Category: Australia Cricket

Star veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has retired from all formats of international cricket for India, effective immediately.

Brisbane’s miserable weather robbed fans of what was shaping up to be a thrilling conclusion to the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which ended as a stalemate.

Cricket Australia should have listened to the late great Shane Warne.

Questions have emerged over India’s jubilant celebrations yesterday evening at the Gabba, as they narrowly avoided the dreaded follow-on.

Australian chairman of selectors George Bailey has found himself in the spotlight for the second time this summer.

Australian captain Alyssa Healy is no certainty to play in Australia’s opening ODI against New Zealand on Thursday despite overcoming a knee issue, with selectors conscious of the upcoming Ashes.

Sam Konstas has continued his remarkable summer with a record-breaking knock on his BBL debut that will only enhance his chances of a Test call-up.

Denied a decisive triumph at the Gabba by miserable weather, Australia will endure an anxious wait regarding star batter Travis Head’s fitness leading into the Boxing Day Test.

Australian assistant coach Daniel Vettori has defended the team’s decision not to declare after India likely put a result out of reach in the third Test at the Gabba.

• Third Test, day four: Australia 445; India 252-9
• Australia checked by resilient batting and rain

It’s that time again. Not the time when the cricket enthusiasts are paying attention, because we always are – June in Barbados, August in Galle, whatever you’ve got. No, it’s the brief time either side of Christmas when the cricket is high profile enough that everybody outside our odd community also becomes vaguely aware it exists. “Who’s winning?” I’ve been asked twice this week, that dreaded question that gets lobbed from hallways over the backs of couches to torment those of us who know that nobody is ever winning a Test match, they have either won it or not won it. All we have to comfort us is our smug superiority; which is, granted, a consolation.

On the fourth day of Australia’s Test against India at Brisbane, there was a further delight: the game within a game. For the uninitiate, this contest would have looked dead. Australia on 445, India resuming in the morning 394 runs behind and four wickets down. Soon to be five, the captain Rohit Sharma an early departure. Combine the gulf in scores with the rain that had taken the match into its fourth day without completing its second innings, and there was no chance for India to get towards parity and stay in the contest.

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The third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is edging closer towards a stalemate after a courageous tenth-wicket partnership between Indian tailender Akash Deep and vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah frustrated the Australians on day four of the Gabba.

Sixers skipper Moises Henriques says Daniel Hughes’ latest injury setback is “very concerning”, but the veteran batter isn’t entirely sold on the idea of introducing a replacement system that would allow teams to sub on like-for-like players.

Visibly distressed England captain Ben Stokes suffered a recurrence of a hamstring injury on Monday while bowling during the third Test against New Zealand in Hamilton.

Australia’s hopes of seizing control of the Border-Gavaskar Series in Brisbane were dealt a significant blow after India avoided the follow-on on a gripping day at the Gabba.

The Indian media has urged champion paceman Jasprit Bumrah to start holding his underperforming batters accountable, as they threaten to put his exceptional performances in Australia to waste.