Category: Australia Cricket

New Zealand may be without their best young player for this summer’s four-Test tour of Australia after Rachin Ravindra dislocated his right shoulder while attempting a diving catch during a promotional shoot in Auckland earlier this week.

The spirit of the Gabba is set to live on at Brisbane’s new Olympic Stadium with a plan revealed to relocate the iconic cricket pitch after the 2032 Games.

While Marnus Labuschagne is not in Zimbabwe with Australia’s ODI squad, the 32-year-old is set to return for Queensland in their One-Day Cup opener against Victoria at Allan Border Field on Saturday.

• Australia (win by 84 runs) 356-6; Zimbabwe 272 all out

• Home side favourites to complete clean sweep on Sunday

Opening batter Travis Head smashed a 75-ball hundred as he led Australia to a series-clinching 84-run victory in the second cricket ODI against Zimbabwe on Friday.

Head’s swashbuckling 112 off 84 balls was well supported by captain Mitchell Marsh’s 53, his 21st ODI half century, and Cooper Connolly’s 78, his third successive 50-plus score in the format, in Australia’s sizeable total of 356-6.

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Australia has secured a first bilateral ODI series win in Zimbabwe in more than 22 years following another record-breaking night with the bat in a 84-run victory.

Cooper Connolly may have dropped the biggest hint yet about how Australia’s batting line-up might shape up for next month’s three-Test tour of South Africa.

Opener Abhishek Sharma hit a record T20 century off 30 balls to set up a crushing 127-run win for India in the third match against Afghanistan and sweep the series 3-0 on Thursday.

England made quick work of defeating Sri Lanka by six wickets in the second Twenty20 in Cardiff on Thursday to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in a three-match series.

Former Australian international Matthew Wade has called time on his Big Bash career nearly 15 years after playing in the T20 competition’s inaugural season.

Former Australian captain Steve Smith says he is still traumatised and is triggered by camera shutters as he prepares to return for a Test tour of South Africa for the first time since the infamous Sandpaper incident ruined his reputation and cost him the captaincy.

• Australia 294-8; Zimbabwe 235 | Australia win by 59 runs

• Batter scores 109; Nathan Ellis has figures of 5-31 ​in 9.1 overs

Australia’s Matt Renshaw scored a maiden one-day international century while Nathan Ellis took five ⁠wickets to guide their side to a 59-run win over hosts Zimbabwe in the first clash of ⁠their three-match series.

Australia ⁠chose to ​bat first, and the surprise decision from captain Mitchell Marsh was vindicated as they scored 294-8 in their ⁠50 overs, setting Zimbabwe an imposing target at Harare Sports Club.

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England captain Harry Brook’s blistering unbeaten century paved the way for a 119-run thrashing of Sri Lanka in the first Twenty20 international at Southampton on Tuesday.

Matt Renshaw scored a maiden one-day international century as world champions Australia beat Zimbabwe by 59 runs in Harare on Tuesday in the first of three matches.

Australian great Jeff Thomson was blunt when asked about the future of the nation’s Test team in the post Steve Smith era.

Australian Test captain Pat Cummins doesn’t believe lacklustre preparation was what cost his team in their shock Test loss to Bangladesh in August.