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Steven Smith has had a cortisone injection to help him overcome the wrist tendon injury he suffered during the Ashes and is hopeful of being able to play pain-free during the World Cup. He had initially worn a splint but that did not solve the problem so he resorted to the injection and was able

Further assessments back in Australia will determine Travis Head‘s World Cup fate after the fracture hand he suffered in South Africa, but he remains a long shot to now make the tournament in India. Matthew Short has been called up to the ODI squad for the three matches in India which precede the World Cup

Australia chose to bowl vs South Africa Temba Bavuma returned to lead South Africa after missing the previous match with an inner-thigh muscle strain and replaced Reeza Hendricks. South Africa made one other change to the team that set Australia 417 at SuperSport Park with Kagiso Rabada rested for the decider after experiencing mild ankle

Former Australian Test bowler Stuart MacGill has been charged over the supply of a commercial quantity of cocaine that led to his purported kidnapping. Six men have been charged over the alleged kidnapping, which took place on Sydney’s lower north shore in April 2021. Police launched an investigation into an alleged drug supply operation after

Head was on 9, facing his eighth delivery, when he was struck on the glove attempting a pull off Coetzee. He went on to face three more deliveries before deciding he was unable to continue batting. More information on the severity of his injury will be known on Saturday. Australia’s chase of 417 suffered early

Toss Australia chose to bowl vs South Africa Injury concerns have hit the hosts, who are without Anrich Nortje, Sisanda Magala and Temba Bavuma as they look to keep the Australia ODI series alive. Nortje is struggling with a lower-back injury that kept him out of the first and third matches and will rule him

Josh Inglis knows that his chance to feature in the ODI World Cup might come with a last-minute tap on the shoulder. It’s a situation he’s getting used to as a regular back-up player in Australian squads. The ongoing tour of South Africa has seen him offered more opportunity than has often been the case:

Cricket Australia will make neck guards mandatory for Australia and domestic players from October 1 meaning the likes of Steven Smith and David Warner, among others, will be forced to wear them on their helmets having resisted doing so since their introduction in 2015. Mandatory neck guards are one of a number of changes made

Harry Dixon is 18 years old, has been blazing runs for Australia Under-19s, idolises David Warner, and has just been handed a two-year deal with Melbourne Renegades. Dixon, a left-handed opener, has been highly regarded around the Victoria grade system – he hit his maiden hundred for St Kilda in the final round of last

Australia A 243 (McDermott 70, O’Rourke 4-29) beat New Zealand A 135 (Seifert 44, Thornton 7-39) by 108 runs Henry Thornton has capped a whirlwind 48 hours by claiming a career-best 7 for 39 on debut for Australia A in a thumping victory over New Zealand A in Brisbane just two days after an unexpected

Australia’s stand-in captain Mitchell Marsh says his side will learn a lot from being exposed by South Africa’s spinners in helpful conditions in Potchefstroom while the fitness of their own spinner Ashton Agar is a worry after he was unavailable due to soreness with his next opportunity to play before the World Cup unknown because

Australia chose to bowl vs South Africa South Africa rang in the changes for the first of three must-win matches in a series where they are trailing Australia 2-0. Given how poorly South Africa’s batting has gone so far, they were forced to try a new combination at the top of the order. Rassie van

Declaring herself reinvigorated by captaining Australia in the Ashes, Alyssa Healy has halted any talk of retirement by signing a three-year deal with the Sydney Sixers. Off contract since the end of last summer, AAP can reveal Healy has agreed a contract extension to keep her in the WBBL with Sixers until the end of

It is hardly revolutionary to see a team blaze away at the start of a one-day innings, but Australia’s mindset in the first two matches against South Africa has given a clear indication of how they will approach the World Cup. And it won’t involve seeing out the new balls. Their gameplan also brought two

Michael Neser has been called into Australia’s ODI squad in South Africa to provide them with an extra pace bowler for the backend of the series. Neser, 33, has two ODI caps to his name which he earned on the 2018 tour of England. He will join the tour in Potchefstroom ahead of the third

