Australia

News Tayla Vlaeminck is back from injury and the uncapped Darcie Brown is generating plenty of excitement Rachael Haynes believes Australia’s deepening stock of fast bowlers will provide a “point of difference” for the side as they build towards a 2021-22 schedule that has plenty of big prizes up for grabs. Tayla Vlaeminck is back

The Australian season still has another month to run, with the Sheffield Shield final due to conclude on April 19, but by then a number of players will be overseas at the IPL with plenty more then heading to the UK for a county season and the Hundred – Covid-19 and travel permitting. Here is

News The opener will be available for the County Championship and one-day tournament Leicestershire have signed Australia opener Marcus Harris for their County Championship and Royal London Cup campaigns. Harris returned to the Australia side in January when he partnered David Warner in the final match of the series against India in Brisbane, his first

News Tim Southee the only quick in the top ten, which is dominated by spinners Ashton Agar and Ish Sodhi have both moved up in the latest T20I rankings for bowlers following impressive hauls in the recent five-match series between New Zealand and Australia, which New Zealand won 3-2. While left-arm spinner Agar rose four

News Test opener returns to club where he earned his route back to Australia squad in 2019 Cameron Bancroft, the Australia Test opener, will return to Durham for the 2021 season, the club has announced. Bancroft captained Durham in both the County Championship and One Day Cup in 2019, prior to his call-up for that

News Coach Matthew Mott says they won’t rotate players for the sake of it on the tour of New Zealand Australia are determined not to be “caught out” at next year’s 50-over Women’s World Cup with memories of falling short in 2017 still often referred to by members of the current squad who took part.

A couple of pummeled sixes from Glenn Phillips, depositing Adam Zampa’s leg breaks well into the outer of the Cake Tin, brought Australia’s men’s international season to an end with a thud. This was not unfitting, since much of the preceding six months had been similarly brutal in terms of exposing where the national team

News The points docked after the Test at the MCG ended up being the difference for Australia Though Australia were comfortably clear in the World Test Championship standings at the time, Australia’s coach Justin Langer has admitted to a feeling of dread when his side dropped two points due to a penalty for slow over

News The Victoria captain has hit a fine run of form in recent weeks as he merges his old and new techniques together Peter Handscomb‘s state coach at Victoria, Chris Rogers, has never seen the batsman play better than in the last couple of weeks of Sheffield Shield cricket. Handscomb has made 124 not out,

News CA has formed the Recognition of Women in Cricket Working Group to address imbalances in the sport Cricket Australia has marked International Women’s Day by committing to addressing gender imbalances in the game, including the lack of statues of female cricketers around the country. The governing body said there were 73 statues or sculptures

News Australia quick available to play across all formats in first county stint Derbyshire have signed Australia fast bowler Billy Stanlake as one of their overseas players for the 2021 summer. The 6ft 7in quick, who is capable of bowling at 150kph/93mph, will be available across all formats, subject to clearance. Stanlake, 26, was first

News Analysis Big-name players will return but some key areas will continue to provoke debate when Australia resume playing Australia fought back from 2-0 down to square the series against New Zealand before suffering a heavy loss in the decider. The squad was missing at least four players who will be inked into the T20

News ‘He’s our number one batsman, he’s done it before, he’s paid for his mistakes’ Usman Khawaja has called for Steven Smith to be given captaincy of Australia’s Test side once Tim Paine‘s tenure is over if he covets the role. Smith, who led the team for nearly three years, was stripped of the captaincy

Tim Seifert drags on © AFP New Zealand coach Gary Stead has criticised his team’s approach with the bat in the fourth T20I, saying the batsmen did not “fire a shot” at Australia early in the run chase on what was a challenging surface. Stead acknowledged the game swung significantly Australia’s way when Aaron Finch

