The BCCI blames the wives, ENG-W keep making dumb mistakes, & Pant will play the Ranji Trophy.

• The BCCI has introduced new rules to limit the presence of family on long tours, following India’s series defeat in Australia. Additionally, they are allegedly considering variable pay based on performances.

• Australia Women beat England by 21 runs, despite looking on the ropes for much of the match. BBC’s Ffion Wynne laments the same old issues that England keep failing to address; composure, belief, and simple individual mistakes.

• Rishabh Pant & Yashasvi Jaiswal will play in the Ranji Trophy this year.

• Saqib Mahmood’s travel for England’s training camp has been delayed because he has not received a visa for India yet.

• The MCC will organise a new school competition concluding in a final at Lord’s, but also plans to maintain the traditional Eton v Harrow match.

Root gets his shot at T20s, Bashir prepares for the Ashes, & Shakib’s BAN career is unbelievably over.

• Cricbuzz’s Telford Vice writes about the quirk of fate that has kept Joe Root away from T20s, and how he’s finally having fun in the format at the SA20.

• ESPNcricinfo’s Vithushan Ehantharajah talks to Shoaib Bashir as he prepares for the Ashes with England A, while Srinidhi Ramanujam reports on Shafali Verma’s demolition of domestic cricket as she vies for a return to the India Women’s team.

• The Daily Star’s Arafat Rahaman is struggling to accept that Bangladesh have finally moved on from Shakib Al Hasan, as the veteran missed out on their Champions Trophy squad.

Is PAK-WI an irrelevant series, remembering Learie Constantine, & the rise of Icelandic cricket.

• Backward Point’s M. Nazar Syed & A. Bashaar talk to Caribbean expert Machel St Patrick Hewitt about the upcoming Pakistan versus West Indies Test series, and whether the games are becoming irrelevant in light of the proposed two-tier system.

• Good Areas’ Jarrod Kimber & Behram Qazi recount the original Dre Russ of West Indies cricket, Learie Constantine.

• TRT World looks at Iceland’s attempts at building a viable cricket team from a population of just 380,000.

• The PCCI Pod has a draft of the 15 most memorable ODI knocks against India – which is either a great or horrible time depending on your allegiances! [Apple Podcasts]