Melinda Farrell

With the in­creas­ing lure of fran­chise crick­et and un­even dis­tri­b­u­tion of mon­ey- the fu­ture of ODIs hangs in the bal­ance.

Bat­tle be­tween two strong con­tenders with South Africa play­ing in four World Cups, Aus­tralia lift­ing tro­phy five times.

The Dutch fast bowler shares his jour­ney of al­most giv­ing up crick­et to be­com­ing one of his coun­try’s lead­ing play­ers.

Afghanistan play a rare match against Aus­tralia, who have can­celled fix­tures over the Tal­iban’s poli­cies on women.

Eng­land’s for­mer cap­tain says a se­ries of bad de­ci­sions has hit con­fi­dence, but backs skip­per Jos But­tler to stay on.