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News Martin Guptill said it was good to feel the “rhythm back” back as he launched eight sixes in his 97 Kane Williamson feared Australia were about to pull off an extraordinary heist in Dunedin as Marcus Stoinis and Daniel Sams turned around a near-impossible position before the New Zealand bowlers managed to hold their

Report The visitors have resisted tinkering with their XI despite a heavy defeat in the opening match Australia won the toss and decided to bowl against New Zealand Australia’s captain Aaron Finch won the toss in Dunedin and chose to bowl first for the second consecutive match as the tourists sought to reverse a yawning

News The offspinner won’t head to Hampshire in the off-season but still holds out hope of a WTC final There aren’t many firsts left in professional cricket for Nathan Lyon. But after bringing up 100 Tests against India he faces the prospect of a full five-month pre-season in Australia ahead of next year’s Ashes for

News Scans revealed a rare stress fracture in his C6 vertebrae meaning an extended period on the sidelines for the legspinner Queensland and Australia legspinner Mitchell Swepson looks set to miss the remainder of Australia’s domestic summer after being diagnosed with a stress fracture in his neck. Swepson missed Queensland’s Sheffield Shield and Marsh Cup

Preview New Zealand will hope for more from their top three but the middle order, led by Devon Conway, offers significant depth Big Picture Australia will need to rebound quickly in the second match of the series having been played off the park at Hagley Oval. It looked good at the start when they claimed

News “We were all satisfied with how we went about our planning. It just comes down to an execution thing” Jhye Richardson says Australia’s bowlers will be looking to improve their execution in the death overs after missing their lengths in the heavy defeat to New Zealand at Hagley Oval in the first T20I of

Report Jhye Richardson and Kyle Jamieson, who earned big at the IPL auction, both line up in Christchurch Australia won the toss and decided to bowl against New Zealand Australia’s captain Aaron Finch won the toss and sent New Zealand in to bat in the first T20 international of a five-match series at Hagley Oval

News “it’s just getting back that confidence to sidestep and run as hard as I can and dive around again” David Warner has said he may feel the effects of the groin injury that has interrupted his season for up to nine months but is hopeful that he is getting closer to a return to

Big Picture It seems strange that for the two teams who played the first ever T20I – in Auckland 16 years ago, complete with some questionable hairstyles – and are a few hours away from each other that this match will be just the 10th time they have met in the format. Over the next

Play 00:47 Richardson struggling to believe ‘life-changing’ IPL fee Matthew Wade did not need a long conversation with Australia’s selectors after being dropped for the Test squad, knowing he missed the chance to keep his spot in the side against India but insisted he has no regrets about taking on the opening role early in

News Riley Meredith, meanwhile, ‘couldn’t believe what was happening’ as bidding for his name intensified Jhye Richardson was left feeling exhausted after he earned a “life-changing” bid at the IPL auction while his Australia and now Punjab Kings team-mate Riley Meredith termed his outcome in becoming the most expensive uncapped overseas player as “pretty outrageous.”

News The batsman injured his shoulder on Test debut and the decision has been taken to undergo surgery Australia Test batsman Will Pucovski‘s domestic season is over and he is set to be sidelined for up to six months to undergo reconstructive surgery on his injured right shoulder. Pucovski, 23, suffered the injury on his

Joe Burns brings up his hundred © Getty Images Tasmania 332 (Jewell 140, Doggett 4-88) & 0 for 7 lead Queensland 275 (Burns 171, Webster 4-50) by 64 runs Queensland opener Joe Burns has shaken off a horror season with the bat to produce one of his finest Sheffield Shield innings, scoring 171 out of

News “It’ll be certainly nice to work under Virat and will certainly enjoy batting with him – that’s for sure” Three days before the IPL 2021 auction, Australian allrounder Glenn Maxwell has said he wouldn’t mind playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore as that would allow him to fulfil the desire of playing alongside his

Australian cricket would join other sports looking to private equity investment, and the kind of commercial arrangement it maintained in the first 15 years after the World Series Cricket revolution, under one of several models being widely discussed in industry circles as administrators begin to think about the game’s next strategic moves. ESPNcricinfo has learned

