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Golf and family time are top of Matthew Mott‘s agenda once he returns home, but it won’t be long before the planning starts for the next challenges in front of Australia’s latest invincibles after their five-year mission to rule the game was crowned with the ODI World Cup title. The summit was reached with what

Australia interim coach Andrew McDonald is in no doubt that captain Aaron Finch will lead Australia’s T20 World Cup title defence later this year on home soil despite Finch’s current lengthy form slump. Since the start of the last T20 World Cup in the UAE in October 2021, Finch has played 12 T20Is and three

A one-off T20I at the end of the tour does not come with a huge amount of context, but if the last two ODIs are anything to go by, the atmosphere in Lahore should at least be terrific with the game starting after the heat of the day has passed. What either team can take

News Australia’s captain picked up back-to-back ducks to continue a lean year but has faith he can bounce back Aaron Finch reckons he doesn’t need to be told he’s struggling with the bat after Australia’s ODI series defeat in Pakistan – but the white-ball captain is confident he’s going to fight back at 35. Finch’s

Report England go in unchanged to defend their title Toss England Women chose to bowl vs Australia Women England have opted to bowl in the final of the 2022 World Cup against Australia in Christchurch. Ellyse Perry will play for Australia – who have progressed through the tournament undefeated – most likely, as captain Meg

Big picture And then there were two: Australia and England. Predictable? In part. They are the two most successful teams in the Women’s ODI World Cup history and were considered frontrunners for the silverware in the ongoing 12th ODI edition. But neither favourites Australia nor defending champions England could have potentially foreseen the contrasting campaigns

Report Jason Behrendorff has replaced Mitchell Swepson to strengthen the fast-bowling attack for Australia Toss Pakistan chose to field against Australia Pakistan have won the toss and will field first in the final – and decisive – ODI of the three-match series against Australia in Lahore. For the third time in a row, the coin

News His life was remembered and celebrated at the MCG One of Shane Warne‘s former foes Nasser Hussain has described the legendary legspinner as the greatest cricketer who ever lived. Former Australian team-mates and rivals paid tribute to Warne at the MCG in a star-studded state memorial service on Wednesday. Ex-England captain Hussain, who Warne

Big picture After five weeks of a historic tour where the cricket has been tough and competitive for the most part, we have a decider to look forward to. It’s a tour that has perhaps attracted more attention off-field than on it, though the cricket has been of a high standard, and Pakistan can finally

As Shaun Marsh and Peter Handscomb posed for the cameras, the iconic Sheffield Shield nestled between the skippers made for a magnificent sight in front of the WACA’s famous scoreboard. After a 23-year drought, the burly trophy was back on Western Australian turf but not yet in the WACA’s possession, reinforced by a Cricket Australia

News Nevill captained NSW in a record 43 Shield games and played 17 Tests and 9 T20Is for Australia Former Australia Test and T20I wicketkeeper Peter Nevill has announced his retirement from all forms of professional cricket after 13 years at the top level. Nevill, 36, played 17 Tests and nine T20Is for Australia but

News Up-and-coming seamer set to join Hampshire after IPL stint Hampshire have announced the signing of Nathan Ellis, the Australia fast bowler, as one of their overseas players for this year’s Vitality Blast. Ellis, 26, has been capped twice in ODIs and twice in T20Is, and took a hat-trick on international debut against Bangladesh last

News Family members, colleagues, stars from sport, music, television and film come together to say goodbye to “the greatest” For one more time, thousands made the journey to the MCG for Shane Warne. It was a chance to farewell one of the game’s greats at the ground he graced on so many occasions: the scene

News “What that defeat brought was a form of professionalism and accountability that we didn’t have back then” Megan Schutt has harked back to Australia’s shock exit from the 2017 ODI World Cup as the “kick up the butt” the team needed to create the kind of “professionalism” that has underpinned their dominance in the

Preview Only Zimbabwe and Netherlands have won fewer ODIs in this World Cup cycle than Babar Azam’s men Big picture If there were optimists who believed the ODI series would gradually pick up interest once the ball was rolling, what the first game threw up will have done plenty to extinguish that kind of positive

