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News Finch is unsure what the process will be as Cricket Australia is still yet to start formal contract discussions with Langer Australia’s limited-overs captain Aaron Finch expects to be consulted, along with Test captain Pat Cummins, by Cricket Australia on Justin Langer‘s coaching contract, but is unsure what the process will entail. “I think

News Team now relying on Sri Lanka to beat West Indies on Friday Australia 240 for 3 (Wyllie 101*, Cahill 72, Kellaway 47) beat Scotland 236 for 8 (Tear 54, Mackintosh 54, Cahill 2-33, Salzmann 2-38) by seven wickets In their final Group D match, Australia needed a big win to give themselves their best

News Call-up for the Brisbane Heat allrounder backs up selectors’ talk of specialist T20 players Grace Harris will replace injured batter Beth Mooney, called into Australia’s Ashes squad hours out from the series opener in Adelaide. Harris was confirmed as Mooney’s replacement on Thursday, added ahead of Elyse Villani and Georgia Redmayne for the T20

News Australia coach is prepared to wait for discussions with CA on his contract after winning the T20 World Cup and the Ashes in a four-month stretch Australia coach Justin Langer says he is not nervous about his upcoming contract discussions with Cricket Australia despite the ongoing speculation about his future as coach of Australia’s

Report Stoinis smashes an unbeaten 75 as well to pile on the misery for Hurricanes Melbourne Stars 3 for 273 (Maxwell 154*, Stoinis 75*) vs Hobart Hurricanes Maxwell smashed 22 fours and four sixes in the most brutal display of hitting in the competition’s history, as Stars set a record total of 2 for 273

News Four-match tour to Australia won’t go ahead due to uncertainty surrounding New Zealand government’s MIQ rules New Zealand’s upcoming four-match ODI and T20I tour Australia has been postponed due to uncertainty over when the Black Caps could return home due to New Zealand’s managed isolation and quarantine rules. The tour, which was scheduled to

News Left-arm spinner had missed India series due to injury, but returned to action in WBBL with 21 wickets for Brisbane Heat Jess Jonassen will play her first international cricket since April when the Ashes begins this week in Adelaide, and shapes as an even more important player than normal in Australia’s plans. Her comeback

Preview Getting the show on the road itself will count as an achievement considering the Covid-affected build-up to the marquee series Covid. Schedule changes. Dodgy nets. Postponed matches. Injuries. Fear of missing the World Cup. To say the preparations for Australia and England ahead of the women’s Ashes have had their challenges would be an

News The batter will undergo surgery in Adelaide on Tuesday after the injury during training Australia have suffered a huge blow ahead of the Ashes with Beth Mooney suffering a fractured jaw during training on Monday and she will undergo surgery. A timelime for Mooney’s return has yet to be determined but her participation in

Aside from retiring hurt following yet another blow amidships, it’s hard to imagine a more fittingly awful ending to Joe Root‘s latest bid to rescue his team’s necrotised standards. An unplayable grubber slammed through his defences to hit halfway up off stump, and off Root trudged with a world-weary grin across his chops. Sometimes there

Report Two-time defending champion Sydney Sixers missed a chance to seal second spot Adelaide Strikers 2 for 165 (Cockbain 71 not out, Renshaw 50, Kerr 1-37) beat Sydney Sixers 7 for 161 (Avendano 52, Fawad 3-16, Siddle 2-32) by 8 wickets In-form Adelaide Strikers locked up a BBL playoff berth with an emphatic eight-wicket victory

News The captain believes Australia are building a side that can compete in all conditions Australia are confident a dominant Ashes series win can start “something big” as they hunt the away wins required to become the best Test side in the world. Pat Cummins enjoyed a dream start to his captaincy career, securing a

Joe Root insists he still has the hunger to carry on as England’s Test captain, despite presiding over his second thrashing in an away Ashes campaign, which was completed in humiliating fashion on Sunday with the loss of ten second-innings wickets for 56 runs in their fifth-Test defeat at Hobart. Chasing 271 for victory, England

News The coach is not certain to get a new deal despite T20 World Cup and Ashes success Pat Cummins is keen to have clarity on Justin Langer‘s contract status beyond this summer’s Ashes, insisting Australia’s Test side “absolutely love” their coach. The future of Langer, who comes off contract in mid-2022 and has made

News Jhye Richardson and Marcus Harris will remain with the Test team as concussion/Covid-19 stand-bys The quartet will take a charter flight from Hobart to Melbourne on Sunday to join their respective squads with Swepson and Neser set to be available for Heat’s clash against Melbourne Stars on Sunday night at the MCG. Jhye Richardson

