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Mitchell Marsh just wanted the chance to play one more Test for Australia. Four years had elapsed since his last outing and another allrounder had emerged, tipped to be a great player, but he kept hoping. At Headingley, where English allrounders have done a thing or two in the past in Ashes Tests, Marsh produced

The BBL is set for one of the earliest starts and earliest finishes in competition history with the 13th edition of the tournament set to run from December 7 to January 24 and could allow overseas players to stay for the majority of the season, after issues with retaining talent last year. Australia’s men’s home

Hobart Hurricanes have been able to shore up their BBL list by re-signing in-demand power hitters Tim David and Ben McDermott beyond next season. David, 27, has signed a one-year extension to take his contract through until the end of the 2024-25 season while McDermott, 28, has committed to the Hurricanes until the end of

Big picture: Shootout at the last-chance saloon “Sir, do you know they’ve cut us off? We’re entirely surrounded.” “Those poor bastards,” Puller said. “They’ve got us right where we want ’em. We can shoot in every direction now.” When he took over as England’s Test captain, Ben Stokes named Brad Pitt’s character Don “Wardaddy” Collier,

Cricket owes much of its appeal and enjoyment to the fact that it should be played not only according to the Laws, but also within the Spirit of Cricket. The major responsibility for ensuring fair play rests with the captains, but extends to all players, match officials and, especially in junior cricket, teachers, coaches and

Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh have been withdrawn from the Hundred by Cricket Australia, in the latest blow to the competition’s standing. Maxwell and Marsh were both due to play under Trevor Bayliss at London Spirit on £125,000 (US$160,000) contracts but have been told to pull out in order to manage their workloads ahead of

Ollie Pope has been ruled out of the remainder of England’s Ashes campaign after dislocating his right shoulder during the second Test at Lord’s last week. Pope, who has twice suffered shoulder dislocations in the past, underwent a scan in London on Monday, which revealed the full extent of the injury, He will undergo surgery

James Anderson insists his age is not to blame for his off-colour performances in the first two Ashes Tests, and says that he’ll be looking no further into the future than the start of the third Test at Headingley on Thursday. Anderson turns 41 later this month, but speculation is mounting about his role for

Stuart Broad was “amazed that not one senior player” in the Australian team “questioned what they had done” during or after the hotly-debated dismissal of Jonny Bairstow in the Lord’s Test. “What amazed me, and what I told the Australians I could not believe as we left the field at lunch, was that not one

Yorkshire will ramp up security levels for the third men’s Ashes Test at Headingley this week, following a pitch invasion by Just Stop Oil protesters during the second Test at Lord’s. Three people were charged with aggravated trespass on the first day of the Lord’s Test. Two of them – Daniel Knorr, 21 and Jacob

Australia coach Andrew McDonald was “disappointed” with his counterpart Brendon McCullum saying the teams wouldn’t be sharing a beer following the controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow on the final day at Lord’s. McDonald reinforced Pat Cummins’ comments that it was a dismissal they had been watching for when it came to Bairstow and added he

Ben Stokes and Pat Cummins expect that the febrile atmosphere on the final day of the second men’s Ashes Test at Lord’s will continue in Leeds next week, with the third Test starting at Headingley on Thursday. Australia’s players were booed throughout the second session after Jonny Bairstow was controversially stumped by Alex Carey, and

MCC has issued an unreserved apology to Australia after some of their players were abused when walking through the Long Room on day five of the second Ashes Test at Lord’s, following the controversial dismissal of Jonny Bairstow, with Usman Khawaja describing what was said as “pretty disrespectful”. Khawaja and David Warner were shown on

MCC has clarified that Mitchell Starc‘s catch late on the fourth day at Lord’s was ruled not out by the third umpire because he did not have full control over his movements. Starc claimed the chance at fine leg when Ben Duckett toe-ended an upper cut shortly before the close of play but replays showed

Australia 154 for 6 (Mooney 61*, Ecclestone 2 for 24) beat England 153 for 7 (Dunkley 56, Jones 40, Jonassen 3-25) by four wickets An unbeaten half-century by cool-as-you-like opener Beth Mooney saw Australia to victory with one ball to spare in a thrilling first T20I against England in front of a crowd of 19,527

Allan Border, the former Australia captain, has revealed he has Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement. Border, who turns 68 in July, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016. “I walked into the neurosurgeon’s and he said straight up, ‘I’m sorry to tell you but you’ve got Parkinson’s’,” Border said.

