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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.

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  • 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
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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
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.

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  • 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.

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Australia celebrate winning the men’s Cricket World Cup final.

Australia stun India in final to win World Cup

Travis Head was the star for Australia, striking 137 runs to help upset a red-hot Indian team at home.

  • Scott Bailey
Pat Cummins

Aussies pick up the pace for India showdown

Withering opening spells from Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood in the semi-final leave Australia primed just in time for the World Cup final.

  • Ian Ransom
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Australia’s captain Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc celebrate their win against South Africa.

Australia enter Cup final with a nervy three-wicket win

Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins got the team home with 16 balls to spare. They will face India in Ahmedabad on Sunday.

  • Scott Bailey
Mitchell Marsh celebrates his century against Bangladesh in Pune.

Marsh back in form with big ton in Australia triumph

The win ensures Australia will enter Thursday’s semi-final against South Africa as one of the competition’s form teams, rebounding from two opening losses.

  • Scott Bailey
Glenn Maxwell celebrates after hitting a six for the winning runs.

Maxwell’s miracle 200 the greatest Aussie innings

Glenn Maxwell saved the game with 201 off 128 balls despite severe cramps and a possible back injury.

  • Jasper Bruce

October 2023

David Warner congratulates teammate Marcus Stoinis for hitting a six.

Warner, Marsh send Aussies back into World Cup top four

In a crucial match for Australia’s finals hopes, David Warner and Mitch Marsh found form to power their side to a 62-run win over Pakistan.

  • Scott Bailey

September 2023

Sheilas, blue heelers and a scene stealer: cultural power in 2023

The people who are behind a new era for women’s sport in Australia, an unlikely feminist icon and the first arts policy in decades.

  • Lisa Murray and Matthew Drummond

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