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Ashton Turner is learning not to judge his performances as harshly while playing the most difficult of T20 roles, as he tries to reclaim a permanent spot in the middle order of Australia’s T20I side. Turner appeared to be the answer to the national side’s long-standing middle-order woes in limited-overs cricket when he played one

News He replaces Michael Kasprowicz after his resignation and after Ian Healy withdrew from the process Greg Rowell, the former Queensland and Australia A fast bowler, has emerged as the Queensland Cricket nominee to fill the one remaining vacant spot on the Cricket Australia Board. He replaces Michael Kasprowicz after his resignation last year and

Finding some permanent answers to Australia’s long-standing middle-order issues in T20 international cricket is top of the agenda for stand-in coach Andrew McDonald in the upcoming five-match series against New Zealand. Australia’s T20I side was extremely settled and well-oiled in the lead-up to the cancelled home T20 World Cup in Australia last year. McDonald had

News Formal announcements to be made once tour dates are confirmed by the boards Following news that Australia will tour Bangladesh ahead of this year’s T20 World Cup, BCB’s chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury has said that they will also host England and New Zealand. He, however, said that formal announcements will only be made once

News Australia are set to go nearly 10 months without a Test match between the two summers Australia are set to make a belated trip to Bangladesh later this year for their first tour since 2017. Not for the Tests originally scheduled as part of the World Test Championship, but instead for T20Is intended as

News Australia might just be the happiest as they are hoping for a drawn series or a (not too big) England win England’s 227-run win against India in the first Test in Chennai has made the race to the World Test Championship final that much more interesting, and now there is plenty at stake for

Jhye Richardson‘s friends noticed there was something not quite right about him during the latter phases of the same Big Bash League in which he was feted as its leading wicket-taker. Though an overall return of 29 wickets at 16.31 made Richardson, 24, the BBL’s standout pace bowler, his figures at the pointy end were

CSA has written to the ICC asking it to consider means of redress for less wealthy nations to make up for financial losses when tours do not take place as scheduled. The communication came as a response to Cricket Australia’s decision to indefinitely postpone a three-Test series that was due to be played in South

Aaron Finch on the T20I series: “We’ll try to stick closely to the guys playing their roles that they’re accustomed to or where we’ll see them in the future playing” © Getty Images Australia’s T20I captain Aaron Finch freely admits that the squad currently in New Zealand will be enormously different for the World Cup

News Finger and calf problems have disrupted his home season but he was still named T20I player of the year Ashton Agar is hoping to make up for lost time on the T20I tour of New Zealand having seen the majority of his home season wiped out by injury. Agar injured a finger and calf

News Smith was also named ODI player of the year, Pat Cummins was the Test player and Ashton Agar took the T20I honour Steven Smith has won the Allan Border Medal for the third time, also taking the ODI awarded, while Pat Cummins was named Test player of the year and Ashton Agar earned the

News Mooney also took the T20I player of the year title while Rachael Haynes took the ODI title Beth Mooney, who was player of the tournament at the T20 World Cup last year, has been named the Belinda Clark Medalist at the Australia Cricket Awards. Mooney (60 votes) narrowly pipped captain Meg Lanning (58 votes)

News Smith said there had been conversations with the coach in the weeks since the end of the India series Steven Smith has paralleled his evolving tale as a Test batsman, in which he emerged from a brief run of low scores against India to make the runs in Sydney and Brisbane that clinched his

Play 01:57 ‘Criticism of Paine totally unfair’ – Trevor Hohns Pat Cummins is as curious as everyone else in Australian cricket about whether he can be the first significant fast-bowler captain in the system for nearly 30 years, and has indicated his eagerness to lead New South Wales if granted the opportunity over the coming

News The Sydney Sixers wicketkeeper-batsman has followed up last season’s success with another outstanding campaign Josh Philippe believes he’s batting as well as he ever has ahead of the BBL final at the SCG on Saturday, with his form earning him the Player of the Tournament title, but is eager to develop into an all-format

