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Cameron Green is hopeful of playing some Sheffield Shield cricket for Western Australia before the end of the domestic summer and is eyeing off a stint in county cricket to get himself in the selection mix as a batter only for the World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lord’s in June. Green has

“The wicket was very good last time. I’m hoping it will turn more in this match.” When a Sri Lanka captain says this in Galle on the eve of a Test, there might be a dustbowl in the offing. What is clear is that the surface Sri Lanka and Australia are set to play the

Melbourne Renegades have further bolstered their pace stocks after landing free agent Brendan Doggett, while the club’s shake-up is set to continue with Hobart Hurricanes’ title-winning opener Caleb Jewell poised to sign with them before the BBL’s new player movement window ends on Thursday. Doggett, who was part of Australia’s squad during part of the

Travis Head has backed Sam Konstas to regain his place as opener for the World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lord’s where Australia are likely to face a batting squeeze given the recent success of their debutants. Konstas burst into international cricket against India at the MCG and was named Bradman Young Cricketer

Nathan Lyon has warned Australia could still be years away from Test greatness, despite continuing their blistering summer with a record-breaking rout of Sri Lanka. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy triumph confirmed Australia’s spot in a second consecutive World Test Championship (WTC) final, with the ICC’s top-ranked side winning more Test matches in the past cycle than

Michael Bevan has been elevated to the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame after a tweak to the criteria governing selection. Bevan, one of Australia’s greatest white-ball players, scored 6912 runs at 53.58 from 232 ODIs while routinely steering his side to victory in chases. The batter’s last-ball four, to secure a one-wicket win at the

It was the first time for each player to win Australian cricket’s highest individual honours. While Head was a favourite for the top men’s prize, also claiming the one-day international player award, Sutherland was third in the one-day voting and a distant sixth for the women’s T20I international award. But she was awarded top votes

Former Australia captain Aaron Finch would like a full player auction to be brought into the BBL while Glenn Maxwell believes the power surge should be removed as it doesn’t replicate international playing conditions. Currently, overseas players are selected through the draft – with clubs now able to pre-sign one name before that event –

Mitchell Owen has earned his first T20 contract since a dazzling display in the BBL final, joining South African franchise Paarl Royals. Owen scored a league-leading 452 runs for Hurricanes during the BBL, starting the summer as a relatively anonymous figure before announcing himself as a star. The highlight was his scarcely believable century in

It was the length Australian spinners bowled that helped them take 20 Sri Lanka wickets so easily. This is what the stand-in captain Steven Smith felt after his team inflicted a record innings-and-242-run victory on Sri Lanka in the first Test. The Sri Lanka batters struggled substantially against the spinners, losing 17 wickets to them

Alyssa Healy has confirmed she will miss the upcoming Women’s Premier League (WPL) due to the stress injury in her right foot and was coy about her future in international cricket beyond the ODI World Cup in India in October. Healy, who turns 35 in March, missed the T20I portion of the women’s Ashes and

Sri Lanka 165 (Chandimal 72, de Silva 22, Kuhnemann 5-63, Lyon 3-57) trail Australia 654 for 6 dec by 489 runs Australia’s mood brightened considerably under clear skies in Galle as they resumed their complete dominance of the first Test with spinners Matthew Kuhnemann and Nathan Lyon running through a hapless Sri Lanka early on

England Lions 116 (Sutherland 3-7, Doggett 3-17) and 116 for 2 (McKinney 67*) trail Australia A 379 for 9 dec (Patterson 137, Phillipe 120*, Goodwin 70) by 141 runs Australia A assumed control of the first-class match against England Lions with the tourists asked to follow-on in Sydney. Josh Philippe joined Kurtis Patterson in reaching

Lancashire have signed Australia allrounder Ashton Turner for the Vitality Blast group stage. Turner will also be available for Lancashire’s two County Championship fixtures at the end of June. Turner, 32, has been capped 28 times in in limited-overs internationals but his most recent appearance for Australia came in 2023. He spent the last three

Mitchell Marsh has been ruled out of the Champions Trophy due to a back injury and is unlikely to play again this season, which could also leave his IPL stint with Lucknow Super Giants in doubt. Marsh has endured a difficult season and lost his Test place to Beau Webster for the final match against

Travis Head will replace Sam Konstas at the top of Australia’s batting order for the first Sri Lanka Test despite the teenager’s heroics in the triumphant India series. Captain Steven Smith would not rule out finding a place for Konstas elsewhere in the order for the match that begins in Galle on Wednesday, with a

