Six weeks on from his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, Michael Johnstone’s family and friends are still coming to grips with the battle he faces. Yet, they are preparing to put emotion to one side to raise awareness about the “insidious” disease.
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Nathan McSweeney is in the frame to be named in Australia’s Test squad to face India despite a late push from Marcus Harris to reignite his international career.
They are the two most-expensive players in SuperCoach BBL – taking up more than 25 per cent of your $2m salary cap. But can you really afford not to have Matt Short and Glenn Maxwell?
It has been said that Marnus Labuschagne has an aversion to opening the batting, and would rather stay at No. 3, but some key statistics put forward a compelling case he could be the Test opener hiding in plain sight.
There are calls for an overhaul of the AFL’s rookie list after Hawthorn became the latest club to use the list loophole to cut one of its most experienced players.
In June, Tom Barrass said he was only leaving West Coast if the rug was pulled from under him. Now, he’s opened up on what changed for him to arrive at Hawthorn a few months later.
New Zealand has pulled off one of Test cricket’s greatest upsets of the modern era, becoming the first touring side in more than 4000 days to win a series in India.
Brendan Fevola in black and white? It’s enough to make a Carlton fan ill. But, it might be the start of one of the more unlikely AFL coaching journeys.
WA coach Adam Voges has described his shock after watching his side slump to the lowest total in its domestic 50-over history in a historic collapse against Tasmania. See how it happened here.
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