The irresistible money available to players outside of playing for their country is literally tearing New Zealand and South Africa apart. Here’s how Australia is managing to avoid a similar crisis.
They’ve won three consecutive T20 World Cup titles, but Australia has been put on notice, with a former cricket great declaring two rivals are closing in on the superstar team.
Australia seem intent on dumping Steve Smith from his makeshift opening role, with the hunt on for a new partner for Usman Khawaja – and a shock contender emerging already.
A recent grade cricket blow-up highlights that temperament is something Marnus Labuschagne must work on if he’s to become the long-term captain many believe he could be, writes BEN HORNE.
Usman Khawaja’s wife Rachel has been poached by a rival TV network to her husband for some roaming reporting during the summer of cricket.
In a boon for the BBL, Steve Smith and David Warner have both signed lengthy contracts. Smith was one of three current Australian stars to announce a new deal on Tuesday.
The Bears might be league’s perennial, trophy-starved underdogs, but this ranks as one of the most incredible comeback stories in the history of Australian sport. And lifelong fan BEN HORNE still can’t quite believe it.
Cricket Australia will be looking for a new chief executive at the end of the upcoming summer of cricket, with a former NRL boss shaping as the frontrunner.
Thirteen years after Brad Pitt made the Oakland Coliseum internationally famous, the venue could become cricket’s ‘Moneyball’ moment in the USA, writes BEN HORNE.
Steve Folkes had a reputation as a hard-hitting defender for the Canterbury Bulldogs. That’s nothing compared to the shot he once put on Chris Gayle and the West Indies cricket team, writes BEN HORNE.
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