A new BBL star was born after Hurricanes young gun Mitch Owen launched a stunning power-hitting blitzkrieg to steer his side to a bounce back win over Perth at Hobart on Saturday.
‘Could end his career’: Opener ‘devastated’ by axing, great says selectors ‘must admit mistake’
Australian cricket legend Mike Hussey says Nathan McSweeney’s axing for the Boxing Day Test is a “tough call” as teenage prodigy Sam Konstas earns an “exciting” opportunity to potentially debut.
Why Aussie scapegoat is the latest of a failed experiment… it’s backfired every time
And so, the 12-month game of musical chairs continues.
‘Record heat’: Horror forecast for ‘warmest ever’ Boxing Day Test with MCG set to swelter
Cricket fans are set to swelter through the annual Boxing Day Test amid a warning Melbourne could hit “record” heat.
24-year trans-Tasman dominance continues after hero Sutherland rescues Aussies … again
Australia has retained the Rose Bowl after defeating New Zealand by 65 runs via the DLS Method courtesy of Annabel Sutherland’s 78-ball hundred in the second ODI at the Basin Reserve.
‘All-time great’ snare not enough for Stars as Strikers gun overcomes nightmare outing
Ben Duckett took one of the best catches in BBL history but it was Lloyd Pope’s act of redemption that stole the show as the Adelaide Strikers defeated the zero and three Melbourne Stars by 15 runs at the Adelaide Oval.
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Continue reading...‘Icon of the game’: Late Aussie white ball pioneer recognised with re-naming of domestic trophy
Australian cricket’s domestic One-Day Cup has been renamed the Dean Jones Trophy after the batting pioneer of the 50-over game was the winner of cricket.com.au’s competition to name the cup.
Teenager Sam Konstas earns call-up to Australia squad for Boxing Day Test
- 19-year-old expected to be named for fourth India Test
- Top order has largely mis-fired in opening three matches
Sam Konstas is in the frame for a whirlwind Test debut after being called into Australia’s squad for the fourth match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
AAP understands the 19-year-old batting prodigy was notified on Friday that he would be named in Australia’s squad that afternoon.
Continue reading...‘Kohli wouldn’t have’: Captain, coach hammered over star’s snap exit as divide exposed
India is under fire for its handling of Ravichandran Ashwin’s shock retirement midway through the Border-Gavaskar Test series against Australia.
‘Easy two points for us’: Sydney Smash set for early fireworks after brutal sledge
The weather has been fairly mild this week, but things are about to heat up on Saturday with what should be one of the spiciest Sydney Smash derbies of all time after a couple of stinging sledges were exchanged in the lead-up to the clash between two of the BBL’s unbeaten teams.
‘Humiliation’: Ashwin’s dad makes shock retirement claim before India star fires back
Ravichandran Ashwin’s dad has claimed that “humiliation” may have played a role in his sudden retirement from the Indian cricket team.
Tinselled bowling duos hand England fresh resolution for new Ashes year
Atkinson and Carse have followed in Anderson’s and Broad’s giant footsteps, while Filer and Bell are a pairing to fulfil Christmas wishes
Fast bowlers are the Formula One engines of a cricket team: purringly powerful when they want to be, painfully vulnerable when bits fall off. When a partnership works, and sticks – Lillee and Thompson, Ambrose and Walsh, Wasim and Waqar – they carry the team on their shoulders. When that partnership fades, teams often falter, losing their identity.
It is nearly 17 years ago that Michael Vaughan and Peter Moores informed Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison that they were to be dropped for the second Test against New Zealand at Wellington, replaced by James Anderson and Stuart Broad. Harmison played only six more Tests and Hoggard never played for England again, while Anderson and Broad famously went on to be the most successful bowling pair in Test history.
Continue reading...Wade set for time on sidelines after on-air ‘twinge’… and ‘merry-go-round’ that ensued
Retired Australian wicketkeeper Matthew Wade looks set to spend time on the sidelines this BBL series, after a calf injury forced him out of Wednesday night’s record-breaking loss to the Melbourne Renegades.
BREAKING: McSweeney axed as prodigy’s Boxing Day debut looms in drastic shake-up
The Australian selectors have unveiled their squad for the upcoming Boxing Day Test against India, dropping opening batsmen Nathan McSweeney and calling up teenage prodigy Sam Konstas.