England were left frustrated that Ollie Pope was forced to field with an injured shoulder on the third day at Lord’s after initially being under the impression from match officials that they would otherwise only have 10 players. In the 18th over of Australia’s second innings Pope then reaggravated the injury he first suffered on

Australia 416 and 130 for 2 (Khawaja 58*) lead England 325 (Duckett 98, Brook 50, Starc 3-88, Head 2-17, Hazlewood 2-71) by 221 runs A day which began with the second Test evenly balanced ended with Australia holding a firm grip on this contest, and perhaps with it the Ashes. England folded during the morning

Australia suffered a potentially major injury blow when Nathan Lyon limped off the field with a right calf injury during the final session of the second day at Lord’s. Chasing a ball towards the boundary in the 37th over, Lyon pulled up and was immediately in pain and appeared to know he was in trouble.

At around 4.30pm, Nathan Lyon, playing his 100th consecutive Test, set off to chase a ball towards the Grand Stand boundary. He pulled up and started to limp, a few moments later he was hobbling towards the dressing room. England were 182 for 1 and Australia had, at least for the day, likely the match

England 278 for 4 (Duckett 98, Crawley 48, Brook 45*, Lyon 1-35) trail Australia 416 (Smith 110, Head 77, Warner 66, Tongue 3-98, Robinson 3-100) by 138 runs You cannot win a Test match in an hour’s play on day two. Nor can you lose it. But as observers at Lord’s on Thursday can now

Australia 339 for 5 (Smith 85*, Head 77, Warner 66, Root 2-19, Tongue 2-88) vs England Steven Smith and Travis Head gave the opening-day honours to Australia at Lord’s, but the scorecard was not quite as bleak for England as appeared likely shortly before the close until Joe Root burgled a double-wicket over after what

Big Picture Are you ready for round two? The opening of this Ashes delivered everything it had promised. Four more matches of that level of exhilaration will be a test for everyone involved. Given all the talk of the past week, where both teams have had some downtime, it would be easy to think England

Ben Stokes says that a random encounter with a non-cricket fan during a spa break between Tests has brought home to him just how important and engaging this Ashes series is proving to be, and has vowed to continue to push for victory at all costs in this week’s second Test at Lord’s. Australia’s thrilling

Stuart Broad looked cooked. James Anderson wasn’t given the second new ball and looked grumpy. The opening Test at Edgbaston was decided by very fine margins, but it felt as though England’s pace attack ran out of steam for the final push. There has been a reasonable break ahead of the second Test at Lord’s.

Josh Tongue has only taken 11 wickets for Worcestershire in the County Championship’s second division this season but one of them earned him more attention than the other 10 put together. In his first innings of a controversial three-match stint with Sussex, Steven Smith had made 30 when Tongue’s nip-backer struck him just above the

Australia begin their 2023 ODI World Cup campaign against hosts India in Chennai on October 8, before going on to play their next two games in Lucknow in the north of India: against South Africa on October 13 and a qualifier on October 16. The World Cup schedule was finally released by the ICC and

Australia 473 (Sutherland 137*, Perry 99, Ecclestone 5-129) and 257 (Mooney 85, Healy 50, Ecclestone 5-63) beat England 463 (Beaumont 208, Sciver-Brunt 78, Knight 57, Gardner 4-99) and 178 (Wyatt 54, Gardner 8-66) by 89 runs Ashleigh Gardner sent down her arm ball, Amy Jones charged past and the ball bounced off Alyssa Healy‘s battered

It’s a sign that a tour is running smoothly when there are very few unknowns about selection for the next match. As with last week, the only question for Australia to answer is around the final make-up of their pace attack with Mitchell Starc waiting in the wings should a change be made at Lord’s.

After one match of the men’s Ashes 2023, Australia are able to get the best of both worlds when it comes to Bazball. They can praise its ambitions, while England do much of the combative talking, knowing the scoreline reads 1-0 in Australia’s favour heading to Lord’s and promising there is much better to come