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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

Australia 199 for 6 dec (Khawaja 45, Joseph 3-33) and 511 for 7 dec beat West Indies 77 (Boland 3-16, Neser 3-22) and 214 (Chanderpaul 47, Phillip 43, Lyon 3-57) by 419 runs Nathan Lyon claimed his 450th Test wicket as Australia completed a 419-run thrashing over a dispirited West Indies early on day four

David Warner‘s manager James Erskine has claimed that Australia were given the go-ahead to tamper with the ball after their defeat against South Africa in Hobart in 2016-17, when Australia were bowled out for 85 and lost by an innings and 80 runs in little more than two days. “Two senior executives were in the

Young Sydney Thunder legspinner Tanveer Sangha is racing the clock to play in the BBL this season and put his name forward for Test selection ahead of a busy international cricket schedule. The 21-year-old has been sidelined with a stress fracture in his back but is hoping to return before the end of the Big

West Indies 214 (Chanderpaul 47, Phillip 43, Lyon 3-57) trail Australia 511 for 7 dec (Head 175, Labuschagne 163, Thomas 2-53) by 297 runs The last thing West Indies’ injury-riddled tour needed was self-inflicted wounds but that’s exactly what they delivered with two calamitous run-outs bookending a horror first session on day three as the

Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley has defended his organisation’s handling of David Warner‘s appeal against his leadership ban amid claims CA lost control of the situation. Hockley said the independent review panel was required to make the process “fair and transparent”. On Friday, the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) said that Warner had been left

Toss Australia chose to bowl vs India Australia won the toss and opted to bowl in the first of the five-match women’s T20I series against India, in Mumbai on Friday. With the injured fast-bowling allrounder Pooja Vastrakar out of the series, India handed Railways left-arm seamer Anjali Sarvani an international debut. Sarvani was the leading

Australia 436 for 4 (Head 172*, Labuschagne 163, Thomas 2-53) vs West Indies Marnus Labuschagne fell for 163 before the dinner break on day two but Travis Head closed in on a maiden Test double century, as Australia continued to make an uninspired West Indies toil in the second Test at Adelaide Oval. Starting at

Josh Hazlewood is in doubt for the start of the series against South Africa after being ruled out of the second Test against West Indies in Adelaide with a side strain. Initially his withdrawal from the match was attributed to “general soreness” but further investigation revealed the side strain. He will return to Sydney on

There is a lot of talk about whether the Australia men’s team has fallen out of favour with the general public. Regardless of how much truth or otherwise there is around that, there could be no doubt about the affection felt for Travis Head when he brought up a hometown century at Adelaide Oval. Most

David Warner has given up his attempts at having his lifetime leadership ban overturned and launched a scathing attack on the process, claiming the independent panel put in place to review the sanction wanted to put him through a “public lynching”. In lengthy social-media posts that went up shortly before 6pm on the eve of

My family is more important to me than cricket. Over the course of the past nearly five years since the events that occurred during the Third Test in Cape Town, even with all the humiliation and attacks that they have had to endure, I have enjoyed the unwavering support and love of my wife Candice

Labuschagne scored 204 and 104* in Perth, becoming just the eighth player to record a century and a double-ton in the same Test. The knocks gave him 50 rating points, helping him regain his position at the top of the rankings table for the first time since June this year. He rises to 935 rating

Australia’s uncapped teenaged batter Phoebe Litchfield has heaped praise on India opener Smriti Mandhana for sharing insights during the Women’s Big Bash League last year and termed her one of her “favourite left-handers to watch.” Mandhana led the charts for for Sydney Thunder in WBBL 2021-22 with 377 runs at a strike rate of 130.44.

If history repeats itself and Pat Cummins misses the Adelaide Test, Australia are confident in their fast-bowling depth being able to cover the absence of the captain. Cummins was forced out of the corresponding fixture a year ago after being identified as a close Covid-19 contact on the eve of the Test against England. Australia

Australia’s newest spin sensation Alana King is relishing the prospect of bowling in front of extended family as she prepares to play her first international game in India. King’s parents Leroy and Sharon were born in Chennai before moving to Melbourne before Alana was born. The 27-year-old has visited the country on multiple family trips,

Lance Morris, the Western Australia pace bowler who is rated the quickest bowler in Australia, has been called up into the squad alongside Queensland seamer Michael Neser as bowling reinforcement for the second Test against West Indies in Adelaide. Morris, 24, has had an outstanding Sheffield Shield season where he is the leading wicket-taker with

A 3am phone call is seldom a gleeful one. Seam-bowling allrounder Kim Garth, who made her international debut for Ireland in 2010 at the age of 14, received a maiden call-up to Australia’s T20I squad for the tour of India – where they play five T20Is starting December 9 in Mumbai. She wanted to convey

In-form Queensland opener Matt Renshaw says he’s ready for an Australian Test recall after making key changes to his approach to cricket. Renshaw, the 26-year-old left-hander, played the last of his 11 Tests in 2018. His form this summer has been top shelf. Renshaw has scored 491 first-class runs this season at an average of

Cummins, who was jogging for balls in the outfield on Sunday at Perth Stadium to protect his quad, will be given right up until Thursday morning to prove his fitness. However, Australia are considering adding further pace-bowling reserves to their squad to supplement Scott Boland who is the current back-up. “I felt okay,” Cummins said.

Lunch West Indies 283 & 258 for 7 (Brathwaite 110, Chanderpaul 45, Joseph 14*, Chase 13*, Lyon 4-81) need 240 more runs to beat Australia 598 for 4 dec and 182 for 2 dec Nathan Lyon relished taking charge of an attack missing Pat Cummins, taking Australia closer to a convincing first Test victory over

Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has returned to work to commentate on the Australia-West Indies Test match in Perth just 24 hours after suffering “sharp pains” in his chest that required him to go to hospital. Ponting spoke openly and honestly on Saturday morning on Channel Seven about the health scare he suffered on Friday.