Glenn Maxwell again commanded big bucks at the Indian Premier League player auction,but it was two express-paced fast bowlers whose lives have suddenly changed.
Cricket Australia’s goal of winning a maiden men’s Twenty20 title is served by having more of its stars plying their trade in the IPL;less so its aim of retaining the Ashes.
Glenn Maxwell has rubbished suggestions he has quit red-ball cricket and hopes to return to the Test squad next year when Australia have three tours through Asia.
Now the tour of South Africa has been scrapped,cricketers are awaiting anxiously as to whether they will be allowed to take part in the Indian Premier League.
They have been called ’the Unbreakables”. Rahane’s team may have had reached their zenith at the Gabba,but their rise has been propelled for years by rising Indian confidence.
Leg-spinner Peter Hatzoglou has become an overnight sensation and Shane Warne has declared his next stop will be the Indian Premier League.
Chris Gayle wrote his name into the history books on Friday when he became the first player to smash 1000 Twenty20 sixes.
Mitch Marsh injured his ankle while bowling for Sunrisers Hyderabad but the IPL franchise opted to not pass on the results of scans to Cricket Australia.
The former Australia fast bowler performed CPR on Jones in a desperate attempt to revive him at their Mumbai hotel.
Australian and world cricket has been left stunned by the sudden death of Hall of Famer Dean Jones.
Mitch Marsh will return home from the Indian Premier League but finding a flight and quarantine issues must be resolved before he can leave the UAE.