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The second leg of India’s tour of New Zealand begins on Wednesday with the first game of the five-match ODI series at Auckland’s Eden Park.

• Explosive batter calls time having amassed 2,897 runs at 28.97

• 38-year-old will continue to play franchise cricket

Australian short-form cricket star Glenn Maxwell has retired from the international game. The 38-year-old had already retired from one-day international cricket in 2025 but has hung up his bat and gloves for Australia’s T20 team, as well as for his state.

“Post the last one-day game for Victoria, speaking to my teammates and letting them know that was going to be my last game for the state was probably harder than I thought it was going to be – got a little choked up,” Maxwell said on The Final Word podcast.

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Glenn Maxwell has announced his retirement from international cricket, but will continue to play in the Big Bash.

Former wicketkeeper Ian Healy says Test coach Andrew McDonald is “in the gun” after Australia’s series defeat in South Africa, which he believes should cost chief selector George Bailey his job.

On an early evening in Durban in mid-October, Australia’s premier attack were all smiles as they returned to the team hotel in the up-market suburb of Umhlanga after a brilliant win.

Australian coach Andrew McDonald has challenged claims the national selectors played a role in “crucifying” Marnus Labuschagne, whose Test career is in peril after he endured a torrid tour of South Africa.

Few positions in Australia’s Test batting order have come under greater scrutiny in recent times than No.3, the home of Marnus Labuschagne for the best part of seven years.

Australia have unveiled their ODI and T20 squads for the upcoming series against England, with as many as eight players in line to make their international debuts on home soil.

The team’s management needs to offer decisions that make sense, rather than spurious justifications for ones that don’t

No homecoming for the Australian Test team will ever be as hostile as the aftermath of the sandpaper debacle in 2018, but the team making the equivalent trip from South Africa in 2026 will still find that some knives are out. Having led 1-0 after Durban, reversing a trend of poor starts, the side managed to surrender the series across the next two contests, bowled out for 99 in Gqeberha and 111 in Cape Town. As Charlton Heston may have observed: you maniacs, you blew it up.

Pat Cummins as captain strives for equanimity, fond of saying that good performances don’t make his team great and bad ones don’t make them terrible. He concluded his post-match interview in Cape Town by saying that he was “overall relatively happy with how we’re going”. Perhaps, having twice had a team 4 for 40, then gone on to lose both matches by a mile, he should be willing to signal more concern. This team has long had batting problems and made decisions that entrenched them, while a habit of playing down evident concerns has become entrenched across its leadership, from Cummins to coach Andrew McDonald to selection chair George Bailey.

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Ashleigh Gardner has demonstrated the leadership the Sixers value with an epic knock of 124 from 60 balls setting up a massive 87-run win for her Sixers over Hobart.

As South Africa’s chief spinning protagonist Simon Harmer was assessing what was been a superb series clinched by the Proteas in brilliant fashion, he declared it was one cricket fans might remember for a long time to come.

Cameron Green’s dismissal to Simon Harmer in the second innings of the final Test against South Africa has left an Australian cricket great stunned, after a bizarre tactic to protect the all-rounder backfired.

Pat Cummins has conceded the Australian Test side has to improve if it is to reclaim its status as the world’s best team and said it is fair to question whether a personnel change is needed to spark their best this summer.

It was the moment South Africa had wanted for over a fortnight and a pivotal piece of the winning jigsaw on the deciding day.