Category: Australia Cricket

Former England captains and the nation’s leading cricket journalists are concerned that Ben Stokes has left their men’s Test team in a deep hole a year out from a home Ashes series.

Ben Stokes has backed Harry Brook to succeed him as England’s Test captain after bowing out of international cricket, saying the gifted batsman had his “100 percent support”.

There were some worried faces in the Australian dugout during last week’s T20 World Cup contest against the Netherlands in Southampton.

An injury-hit New Zealand overwhelmed England by 160 runs in the third Test at Trent Bridge on Monday as Ben Stokes’ last match in international cricket ended with a thumping defeat — and calls for more change at the top of English cricket.

The timing and circumstances surrounding Ben Stokes’ mid-match retirement have drawn plenty of mixed reaction from English media after the all-rounder’s incredible Test career ended with a whimper at Trent Bridge on Sunday.

Ellyse Perry starred as Australia knocked India out of the Women’s T20 World Cup with a six-wicket group-stage win at Lord’s on Sunday.

England captain Ben Stokes has declared he will retire from international cricket at the end of the current Test against New Zealand following a contentious year.

Ireland secured a landmark series win over T20 world champions India in Belfast on Sunday with a tense one-run win after the tourists again denied teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a debut.

Rachin Ravindra’s unbeaten fifty revived New Zealand after Jofra Archer’s double strike gave England renewed hope of victory in the third and deciding Test at Trent Bridge on Saturday.

Ireland stunned T20 world champions India with a landmark 34-run win in their series opener in Belfast on Friday after the tourists opted against giving an international debut to teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.

Ben Duckett scored his first century in over a year and Jacob Bethell banished his first-innings blues after returning England captain Ben Stokes sparked a fightback in the third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge.

New Zealand’s Tom Latham and Devon Conway broke a record that had stood for nearly a hundred years before England skipper Ben Stokes marked his return to international duty by sparking a late fightback on the first day of the third and deciding Test at Trent Bridge.

Teen cricket sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will reportedly be required to use his own changeroom during India’s white-ball tour of Ireland and England.

Returning captain Ben Stokes insisted he had been “man enough” to apologise to his England teammates after missing the last Test for breaching a curfew.

Ellyse Perry starred as Australia moved closer to the Women’s T20 World Cup semi-finals with a 113-run rout of lacklustre Pakistan on Tuesday.