While scheduling looms large as the single biggest hurdle for Cricket Australia to overcome if, as expected, it sells off minority stakes in its Big Bash clubs, England’s current injury dramas have highlighted a possible issue with such a privatisation push.
Shoaib Bashir appears set to be England’s anointed spinner for the upcoming Ashes Down Under, but Australia’s greatest off-spinner of all-time believes the old enemy may be about to make a mistake.
England was supposedly “too nice”. Then its anger boiled over in an ugly finish to the fourth Test against India. What will that mean streak do for the Ashes and what does it say about Brendon McCullum?
As the fight for access to Windy Hill in October drags on, Cricket Australia has urged the officials involved in the stand-off to “behave like grown-ups”.
India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has been caught going to war with the Oval groundsman ahead of the fifth and final Test of a series marred by a flurry of heated exchanges.
Jake Fraser-McGurk has been dumped from Australia’s white-ball squads as selectors anointed another rising star as the eventual successor to Glenn Maxwell’s hit man mantle.
Nathan Lyon is confident he still has a role to play in pink-ball Tests despite being dumped from the Australian side for close mate Mitchell Starc’s 100th Test.
England badgers the rest of world cricket about adhering to the spirit of the game. Yet the game’s self-appointed moral compass — and its outspoken captain — can’t even adhere to the laws it made.
The Big Bash League could be pushed back in a bold move aimed at making more of Australia’s Test stars available for most of the tournament.
Australian cricket has achieved a historic first as young guns helped deliver a perfect 5-0 series victory over the West Indies in the Caribbean.
The new tough-talking, pot-stirring English cricket team is suffering from a baffling identity crisis on the eve of the Ashes tour, going into meltdown after two Indian batters had the audacity to tell them ‘no’.
In some trouble at 4-87 chasing more than 200, Australia’s towering master blaster Tim David unleashed hell on the West Indies, producing one of the most devastating knocks in cricket history.
Mackenzie Harvey knows the pressure of being hailed a cricket prodigy. Seven years after the innings which put him on the map, Harvey’s resurrection has gathered steam in South Australia.
With a sparkling 150 – his 38th Test century – England star Joe Root has leapfrogged Ricky Ponting to go into second on the all time Test runs list, behind just Sachin Tendulkar.
England’s high-voltage top order is now set in stone – giving the tourists their most imposing Ashes batting line-up ever. But there lies a lesson for Australia and their own top-order woes.
Jake Fraser-McGurk and Sam Konstas were batting wonder boys who have free-falled back to earth. This is what went wrong, and how greats Steve Waugh and Adam Gilchrist can save them.
A 35-year-old plying his trade on the T20 circuit, who was overlooked for eight years by England’s Test selectors before emerging from the wilderness against India, could be a shock contender as the tourists’ frontline spinner come the Ashes.
With an Ashes on the horizon, Usman Khawaja looks set for a seventh opening partner since David Warner’s retirement. An uncapped star has emerged as the leading contender — but he faces plenty of competition.
England bowler Brydon Carse faced his fair share of adversity after he was slapped with a 16-month betting ban, and it’s no surprise that English captain Ben Stokes was the one to help him out of his battles and into an Ashes weapon.
An inquest into the death of England great Graham Thorpe has revealed some haunting new details, with wife Amanda opening up on the star’s final days.
A spate of dropped catches in the field didn’t hurt Australia as two batters went berserk in a win in the West Indies.
One year on from England invoking the spirit of cricket to decry the stumping of Jonny Bairstow at Lord’s, they are now the ones in the spirit spotlight with India’s captain Shubman Gill calling out time wasting tactics.
His numbers are poor but fate has handed Jake Fraser-McGurk a surprise Australian recall. This is why selectors are backing the Rooster, and what he must do to be a World Cup bolter.
Six months on from being dropped, Marnus Labuschagne looks most likely to be opening the batting in the first Ashes Test. What did he do to precipitate the change? Absolutely nothing, writes Robert Craddock
After decades of quiet urging, two years of planning, Dungog will unveil a statue of its favourite son. This is the story of how it came about and how the town plans to celebrate.
Dumped for the tour of the West Indies, Marnus Labuschagne could be back as soon as the first Ashes Test, with the Australian coach declaring they are ‘open to all options.’
A decade after Matthew Hayden played in an All Stars match that took cricket to America, now his daughter, Grace, will do so in her own way.
Almost 14 years after resigning as Australian head coach, Tim Nielsen has been brought back into the fold as the national team braces for potential wholesale change over the next few seasons.
Stuart MacGill opens up about his ‘fatal mistake’ that has cost him so dearly, why the word ‘addict’ does not apply to him and dealing with the aftermath of a profound ‘lapse in judgement’.
Stuart MacGill admits he gets “very anxious’’ but is using a technique he learnt in Test cricket to get his life back on track after years of drug-related turmoil.
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