Category: Australia Cricket

Table-topping Royal Challengers Bengaluru thrashed Chennai Super Kings by 50 runs on Friday for a second win in this year’s IPL, inspired by a “game-changing” performance from fast bowler Josh Hazlewood.

Fighting centuries from Jack Wildermuth and Jack Clayton have given the Queensland Bulls a chance to secure a remarkable win in their Sheffield Shield final against South Australia at Karen Rolton Oval.

Pat Cummins achieved a rare feat while fellow Australians Travis Head and Mitch Marsh had big knocks overnight as Lucknow Super Giants easily chased down a target of 191 to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad for their first win of the new IPL season.

New South Wales veteran Moises Henriques has announced his retirement from first-class cricket, with the decorated all-rounder’s 19-year Sheffield Shield career drawing to a close.

South Australia will be forced to complete a tricky chase to win the Sheffield Shield final after Queensland fought back into the match with the bat.

Having just been rolled for 95 in the Sheffield Shield final, Queensland captain Marnus Labuschagne gathered his troops for a pep talk during the innings break.

Had Dan Worrall stayed in Australia, the former ODI representative could well be part of the attack seeking to give South Australia its first Sheffield Shield in three decades this week against Queensland.

The World Cricketers’ Association has issued a blunt assessment about the state of the game, as it urged officials to create defined windows in a “chaotic” schedule and provide a fairer distribution of the sport’s riches.

South Africa’s Quinton de Kock struck an unbeaten 97 as holders Kolkata Knight Riders registered their first win of the IPL season with an eight-wicket hammering of Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday.

Australia has secured a 3-0 series whitewash over trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand after winning Wednesday’s third T20 in Wellington by eight runs.

Test batsmen Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne both failed as Queensland made a horror start to the Sheffield Shield final against a South Australian side inspired by the feats of former Bulls paceman Brendan Doggett.

Since the start of 2013, every state has won at least one Sheffield Shield title … except for South Australia.

India batsman Shreyas Iyer led from the front with an unbeaten 97 to set up an 11-run win for Punjab Kings in a big-hitting IPL clash with Gujarat Titans on Tuesday.

Joel Wilson and Michael Gough will no longer be part of the International Cricket Council’s Elite Panel of Umpires.

Culminating in a dramatic final day in front of a packed Adelaide Oval pulsating with nervous energy, the 1996 Sheffield Shield final remains one of the competition’s most unforgettable contests of the modern era.