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Cricket Australia is monitoring fast-growing unrest in Sri Lanka but remains confident next month’s tour of the country will go ahead as planned. Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on Monday night, following months of protests after the nation was plunged into its worst economic crisis in decades. His resignation followed an attack by

Marcus Harris is on a 12-month mission to press his case for next year’s Ashes series in England but is realistic that it may be some time before there is a vacancy for him to return to Australia’s Test side. Harris was the fall guy to accommodate Usman Khawaja’s stunning return to Test cricket after

Ryan Campbell, the former Australia wicketkeeper-batter and current Netherlands men’s head coach, has been discharged from hospital after follow-up tests showed no damage to his heart. Campbell, 50, had suffered a series of cardiac arrests on April 16 in Stoke-on-Trent and was taken into intensive care in an induced coma. While the doctors at the

This new T20 competition – an innovative creation bringing together some of the leading players from women’s game with those from the Associate nations – got underway in Dubai. While most Australians have stayed at home to rest there are a few taking part. Georgia Redmayne, who was a travelling reserve at the recent World

Australia could consider playing five specialist bowlers plus an allrounder in Sri Lanka as a way of sneaking three spinners into the side for back-to-back Tests in Galle. They picked three specialist spinners, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Swepson and Ashton Agar, in their Test squad last week along with three further specialist spinners – Todd Murphy,

Australia have consolidated their top position in the ICC men’s Test team rankings, while India and New Zealand remain the No.1 teams in the T20I and ODI rankings, respectively. The ICC’s annual update reflects all completed series since May 2019. The series played before May 2021 are now weighted at 50 per cent and subsequent

New Australia coach Andrew McDonald insists there was never a risk he would have pursued the England job due to his firm belief that international coaches should oversee all three formats, with England set to split the roles down white and red-ball lines. There was interest from England in both McDonald and Langer prior to

It wasn’t a great week for the Australians at the IPL with very few outstanding performances. Mitchell Marsh produced his best score of the tournament to-date after an interrupted start due to injury and Covid-19. He looked in superb touch as he smashed 37 off 20 balls on Sunday for Delhi Capitals against Lucknow Super

Australia is a resource-rich country. Minerals and fast bowlers are in rich abundance. But the Pakistan Test tour, as successful as it was for Australia, exposed a scarcity of spin resources moving forward towards six Tests in Sri Lanka and India over the next 12 months. With senior spinner Nathan Lyon, who bowled beautifully in

Matt Renshaw‘s newfound versatility is making him an attractive option for Australia’s selectors as they begin to plan for life beyond David Warner and Usman Khawaja in the coming years. Renshaw, 26, made a sparkling century for Somerset on day one of their division one LV= County Championship clash against Warwickshire, just a day prior

Australia have named four squads – including an Australia A team – to tour Sri Lanka in June, with Test captain Pat Cummins rested from the T20Is, as legspinner Adam Zampa is set to miss the tour due to the birth of his first child. The visitors play three T20Is, five ODIs and two Tests

Stoinis fell for a duck in his most recent match against Mumbai Indians holing out off another Australian in Daniel Sams. The left-arm seamer took 1 for 40 against Super Giants following on from an excellent showing against Chennai Super Kings where he took 4 for 30 in a losing side. Riley Meredith also bowled

John Rutherford, the first Western Australian-based player to be selected for Test cricket, has passed away at the age of 92. Rutherford is part of Australia’s one-Test club having played his only Test match on the 1956 tour of India, that was held on the way home from the Ashes series that year. The right-handed

Netherlands coach Ryan Campbell is in a stable condition and is out of sedation, his family announced through the Australian Cricketers’ Association on Sunday. Campbell suffered a heart attack last Saturday and was in intensive care in an induced coma. Four days later, his brother Mark Campbell revealed that he was out of coma and

Netherlands coach Ryan Campbell remains in a critical condition and under heavy sedation in Royal Stoke hospital in the UK following a heart attack last weekend. Campbell’s family released a statement to the public on Friday morning AWST updating his condition after the former Australia ODI and Western Australia wicketkeeper-batter suffered a heart attack last

Former Cricket Australia chairman and long-time cricket administrator Alan Crompton has passed away aged 81. Crompton was chairman of the Cricket Australia board, then known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), from 1992 to 1995. He had risen to the position after a long career in Sydney grade cricket followed by decades in cricket administration.

