Category: Cricket

The quick-fire series in the Northern Territory did little to answer batting line-up questions and the top of the order remains an almighty jumble

Cricket Australia didn’t host a Bangladesh Test for 23 years for a simple reason: it would have cost money to stage and earned less money back. That wouldn’t have been a concern for whichever generation of players would have taken the field, but for the suits, the equation was lose-lose. Now that the mandate of the World Test Championship has forced administrators to end that long wait, the result for Australia’s current batting outfit was also been lose-lose, even if the series scoreline ended up lose-win.

Defeat in the Darwin Test will remain a punchline at Australia’s expense, especially if the upcoming cavalcade of cricket against South Africa, New Zealand, India and England goes poorly. The follow-up win in Mackay, no matter the ruthlessness of concluding it in five sessions, won’t provide corresponding solace, given the manner in which it was built.

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Cricket Australia has encouraged curators shave more grass off, and reduce the moisture in, their pitches this summer as some tweaks have been announced to the Sheffield Shield to try find a better balance between bat and ball.

Australia’s selectors are back where they started a little more than a year ago.

England have removed Brydon Carse from the squad for their second Test against Pakistan, after the fast bowler was detained and handcuffed by police following an incident at a Derby nightclub.

Thirty wickets. Just 125 overs. A wicket every 25 balls and a Test match finished inside two days.

After a confidence building flourish at the end of Australia’s win over Bangladesh in Mackay, Nathan Lyon declared he was feeling better than ever with a view towards South Africa.

England fast bowler Brydon Carse was taken away in handcuffs by police outside a nightclub as a new late night, drinking incident embarrasses English cricket.

With Australia having wrapped up a series levelling rout of Bangladesh inside two days in Mackay, all eyes are looking towards Pat Cummins’ team’s next assignment.

• Australia 210; Bangladesh 64 & 95

• Starc stars with 10 wickets in Mackay

Mitchell Starc has rocked the Bangladesh batting order for the second time in as many days in Mackay to secure Australia victory by an innings and 51 runs in the second Test.

For the third time in the last seven matches, a Test in Australia has finished inside two days after Starc and captain Pat Cummins (3-10) ripped through Bangladesh, who batted poorly.

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Australia mauled Bangladesh by an innings and 51 runs in Mackay to level the two-Test series after their shock loss in Darwin with the Australian bowlers bouncing back in emphatic fashion.