News He will continue his recovery with Patrick Farhart in the Capitals squad in India Former Australia and current New South Wales physiotherapist Patrick Farhart, who has been with Capitals since the 2020 IPL season, will manage Marsh’s recovery after the allrounder finishes his quarantine on arrival in India. Marsh will be the second Capitals

Report The match has been shortened to a 45-overs-a-side contest because of a rain-delayed start in misty Wellington Toss West Indies Women chose to bowl vs Australia Women West Indies won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in a World Cup semi-final reduced to 45 overs per side because of a rain-delayed start

Report Hosts hand ODI debuts to Mahmood and Wasim; Swepson and Ellis debutants for Australia Pakistan chose to bowl vs Australia Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl against a shorthanded Australia in the series-opening ODI in Lahore, as both teams return to the 50-over format after lengthy absences. Missing a host of stars

News Australia’s team physio also tests positive on the morning of the opening ODI; rest of the players test negative Spinner Ashton Agar has become the second Australia player to test positive for Covid-19 in 24 hours, and has been ruled out of the entire ODI series against Pakistan in Lahore. Cricket Australia (CA) confirmed

News The allrounder suffered back spasms last Tuesday and “ran out of time to prove her fitness” for Wednesday’s knockout game against West Indies Ellyse Perry has been ruled out of Australia’s 2022 ODI World Cup semi-final against West Indies scheduled for Wednesday in Wellington. Meg Lanning, the Australia captain, confirmed Perry’s unavailability for the

News Interim appointment expected in wake of Shane Warne’s death Trevor Bayliss is set to be appointed as London Spirit’s men’s head coach in the Hundred, linking back up with Eoin Morgan after four successful years together with England’s white-ball sides. Bayliss, who was England’s coach during the white-ball revolution from 2015 to 2019 that

News Australia allrounder says “we’ll probably need to make a decision in the next day or two” Ellyse Perry‘s availability for Australia’s World Cup semi-final against West Indies on March 30 remains uncertain two days out from the fixture, she confirmed before heading into her first training session in nearly a week. Perry, who had

News “It’s pretty rare for a cricketer these days to get three months off, so I’m really going to make the most of it.” Australia legspinner Adam Zampa is confident his upcoming three-month break won’t leave him short of a gallop for this year’s T20 World Cup on home turf. Zampa is currently in Pakistan

News Australia opt to manage Smith’s ongoing elbow problem with rest. Meanwhile, legspinner Mitchell Swepson called into the squad to bolster the bowling stocks Steven Smith has been ruled out of Australia’s upcoming limited-overs matches with Pakistan due to discomfort in his previously troubled left elbow. Australia’s selectors believe they have enough batting in the

News Interim head coach remains favourite to take over Australia men’s coaching job full-time after 1-0 Test series win in Pakistan Cricket Australia’s search for a new men’s coach may have narrowed to one following Australia’s triumphant 1-0 away Test series over Pakistan, with captain Pat Cummins full of praise for the role of interim

News Captain says the win has ‘reaffirmed’ their home success can be translated abroad and has given them a confidence boost ahead of Sri Lanka and India tours Australia captain Pat Cummins believes his side’s rare series win in Asia has reaffirmed that their normal blueprint for success can translate abroad and will give them

News Series of two Tests, five ODIs and three T20Is will be played from June 8 to July 12 Australia will visit Sri Lanka for an all-format series in June-July this year. The tour, Australia’s first to Sri Lanka since mid-2016, will feature two Tests, five ODIs and three T20Is, to be played from June

News The board is set to hire a consultant to look into the feasibility of the idea The PCB’s plan to bring drop-in pitches from Australia has been delayed. The board is now likely to hire a consultant who will first advise it on whether it is feasible to have the Australian-made pitches in Pakistan.

Report Australia’s opening stand stretched their lead to over 200 on the fourth day Lunch Australia 391 and 97 for 1 lead Pakistan 268 by 220 runs David Warner fell for 51 on the stroke of lunch to a spectacular delivery from Shaheen Shah Afridi, but Australia’s lead grew past 200 to deflate Pakistan’s hopes

News Pakistan’s collapse, he suggested, came about because conditions were difficult for batters new to the crease Pakistan have a long history of collapses in Test cricket, and they added a new chapter on Wednesday, when they lost their last five wickets for just four runs – a new record – to hand Australia a