Australia

News Rising cases and heavy restrictions in Victoria and New South Wales are set to cause disruption Usman Khawaja is prepared for the Australian season to be more disrupted than last summer due to the ongoing challenges posed by Covid-19 with players needing to be ready to take the field at short notice. Khawaja will

News The batter was confident that CA and the government would be able to find a solution Marnus Labuschagne admits England’s concerns about this summer’s Ashes have merit but he fully expects a resolution will ensure he confronts a full-strength opposition. England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler has made it clear he would likely opt out of

News Left-hander already training with a pink-ball under lights in Queensland while team-mates and India players complete hard quarantine Beth Mooney is readying herself for the “foreign” challenge of facing the pink-ball in the day-night Test against India next month but is confident the basics of the game will hold her in good stead despite

News Australia coach says the team needs to get back to the business of winning Justin Langer believes he will become a better coach following a multitude of frank one-on-one conversations with players to discuss issues with his style. Langer came under intense scrutiny a fortnight ago on returning from Australia’s disastrous T20I tour of

Play 01:33 Lanning: India will be match-hardened after their games in UK A tough preparation awaits the India team and the majority of the Australia squad ahead of their multi-format series which has been moved entirely to Queensland. The visitors along with those Australian players based in Sydney and Melbourne will begin 14 days hard

Play 01:29 George Bailey: ‘Let’s not put this all on Justin’ Usman Khawaja has said that Justin Langer‘s emotional swings are his “great weakness” but he will feel like the players are “stabbing him in the back” after a dramatic week where the coach’s position came under even greater scrutiny. Tensions between Langer and his

News “We’ll certainly miss her, but we have a number of fast bowling options,” says Australia captain Australia will look to make use of their burgeoning group of pace bowlers over the upcoming matches against India with the possibility of putting their fastest ever collective of quicks together for the Test at the WACA. The

Justin Langer, Tim Paine, and Pat Cummins held talks this week © Getty Images Australia Test captain Tim Paine has vowed the players will work with embattled coach Justin Langer over the next six months following a “robust” emergency zoom meeting between Cricket Australia’s leaders on Wednesday. CA chairman Earl Eddings and CEO Nick Hockley

Australia quick Nathan Ellis has signed with the Punjab Kings for the second half of IPL 2021. The Kings confirmed the signing on Friday night. ESPNcricinfo understands that Ellis had three franchises chasing his signature with a host of Australian players – including the Kings pair of Jhye Richardson and Riley Meredith and the Kolkata

News The last 18 months have provided a challenging time for the men’s team In May 2020 Australia were ranked No.1 in Tests and T20Is. The Test team had retained the Ashes away and won seven consecutive Tests at home. They had also won four consecutive T20I series including away victories in India and South

News If the team goes deep into the T20 World Cup they would not complete quarantine before the Afghanistan Test Five of Australia’s likely starting line-up for the Ashes face entering the series without any red-ball preparation if the team has a successful run at the T20 World Cup. David Warner, Steven Smith, Pat Cummins,

News Analysis These are the players that took the side to No. 1 in 2020 but the balance of the XI remains uncertain Winning form is good form, and Australia has no form to speak of ahead of the T20 World Cup. However, the return of their best and most experienced players for the tournament

News The seamer is grateful for the support of Ellyse Perry after recovering from hamstring surgery Pace bowler Maitlan Brown has her sights set on an international debut after a long road to recovery from a serious hamstring injury and is grateful for the support of Ellyse Perry, an idol when she was younger, who

Pat Cummins is back as part of Australia’s bowling attack © Associated Press All Australia’s first-choice players who missed the recent tours of West Indies and Bangladesh have returned for the T20 World Cup in the UAE while Josh Inglis has earned a maiden call-up. Aaron Finch, who is currently recovering from knee surgery, will

News The CEO Nick Hockley praised the role of Langer since he came into the job in 2018 Justin Langer has been backed by Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley to take the team through the T20 World Cup and Ashes amid ongoing reports of dressing room unrest over his coaching style. Since returning from

Play 01:33 Lanning: India will be match-hardened after their games in UK Australia captain Meg Lanning is taking the likelihood of Covid-19 disruption to at least the first part of the season in her stride and believes the team will be ready to face India next month regardless of what their build-up eventually looks like.

