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Australia stand-in captain Alyssa Healy has been ruled out of the fifth and final T20I against India in Mumbai on Tuesday due to a calf strain with stand-in vice-captain Tahlia McGrath set to lead her country for the first time. Healy was unable to bat again or field with McGrath taking over as captain as

Brendon McCullum admits next summer’s Ashes series is “a big carrot” for his new and improved England men’s Test side, as thoughts turn to next year’s challenges after a remarkable end to the 2022 campaign. On Tuesday in Karachi, England closed out a convincing 3-0 win over Pakistan to give McCullum a third series victory

Far away from Karachi, in Brisbane, Travis Head scored 92 in 96 balls in the first Australia innings in a Test where 34 wickets fell well within two days, and that got him into the top five for the first time in his career. He is currently joint-fourth with Joe Root, who scored a duck

Steven Smith has labelled the Gabba green-top as the toughest pitch he has played on in Australia and is hoping conditions at the MCG will be more suited to batting. South Africa were smashed in Brisbane as 34 wickets tumbled in just two days to open the blockbuster series, making it the shortest Test on

Australia 196 for 4 (Gardner 66*, Harris 64*, Vaidya 1-26) beat India 142 all out (Deepti 53, Deol 24, Graham 4-8, Gardner 2-20) by 54 runs Ashleigh Gardner put in another all-round display while Grace Harris continued with her big-hitting heroics as Australia thumped India by 54 runs to seal a 4-1 series win at

In total, only 866 balls were bowled in the match, which makes it the second-shortest Test ever played in Australia, and 34 wickets fell in that time. Bowlers took a wicket every 25.5 balls, the second-best strike rate in a Test match ever (with a minimum of 30 wickets), and South Africa captain Dean Elgar

Australia’s selectors are potentially facing one of their toughest calls for Boxing Day: in one corner you have Josh Hazlewood, 217 Test wickets at 26.16, and in the other you have new cult hero Scott Boland who has an average of 10.36 from five matches with a stunning record at the MCG. On one hand,

Just over 12 months ago, Travis Head was a line-ball selection in Australia’s side at No. 5. Now, he has collected back-to-back Player-of-the-Match awards and has become one of the most destructive No. 5 batters in world cricket. But despite dominating in home conditions in both last summer’s Ashes and this summer so far, Head

Australia and South Africa players will all wear floppy hats during the national anthems at the Boxing Day Test in tribute to cricket icon Shane Warne. The first MCG Test since Warne’s tragic death in March, aged 52, was always going to be an emotional affair and Cricket Australia have revealed the tributes that will be

Injured Australia fast bowler Josh Hazlewood is hoping to make himself available for selection for the Boxing Day Test against South Africa while admitting his repeated side injuries could be the cost of trying to be a three-format fast bowler. Hazlewood has missed Australia’s last two Test matches, including the first Test against South Africa

The Gabba pitch could come under scrutiny after producing the second shortest Test match in Australia. South Africa captain Dean Elgar revealed he had approached the umpires in the closing stages to question when conditions would be deemed to have become dangerous although Pat Cummins had no qualms about the surface. “I did ask the

Having been poised on 299 after South Africa’s first innings, Starc produced a magnificent delivery which swung back into van der Dussen shortly before lunch, zipping through a huge gap between bat and pad. The landmark came on the ground where Starc had made his Test debut, against New Zealand in 2011, and claimed Brendon

Australia captain Alyssa Healy suffered a calf strain while batting in the fourth women’s T20I against India and was ruled out of the contest. A word on her availability for the final game of the tour was awaited. Healy, leading for the first time in place of Meg Lanning, who is on an indefinite break,

Ricky Ponting has urged David Warner to think carefully about whether he should bring an end to his Test career but team-mate Nathan Lyon believes that all of Australia should be backing him. Warner was dismissed for a first-ball duck by Kagiso Rabada on the opening day at the Gabba when he fended a hostile

Australia opt to bowl v South Africa On the greenest Gabba pitch both Ricky Ponting and Justin Langer have seen, Pat Cummins asked South Africa to bat first against his four-seam attack. Cummins returns to the Test XI after missing the second match against West Indies with a quadriceps niggle and will lead a pack

