, he always seems to step up," Marsh said on Thursday.

After facing a 2-0 loss to Juventus in the Champions League at Allianz Stadium, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said that City were going through a ‘tough’ period but reiterated his full confidence in his side’s capacity to bounce back to form quickly.

Second-half goals from Dusan Vlahovic and Weston McKennie secured victory for Juventus despite Manchester City dominating possession and territory.

The defeat continued City's disappointing form, leaving them with just one win in their last 10 matches and placing them in 22nd position in the 36-team Champions League table with two games still to play.

“Of course it’s tough. Except one or two games in this period that were not good, we played quite similar, and I give credit to Juventus. I don’t think it was defensive mistakes much. That was not the reason (we lost), other games yes but not today. We missed that last pass when we arrive in the six-yard box. That was the difference today, but I love my team," Guardiola said in post-match presser.

Playing with white pieces in a classical game for the last time in this match, India's D Gukesh came up with an attacking approach but reigning champion Ding Liren of China defended superbly, coming up with precise moves in a nerve-jingling time scramble, to draw the 13th and penultimate game of the World Chess Championship 2024 match here on Wednesday.

The two players are tied 6.5-6.5 going into the final game on Thursday with Ding playing with white pieces. In case the final game ends in a draw, both players will clash in a tie-breaker of shorter games that would decide the eventual winner. If Ding wins, he will continue as the 17th Classical World Champion, but if Gukesh wins, he will be the 18th Champion and the youngest ever.

Ding lived by sword once again, spending a lot of time making his calculation in the opening, as Gukesh applied the pressure, playing with positive intent to slowly create an opportunity. The 18-year-old Indian challenger had taken the upper hand in the middle game but Ding came up with precise answers to every question his opponent posted, defending resolutely to steer himself to safety.

Veteran India batter Cheteshwar Pujara has advised skipper Rohit Sharma to focus on getting his 20 or 30 runs in a steady mode, following which can help him amass a big score and break his poor run of form in Tests.

Rohit could only muster nine runs over the two innings as a number six batter in India’s ten-wicket defeat to Australia at the Adelaide Oval. Moreover, Rohit’s average in his last six Tests is just 11.83. With the current five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy series locked at 1-1, India would need for Rohit to hit top form in the third Test, starting on December 14 in Brisbane.

Singles players have carried India's hopes in badminton for years before Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty made their appearance on the scene. They were followed by the women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand who too overtook the singles players this year.

It is the women's doubles pair that will be hoping to make waves as they make their debut in the year-end BWF World Tour Finals starting here on Wednesday.

Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will carry India’s hopes as the country’s sole representatives in the BWF World Tour Finals 2024 – Group Stage, which will commence at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gym here.

On the first day of the event, Treesa and Gayatri will face the Chinese pair of Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning in their opening fixture of the group stages in the women’s doubles category. The Indian pair had missed qualifying for the Paris Olympics in 2024 but showed promise in the Singapore Open and Macau Open, where they reached the semifinals.

Pep Guardiola, who signed a new contract with Manchester City in November, has stated that his time in Manchester will be his last managerial stint as a club head coach.

“I want to leave it and go and play golf but I can’t. A time will come when I feel it’s enough and I’ll definitely stop then. I’m not going to manage another team. I’m not talking about the long-term future but what I’m not going to do is leave Manchester City and go to another country to do the same thing as I am now,” said Guardiola on Desmontadito's YouTube channel.

The Catalan’s new deal means he will spend more than a decade as City manager. Guardiola’s time at City is one laden with success. He has so far won 18 major trophies, including six Premier League titles and one UEFA Champions League.

West Ham United beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 at the London Stadium to end their winless run and ease the pressure on head coach Julen Lopetegui.

Wolves wing-back Matt Doherty struck a rare goal on 69 minutes to cancel out Tomas Soucek's looping header, as things livened up after a tepid first half. But West Ham, who also saw a Mohammed Kudus strike overturned following a VAR review at 1-0 up, restored their lead through Jarrod Bowen's cultured finish only two minutes and 17 seconds later, Premier League reports.

Wolves were unable to find a second leveller as they fell to a third successive loss, a result that leaves them 19th in the Premier League table and four points from fourth-bottom Crystal Palace. Meanwhile, West Ham remain 14th, but with their cushion to the bottom three increased to nine points.

Neither team could break the deadlock in the first half, with Joao Gomes missing a clear opportunity by steering his shot wide, while Bowen and Kudus both tested goalkeeper Sam Johnstone.

The Indian deaf cricket team completed a resounding 5-0 sweep of Sri Lanka in the bilateral ODI Deaf Cricket Series held from December 2 to 8. The series was played at the DDA Roshanara Club with the final match concluding in a thrilling 13-run victory for India.

