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News Questions over the level of pay to the CA chairman’s role brings were also raised Cricket Australia has been urged to commit to governance reform by its most powerful shareholder amid a backdrop of disgruntled and divergent state associations, half of which toppled Earl Eddings. Eddings resigned as CA chair on Wednesday, having lost

News Meg Lanning: “Cricket has shown that when you properly invest in female sport, the results follow and everyone benefits” Australia’s domestic female players have been given a significant pay increase on the eve of the new WBBL season with an extra A$1.2 million of funding. That will see an additional A$800,000 invested in WNCL

Report Left-hander makes fastest ever List A double-century, off 114 balls, surpassing his own record to become the 3rd player to score multiple doubles South Australia captain Travis Head has made history becoming just the third player to score two double-centuries in List A cricket after hammering 230 against Queensland at Karen Rolton Oval in

Earl Eddings has resigned ahead of the AGM © Getty Images Earl Eddings has resigned as Cricket Australia chairman and stepped down from the board just 24 hours out from Thursday’s Annual General Meeting. Eddings had been a director for 13 years and the chairman since 2018 following the resignation of the previous chairman David

News Smriti Mandhana, Sophie Molineux, Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Ashleigh Gardner among the others to gain in the latest ICC rankings Beth Mooney‘s 36-ball 34 and 43-ball 61 in the two completed T20Is against India in Carrara last week have pushed her to the top of the women’s T20I batters’ rankings, taking her past Shafali Verma,

News The left-arm spinner has a long association with Langer and said the coach has “100 percent” backing Ashton Agar would be “absolutely shattered” if subjected to the sort of public critique directed at Justin Langer, adding he is full of respect for Australia’s coach and his unwavering values. Player unease about Langer and his

News The allrounder’s form over the last few months will make it hard to move him Mitchell Marsh appears set to retain the No. 3 spot in Australia’s XI for the T20 World Cup after his success on the tours of West Indies and Bangladesh which will have a knock-on impact on where Steven Smith

News All three innovations from last season will remain with the addition of the new timed-out warning to batters It will be at least another season until the DRS is introduced to the BBL, after logistical issues caused by the pandemic put paid to attempts to bring the system to this year’s competition following criticism

News Acting chief executive Geoff Allardice says ICC will likely discuss how to approach bilateral cancellations, and how they affected the WTC ICC’s acting chief executive Geoff Allardice has confirmed Afghanistan’s participation at the T20 World Cup will continue as normal despite the political regime change that has put the country’s cricketing future into uncertainty.

News “I know where I sit within the team and that’s why my training has been tailored towards getting used to that lower order.” Australia wicketkeeper Matthew Wade is preparing to bat in the middle-to-lower order in the T20 World Cup despite not yet receiving any indications from the selectors or captain Aaron Finch as

Report India fought hard to get to a competitive total and then with the ball, but Australia’s experience prevailed Australia 119 for 6 (McGrath 42*, Mooney 34, Gayakwad 3-21) beat India 118 for 9 (Vastrakar 37*, Harmanpreet 28, Molineux 2-11, Vlaeminck 2-18) by four wickets Australia were given a mighty scare by a spirited Indian

News The left hander will continue to play in the WBBL having moved to Sydney Sixers Former Australia batter Nicole Bolton has announced her retirement from state cricket with Western Australia where she stands as their leading run-scorer. Bolton, who played 55 times for Australia between 2014 and 2019, making a century on debut in

News Players could have to face up within a certain time limit to avoid allowing the bowler a free delivery at exposed stumps The BBL is close to introducing a radical version of the timed out rule for the upcoming season in an attempt to find ways to speed up play. Cricket Australia’s playing conditions

News The offspinner hasn’t played since April but is hopeful of three matches before facing England Nathan Lyon has never gone this long between matches in his professional career. And the wait is set to continue as New South Wales are still yet to confirm the start of their domestic season, with hopes they can

News CA announced the remainder of the WBBL fixtures will be played in Perth, Adelaide, and Mackay Cricket Australia has secured a landmark deal with all 59 matches of this season’s WBBL competition to be broadcast on television for the first time. Foxtel, the pay TV provider, will show all matches live while free-to-air network

News Both teams denied entry into South Australia to quarantine and play against other states due to Covid border restrictions New South Wales and Victoria are set to play up to three Sheffield Shield and three Marsh Cup fixtures between themselves in Sydney and Melbourne starting in late October after both states were denied the

News Aaron Finch will be fit despite coming off knee surgery and is confident the team can overcome tricky preparation Australia limited-overs captain Aaron Finch has confirmed that he and David Warner will open the batting together at the T20 World Cup despite Warner twice being dropped by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL this year.

