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.
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Aussie domination as woeful Sri Lankans slump to worst defeat in Test history
Sri Lanka has suffered its heaviest defeat in Test history as spinners Nathan Lyon and Matthew Kuhnemann steered Australia towards a comprehensive innings and 242-run victory in Galle on Saturday.
16-0! Aussies embarrass England in historic whitewash after star enters the record books
Australia has destroyed England and the record books to secure the first Ashes series whitewash under the multi-format system.
‘Didn’t add up’: England left fuming as contentious ‘like-for-like’ sub opens up ‘giant can of worms’
Fast bowler Harshit Rana came in as a controversial concussion substitute for his T20 debut and returned figures of 3-33 to help India clinch the series against England.