India posted a competitive total of 289 all out in 49.5 overs. In response, Sri Lanka were all out for 276 in 48.4 overs, handing India a hard-fought victory and completing the series clean sweep. This victory capped a memorable week for the Indian team, which had prepared intensively in the lead-up to the series.

Led by captain Virendra Singh, the Indian team’s performance was particularly impressive, with Santosh Kumar Mahopatra emerging as the best batter of the series. Mahopatra accumulated 325 runs at an average of 65, including a century and two half-centuries. On the bowling front, the Indian squad’s discipline and teamwork stood out, securing the series with consistent performances.

Karnataka triumphed over Delhi in Group A, while Rajasthan dominated Bihar in Group B as action resumed in the 7th edition of the Men's National T20 Cricket Tournament for the Blind 2024-25, popularly known as the Nagesh Trophy, in two cities on Monday.

The next set of matches in the Nagesh Trophy league stage commenced here on Monday, with eight teams competing in Groups A and B. Group A matches will be played at Altiore Sports – The Oval, Bengaluru, while Group B matches take place at JK Pavilion Ground, Kota, Rajasthan.

At Altiore Sports - The Oval, Bengaluru, Delhi batted first and posted 192/5 in 20 overs. Karnataka's Sunil Ramesh stole the show with a brilliant 105 off 57 balls, chasing down the target with ease to take his team to 195/2 in 17.3 overs. Sunil was named Player of the Match. In the second match, Kerala overcame Tamil Nadu by a narrow margin of five runs. Kerala managed 175 before being bowled out, while Tamil Nadu fell short, scoring 170 in 20 overs. Mohamad Farhan’s 58 off 36 balls earned him Player of the Match honours

Indian fast-bowler Mohammed Siraj has been fined 20 percent of his match fee for giving an aggressive send-off to Australia batter Travis Head during the second Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Adelaide Oval.

On the fourth ball of the 82nd over on Day Two in the pink-ball Test, Siraj castled Head with a terrific in-swinging yorker, and the pacer gave the batter a fiery send-off by aggressively gesturing to walk back towards the direction of the dressing room. A brief verbal exchange followed between the two, but the pair reconciled on the field when Siraj came out to bat during India’s second innings, following which Australia won by ten wickets.

Despite that, the Adelaide crowd made constant boos whenever Siraj was fielding in the deep or came on to bowl, to express their displeasure over how he behaved with Head, who was the Player of the Match for his brilliant 140.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic hung up his boots in the summer of 2023, bringing down the curtain on a 24-year playing career. However, the former Sweden striker did not spend too long relaxing, returning to the club in an advisory role under the direction of Milan's new American owners.

After an illustrious career which spanned across decades, Zlatan is content with his new role and claimed he does not miss football anymore.

“Since I accepted not to play anymore, it's OK. I am [at] peace with it. So, that's why I don't miss playing football. What I mean [when I say] I get frustrated and cannot be on the field, it's because of my experience, because of who I am, because of what I am able to do; that is more where I get frustrated. But it's not like I miss playing the game,” said Zlatan to uefa.com.said Zlatan to uefa.com.

Travis Head smashed a brilliant 140 – his eighth hundred in the format – third on his home ground, as Australia swelled its lead to 152 runs after reaching 332/8 in 85 overs at tea on day two of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday.

It was a tremendous innings from Head, who mixed his usual free-flowing cuts and pulls with some sumptuous drives while hitting 17 fours and four sixes to Australia firmly in the box seat of the match via his third hundred in day-night Tests.

With Australia having two wickets in hand, their innings might wrap up quickly before their bowlers have a go at Indian batters in the twilight session. The second session began with Head and Mitchell Marsh taking a four each off Bumrah, before the latter tried to defend off a sliding off-break from Ravichandran Ashwin, but nicked it behind to Pant and walked off even before umpire Richard Illingworth raised his finger.

Thirteen-year-old cricketing prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi continued to make headlines in the U19 Asia Cup, showcasing his immense talent in the second semi-final as they defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets with 170 balls to spare to reach the final.

The left-handed batter played a blistering knock of 67 runs off just 36 balls. Suryavanshi became the youngest-ever player to be signed in the Indian Premier League (IPL) after being picked by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.1 crore.

India's bowlers set the tone in the semi-final by restricting Sri Lanka to a modest 173 in 47 overs. Chetan Sharma led the attack with three wickets, while Kiran Chormale and Ayush Mhatre chipped in with two wickets apiece.