News With the Queensland border closed for NSW and Victoria, likes of Lyon will face some issues; 14-day quarantine looks likely Australia offspinner Nathan Lyon, as well other potential Test squad members from New South Wales and Victoria, are set to face a challenge as to how and when they need to enter Queensland with

News Allrounder likely to bat No.4 in Rachael Haynes’ absence while Tayla Vlaeminck is set to be unleashed in T20Is against India Power-hitting allrounder Ashleigh Gardner is preparing for a promotion in the batting order in the absence of Rachael Haynes as Australia hope to arrest back the momentum in the T20 internationals against India

News Covid-19 outbreak forces Queensland out of the state while CA schedule four more matches including a day-night Shield fixture between WA and Tasmania in Perth This week’s postponed Sheffield Shield clash between Queensland and Tasmania has been moved to Adelaide with the Bulls set to fly out of Queensland on Saturday due to growing

News The match was called off shortly before the toss due to Covid-19 cases in Brisbane Dispute and discontent over a Sheffield Shield “debacle” in Brisbane has highlighted the immense challenge confronting Cricket Australia (CA) this summer. Stunning details of Tuesday’s sudden postponement of a Shield match between Queensland and Tasmania, set to feature star

News Analysis Australia and India will meet in a Test for the first time in 15 years with the added dimension of it being just the second day-night encounter in the women’s game Test match farewell? Unless India unexpectedly put another Test on their schedule in the next six months, this match could mark the

News CA had said they would be forced to cancel the game due to the Taliban’s stance on female sport Cricket Australia will formally confirm this week that a one-off Test against Afghanistan is not going ahead, according to Cricket Tasmania. The match was scheduled to start in Hobart on November 27, providing captain Tim

Play 01:09 Perry on Perth 2014: ‘The most incredible game of Test cricket I’ve ever played’ Star allrounder Ellyse Perry is likely to take the new ball for Australia in the pink-ball day-night Test against India starting on Thursday, despite disappointing outings during the ODIs.   Perry went wicketless across the three matches conceding 103 from

News Warner watched Monday’s win over the Royals from the hotel after being dropped David Warner is a name synonymous with Sunrisers Hyderabad. He captained them to the 2016 IPL title, he has scored 4014 runs for them at a healthy strike-rate of 142.59, and he has struck a chord with the people of Hyderabad

News Wareham is in line for a Test debut if she can recover from her quad injury in time while Mooney should be fit despite hamstring tightness Australia vice-captain Rachael Haynes has been ruled out of the remainder of the women’s multi-format series with India because of a hamstring injury. Haynes suffered the injury in

News Queensland’s Shield and Marsh Cup clashes with Tasmania postponed with the Tigers flying home after four Covid-19 cases were reported in the state The Sheffield Shield clash and Sunday’s Marsh Cup game between Queensland and Tasmania have been postponed after four mystery Covid-19 cases appeared in Queensland, with Tasmania opting to fly home to

News New-ball attack remains strong but they need bigger scores from the top-order in both forms to compliment the bowling unit Captain Matthew WadeCoach Ali de Winter (interim) FixturesSeptember 28-October 1: Queensland (Sheffield Shield), Ian Healy OvalOctober 3: Queensland (Marsh Cup), Ian Healy Oval Winter movesTwo of the biggest moves came in the coaching ranks

News The allrounder could have a vital role to play if Australia’s injury situation doesn’t improve The pink ball won’t prompt Ashleigh Gardner to go back into her shell this week, when Australia’s clean-striking allrounder plays her first Test on home soil. Gardner, 24, made her Test debut on the 2019 Ashes tour but the

News Sophie Molineux took a nasty blow on the face while Rachael Haynes and Beth Mooney had hamstring concerns Australia were left with a growing list of injury concerns ahead of the day-night Test against India after they saw their world-record ODI-winning streak halted on 26 matches after more than three years by a narrow