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Australia's Travis Head jumped six spots to fifth in the batting rankings after his match-winning 140 in the day-night Test against India, helping level the series.

WPL 2025 players' auction will begin at 3 PM IST on December 15. Jio Cinema will live stream WPL 2025 auction in India.

Ahead of the WPL 2025 mini auction on December 15, here are the complete lists of players and retained by each team ahead of the auction:

While the under-fire Labuschagne found form with a resolute fifty, batting mainstay Steve Smith and rookie opener Nathan McSweeney continue to search for runs in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

"Pakistan has not only signed a host agreement with the ICC but like all other participating nations in the event, it has also signed a mandatory Members' Participation Agreement (MPA) with the ICC."

In the eight matches played in Australia, Rohit Sharma scored 417 runs at an average of 27.8. He managed to score only 3 and 6 in two innings in Pink Ball Test

Drawing parallels to Indian stalwart Virat Kohli, Hazlewood described Siraj as someone who wears his heart on his sleeve

Shami played a key role in Bengal's thrilling three-run win over Chandigarh to help them enter the last-eight stage.

The Indian cricket team wasted no time starting their preparation for Brisbane after a disappointing outing in Adelaide

Siraj and Head were involved in a verbal spat during the second day of the Adelaide Test after the former dismissed the latter with a perfect yorker

Cricket Australia, through their X (formerly Twitter) post, confirmed that the first-day tickets for the Boxing Day Test at the MCG are all sold out

Cricket Australia also confirmed Gavan Twining, the current head coach of the New South Wales Breakers, as the full-time assistant coach for fielding and wicketkeeping

The Afghanistan Cricket Board expressed their appreciation for Trott's contributions and wished him the best in his continued efforts to develop Afghanistan cricket on the global stage.

Head was also sanctioned for breaching Article 2.13, which relates to the abuse of players, player support personnel, umpires, or match referees during an international match.

Check the rankings of all 10 teams on ICC World Test Championship points table and WTC final 2025 qualification scenarios of top five teams here

The Indian cricket team have failed to cross the 200-run mark three times in four innings of the series they have batted so far

Josh Hazlewood, who is recuperating from a side strain, bowled two full spells at the Adelaide Oval on Monday as part of his fitness assessment for the upcoming third Test against India in Brisbane

Head had struck a splendid 141-ball knock of 140 in Adelaide before being castled by Siraj, who went on to give him an aggressive send-off following an exchange of words.

The 20-second advertisement from Star Sports features all participating teams, including India, which almost confirms the participation of the two-time champions in the 2024 edition of the tournament

Captain Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Mendis took up Sri Lanka's counterattack from 122-5 in an unbeaten partnership of 83 runs