Senior Australian cricketers are being targeted by Indian Premier League giants to sign multi-club deals worth up to $7.5 million in a sweeping disruption of the global cricket economy.
Needing 28 with five deliveries remaining,Rinku Singh steered the Kolkata Knight Riders to an unlikely victory with one of the great T20 individual feats.
The quick is recovering from the Achilles issue which ruled him out of the India Test series and will join the IPL in a fortnight if all goes according to plan.
Meg Lanning leads one of the most dominant teams in international sport – the Australian women’s cricket team. But after playing in the inaugural season of India’s WPL,she has foreseen how the era will end.
Glenn Maxwell joined a list of players who struggled to complete the India tour for a variety of reasons as Australia regained top spot in the one-day rankings.
Sophie Devine demonstrated all her famed power as she just missed out on the first-ever century in the new Women’s Premier League,blitzing 99 off just 36 balls in Royal Challengers Bangalore’s eight-wicket victory over Gujarat Giants on Saturday.
Beth Mooney,fresh from her World Cup-winning heroics,was hurt during a calamitous 143-run defeat for her Gujarat Giants side in the opening match of India’s new Women’s Premier League.
The star all-rounder was among a host of Australians to secure big paydays at the Women’s Premier League auction in Mumbai.
As the women’s 20-over world cup gets under way in South Africa,the top players know one standout innings could clinch a lucrative deal in Monday’s inaugural WPL player auction.
Cricketers from across the globe are hailing the introduction of the Women’s Premier League - the women’s answer to the IPL - with one even describing it as a “middle finger up to all those people who have devalued women’s sport”.
The young all-rounder has become the most expensive Australian cricketer in Indian Premier League history.