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Australia’s limited-overs captain Aaron Finch believes it will be difficult for those players who have withdrawn from the tours of West Indies and Bangladesh justifying a return to the IPL when the competition resumes in September. He confirmed that it had been part of long-term planning to rest David Warner and Pat Cummins from the

Andrew McDonald is set to be the latest big-name withdrawal from the Hundred, amid concerns over fixture clashes and bio-bubble fatigue. McDonald had been appointed as head coach of Birmingham Phoenix, but ESPNcricinfo understands that he will not be coming to England this summer with his responsibilities as Australia’s assistant coach taking priority. Daniel Vettori

Steven Smith will spend time getting his elbow right ahead of the T20 World Cup © Getty Images Australia will again have uncertainty over Steven Smith‘s elbow heading into a major tournament after he was ruled out of the tours to West Indies and Bangladesh. Smith has suffered a recurrence of the problem he had

News Takes over from Kane Williamson, who dropped five ranking points after missing the second Test against England Australia batsman Steven Smith has returned to the top of the Test batting rankings for the first time since the Boxing Day Test last year. Despite not having played a Test since January earlier this year, Smith

News Good performances in West Indies and Bangladesh could yet make the selectors change their plans There is no guarantee from Australia’s selectors that all the players who made themselves unavailable for tours of West Indies and Bangladesh will immediately return to the fold for the T20 World Cup if others take the chance to

Pat Cummins is among those who won’t be in West Indies or Bangladesh © Getty Images David Warner, Pat Cummins and Glenn Maxwell are among six players to have opted out of Australia’s tours of West Indies and Bangladesh while Steven Smith will miss the trips due to an elbow injury. Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson

News Langer’s intensity as coach has led to murmurs of discontent in the Australian dressing room Tim Paine has insisted that Justin Langer has the full support of the Australian playing group, even as rumblings of dressing-room discontent continued. “We are all 100% behind JL and the job he is doing,” Paine told reporters in

News His BBL coach Greg Shipperd believes the allrounder could fill one of the troublesome middle-order spots Dan Christian‘s “unique skillset” and wealth of experience make him an ideal candidate for Australia’s T20 World Cup squad following his surprise national recall according to his BBL coach at the Sydney Sixers, Greg Shipperd. Thirty-eight-year-old Christian, who

News Seamer returns to Australia after playing in six Championship matches Peter Siddle has returned to Australia for personal reasons, cutting short his spell in county cricket with Essex. The former Australia seamer, who was awarded his county cap last month, had been expected to play a full season at Chelmsford, after his 2020 deal

News Cameron Green, Ben McDermott, Nathan Ellis, Wes Agar and Ashton Turner have been added to the line-up as well Dan Christian has been added to the initial Australia white-ball squad ahead of the tours of the West Indies and Bangladesh. The selectors have brought in six further names to the large preliminary group of

The County Championship now takes a break for a month as the T20 Blast takes over the domestic scene, so here’s a recap of how the Australians have go so far Matches: 1; Runs: 40 | Wickets: 2Abbott had his season ended after one game when he suffered a hamstring injury against Gloucestershire on debut.

Sean Abbott works one to the off-side © Getty Images Sean Abbott‘s spell with Surrey in county cricket has ended after just one match with the allrounder suffering a hamstring injury against Gloucestershire. Abbott scored 40 and took 2 for 5 in his first match for the club but did not take the field on

News Former Australia bowling coach says he ‘had no idea there was any sandpaper involved’ and that he said everything to officials David Saker has called for Cricket Australia (CA) to make the report into the Newlands ball-tampering scandal public to try and put the issue to bed after it recently resurfaced following Cameron Bancroft’s

Trevor Bayliss and David Saker are back in the BBL © Sydney Thunder and Getty Images Trevor Bayliss and David Saker have returned to the BBL in head coach roles for Sydney Thunder and Melbourne Renegades respectively. Bayliss, the former England coach who led them to the 2019 World Cup, has signed for three years

