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On an evening when England World Cup-winning pair Jason Roy and Mark Wood were snubbed, Andrew Flintoff started the 2024 men's Hundred draft by making Nicholas Pooran the first of 32 picks. Flintoff, who had the privilege of selecting from the entire field of players after the Northern Superchargers dropped 2023 in 2023, selected the big-hitting West Indies wicketkeeper-batter to open the £125,000 category. Four other West Indies internationals were then snapped up in the top pay bracket, with current Twenty20 captain Roman Powell, Andre Russell, and Shimron Hetmyer all linking up at London Spirit and Kieron Pollard's transfer to Southern Brave.

David Warner (pictured right) has announced that he would retire from international cricket after the T20 World Cup, but he made it clear that his last appearance for Australia on home soil was a memorable one. As the West Indies won by 37 runs on Tuesday night in the third and final T20 match at Perth's Optus Stadium, Warner (left) was the standout Australian performer. Following blistering knocks from Andre Russell (71 off 29 balls) and Sherfane Rutherford (67 not out off 40 balls), the West Indies produced a spectacular 6-220 from their 20 overs.

Following blistering knocks from Andre Russell (71 off 29 balls) and Sherfane Rutherford (67no off 40 balls), the West Indies posted a spectacular 6-220 in Tuesday night's match. Warner beat the chin to post 81 off 49 balls in response, giving Australia a chance of triumph in front of 17,018 fans.

After testing positive to Covid on the eve of Friday's clash, Australian T20 captain Mitch Marsh will have to shout instructions to his colleagues in the opening T20 against the West Indies in Hobart. After being disappointed 3-0 in three ODIs, teammate Matthew Wade took his place at a media call on Thursday and announced that the Australians were 'expecting him to play.' With the T20 tournament being held in the Caribbean and USA in June and July, former captain and firearms all-rounder Jason Holder, as well as global T20 star Andre Russell, have all joined Windies for the three-game series, narrowing their 2024 focus to being at the forefront of their powers for a home World Cup.

Timing is everything. Phil Salt would have been up for millionaire if the Indian Premier League auction was held in Dubai on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, the unsold responded to his snub by scoring England's highest Twenty20 scores on an evening of carnage in the Caribbean. Salt also became the first England batsman to reach back-to-back hundreds in the format after a tumultuous 109 on Saturday that maintained hopes for a comeback series victory for Jos Buttler's side, smashing 119 from 57 balls.

RICHARD GIBSON IN PORT OF SPAIN: Harry Brook figured out the key to beating the record for the most runs scored in the final over a fruitful Twenty20 international hunt was poise not power. England needed 21 from the final six deliveries of a pivotal high-scoring third match of the series against West Indies in Grenada, but Andre Russell's bowling was so strong against it that he only needed five of them, ensuring Phil Salt's winning one was also a winning one. "I was trying to stay as cool as possible and relaxed because, as soon as I get up, I lose my fitness and don't quite hit the ball as effectively," the 24-year-old Yorkshireman said.

RICHARD GIBSON IN GRENADA: Phil Salt kept his cool in the stifling heat of St George's, releasing one of England's best white-ball innings to keep hopes of a comeback Twenty20 series victory over the West Indies. Salt crunched an unbeaten 109, from 56 runs, before watching the non-striker's rescue of a last-over-demand order of 21, flicking the first four and then crashing three of the next four for six before sinking into Salt's arms. The thrilling seven-wicket victory, equalizing England's second-biggest T20 competition in the process, has sent West Indies 2-1 ahead with two two batting.

RICHARD GIBSON of BRIDGETOWN: In the first match of five in a sequence they are using to brace for next year's World Cup championship defense, England was stoutlessly outmuscled by West Indies at the Kensington Oval. The reigning champions simply could not match the ferocity of the 2024 tournament's hosts, with six sixes surpassing their total number of 172 deliveries within 39 minutes, and losing 11 of the Windies' chase of 172 and leaving 14 in all. There were brief moments in England's latest one-day series loss, but there were brief moments when England had the opportunity to change the course of the game. Not least, when Rehan Ahmed, a teenage leg spinner, found himself on a hat-trick with West Indies 123 for six after a stoppage for rain.

On Tuesday, England's five-match T20 international series against the West Indies begins in Barbados. On Sunday, Jos Buttler's men will be looking to bounce back from their first one-day international series loss to the West Indies in 16 years, after the hosts secured a four-wicket victory in a rain-affected Barbados decider. Later this week, the teams will return to Grenada for games two and three.

DANIEL MATTHEWS OF GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, USA: By 8.30 p.m., when Ali Khan began his run, the temperatures in this part of Texas hovered around 102 degrees. A warm breeze blew across the wicket, but there was barely a cloud or a patch of green on the wicket. All told, optimal batting conditions. Not that Khan - the LA Knight Riders' opening, would have toss the ball to someone else. This was a moment to reminiscence for the actor. He was charged with bowling the first ball of Major League Cricket in this country's newest professional sports league and the sport's new attempt to break America. Broadcasters called it a 'British leap across the Atlantic.' 'Cricket's American dream'

Host Mayanti Langer and three other female presenters took part in a Tinder-style segment in which a series of pictures of IPL stars were displayed and asked whether they would swipe right or left. Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, and Andre Russell were among the cricketers featured in the controversial segment that aired during Star Sports' coverage of the IPL.

Mark Wood made an incredible display in the Indian Premier League by taking three wickets in his first two overs in the middle of a record-breaking five-wicket haul to ransack Delhi's batting. Wood, who had been signed ahead of the 2022 season but was forced to leave due to an elbow injury that needed surgery, had a massive haul in the process.

Exclusive BY DAVID COVERDALE: Liam Plunkett uses a term from his adopted homeland to introduce the nation's approach to the league's first professional T20 league. Over the phone from Philadelphia, the England World Cup champion tells Sportsmail, 'It's go big or go home.' 'That's how they do stuff in America.' And with the money that is behind this, it's likely to be huge. It will explode,' I'm sure it will.' Plunkett is referring to Major League Cricket (MLC), which has received more than £100 million in funding from private investors, including the CEOs of tech giants Microsoft and Adobe. One of the six franchises in the Indian Premier League has already purchased one of the six franchises, which will be based in Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

AADAM PATEL AT OLD TRAFFORD Dawid Malan smashed a 98 at Old Trafford on Thursday as the Trent Rockets put off a record run chase in the Hundred against Jos Buttler's Manchester Originals. Malan led his 88 off to a mighty score of 190 with six balls remaining as his team slowed to a 190 target. Slow starts have long been a factor in the discussion about England's white-ball number three, with a focus on Malan's scoring at less than a run a ball at the start of his innings.