Australia

News Australian to play primarily as a batter, and is expected to be with the club for the full season Matthew Wade has signed an all-format deal with Worcestershire for the 2022 season, with the club saying that the Australian would be used primarily as a top-five batter. Wade, whose experience in the English county

File photo: Carey will open the batting in Finch’s absence © AFP Toss Australia opt to bowl vs Bangladesh In the opening contest of the five-match T20I series between Bangladesh and Australia in Mirpur, it was the away captain Matthew Wade who won the toss, choosing to chase. Wade – the captain for the series

News Mitchell Marsh’s recent success and the possible return of Steven Smith have added to the crush at the top of the order The game of musical chairs in Australia’s T20I batting line-up will continue, with Matthew Wade set to play in the middle order during the series in Bangladesh, with that now being his

News Trevor Hohns steps down having served collectively on the selection panel for 21 years George Bailey has been named the new chairman of selectors of the Australia men’s team following the retirement of Trevor Hohns. Bailey, who played 125 times for Australia, joined the panel in 2019 and takes on the top job ahead

News He hopes for more opportunity with the ball during the five-match T20I series in Bangladesh Ashton Turner hopes a return to the bowling crease will boost his chances of being part of Australia’s T20 World Cup squad. Turner has undergone multiple shoulder operations during his career, the most recent two years ago, and has

News New selection chief will play a key role in picking squads for the T20 World Cup and Ashes While selectors can’t score the runs or take the wickets, they do have to make the final decision on who is best placed to do so. George Bailey, Australia’s new chairman of selectors, faces a number

News According to the terms agreed to between the two boards, the senior batter can’t enter the Dhaka bio-bubble now Bangladesh are unhappy with Mushfiqur Rahim‘s enforced absence from the Bangladesh squad for the upcoming T20Is at home against Australia, a direct result of the Covid-19 protocols demanded by Cricket Australia. The word “unfair” is

Play 01:04 Mitchell Starc: Used wicket, we knew it would take turn Alex Carey‘s calm leadership was lauded by Australia coach Justin Langer after the 2-1 ODI series win over West Indies but he appears unlikely to retain the captaincy for the T20I series against Bangladesh. Australia need to decide on a stand-in for the

News He felt something click in the Sheffield Shield final and hopes to build on that this season Kurtis Patterson hopes having the New South Wales captaincy to focus on will help free up his batting as he searches for a return to the form that earned him two Test caps three seasons ago. Since

News A British passport holder, the quick will not need to represent the county as an overseas player Daniel Worrall, the 30-year-old Australian quick who played three ODIs in 2016, has signed a three-year contract to play with Surrey. He will join the English county at the start of the 2022 season after wrapping up

News “It goes back even to our regional cricket as well. I think as a whole we need to do better,” he added. West Indies captain Kieron Pollard took a fierce swipe at the pitches produced for the one-day series against Australia in Barbados, calling them “absolutely ridiculous.” While acknowledging that his team did not

Report Shimron Hetymer returns for the home side in place of Jason Mohammed West Indies won the toss and decided to bat against Australia Dan Christian will play his first ODI in more than seven years – and his first List A game in four – as one of three changes for Australia in the

Kurtis Patterson led the side towards the end of last season © Getty Images Kurtis Patterson has been named New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield captain, taking over permanently from Peter Nevill who held the role for three years. Patterson captained the side at the end of last season when Nevill was absent for the birth

News CA optimistic Finch, who was ruled out of the remainder of Australia’s West Indies and Bangladesh tours, will be fit in time for the world tournament Aaron Finch could be in a race to be fit for the 2021 T20 World Cup as he faces knee surgery after being ruled out of the remainder

Australian players leave the ground after the match was called off © AFP No further positive Covid-19 tests have been reported inside the bubble of the West Indies-Australia series with talks now underway as to whether the ODIs will be able to resume. The second ODI was suspended moments before play was due to begin

Play 00:50 Paine open to Smith missing T20 World Cup for Ashes Steven Smith is making encouraging progress in his recovery from the elbow injury which ruled him out of the current Australia tours with the beginning of the domestic season a potential comeback target. Smith was sidelined in the latter part of last season

News Cornell took the original idea to Kerry Packer for a competition that would change world cricket John Cornell, the Australian TV and film icon and one of the major architects behind World Series Cricket, has died at the age of 80 after a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Cornell played a central role in

Report Hope replaces Shimron Hetymer in the West Indies side Australia won the toss and decided to bat against West Indies Australia captain Alex Carey was able to take the same route as the opening game as he won the toss and opted to bat first in Barbados. Carey was again leading the side in

News This will be Australia’s first tour to Bangladesh since 2017 The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have confirmed that Australia will arrive in Dhaka on July 29 to play five T20Is against Bangladesh, from August 3 to 9. Australia will comply with local health regulations by being quarantined in their hotel rooms for three days

Play 01:05 Alex Carey: Starc, Hazlewood put on a clinic in the first 10 overs Big Picture Australia continue to look much more at home in the 50-over format than the T20 game, which has pretty much been the way over the last year. Their strength on this tour lies in the bowling department and

News All competitions have been scheduled in full with the Sheffield Shield due to start late September Cricket Australia hopes to play all its domestic competitions in full during the 2020-21 summer, including one of the earliest starts to the Sheffield Shield, although plans could be threatened by Covid-19. The Sheffield Shield and Marsh One-Day

Play 01:18 Carey excited by captaincy opportunity in Finch’s absence Australia won the toss and decided to bat against West Indies The coin fell Alex Carey’s way in his first match as Australia captain with the visitors also handing out three debuts in the opening ODIs while West Indies have parachuted legpsinner Hayden Walsh Jr

News Finch’s knee injury will be assessed on a day to day basis during the series Alex Carey has been named Australia captain for the first ODI against West Indies in Barbados with Aaron Finch ruled out due to the knee injury he aggravated during the last T20I. Finch’s injury will be assessed on a

News There has been a push to expand the WNCL but the tournament will remain 29 games for next season Female state cricketers will have to wait for an expansion to their domestic playing schedule although those on the fringes of national selection will have more opportunity in the coming season with an Australia A-England

Play 00:56 Phil Simmons: West Indies’ sense of unity comes from a hunger to win Big Picture As for a number of sides, one-day series have been few and far between for these two teams since Covid-19 struck. For both it will be just their third series under the World Cup Super League and in

News The coach is eager for hundreds to become bigger so the team is able to post 300-plus scores frequently Coach Phil Simmons is targeting another uplift in West Indies’ ODI batting returns when they face Australia in a three-match series in Barbados this week. They put in three consistent displays batting second to beat

News The allrounder remains hopeful of finding a place in the T20 World Cup squad Daniel Sams remains comfortable with the decision to make himself unavailable for the tour of West Indies and Bangladesh to prioritise his mental health after the challenges of the IPL, which included catching Covid-19 before the tournament. Sams ended up

News The visitors are already without many players who would make up their usual ODI top order Australia will monitor the fitness of captain Aaron Finch ahead of the ODI series against West Indies after he picked up a knee injury during the final T20I in St Lucia. Finch twisted his knee in the field

Report Mitchell Swepson and Andrew Tye get their first outings of the series West Indies won the toss and decided to bat against Australia West Indies won the toss and opted to bat first in the finale of the five-match T20I series against Australia at Daren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia. Middle-order batter Darren Bravo

The last time India and Pakistan faced off, in Manchester in the 2019 50-over World Cup © PA Images via Getty Images More than two years after they faced off in the 2019 50-over World Cup, India and Pakistan will meet in a global tournament, again, this time in the Super 12s stage of the