Australia’s women are set to face the challenge of preparing for a Test match in India while playing the WBBL with national selector Shawn Flegler revealing that planning is already underway to have both the fast bowlers and spinners increasing their bowling loads during the six-week T20 tournament in preparation for a day-night pink-ball encounter

Tom Bruce, the New Zealand A captain, lauded his team’s “relentless and fearless” style of cricket after they secured a 2-0 win over Australia A in the four-day series. The visitors won the opening match in Brisbane by 225 runs, despite being 79 for 7 and bowled out for 147 on the first day, then

Australia’s selectors might give Marnus Labuschagne‘s mother Alta a call to get some insight into how the next three months of ODI cricket will unfold, after she correctly predicted that her son would play in Bloemfontein, where he saved Australia’s blushes as the supersub again through the most unlikely set of circumstances. Green was hit

New Zealand A 277 (Kelly 64, Perry 4-41, Hatcher 4-77) and 299 (Bruce 105*, Solia 62, Foxcroft 53, Hatcher 4-92) beat Australia A 275 (Philippe 105, McSweeney 56, Dwarshuis 50) and 233 (Jewell 131, Kuggeleijn 3-50, O’Rourke 3-64) by 68 runs New Zealand A made it back-to-back victories in the four-day series despite a defiant

Cameron Green has been substituted out of Australia’s opening ODI against South Africa in Bloemfontein with a concussion after he was hit by a Kagiso Rabada bouncer in the sixth over of the chase. Marnus Labuschagne took his place in the line-up. Green had only just arrived at the crease after Rabada removed Mitchell Marsh

Mitchell Starc will put himself up for a return to the IPL next year, viewing it as ideal preparation for the T20 World Cup in the West Indies and the USA in June. If picked up by a franchise, it would be Starc’s first appearance in the tournament since 2015 – overall he has made

Australia have named their XI for the first of five matches in South Africa with Marsh to captain in an ODI for the first time while Pat Cummins is still unavailable due to his wrist injury. Marsh made a triumphant debut as Australia’s interim T20I captain with a 3-0 series sweep of South Africa last

His quiet addition to the ODI squad for the upcoming series against South Africa barely raised an eyebrow back in Australia. But his call-up is not just an experiment where he keeps a seat warm while Australia wait for the return of injured batters Steven Smith and Glenn Maxwell. It seems clear that David, without

Sean Abbott earned a place among the pace bowlers in what was one of the few debatable positions, holding off a challenge from Nathan Ellis. Josh Inglis has been included as the back-up wicketkeeper and spare batting option. The squad can be amended until September 28 after which ICC permission is required. From the original

Marizanne Kapp was unsurprisingly selected by Sydney Thunder with pick one in the inaugural WBBL overseas draft and Perth Scorchers elected not to retain South Africa’s star allrounder, instead choosing to retain their current captain, Sophie Devine. Scorchers were always set to shape the draft with their retention pick as they had to decide between

Glenn Maxwell says he is going to have to carefully manage his preparation ahead of the ODI World Cup and may not play all of the lead-in series against India after he was ruled out of the recent T20I series in South Africa due to soreness in his ankle stemming from his previously broken leg.

The second edition of the BBL draft provided some interesting tactics and themes on Sunday night and teams appeared to have a better handle on the draft mechanics and their own strategies after the novelty and unknowns of last year’s inaugural draft. Here are six of the key takeaways. Availability wasn’t a major worry All

Quinton de Kock is set to make his debut in the BBL this season after being selected by Melbourne Renegades in the overseas draft while Melbourne Stars took England star Harry Brook but not before trying to poach Rashid Khan from Adelaide Strikers for the second year running. The second edition of the BBL’s overseas

South Africa chose to bat v Australia South Africa emptied their bench in search of a consolation win in the three-match T20I series against Australia and handed out debuts to Matthew Breetzke and Donovan Ferreira while welcoming back Keshav Maharaj from an Achilles rupture. This is Maharaj’s first international since March when he suffered the

Nathan Ellis has admitted his sporadic appearances in international colours have been a challenge, even as he forges an outstanding T20I record. Ellis claimed 3 for 25 in the second match against South Africa in Durban, including a double-wicket maiden in his opening over, to take his T20I tally to 18 in seven outings at