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
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
Was this the hardest cricketer ever?
A new biography of former England captain Brian Close shows there have been few braver or more idiosyncratic players.
- Matthew Engel
December 2024
Smith returns to role of India tormentor at MCG
Steve Smith scored a record 11th century against the nation on Friday, driving Australia to an imposing 7-454 at lunch on day two of the fourth Test.
- Ian Ransom
Teenager Sam Konstas steals the show at the MCG
The exciting teenage debutant has laid the platform for Australia to take early control of the Boxing Day Test against India.
- Oliver Caffrey
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
Resurgent Australia level series with thumping Test win
From Mitchell Starc’s first ball wicket to another soaring century by Travis Head, Australia dominated India in the second Test in Adelaide.
- Oliver Caffrey
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
Pimm’s to rival Wimbledon: Why Adelaide is the new hot cricket ticket
On the Australian cricket calendar, one Test match stands out as the destination event that interstate fans and business executives flock to.
- James Hall and Simon Evans
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
‘Out of order’ applies to all of ailing Victoria
Readers’ letters on the southern state’s economic malaise; the IPA’s infuence; Australia’s cricket defeat; fighting back against “battery boosters”; social media bans; retirement tips; and potential power blackouts.
- Opinion
- India
India dominates cricket – and calls the shots on and off the field
In a country of 1.4 billion following the sport religiously, the BCCI knows it’s sitting on a gold mine as lucrative as Saudi oilfields.
- Tracey Holmes
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
Jaiswal, Kohli wear down Australia as India eye big win
Jaiswal and Kohli centuries put India in a commanding position. India declared on 487-6 and had Australia reeling at 12-3 at stumps.
- Joel Dubber
Why this billionaire’s flying people in to watch cricket in Perth
Soft diplomacy between India and Australia surrounding the Test series has never been higher, according to Cricket Australia.
- Tom Rabe
Fan to put Bradman’s baggy green on the market
The cap worn by The Don during the 1947-48 home Test series against India is expected to fetch up to $400,000 at auction.
- Elizabeth Fortescue