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Australia 253 for 7 (Harjas 55, Weibgen 48, Peake 46*, Limbani 3-68) beat India 174 (Adarsh 47, Abishek 42, Beardman 3-15, MacMillan 3-43) by 79 runs A fearsome four-pronged pace attack, spearheaded by the thunderous Callum Vidler and Mahli Beardman, who had Anrich Nortje transfixed to the action, led Australia to Under-19 World Cup glory

West Indies won the toss and decided to bowl against Australia Captain Rovman Powell won the toss and again elected to bowl as an unchanged West Indies look to keep the T20I series alive against Australia at a warm Adelaide Oval. Despite his attack struggling after bowling first in the series-opening loss in Hobart, Powell

Australia will unleash tearaway left-arm quick Spencer Johnson for his debut international on home soil in Sunday’s T20 game against the West Indies. Johnson, 28, has played three times for Australia – two T20Is in South Africa last August and a 50-over fixture in India last September. She has been summoned for his first home

Big picture: India vs Australia in a final, again So, India meet Australia in a grand finale for the third time since June 2023. The occasion is eerily similar to the one from November last year. Except, Benoni won’t be as intimidating as Ahmedabad, even though South Africa’s massive Indian community will try and make

Spin-bowling allrounder Sophie Molineux has been recalled to Australia’s Test squad to face South Africa at the WACA. She is part of a 14-player group that includes five spin options. Molineux, who currently does not hold a central contract, last played for Australia in 2021 and in December last year returned to action after a

Cameron Green remains firmly in the thoughts of Australia’s selectors for the T20 World Cup with the upcoming IPL to play a role in how they put together the final squad ahead of the tournament in June. Green has been left out of the two T20I series against West Indies and New Zealand to prioritise

Surrey have signed Australia allrounder Aaron Hardie for a two-month spell that will encompass the Vitality Blast group stage and three rounds of the County Championship. Hardie, who had a short stint with Surrey in 2022, will arrive ahead of the Championship fixture against Hampshire at the Utilita Bowl from May 24. Surrey will also

Australia captain Alyssa Healy believes losses like the one they suffered against South Africa can be good for a team that has gone through some significant changes, but has backed them as still “a really good cricket side” as the multi-format series gets set for a potentially grandstand finish. South Africa’s historic first ODI win

Lance Morris has been ruled out of the Test tour to New Zealand opening the door for Michael Neser to return to the squad in what is otherwise a very settled Australia group for the two-match series. Morris picked up a side strain during the third ODI against West Indies in Canberra and won’t be

Tasmania 153 for 5 (Jewell 61) beat Queensland 150 (Carlisle 3-39) by five wickets A bonus-point defeat of Queensland at the Gabba kept Tasmania’s slim hopes of a One-Day Cup final appearance alive entering the final round. They bowled Queensland out for 150 and chased down the total in just 27 overs with five wickets

Victoria 234 for 7 (Rogers 67, Maddinson 54, Buckingham 3-36) beat South Australia 231 for 9 (Nielsen 61, Conway 43*, O’Neill 3-38) by three wickets Jake Fraser-McGurk was sent packing early as Victoria rocketed to top spot on the One-Day Cup table with a three-wicket win over South Australia at Junction Oval. Chasing 232 for

Beau Webster, the Australia allrounder, has joined Gloucestershire for this year’s Vitality Blast. Webster, a right-handed bat who bowls both right-arm medium-pace and off-spin, will join up with his new teammates in Bristol in late May. He will be available for the entirety of Gloucestershire’s Blast campaign, as well as two County Championship fixtures against

Marizanne Kapp showed she is an all weather, all-conditions and all-situations match-winner yet again with a player-of-the-match performance in Sydney that took South Africa over the line against Australia for the first time in their ODI history, and she knows the significance of this result. “It’s a proud moment,” Kapp said, “not only for me

Ricky Ponting believes young sensation Jake Fraser-McGurk can be a Test match player for Australia and thinks he needs to be exposed to international cricket as much as possible to help fast-track his development as a three-format cricketer. Fraser-McGurk made a statement in his second ODI on Tuesday smashing 41 from just 18 balls with

New South Wales 251 (Henriques 95, Rocchiccioli 4-101) and 182 for 6 (Hughes 59, Nikitaras 56) beat Western Australia 256 (Whiteman 107, Philippe 52*, Green 3-33, Bird 3-37) and 176 (Bancroft 36, Green 6-83, Hatcher 2-26, Tremain 2-28) by four wickets New South Wales captain Moises Henriques heaped praise on Chris Green after the offspinner

