How well did you pay attention to the sporting headlines this week?
If Australia’s World Cup victory in Ahmedabad proved anything other than the greatness of the current team,it was that 50-over cricket has many enduring virtues.
Australia’s Alana King delivered a spell of the highest quality in between showers that wrecked the ODI against West Indies. In the rain,however,Australia’s players were needed to help protect the square.
Pakistan and the West Indies are the touring teams in Australia this summer,hardly a blockbuster schedule. But the West Indian heroics to beat Australia on Monday night brought an early shot of adrenalin that the home summer desperately needs.
Australia looked headed for victory after amassing 212 runs despite a shaky start. Then Hayley Matthews came to the crease.
In the wake of the South Australian government’s multimillion-dollar play for the New Year’s Test at the SCG,Cricket Australia will meet the NSW government.
The remuneration for Test cricket does not match that of the easier and physically less taxing white-ball game. This is the problem all nations face.
Brian Lara was known as “the Prince of Trinidad” in local nightspots before he arrived in Australia. This is the advice that sparked his rise to royalty at the SCG.
This is the story of sport’s most accident-prone trophy,the Frank Worrell Trophy – lost,then replaced,recovered and now afflicted by mishap at every turn.
It’s hard for Cricket Australia to talk up Tests when the competition is not competitive.
Australia’s stand-in captain,Steve Smith,tipped David Warner to bounce back from a run of low scores and a week of distracting headlines over his leadership ban.