News All tournaments over the next cycle starting in 2023 will be selected by the board Hosts for ICC events will not be determined through an open bidding process, and instead will be selected by its board. In what amounts effectively to a u-turn, the ICC said after a board meeting on Tuesday that a

News Priority is to reunite the IPL returnees with families as they come out of quarantine on Monday, CA CEO says Cricket Australia has yet to start discussions over whether players will be able to head back to the IPL when the tournament resumes in the UAE later this year as those who had returned

News Hockley stepped into the job last June following the sacking of Kevin Roberts Nick Hockley has been named the new permanent chief executive of Cricket Australia, having held the role in an interim capacity for almost a year. Hockley stepped into the job last June following the sacking of Kevin Roberts during the fallout

Australia Women have a bumper home summer ahead, with a multi-format series against India preceding the Ashes against England. Speaking to the media on Thursday, allrounder Ellyse Perry looked ahead to the busy summer, which includes a day-night Test at the WACA. On playing Test cricket at the WACA and against IndiaIt’s absolutely wonderful and

News Australia seamer to return home after just one game for new club Billy Stanlake‘s spell in county cricket with Derbyshire has been cut short after one game, with the Australia seamer diagnosed with a back stress fracture. Stanlake made his Derbyshire debut in last week’s defeat to Essex at Chelmsford, recovering from a nervy

News Australian batter “deeply upset to miss out due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control,” says Trevor Hohns Marnus Labuschagne is missing from the Australia limited-overs squad for a tour of the West Indies starting next month, after it was decided he would play out his current county stint with Glamorgan instead. A vast preliminary squad

News Tight home-Test schedule of six games in eight weeks lies ahead, with questions over red-ball preparation to boot Australia are set to play six matches in fewer than eight weeks next summer, after a gap of 312 days since their last assignment against India in January, meaning an idling Test team will have to

News Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon issue statement following Cameron Bancroft’s latest comments Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon have reiterated that they did not know anything about “a foreign substance being taken onto the field of play to alter the condition of the ball” at the Newlands

News It will be the first time since 2014 that India Women will play two Tests in a calendar year India Women will play a Test match in Australia for the first time in 15 years during their tour of the country in September. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the solitary Test match will feature as

News Charged with two counts of possessing child abuse material and one count of grooming a child Aaron Summers, the Australian fast bowler, has appeared in Darwin Local Court after being charged with child sexual offences. ESPNcricinfo has learnt that Summers, who has most recently represented the Deccan Gladiators in the Abu Dhabi T10 league,

Stuart Broad has expressed a note of scepticism at the official explanation of the ball tampering debacle involving the Australia team and suggested there could be more information revealed once key protagonists retire. In recent days Cameron Bancroft, who was suspended for nine-months for his role in the Newlands scandal, and David Saker, who was

News Opener’s availability may be impacted by Australia series in the Caribbean Hampshire have announced D’Arcy Short, the Australia batter, as one of their overseas signings for the summer’s Vitality T20 Blast. Short was earlier named in Australia’s preliminary squad to play ODIs and T20Is in the West Indies in July, and if he is

News While Hussey flies commercial via Doha, the group waiting in the Maldives will take a BCCI charter flight Michael Hussey will be home from India early on Monday morning, about the same time as the 38 Australian players, coaches and media land on their return from the Maldives. Following a series of Covid-19 positive

News The then Australia bowling coach has likened the team’s ‘monumental mistake’ to the underarm incident of 1981 David Saker, Australia’s bowling coach at the time of the Newlands ball-tampering scandal, has said the controversy will continue to taint Australian cricket much like the underarm incident of 1981 has done. Saker’s comments came in the

News CA is yet to confirm the make-up of the postponed series, but an announcement is expected soon India Women are set to tour Australia for a bilateral series in September. The tour, originally comprising three ODIs and slated for January this year, was officially postponed in December 2020. A report on the Cricket Australia

Joe Root says that the challenge of taking on New Zealand, the world’s No.1-ranked Test team, followed by five home Tests against India and an away Ashes campaign, makes 2021 the sort of year that “you play the game for”. However, Root also admitted that England’s new-look selection panel – now led by the head