Netherlands head coach and former Australia ODI wicketkeeper Ryan Campbell is in intensive care in a hospital in the UK after suffering a heart attack on Saturday. The 50-year-old was at a playground with his children at the weekend, before collapsing. It was reported on 6PR on Tuesday morning AWST that he remained in an

Jeff Vaughan has departed his role as Australia assistant coach to become the new full-time head coach of Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield and Marsh Cup competitions. The news comes just a day after Cricket Australia formally announced Andrew McDonald as the new Australia men’s head coach. Vaughan had been appointed as an Australia assistant

Former Test allrounder Andrew McDonald has been officially confirmed as Australia’s new full-time men’s coach and selector for all three formats after signing a four-year contract. McDonald takes over the same roleJustin Langer resigned from messy circumstances in February following an offer from the Cricket Australia board for a six-month contract extension only. McDonald, who

In Jackson Bird‘s last Test match for Australia in 2017 he had to bowl 30 overs on a lifeless MCG pitch as Alastair Cook piled up 244 not out across 10 hours of batting. Bird faced Cook for the first time in five years as Kent took on Essex on a highway at Chelmsford in

As was widely expected, Ramiz Raja‘s proposal for a quadrangular T20 event got no further than a presentation to the ICC board meeting, the board deciding such a tournament could not fit into the next rights cycle. But Ramiz, whose own future at the board is now under a cloud, took some solace from the

Ramiz Raja‘s proposal for a quadrangular T20 event may have acquired some non-specific support ahead of his presentation of the plans to the ICC Board on Saturday. Ramiz, the PCB chairman, will present an idea for an annual tournament involving Pakistan, India, Australia and England, but one, he says, will create revenue for all members.

Legspinner Mitchell Swepson was left “frustrated” by his challenging introduction to Test cricket in Pakistan but is being backed to play a key on Australia’s next tour to Sri Lanka in the middle of the year. Swepson, who was the first specialist legspinner to make his Test debut for Australia’s men’s team since 2009, managed

Yuzvendra Chahal has opened up – for the second time this year – about instances of physical harassment when he was a junior player in the IPL. The latest revelation relates to an incident in 2013, when Chahal was with Mumbai Indians, and a player allegedly dangled him from a 15th-floor hotel balcony after “getting

Chairman of selectors George Bailey insisted fast bowler Jhye Richardson remains a key part of Australia’s plans across all three formats and could even tour Sri Lanka in June despite being dropped off the central contract list. Richardson was the most notable omission from the 20-man list having returned to Test cricket last summer for

Kane Richardson also drops out along with Tim Paine (indefinite leave) and James Pattinson (retired) from the previous group which had included 17 names instead of the full 20. Travis Head, who was Player of the Series in the Ashes, Marcus Stoinis and Mitchell Swepson are also included after not being part the previous original

On a pitch that posed problems to every other batter, and in a chase that had just got tense, Pat Cummins walked out and produced an innings for the ages. The Kolkata Knight Riders allrounder hammered an unbeaten 56 off just 15 balls to utterly stun the Mumbai Indians. Here is a snapshot of the

Skipper Aaron Finch predicts the future is bright for Nathan Ellis and Josh Inglis after the inexperienced pair played a vital role in Australia’s one-off T20 international win against Pakistan in Lahore. Australia were missing David Warner, Mitch Marsh, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Wade, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc from the side

Pakistan, who had begun brightly with Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, as they often tend to do, lost their way through the middle overs, losing six wickets for 24 runs in a disappointing game for the middle order. Babar did bring up his own 33-ball half-century but struggled thereafter. Ben Dwarshuis aside, every specialist bowler

Among the bowlers, Sophie Ecclestone continues to lead the rankings, despite going wicketless in the final. She picked six wickets in the semi-final against South Africa. Shabnim Ismail, who finished second among the wicket-takers in the World Cup, gained a spot to be ranked second. Anya Shrubsole’s five wickets across two knockout games saw her