England’s woeful World Cup campaign has not prevented Joe Root from claiming they are a better side than Australia,who can knock them out of the cup on Saturday.
Mitch Marsh has returned home for personal reasons,prompting a major shake-up with Australia’s team for Saturday’s match against England.
Star all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has been ruled out of Australia’s next World Cup clash after losing his grip on a moving golf buggy and suffering a concussion.
Adam Zampa has revealed the stirring address from Marcus Stoinis that helped fuel Australia’s World Cup turnaround.
Travis Head and David Warner have relaunched their partnership as Australia’s dynamic duo,with Warner savouring every run as Australia look to finish England.
Jos Buttler now drags his defeated troops to Ahmedabad to face the old enemy,Australia,who can deliver a galling finishing touch to this dismal World Cup campaign.
Australia and New Zealand went down to the wire,and scored 771 runs between them,in a high-scoring shoot-out in Dharamsala that almost delivered the greatest run-chase in World Cup history.
Australian cricket’s leaders are among the 50-over game’s true believers,but they have a job ahead of them to make all games matter.
Pat Cummins’ men head to Delhi to take on a Dutch side that rocked the tournament with an upset victory against South Africa last week.
David Williams has been at every one-day World Cup since 2007. With ticket pick-ups 10 kilometres from the stadium,banners falling in the stands and even “a small riot”,the chaos of this event has been like nothing he’s experienced before.
From Blackburn via Richmond and - briefly - Highton,the Netherlands captain and his team are making the cricket world sit up and take notice. Next:Australia.