This Month
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Opinion
- The AFR View
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