Category: Australia Cricket

Australia has made a statement in Mount Maunganui, claiming a dominant 82-run victory to secure the win in their women’s T20 international series against New Zealand.

Virat Kohli opened the Indian Premier League season with an unbeaten 59 as he led Royal Challengers Bengaluru to a crushing seven-wicket win over champions Kolkata Knight Riders in the curtain-raiser on Saturday.

The England Cricket Board has announced that Heather Knight will leave her role as captain of the women’s team a day after head coach Jon Lewis was dismissed following a 16-0 Ashes humiliation in Australia earlier this year.

Australian opener Georgia Voll credits an off-season Big Bash switch as the sliding doors moment that prompted her rapid ascent from domestic prodigy to global superstar.

England has sacked women’s cricket head coach Jon Lewis after a 16-0 Ashes humiliation in Australia earlier this year.

Mitchell Starc had a “target on him” during last season’s Indian Premier League campaign after the Kolkata Knight Riders signed the Australian quick for a record-breaking sum in the auction.

Opener Hasan Nawaz struck a record-breaking maiden century Friday as Pakistan crushed New Zealand by nine wickets in the third Twenty20 to keep the series alive.

Cricket Australia is facing the prospect of a legal stand-off with its players over an alleged breach of contractual rights regarding a recently-released video game.

Beth Mooney and Georgia Voll smacked rapid fifties as Australia dominated reigning world champions New Zealand in Friday’s T20 series opener with an eight-wicket triumph at Eden Park.

Usman Khawaja has fired back at “inflammatory” and “categorically untrue” comments from Queensland head of elite cricket Joe Dawes, addressing his absence from last week’s Sheffield Shield match in a dramatic press conference.

The IPL is offering bowlers some much-needed relief by scrapping a Covid-era rule banning players using saliva on the ball.

Beth Mooney would relish the opportunity to finish her international career as Australia’s wicketkeeper across formats, but acknowledges she’s no certainty to serve as Alyssa Healy’s eventual successor with the gloves.

Australian pinch-hitter Jake Fraser-McGurk risks feeling the wrath of the Indian Premier League’s cutthroat selection policies if he doesn’t overturn his recent form slump over the coming weeks.

At 40 years of age, Peter Siddle was still charging in after 6pm on day four at the WACA, the last game of his last season, just three overs away from ending an almighty red-ball career, which to that point had netted 791 wickets across nearly 20 years.

Questions have been asked about the Sheffield Shield bonus point system after Queensland made next week’s final courtesy of a draw in the last game and ended the 10-round season with less wins than Victoria.