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The historic 150th anniversary Ashes Test at the MCG in 2027 will be staged as a day-night match.
Long locked in for 11 to 15 March, Cricket Australia confirmed – exactly two years out – Australia’s one-off match against England would be the first men’s pink-ball Test at the venue.
Continue reading...Pakistan cricket greats Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar have expressed their disappointment at the absence of Pakistani representation during Sunday’s presentation ceremony for the Champions Trophy final in Dubai.
An Adelaide Oval Sheffield Shield final wedged between two AFL games at the same venue is “gaining momentum” according to Redbacks coach Ryan Harris after his team secured a shot at a first title since 1996.
Australia and England will play a pink-ball Test match under lights at the MCG in March 2027 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Test cricket, Cricket Australia has confirmed.
India has become the first nation to win three Champions Trophy titles after Sunday’s tense final against New Zealand in Dubai.
India skipper Rohit Sharma on Sunday said he is “not retiring” from one-day international cricket after leading his team to a record third Champions Trophy title in Dubai.
Eighteen months after their World Cup final heartbreak, India has reasserted their ODI dominance with a Champions Trophy triumph in the United Arab Emirates.
India won another global trophy with a four-wicket victory over New Zealand in the Champions Trophy final on Sunday.
Their captain, Rohit Sharma, led the chase with 76 off 83 balls and KL Rahul’s unbeaten 34 helped India cross the finish line on 254 for six in 49 overs.
Continue reading...He’s done it again.
India has won its third Champions Trophy title following a topsy-turvy final against New Zealand in Dubai, with the four-wicket triumph ending a 12-year drought for the powerhouse ODI team.
Australian Georgia Voll was agonisingly finished one run shy of becoming the first batter to score a century in the Women’s Premier League.
Should India win tonight’s Champions Trophy final in Dubai, the triumph will be accompanied by an asterisk and a footnote.
Test all-rounder Beau Webster made an unbeaten 64 for Tasmania, however it almost certainly won’t be enough to stop Queensland keeping its slim hopes of reaching the Sheffield Shield final alive with a win at Bellerive Oval.
Ten finals. Ten titles.
Instincts are to protect England’s Test captain, but he’s the functioning brain of Bazball. It’s hard to think of anyone better to lead the ODI team
This column is about the rise of high-end supermarket cheddar cheese that has delicious and addictive crunchy crystals in it. What are these exactly? And is everything just basically crisps now? This column is about the MCC being needlessly given tens of millions of pounds because the England and Wales Cricket Board sold a hat that isn’t really a hat, just the promise of a brightly coloured future-hat.
This column is about cricket umpires being reduced progressively to a theatre of facial expressions, from the brave, wounded “you’re on screen, please reverse your decision”, to the screw-you triumphalism of the confirmatory finger to an empty set of stumps. Michael Caine once said that while doing a closeup you should always stare at a fixed point, always into one eye not both eyes of your scene partner. Do we need to train Joel Wilson in this?
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