‘Acceptance takes time’: Poms won’t silence hecklers
Australia’s hope that England will follow India’s lead by discouraging booing of David Warner and Steve Smith has fallen on deaf ears with Eoin Morgan saying fans are ‘entitled to their own view’.
Australia’s hope that England will follow India’s lead by discouraging booing of David Warner and Steve Smith has fallen on deaf ears with Eoin Morgan saying fans are ‘entitled to their own view’.
As recently as six months ago Australia’s World Cup defence was in disarray, with selectors struggling to agree on an XI and even a gameplan. Coach Justin Langer knew something had to change.
Jonny Bairstow has questioned Justin Langer’s pleas for fans to lay off Steve Smith and David Warner, citing the treatment Stuart Broad got when he failed to walk after nicking off in 2013 Ashes.
David Warner has been in imperious form at this World Cup, but England speedster Jofra Archer has one weapon in his arsenal that may worry the destructive Aussie opener.
THERE is a very real danger of Shane Watson’s one-day career coming to a premature end after his shock axeing from Australia’s line-up.
WE’RE at the halfway mark of the Cricket World Cup — one that’s given us new heroes, new villains and plenty of laughs. Here’s what we’ve loved so far.
WITH 27 runs from four innings, World Cup spectators have not seen the best of Quinton de Kock. Yet here’s why South Africa should stick with him.
SOUTH Africa’s Hashim Amla claimed a world record with the bat, but he was grateful to leave Canberra with a full set of teeth.
STUART Broad is seeing a psychologist to help cope with the troubling aftermath of a vicious blow to the face last year.
WHILE Dale Steyn has made a modest start in bare figures, he did enough against Ireland to suggest his early World Cup battle with illness is over.
SOUTH Africa can go all the way. Skipper AB de Villiers has no doubts about that.
SOUTH AFRICA notched a second-straight score in excess of 400 before unleashing a pace barrage to record a thumping win over Ireland in Canberra.
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