Report Australia named an unchanged side following their convincing win two days ago Australia won the toss and decided to bat against New Zealand Mitchell Santner returns for New Zealand as they look to avoid the T20I series going to a decider in Wellington following their comprehensive defeat in the second match. Santner, who was

News The opener played two Tests when he was far from fit but is confident ahead of his comeback for New South Wales David Warner has conceded that he rushed back too soon during the Test series against India following the groin injury he suffered during the ODIs. Warner made himself available for the last

News The Australia captain found his touch with a half-century in Wellington after a difficult time On another day, Aaron Finch might have been walking back for a first-ball duck in Wellington on Wednesday, a continuation of his lean run in T20s, but instead he was able to reflect on a half-century, his first in

News The quick bowler has not played for Australia in more than a year and has spend a lot of time in hubs Australia quick bowler James Pattinson concedes he’s a long shot to make the squad for the T20 World Cup in India in October and November but has his eyes firmly fixed on

News Sutherland has been diagnosed with a stress reaction in her femur Allrounder Annabel Sutherland has been ruled out of Australia’s tour to New Zealand later this month after being diagnosed with a stress reaction in her femur. Sutherland, who has so far played three ODIs and six T20Is, reported pain after the last round

News Debutant quick dismissed Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson to finish with 2 for 24 in Wellington Riley Meredith had played out his first delivery in international cricket “a thousand times” in his head, so when it landed on a good length at more than 140kph to Tim Seifert during the third T20I against New

Report Kane Williamson opted to bowl first with Mark Chapman brought in for the home side New Zealand won the toss and decided to bowl against Australia New Zealand were forced to alter their plans as they aimed to wrap up the series against Australia after Mitchell Santner was ruled out of the third T20I

Preview Australia need England to level the series 2-2 in Ahmedabad to qualify to play New Zealand England will have some unusual support in their final Test against India with Australia, perhaps through gritted teeth, hoping their arch rivals can secure victory to give them a place in the World Test Championship final. Australia have

Preview Australia will ponder tinkering with their XI to find a way to keep control of New Zealand’s batting Big Picture The logistics have changed significantly due to the impact of the Auckland lockdown, and there won’t be any crowds to witness the rest of the games, but the challenge remains the same for Australia:

News NZC moves matches due to logistical complications caused by shift of Friday’s matches from Auckland after the city was put into a lockdown The remainder of the two ongoing series in New Zealand, involving Australia’s men and England’s women, will be played entirely in Wellington after the final T20I double-header on Sunday was shifted

News The remaining matches involving Australia men’s team and England women’s side will be played behind closed doors Next week’s T20Is in Auckland involving the Australia men’s team and the England women’s side have been relocated to Wellington, after Auckland was put into a week-long Covid-19 lockdown. The remaining matches of the two tours are

News A strong season of ratings for the Australia-India series and BBL appears to have weakened the position of the free-to-air network Seven West Media are entitled to a broadcast rights fee discount of as little as A$5 million from Cricket Australia due to changes in the schedule due to Covid-19, according to the independent

News The Australia captain is going through a barren run in T20 with a World Cup later in the year Aaron Finch has been here before, not too long ago: struggling for runs and Australia trying to build for a World Cup. Two years ago, with eyes on the 50-over World Cup, the limited-overs squad

News The allrounder played a destructive innings in Dunedin then held his nerve with the final over of the match There was no shortage of sixes in Dunedin on Thursday and six of them came off the bat of Jimmy Neesham including three off the first three deliveries he faced. However, the most extraordinary of

News The pace bowler’s memorable season continued with a first Australia call-up to follow WBBL success New Zealand has already played a significant part in Hannah Darlington‘s cricket journey. Two years ago she toured with the Australia Under-19 squad and last season played for Otago in the Super Smash, her performances helping her secure a

News Australia will pip India to the post – and set up a final against New Zealand – if England win the fourth Test The ten-wicket win, well inside two days, in the pink-ball Test in Ahmedabad has not only given India an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-Test series, it’s given them a clear