Category: Australia Cricket

Australia’s women have started their international summer in the perfect manner, annihilating India by five wickets with a whopping 202 balls to spare in Brisbane on Thursday.

Just as Australia’s captain Pat Cummins had promised, Marnus Labuschagne was the man in the middle in Adelaide on Thursday afternoon, lathering up while working hard with the bat in hand as dark clouds formed over the South Australian capital.

Australian captain Pat Cummins has confirmed that Scott Boland will make his long-awaited return to Test cricket this week, picked for the day-night contest against India in Adelaide.

• Popular quick will play his first Test since July last year
• Marsh expected to bowl in day-night match starting on Friday

Paceman Scott Boland has been recalled to Australia’s team and allrounder Mitch Marsh is clear to bowl in the second Test against India. Australia captain Pat Cummins has confirmed Boland’s inclusion for his first Test since July last year, replacing Josh Hazlewood who is out because of a side strain.

Marsh will play, and is available to bowl, despite suffering soreness in the aftermath of Australia’s horror 295-run defeat to India in the series-opener in Perth. Cummins expects Marsh will be called on to bowl at some stage during the second Test starting Friday in Adelaide. But the Australian captain dismissed the notion of added pressure on his team after the crushing defeat in Perth.

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Former England cricket Michael Vaughan wants Test cricket to be split into two divisions as part of a radical plan to revitalise the longest form of the game.

As incoming Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg assessed the global headwinds facing the sport, he declared his time in rugby league could hold him in good stead to embrace the challenges.

Cricket Australia chairman Mike Baird said the body stands by its approach to the delicate situation surrounding Afghanistan cricket amid criticism from the outgoing ICC boss about how principled Australia’s stance really is.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan said the events of late November in Perth and Christchurch have boosted his hopes that his home nation can reclaim the Ashes next year.

Travis Head says he was surprised to read comments from Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar who suggested Josh Hazlewood’s side strain injury was “strange”, a “mystery” and that there was more to the story.

Australia will look to level the series against India when they head to Adelaide for the second test of the series.

India will receive a massive confidence boost in its bid to win the women’s ODI World Cup at home next June if it manages to upset Australia in a series beginning in Brisbane on Thursday afternoon.

Nursing his newborn son as India romped to a victory in Perth, Rohit Sharma had a reckoning - the arrival of Ahaan was not the only life-changing event of the week.

Australia can be expected to target prolific Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal with a barrage of bumpers after the emerging star’s dazzling deeds with the bat to start the Border Gavaskar Trophy.

Even the talented Fox Cricket make-up artists won’t be able to hide this one.

Former Test cricketer Mel Jones has highlighted batting prodigy Georgia Voll as a prime example of the emerging talent in Australia ahead of an upcoming international series against India prior to the Ashes against England next month.