Pat Cummins has indicated a greater bowling workload for Cameron Green against South Africa and the allrounder may be given an opportunity to get into the attack early. Green largely had a bit-part role to play against West Indies, bowling 29 overs across the two Tests, despite Cummins not being available for half the Perth

Dean Elgar believes there could be moments where the contest between Australia and South Africa over the next three weeks becomes “feisty” but both he and his opposite number Pat Cummins are confident it won’t come near the levels of the ugly 2018 series. Although the two sides have met in ODIs and T20Is since

Melbourne Renegades 166 for 7 (Maddinson 87, Russell 35, Kuhnemann 3-32) beat Brisbane Heat 144 for 6 (Peirson 43, Munro 35, Hosein 3-15) by 22 runs Melbourne Renegades captain Nic Maddinson plundered a scintillating 87 against Brisbane Heat to set up a 22-run victory in his 100th BBL game. Maddinson got out of the blocks

South Africa will need to be greater than the sum of their batting parts if they are to challenge Australia across the three-Test series which could have a huge bearing on who reaches the World Test Championship final in June. While there is an expectation that the visitors will be able to go toe-to-toe with

Warner had said last month that he was not going to play the longest format beyond another 12 months. However, his experience is pivotal for Australia’s tour of India early next year. And, before that, he is expected to play his 100th Test starting Boxing Day against South Africa, who round off the series at

Australia Women 172 for 8 (Perry 75, Harris 41, Vaidya 2-22) beat India Women 151 for 7 (Shafali 52, Harmanpreet 37, Brown 2-19, Gardner 2-21) by 21 runs Ellyse Perry reminded the world of her class and helped give Australia a 2-1 series lead in Mumbai, with her career-best 75 off 47 balls. She unleashed

Marnus Labuschagne believes becoming a father has helped him find a better work-life balance as he prepares for a showdown against South Africa, the country of his birth, in his home city of Brisbane. It will be the first time Labuschagne, the world’s No. 1 Test batter, lines up in a Test against South Africa,

After tearing through West Indies with the pink ball under lights, cementing his reputation as a fan favourite, Scott Boland has been assured of a spot in Australia’s star-studded attack for the first Test against South Africa as captain Pat Cummins prepares to return from a quad injury. Playing his first Test match since a

Sam Curran, Ben Stokes and Cameron Green, all of whom could potentially end up as the most expensive buy in the 2023 IPL auction, have been listed in the second set to come up for bidding on December 23. The auction will begin at 2.30pm IST in Kochi with the batters’ set which features Indian

McGrath, who made her T20I debut in October 2021, has already cemented her place in the Australia top order across formats. In T20Is, she has scored 485 runs in ten innings at an average of 121.25 and a strike rate of 149.69 so far. In the first T20I against India in the ongoing series, she

South Africa have identified making Steven Smith play at the ball early as the key to keeping Australia’s most prolific batsman quiet in their three-Test series this summer. They are one of the few countries in the world who can claim to have found an answer for Smith through his career ahead of Saturday’s first

Kane Richardson will play county cricket for the first time in 2023 after signing a contract with Kent for the duration of the T20 Blast. Richardson, the death-overs specialist who has been a regular feature of Australia’s white-ball squads, played English domestic cricket for the first time last summer, taking 13 wickets for Birmingham Phoenix

Steve O’Keefe was part of the first BBL and he is now preparing for another season with Sydney Sixers. He joins the Stump Mic podcast to look ahead to the season, talk about his motivation for playing, the changing T20 landscape, his memories of the first final where he opened the batting and how Sixers

Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the opening Test against South Africa due to the side strain he picked up last week but Australia captain Pat Cummins is on track to return at the Gabba. The selectors have named a 14-player squad for the Test which starts on Saturday in Brisbane with uncapped Lance

Toss: India chose to bowl vs Australia Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and elected to bowl in the second T20I against Australia at DY Patil Stadium, in Mumbai. The hosts made no changes to the side that lost the opening game by nine wickets on Friday. There was a significant amount of dew in the