Travis Head can recall the crossroads innings which kickstarted his dazzling international career and played a crucial role in his Allan Border Medal triumph on Monday night.
‘Icon and pioneer’: Australia’s ODI great Michael Bevan elevated to Hall of Fame
- Batter finally inducted after committee reviews selection criteria
- Bevan acknowledged for revolutionising white-ball game
Michael Bevan has been elevated to the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame after a tweak to the criteria governing selection.
Bevan, one of Australia’s greatest white-ball players, scored 6,912 runs at 53.58 from 232 ODIs while routinely steering his side to victory in chases.
Continue reading...‘Our four impact subs are…’: Poms skipper’s cheeky sledge before 24yo India star’s 135-run epic
India’s Abhishek Sharma hit a brutal 135 to set up a crushing 150-run win over England in the fifth T20 international and seal the series 4-1 on Sunday.
‘Send him home’: Great’s blunt advice on snubbed Test sensation
Brad Haddin has urged Australian selectors to send Sam Konstas home to play state cricket if he isn’t in their plans for the second Test against Sri Lanka.
‘Thought he was gone’: Brisbane ‘magician’ behind Aussie’s heroics after gruesome injury
Australian coach Andrew McDonald has confessed he thought spinner Matthew Kuhnemann would miss the Test tour of Sri Lanka following last month’s gruesome thumb injury.
Travis Head is a firm favourite for Allan Border Medal while gun trio is set to fight out Belinda Clark Award
Australia’s big-moment dynamo Travis Head shapes as the firm favourite to win the Allan Border Medal as a reward for 24 months of dominance across all three formats.
Leggie’s perfect 10 after record campaign; superstar’s surprising flop: Ashes Player Ratings
Australia has secured an unprecedented 16-0 series whitewash over England by winning the women’s Ashes Test at the MCG by an innings and 122 runs.
‘Don’t know what to say’: England scalded amid historic low as greats call for axe to swing
England’s fallout after their historic Ashes loss to Australia has well and truly begun, with the “enormous” gap between the two rivals set to force internal change.
Uzzie’s perfect 10 after career-best knock; Aussie star’s struggles continues: Player Ratings
Australia thumped Sri Lanka by an innings and 242 runs in Galle on Saturday to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series and retain the Warne–Muralitharan Trophy.
Proof Steve Smith’s a tactical ‘genius’; Sri Lankan captain’s ‘absolute garbage’ brain fade’: First Test Talking Points
Australia has retained the Warne–Muralitharan Trophy after a dominant victory in the series opener at Galle International Stadium, defeating Sri Lanka by an innings and 242 runs.
‘Better team than the scoreboard suggests’: English Knight defends Ashes thrashing amid silence on future
Heather Knight is frustrated and gutted but will delay any decision on her captaincy until emotions subside after leading England to an unprecedented drubbing at the hands of Australia in the women’s Ashes series that finished on Saturday at the MCG.
Australia makes ominous statement as depth of England’s problems laid bare: Talking Points
Australia has claimed a dominant victory against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday night, securing the first 16-0 points whitewash since the multi-format Ashes was introduced back in 2013.
Aussie skipper amazed by Ashes blitz, ‘never thought’ she would see a whitewash in iconic series
Australian skipper Alyssa Healy has played with legends and celebrated iconic triumphs, but she never envisaged the day where she would feature in an Ashes whitewash.
Australia hammer hapless Sri Lanka inside four days as records fall in Galle
- Australia 654-6 dec; Sri Lanka 165 and 247 in four days
- Spinners Lyon and Kuhnemann inflict bulk of damage
Australia have recorded their biggest Test win on the subcontinent, trouncing a hapless Sri Lanka by an innings and 242 runs in the series opener in Galle.
Australia took a staggering 15 wickets either side of enforcing the follow-on during day four, wrapping up the series opener by tea. Veteran Nathan Lyon (three for 57, four for 78) and left-arm off-spinner Matthew Kuhnemann (five for 63, four for 86) inflicted the bulk of the damage, the latter barely two weeks after dislocating his thumb playing Big Bash League.
Continue reading...‘Is that Mike Gatting batting?’: Aussie star Alana King stuns with incredible ‘Warne-like’ wicket
“Is that Mike Gatting batting?”