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Beau Webster celebrates hitting the winning runs to take the series.

Test team enters echelon of greats after gripping series win

Australia’s Test side wrested back the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade, and can stake a claim to being one of the country’s most successful.

  • Maxim Shanahan
Pat Cummins in Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 2017.

How Australia’s unpredictable weather is changing sport

Athletes now worry that unpredictable weather may affect participation and ultimately the financial viability of sports long-term.

  • Zoe Samios
Scott Boland.

Australia defeats India in Sydney to regain Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Scott Boland took six for 45 for the home side in the second innings to claim a 10-wicket match haul, setting up a 3-1 Test victory over India in an absorbing series.

  • Updated
  • Reuters and AAP
Jasprit Bumrah of India looks on before the start of day three of the Fifth Test.

Bowler-friendly SCG wicket spices up Test series finale

On what was the hardest wicket in the world to take wickets on as recently as two years ago, 26 wickets have now fallen on the first two days at the SCG.

  • Scott Bailey
Jasprit Burmrah during the Fifth Men’s Test Match before has been taken to a hospital for scans.

India bowler Bumrah taken to a hospital during Sydney test

Bumrah, who replaced Rohit Sharma as captain for this test, could be seen on the television broadcast leaving in a car from underneath the SCG grandstands.

  • Keiran Smith
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The time Allens hired a Test batter to beat KWM

Allens showed the sort of ruthlessness clients pay it for, drafting in future Test captain Kepler Wessels for a social cricket game.

  • Maxim Shanahan
Ares MD and Cricket NSW chairman David Knox at the SCG.

Six leadership and investing lessons from cricket

Lifelong cricket fan and seasoned investment executive John Knox reflects on the impact of the game on his career.

  • Michelle Bowes

December 2024

Sam Konstas and Pat Cummins of Australia celebrate victory.

Australia secures victory in Boxing Day Test

Pat Cummins’ team won the epic match in front of a record-breaking crowd at the MCG after Nathan Lyon clinched the final wicket with 12 overs remaining.

  • Updated
  • AAP

Heatwave gives Pat Cummins pause for thought before Boxing Day Test

The temperature is forecast to reach 39 degrees on Thursday in Melbourne when Australia takes on India.

  • Roger Vaughan
Australians William Swann and Sagar Sritharan are part of the team trying to put cricket on the map in the United States.

Meet the Aussies taking cricket to the home of Moneyball

Home runs and hot dogs aren’t normally associated with cricket but a small group of Australians are trying to make America fall in love with the sport.

  • Gus McCubbing

November 2024

Steve Smith walks off Perth Stadium after being dismissed for 17 on Monday.

The numbers that don’t add up for Australian cricket

Out of a humiliating Test loss comes a national focus on how to fix the sport’s biggest challenge.

  • Zoe Samios
Australia’s Usman Khawaja reacts after losing his wicket to India’s Mohammed Siraj on the fourth day.

What key stats say about Australia v India (the news is not good)

Australia’s first Test against India didn’t go to plan. If the team can turn things around and win the series, it will be historic. Data shows it will be hard.

  • Zoe Samios
Officials opted against pursuing any further action after Australia wrapped up the match in a seven-wicket win.

India A cleared of ball-tampering, no further action

In an explosive start to the summer, India’s A team have been cleared of ball-tampering and will escape any sanction after accusations flew in a match against Australia A.

  • Scott Bailey

January 2024

With historic win against Australia, the West Indies are back

The West Indies snatched one of the all-time great Test cricket victories over Australia by eight runs to square the two-match series.

  • Andrew Clark
Kevin Sinclair celebrates after taking Marnus Labuschagne’s wicket.

Windies lead by just 35 after bold declaration from Cummins

Australia slumped to 4-24 before recovering to declare at 9-289 in a shifting slugfest of a Test match.

  • Joel Gould
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David Warner turns to see he is caught out by Pakistan’s Babar Azam at the SCG.

Bad light prompts early stumps after Warner dismissal

The Australian opener’s Test farewell has been overshadowed by Sydney’s poor weather and cricket’s archaic rules.

  • Scott Bailey

December 2023

Pat Cummins celebrates the wicket of Mohammad Rizwan.

Brilliant Australia claim another Test victory

Pat Cummins’ Australian cricket team has had an all-conquering six months, climaxing with Friday’s second test victory against Pakistan.

  • Andrew Clark
Mir Hamza of Pakistan celebrates the wicket of David Warner.

Pakistan blow it – and why umpires should take the stairs

Australia had its worst start to a Test innings at the MCG since 1911 but an agonising neacentury by Mitchell Marsh helped the home side recovery.

  • Updated
  • Oliver Caffrey and Shayne Hope

Foxtel boss braces for ‘bumpy summer’ of sport without India, Poms

The West Indies and Pakistan tours will not draw the kind of TV audiences that India and England series do, says Patrick Delany.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

November 2023

Pat Cummins with the spoils of World Cup victory.

One-day cricket champions of champions

The India-Australia rivalry now approaches the intensity of the traditional Ashes battle between Australia and England.

  • The AFR View

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