News Chief executive Nick Hockley said the planning for the Ashes would start very soon Any issues between Australia’s coach Justin Langer and his players need to be sorted out in-house as Cricket Australia reviews the performance of the Test team in the gap between now and next summer’s Ashes series against England, according to

News There could be a chance for those in the Test squad to return to the Sheffield Shield Australia’s T20I squad to tour New Zealand for five matches later this month will remain unchanged despite the postponement of the Test series in South Africa. The need for pre-departure protocols for the squad, which will fly

Cricket South Africa are “extremely disappointed” and “frustrated” at Cricket Australia’s decision to pull out of their Test tour in March, saying they couldn’t have done more to appease the touring team. “We are extremely disappointed by the decision of CA,” Graeme Smith, CSA’s Director of Cricket, said in a strongly-worded statement. “CSA has been

News Australia, India and England are in the race to book a berth at the showpiece event at Lord’s Australia’s tour of South Africa has been postponed indefinitely. It is extremely unlikely that the series can be rescheduled in time for the results to count towards the final of the World Test Championship, set to

News Starc and Sydney Sixers have come to an agreement that he won’t come into the squad which has been successful Mitchell Starc will not play in the BBL final for the Sydney Sixers despite being available after he and the Sixers came to a mutual agreement that the club should stick with the squad

Justin Langer believes rumblings within the Australian dressing room about its uncompromising environment are a “wake up call” he cannot ignore, ahead of key meetings among administrators who have the ultimate say about how long he remains as coach of the national team. The CA Board are due to meet on Friday for the first

Brisbane Heat 3 for 162 (Heazlett 74*, Peirson 43*) beat Sydney Thunder 8 for 158 (Billings 34, Cutting 34*, Steketee 2-22, Swepson 2-28) by seven wickets Sam Heazlett and Jimmy Peirson took full toll of some obligingly loose death bowling from the Sydney Thunder at Manuka Oval to rocket the Brisbane Heat into a preliminary

News A snap lockdown of the city due to a Covid-19 case in Western Australia’s hotel-quarantine programme forced the move A snap lockdown of the city of Perth due to a Covid-19 case in Western Australia’s hotel-quarantine programme forced Cricket Australia into a last-minute shift of the Perth Scorchers’ Big Bash League Challenger on Thursday

News In what became a slightly farcical conclusion to the Qualifier final, Tye bowled a bouncer which was called wide and denied Vince the chance to go for a century James Vince said he hoped Andrew Tye “didn’t mean it” when he bowled the bouncer which was called wide and denied Vince the chance to

News Allrounder has been key to Sydney Sixers’ middle order in one of his best BBL campaigns Dan Christian has not shut the door on representing Australia again after hitting what he believed was career-best form for the Sydney Sixers. Christian joined the Sixers from the Melbourne Renegades, whom he had helped win the title

News Sixers, Thunder nominate Canberra as host for Qualifiers; finals venue undecided After a 56-match regular season where the last finals position was not decided until the last game, the five teams that will compete for the BBL title have been confirmed, along with the fixtures which will continue to navigate Covid-19 border restrictions. Sydney

News Finch heads to the beach to freshen up for the tour of New Zealand after a nightmare season with Melbourne Renegades Australia’s T20 captain Aaron Finch believes players will need to be rested from tours moving forward as he thinks months on end in Covid-19 bubbles are unsustainable following a nightmare BBL season. Finch

News The Australian was part of the ICC Elite Panel since 2012 Bruce Oxenford, 60, has decided to retire from all formats of the game, thereby bringing an end to a 15-year international umpiring career. The last of his 62 Tests was the recently-concluded Australia vs India match in Brisbane. He will, however, continue to

Play 02:36 Hussey: Question marks in Australia batting apart from Smith, Labuschagne National selector Trevor Hohns has hinted that Australia’s pace bowlers could be rotated during the series against South Africa after conceding they might have been better served doing so against India. Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood – alongside Nathan Lyon and

News The 19-year-old is the leading spinner in this season’s BBL and is one of a number of players rewarded for their tournament Tanveer Sangha, the 19-year-old legspinner, has been rewarded for a prolific first season in the BBL with a place in the Australia squad for the T20I series in New Zealand next month.