Victoria 288 (Maddinson 104, Scott 4-18) and 157 for 7 (Kellaway 35*, Harper 34, Doggett 3-41) beat South Australia 173 (Perry 3-43, Crone 3-46) and 271 (Nielsen 67, Hunt 54, O’Neill 5-47) by three wickets South Australia captain Jake Lehmann was left to rue being sent in first on a “horrendous” pitch as Victoria secured

Australia quick Lance Morris has suffered a left side strain in the third ODI against West Indies in Canberra, leaving him in doubt to tour New Zealand with the Test squad later this month. Morris had taken his first two ODI wickets in a fiery spell to leave West Indies in tatters as they were

Again fit and firing, and coming off an eye-catching year where he enjoyed a breakout IPL season, left-arm quick Jason Behrendorff hopes his success on slower surfaces will prove alluring as the national hierarchy contemplate Australia’s squad for the T20 World Cup. Behrendorff will be pushing his selection case in the upcoming three-match T20I series

Essex have re-signed Daniel Sams, the Australia allrounder, for this year’s Vitality T20 Blast. He is expected to be available for the first block of eight games between May and June. Sams, 31, will be returning to Chelmsford for the third summer in a row, having won the Blast MVP award while helping Essex to

There are no spare batters left in Australia’s squad after Travis Head was sent home to rest following the first ODI at the MCG. McDermott scored a stunning 146 not out for Queensland in a Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania on Saturday. He will link up with the Australia squad in Canberra on Monday.

New South Wales 244 for 7 (Henriques 95, Paris 3-45, Rocchiccioli 3-96) trail Western Australia 256 (Whiteman 107, Philippe 52*, Green 3-33, Bird 3-37) by 12 runs Skipper Moises Henriques capitalised on a shorthanded Western Australia attack after quick Matt Kelly suffered a pectoral muscle injury in his return as New South Wales fought back

Three ODIs in five days are making Australia’s selectors rotate their pace bowlers against West Indies, but Sean Abbott doesn’t want to hear a word about resting in Canberra on Tuesday because he knows how hard he must fight to get a place in the team. Abbott produced a starring all-round performance at the SCG,

West Indies won the toss and decided to bowl against Australia Record-breaking batter Jake Fraser-McGurk and allrounder Will Sutherland have been handed their ODI debuts at the SCG as Australia look to wrap up the series. Josh Hazlewood also returns having been added to the squad for this match. Quick bowlers Xavier Bartlett and Lance

Victoria 71 for 0 trail South Australia 173 (Manenti 47*, Nielsen 45, Perry 3-43, Crone 3-46) by 172 runs Fringe Test quick Scott Boland will undergo scans on his knee after pulling up sore while bowling for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield The 34-year-old left the field after being unable to complete his 17th over

Western Australia 256 (Whiteman 107, Philippe 52*, Green 3-33, Bird 3-37) vs New South Wales Western Australia captain Sam Whiteman compiled a brilliant century on a grassy WACA surface, but New South Wales hit back late on day one as the Sheffield Shield resumed after the mid-season break. After being sent in, Whiteman and Cameron

Former Australia captain Meg Lanning would prefer to see women’s Test matches scrapped altogether than continue to have them scheduled sporadically. The longest format of the game is much rarer in the women’s international arena than in the men’s; only 12 Tests have been played worldwide across the last decade. Each featured combinations of Australia,

Megan Schutt never thought she’d play one game for Australia, let alone 200. But she is revelling at the prospect of achieving the milestone when Australia host South Africa on Saturday in the opening fixture of the three-match one-day series at her beloved home ground, the Adelaide Oval. “It makes you feel a bit old,

No one predicted Xavier Bartlett would be playing for Australia this summer. Not even Xavier Bartlett. The fact that he made his debut in an ODI, having not played a 50-over List A game for Queensland since September 2022, makes it even more remarkable. Before the BBL, where he dominated the tournament taking 20 wickets

Toss Australia chose to bowl vs West Indies Australia will unleash Lance Morris and Xavier Bartlett on ODI debut after winning the toss and bowling first at the MCG in the first match of a three-match series. Morris was handed his first ODI cap by vice-captain Travis Head while Bartlett received his from Queensland and

It has been a week of celebration in Melbourne for both West Indies and Australia. The smiles on the faces of the West Indies team after their Test heroics on Sunday in Brisbane will last for a long time. And despite being on the losing end of an epic, Australia have also had cause to