News The seam bowler is part of Australia’s T20I squad in New Zealand having fully recovered from a minor injury Kane Richardson believes the Power Surge fielding restrictions, which were introduced in the BBL this season, could have a place at the T20I level, but from a selfish point of view will be happy if

England’s leading multi-format cricketers, including Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Jos Buttler, could be forced to miss the two-Test series against New Zealand in June, due to a clash with the knock-out phases of this year’s IPL. The trio, all of whom play for Rajasthan Royals, are the most prominent IPL players in England’s Test

News A strong BBL helped earn a recall having learnt from a tough start to international cricket Ben McDermott believes he returns to Australia’s T20 side a different player after a 16-month absence but he knows his move to the top of the order for the Hobart Hurricanes will hinder his chances to find a

News Australia’s Test captain is keen to play as much cricket as he can for Tasmania in the latter part of the season It’s unlikely that Tim Paine will be seen with ball in hand over the next few days, but Australia’s Test captain is eager to get back out into the middle for Tasmania

News Australia are not scheduled to play another Test match for 10 months but there are opportunities to impress in Shield with the Ashes on the horizon The Sheffield Shield resumes on Wednesday with the Australia Test squad available to play the remainder of the season, barring any injury issues, after the Test tour to

News “It hasn’t been positive on trying to find a window but we are working hard,” says CSA’s director of cricket Relations between Cricket South Africa (CSA) and Cricket Australia (CA) remain “strained,” as South Africa seek to move on from the indefinite postponement of a three-Test series that was due to take place on

News Australia are scheduled to play eight Tests in the subcontinent, including four in India, next year Glenn Maxwell believes that spinning conditions in Asia, a stratosphere away from anything in Australia, will give him a chance to return to the Test team even if schedule clashes and Covid-19 complexities conspire against his ambitions to

NSW are set to host Victoria in a one-day game at the North Sydney Oval, before a Shield match between the sides at the SCG Darrian Traynor / © Getty Images Victoria’s squad for one-day and Sheffield Shield fixtures against New South Wales in Sydney will be travelling north on Sunday morning after agreement was

Mitchell Marsh picked up a side injury while playing in the BBL © Getty Images Australia allrounder Mitchell Marsh is hoping to be fit to bowl if selected for the opening T20I against New Zealand in Christchurch, as he bids to make yet another return to international cricket. Marsh injured his side while bowling for

News Two rounds have been cut from the Sheffield Shield while the Marsh Cup is a five-game season plus the final Two rounds have been cut from the Sheffield Shield and the Marsh Cup will be a five-game tournament in the restructured Australian domestic calendar, but the completion of all the fixtures hang in the

News The Victoria government has imposed a strict five-day lockdown due to a Covid outbreak starting on Friday night Victoria and New South Wales are planning to push ahead with Monday’s Marsh Cup opener at North Sydney Oval despite difficulties in getting the Victoria side to Sydney following their state government’s decision to impose a

News Australian captain Finch has already confirmed Philippe will make his T20I debut against New Zealand The rise and rise of Josh Philippe is set to continue as he prepares to make his T20I debut for Australia against New Zealand in Christchurch. The Sydney Sixers star is hoping to take the invaluable lessons he learned

Shaun Marsh could be back in the IPL. He is part of the 2021 auction with a base price of INR 1.5 crore (US ,000 approximately) © Getty Images Senior Australia batsman Shaun Marsh, New Zealand allrounder Corey Anderson and former South Africa fast bowler Morne Morkel are part of the 17 new names to

Ashton Turner is learning not to judge his performances as harshly while playing the most difficult of T20 roles, as he tries to reclaim a permanent spot in the middle order of Australia’s T20I side. Turner appeared to be the answer to the national side’s long-standing middle-order woes in limited-overs cricket when he played one

News He replaces Michael Kasprowicz after his resignation and after Ian Healy withdrew from the process Greg Rowell, the former Queensland and Australia A fast bowler, has emerged as the Queensland Cricket nominee to fill the one remaining vacant spot on the Cricket Australia Board. He replaces Michael Kasprowicz after his resignation last year and