Batting great Matthew Hayden says Australia was forced to pick a non-specialist opener to face India in next week’s first Test.
Pleas for a refugee Afghanistan women’s cricket team to get to play together have finally been answered by Australian cricket.
A breakout fast bowler will return from injury for Australia,but he’s not content to remain a short-form specialist.
Jason Gillespie believes the hot pace of Haris Rauf “exposed some flaws” in Australia’s batting ahead of an India series he says was prioritised well above the ODI matches that provided Pakistan’s first win over the hosts in two decades.
Australia’s cricketers can’t please everyone all the time. But a Pakistan thrashing risks upsetting fans and the broadcaster.
Matt Renshaw averaged nearly 37 from his first 10 Tests as a 20-year-old. His 2017 omission started the road to the fight for a top-order spot this year.
Botham got his thongs caught in some roping while transferring to another boat and plunged head-first into the Moyle River,hundreds of kilometres southwest of Darwin.
The disgraced cricketer will lead the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash.
The scenes flashed around the world,as stump microphones captured the increasingly terse exchanges between the umpire and India A players.
Several of Australia’s Test stars will all miss the third one-day international in Perth to focus on Test preparations,as Nathan McSweeney firms for a baggy green against India.
The umpire was heard explaining to the India A players why he’d changed the damaged ball,but authorities later said the swap was made because of “deterioration”.