News Former Australia quick retired from internationals in the lead-up to Ashes series James Pattinson, the Australia fast bowler who retired from international cricket on the eve of the Ashes, is set for a third stint with Nottinghamshire after signing an all-format deal covering the 2022 season. Pattinson is a British passport holder but has

News August window confirmed for rescheduled Test series against Australia Graeme Smith, CSA’s director of cricket, has confirmed that South Africa are planning to host rescheduled tours by Australia and England in 2023. Nick Hockley, the chief executive of Cricket Australia, had previously indicated that a window for 2023 had been agreed on by the

News Travis Head returns to the middle order while the attack is still to be confirmed with Scott Boland needing to pass a fitness test Australia’s bowling attack is still to be finalised with captain Pat Cummins confirming Scott Boland would need to pass a fitness test on his rib injury to play in Hobart.

News The squad met just once before flying to the Caribbean but the captain feels it has been coming together nicely Australia’s Under-19 squad only came together shortly before flying to the Caribbean, and despite a heavy defeat in their warm-up match against India, the confidence of captain Cooper Connolly has not been dented. Connolly

Report The six-wicket defeat meant Renegades tumbled to the bottom of the BBL table Melbourne Stars 4 for 123 (Maxwell 68*, Burns 17 Richardson 1-12 ) beat Melbourne Renegades 7 for 122 (Finch 45, Ahmad 2-15, Zampa 2-18, Haris 2-28) by 6 wickets Haris Rauf finished his BBL season in style to help fuel Melbourne

News Australia are unlikely to rush into a change but a good match in Hobart would aid Carey, with Josh Inglis and Jimmy Peirson waiting in the wings In an alternate universe, Hobart could have been the scene of Tim Paine’s final Test. However, having lost the captaincy before the Ashes and then having stepped

News Left-arm quick will decide in the coming days if he will enter the mega auction given Australia’s heavy touring schedule either side of this year’s IPL Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc is contemplating a return to the IPL for the first time since 2015 as he tries to juggle Australia’s Test commitments on the

News The proximity of the ODI World Cup has added the complexity of the Ashes series Australia’s players are willing to do whatever it takes to ensure the Women’s Ashes runs safely and ensure no one misses the ODI World Cup amid the Covid-19 cases that have exploded over the last month. The squad will

News With Rachael Haynes back and Tahlia McGrath’s form against India, there’s a battle for batting spots Ellyse Perry faces the prospect of being squeezed out of Australia’s T20I side at the start of the Ashes as the selectors look for continued evolution in the format and a focus on strike rates. Since her T20I

News Rachael Haynes, Megan Schutt and Jess Jonassen return for the multi-format series King was a key part of Perth Scorchers’ WBBL title triumph earlier this season with 16 wickets 18.25 and an economy of 5.84. However, Wellington, who will instead be with Australia A, can consider herself unlucky having topped the wicket-taking chart with

News The George Bailey-led panel will also have to assess how the pace bowlers have pulled up after their efforts in Sydney Australia’s selectors face “some challenging conversations” over the next couple of days as they debate whether to retain Usman Khawaja for the final Ashes fixture after his stunning return to Test cricket in

News Todd Greenberg assures players that he will travel to Pakistan with them; Nick Hockley is also expected to make the trip Todd Greenberg, the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) chief, has assured the country’s cricketers that he would travel to Pakistan with the squad if the tour gets the go-ahead, and would be fine with

News The left hander only missed the SCG Test due to Covid and had been assured of returning Travis Head beat Covid-19 without showing any symptoms but admits Usman Khawaja‘s weight of runs could be harder to overcome to regain his spot in Australia’s XI for Hobart. Head is feeling fine and ready to return

Report Leach, Broad and Anderson resist Australia, England nerves jangle after late Smith strike England 294 (Bairstow 113, Stokes 66, Boland 4-36) and 9 for 270 (Crawley 77, Stokes 60, Boland 3-30) drew with Australia 8 for 416 dec (Khawaja 137, Smith 67, Broad 5-101) and 6 for 265 dec (Khawaja 101*, Green 74, Leach

News BBL manager says having players in one state provides “greater flexibility to manage any further impacts of Covid-19” The BBL has relocated its eight teams to a Victorian hub in a bid to combat the Covid-19 outbreak engulfing the competition, which has decimated several sides and forced three matches to be postponed. Two of