Tea Australia 600 for 5 (Khawaja 232, Smith 141, Inglis 102, Head 57, Jayasuriya 3-193) vs Sri Lanka Opener Usman Khawaja celebrated his maiden Test double century before Josh Inglis smashed a rapid ton on debut as Australia built a formidable first-innings total on day two in Galle. Australia have shown no mercy on a

Former Australia wicketkeeper, vice-captain and long-time cricket administrator Christina Matthews has been inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, receiving her award prior to the opening day of the historic women’s Ashes Test at the MCG. Matthews has played the most Test matches for Australia, 20, and is equal sixth all-time globally and has

There was a 57 at the MCG, and a 41 in the New Year Test, but otherwise it had been a dry few months for Usman Khawaja. He’d not only averaged just 20.44 across 10 innings in the Border Gavaskar Trophy, he’d only crossed fifty twice in Tests in 2024. But he’d had a message

Sam Konstas showned his character with a classy response to being dropped for the first Test against Sri Lanka, said Australia selector on duty Tony Dodemaide. Dodemaide stopped short of guaranteeing Konstas would reclaim his opening spot for the home Ashes next summer but insisted the star teenager remained part of succession plans for an

Toss Australia chose to bat vs Sri Lanka Josh Inglis will make his Test debut for a new-look Australia, while offspinner Todd Murphy has been preferred over quick Scott Boland, as captain Steven Smith elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the series-opener in Galle. Inglis, the Western Australia wicketkeeper and a noted player of

A day before the BBL started, Mitch Owen said he wasn’t sure where he’d be batting – or at all – for Hobart Hurricanes this season. After a record-breaking knock to win the competition for his home-town side, Owen, also the top run-scorer for the league, can start to lift his sights higher. The 23-year-old

Among the more recent trends in countering the kind of spin often seen in Galle has been to focus on run-scoring, rather than on defence. Smith’s own 145* the last time he was at this venue was memorable for how quick he was to move around the crease to create scoring opportunities. Reverse sweeps, slogs,

Jason Behrendorff has become the first major free agent signing in the BBL’s new player movement window with Melbourne Renegades securing the left-arm seamer on a three-year deal after Perth Scorchers were not able to guarantee him a contract. Behrendorff, who turns 35 in April, has won four BBL titles with Scorchers over a 13-year

Will Sutherland, the Australia allrounder, has agreed to join Yorkshire as one of their overseas players for the Vitality Blast. The 25-year-old will also be available for two rounds of the County Championship in June/July. Anthony McGrath, Yorkshire’s new head coach, had previously tried to bring in Sutherland when in charge at Essex, only for

Hobart Hurricanes 185 for 3 (Owen 108, Wade 32*) beat Sydney Thunder 182 for 7 (J Sangha 67, Warner 48, Ellis 3-23, Meredith 3-27) by seven wickets Mitchell Owen had a rollicking Bellerive Oval crowd in the palm of his hands and capped a breakout season with the equal-fastest BBL century as Hobart Hurricanes powered

Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley has described Thursday’s exhibition match featuring an Afghanistan Women’s XI in Melbourne as the first small step towards playing international cricket saying it is a ‘real beacon of hope’ that should spark conversations globally. An Afghanistan women’s cricket team, consisting of refugees who now live in Australia, will play

Matthew Kuhnemann has been cleared to join the Australia Test squad in Sri Lanka after recovering sufficiently following surgery to repair a thumb fracture. Kuhnemann, the left-arm spinner, had broken his right thumb while playing in the BBL last week, but has been able to bowl in training this week. He will reach Sri Lanka

England Lions 316 (Flintoff 108, Davies 76, Whitney 4-72) and 276 for 9 (Coles 67, Hurst 53, Elliott 3-38) drew with Cricket Australia XI 214 (Hicks 64, Brown 5-21) and 442 for 9 dec (Ward 120, Clayton 84, Hackney 70*, Radhakrishnan 58, Cook 4-47) England Lions held out for a battling draw after last pair

In unpacking how Sydney Thunder transformed from BBL laughing stock to finals force, it is impossible to overstate the influence of the “ball of energy” that is David Warner. Thunder didn’t just collect the wooden spoon in the previous season, they snatched it with eagle-like precision in a miserable one-win campaign. On Monday night, they