News A significant number of the 20 Australians with IPL contracts are expected to re-join their franchises Cricket Australia has confirmed that players holding IPL deals will be able to rejoin their franchises for the resumption of the competition next month with the aim of using it as preparation for the T20 World Cup. A

News Former captain still insists that team can win the T20 World Cup if all first-choice picks are fit and healthy Ricky Ponting has questioned the depth in Australian cricket after the poor T20 results on the recent tours of West Indies and Bangladesh but believes the team can still challenge for the World Cup

News Australia’s white-ball captain is expected to take 8-10 weeks to recover Australia’s limited-overs captain Aaron Finch has undergone knee surgery with the recovery expected to take eight to 10 weeks as he aims to be fit for the T20 World Cup. Finch missed the recent Bangladesh tour having suffered cartilage damage ahead of the

News ECB chief reiterates importance of player welfare with Australia’s Covid rules possibly preventing families on tour Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, says that England and Australia will use every diplomatic channel available to ensure that this winter’s Ashes can go ahead as planned, in spite of the players’ fears that their families may

News With the impact of the pandemic making it a challenge for the series to go ahead, here’s where things stand as of now The men’s Ashes series is due to get underway in just under four months in Brisbane but the ongoing impact of the pandemic is making it a challenging process to pull

News Allrounder says they were excited at playing ‘a bigger team – normally those which don’t visit our country that often’ Bangladesh beat Australia in a series for the first time in their history, and then put the exclamation point on it with a 4-1 scoreline. The star of the show in the final game

News His first assignment will be the bilateral ODIs against Pakistan next month followed by the T20 World Cup Former Australia fast bowler Shaun Tait has been appointed Afghanistan’s bowling coach with immediate effect. He will be working alongside head coach Lance Klusener. Tait’s first assignment will be a three-match ODI series against Pakistan, set

News Captain does “not blame the young players one bit” and expected the senior batters to do the scoring Australia captain Matthew Wade called his side’s capitulation in the final T20I against Bangladesh “not good enough for an Australian cricket team” and said it was down to the batters to find ways to score runs

News He believes Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Swepson and Ashton Agar should be considered in the same XI Steve O’Keefe believes Australia are building a group of spinners that could help the Test side pose a challenge in the subcontinent next year in a run of series that will define their World Test Championship chances. Australia

Dan Christian: ‘It’s holding in the surface, gripping and turning and it’s a big ground as well’ © AFP Dan Christian has seen most things that T20 cricket can throw up, so when he says conditions in Dhaka have been unlike anything else he has played in it stands up to scrutiny. With one match

Report The home side are unchanged as they aim to make it 4-0 Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat against Australia Bangladesh will take the same route as yesterday after Mahmudullah won the toss in the fourth T20I with the home side looking to extended their winning streak which has already secured a

Report Hosts complete first ever series win against Australia; Nathan Ellis’ hat-trick goes in vain Bangladesh 127 for 9 (Mahmudullah 52, Ellis 3-34, Hazlewood 2-16) beat Australia 117 for 4 (Marsh 51, McDermott 35, Shoriful 2-29) by ten runs Bangladesh marched home to their first series win – 3-0 – against Australia across formats by

Report The home side were unchanged after a delayed start as they aimed to wrap up the series Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat against Australia Mahmudullah won the toss and decided to set a target in the third T20I between Bangladesh and Australia. The toss was delayed by 90 minutes due to

News There was 24% fall in participation during the pandemic hit 2020-21 season Inevitably Covid-19 had an impact on grassroots participation in Australian cricket last summer, and is likely to do so for another season, but the decline was mitigated somewhat by growth in the female game. Cricket Australia released its annual participation figures on