Category: Cricket

• 35-year-old one run short of 10,000 Test runs ahead of Sri Lanka tour
• Australia stand-in captain to guide Sam Konstas to play his own way

Steve Smith has conceded he thought “too much” about reaching the 10,000 Test runs milestone against India before falling one run short in the fifth Test. The stand-in captain will head to Sri Lanka needing a single to join Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh in an exclusive Australian cricket club.

Smith, famously fidgety and a poor sleeper during Tests – particularly while he is batting – reckons he has never cared much for statistics and milestones in a 114-Test career in which he’s averaged nearly 56. But, after falling for four in the second innings at the SCG to leave his home crowd, packed with family, friends and the three cricketing greats above him on that list gutted, he couldn’t pretend it didn’t hurt.

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Superstar batter Steve Smith has vowed to “pass on as much knowledge as I can” when he takes charge of a Test squad loaded with emerging talent in Sri Lanka declaring boom teenager Sam Konstas has “all the tools” to thrive as a key part of the next generation of stars.

It’s been over a decade since England won a women’s Ashes title, but the Australians aren’t showing any signs of complacency ahead of the multi-format series that gets underway this weekend.

Sydney Sixers captain Moises Henriques was left fuming after the men in magenta were potentially denied the crucial wicket of Glenn Maxwell during Thursday evening’s Big Bash League match against the Melbourne Stars at the MCG.

Rising star Georgia Voll sent a timely reminder to the national selectors of her big-hitting capabilities before rain forced a premature end to the Governor General’s XI match against England at North Sydney Oval on Thursday.

Pat Cummins is under an injury cloud ahead of next month’s Champions Trophy campaign in Pakistan, with the Australian captain set to undergo scans on a sore ankle this week.

The Melbourne Stars have kept their Big Bash League season alive with Glenn Maxwell powering them to a stunning 16-run victory against the top of the table Sydney Sixers in a night full of drama at the MCG.

Australia has named a 16-player squad ahead of the upcoming Test tour of Sri Lanka, with Nathan McSweeney, Todd Murphy and Matthew Kuhnemann earning a recall and Cooper Connolly the shock bolter.

Cooper Connolly has earned a maiden Test squad call up with Australia naming a 16-man group to tour Sri Lanka that’s missing several big names, including Glenn Maxwell.

Former Australian captain Aaron Finch has declared the Test career of reigning Allan Border medallist Mitch Marsh is all but over.

New Zealand’s Nathan Smith has wowed the cricketing world with an outstanding boundary catch in the Black Caps’ 113 run win over Sri Lanka on Wednesday.

Sam Konstas’ BBL return has been ruined by rain with the Thunder’s match against the Hurricanes washed out which sees both teams join the ladder-leading Sixers on nine competition points.

The SCG pitch for the fifth and final Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy was rated the worst of the summer by the ICC, but avoided receiving any demerit points.