Chasing 174, Suryavanshi wasted no time in dismantling Sri Lanka’s bowling attack. The young opener reached his half-century in just 24 balls, punishing the bowlers with six boundaries and five towering sixes. His fearless intent was evident as India smashed 31 runs in the second over, setting the stage for an emphatic chase.

Nick Kyrgios is set to make a much-anticipated return to the Australian Open via a protected ranking, nearly two years after his last professional appearance.

The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up, sidelined by injuries since 2022, will join the main draw at Melbourne Park, leading a contingent of 10 Australian men that includes world No. 9 Alex de Minaur.

Kyrgios, 29, has already begun his comeback preparations, with plans to feature in Abu Dhabi's new World Tennis League exhibition event and the Brisbane International before hitting the courts at the Australian Open.

Tournament director Craig Tiley confirmed that Kyrgios would have been offered a wildcard had his protected ranking not been an option.

Goals from Jurrien Timber and William Saliba earn Arsenal saw Arsenal clinch a fourth straight win over Manchester United for the first time ever with 2-0 victory at Emirates Stadium.

Set pieces did the damage yet again, with Jurrien Timber turning in a Declan Rice delivery eight minutes after half-time to register his first goal for the club.

Arsenal doubled their lead in similar fashion, this time from the opposite side when Bukayo Saka’s back-post delivery was headed back across by Thomas Partey, with William Saliba providing the finishing touch.

Kai Havertz almost put the hosts further in front but was thwarted by Onana, with substitute Mikel Merino nearly scoring from another corner moments later.

Aaron Rai, one of the eight debutants in the field of 20 and one of three Indian-origin players in the star-studded World Challenge got off to a fine start winning the Hero Shot, the curtain raiser to the $5 million event hosted by Tiger Woods.

In the final, Rai landed two of three shots on the platform floating between the ninth-hole and 18th-hole greens and beat Jason Day.

The fast-paced event had six competitors picked from the field of 20 who will play the main 72-hole event from December 5 to 8. The event took place soon after Hero’s Executive Chairman Dr Pawan Munjal and Woods announced the extension of their partnership till 2030.

The tournament, which has had an Indian player only once - Anirban Lahiri (in 2016) in the field – will see three players of Indian origin in the field. They are Sahith Theegala, Akshay Bhatia and Aaron Rai, all of whom have won on the PGA Tour.

Veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon said he is confident of all-rounder Mitchell Marsh bowling for Australia in the upcoming pink-ball Test against India, starting in Adelaide Oval on December 6. He added that if needed, he can take up extra bowling workload coming his way.

"I honestly think we'll see Mitch Marsh bowl. I'm not concerned about Bison's (Marsh's) fitness if I'm being honest. He's been brilliant for us in the games (since) he's come back in ... I've got full confidence in Bison, happy to bowl his overs. I'm very clear on my role within the team so nothing really changes with me. If I get the opportunity to bowl more overs I'll jump at it," said Lyon to reporters on Wednesday.

He expects the Adelaide pitch, loaded with 6mm grass, will provide help for spinners as the Test goes on. With Australia aiming to square the series after losing to India by 295 runs at Perth, Lyon is optimistic about the hosts’ putting up a better show in Adelaide.

England have named an unchanged playing eleven for their second Test against New Zealand, set to begin at Basin Reserve in Wellington on December 6. England had won the first Test at Hagley Oval in Christchurch after beating New Zealand by eight wickets and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

It means that vice-captain Ollie Pope will continue to be England's stand-in wicketkeeper for the second Test, with left-handed batter Jacob Bethell retaining his number three spot. Pope was solid in his wicketkeeping and hit 77 after shifting down to number six.

On the other hand, Bethell hit a rocking unbeaten fifty off 37 balls to finish England’s chase of 104 in 12.4 overs. Despite uncapped wicketkeeper-batter Ollie Robinson joining the team after Jordan Cox was ruled out due to a broken finger, England have resisted temptation to change the winning combination.

Bangladesh registered their first Test win in the West Indies in 15 years, beating hosts by 101 runs in second match at Sabina Park.

Jaker Ali's counter-attacking 91 in the second innings set the West Indies a target of 287 before left-arm spinner Taijul Islam ripped through the West Indian batting order with a five-wicket haul to seal the win.

Experienced spinner Taijul was the hero as claimed 5-50, his 15th five-wicket haul in Tests, on an absorbing fourth day as the West Indies were bowled out for just 185 in their second innings to allow Bangladesh record their first Test triumph in the Caribbean since July of 2009.

"It's a great feeling to win a Test match abroad which we don't often do and all the boys really put in a tremendous effort," Player of the Match Taijul said.