Steve Smith
Starc strikes once after Australia bowled out for 225
The Australians are chasing a clean sweep of the West Indies in the Frank Worrell Trophy, but their task won’t be easy as they face the swinging pink ball in a day-night Test.
- Daniel Brettig and Tom Decent
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Smith return locked in as Cummins calls for more proactive batting approach
Skipper Pat Cummins has urged Australia’s batters to be more adaptable in Grenada as Josh Inglis is cut from the XI.
- Tom Decent
‘Pretty ill’: Smith reveals how he suffered sickening finger injury
Steve Smith says he misjudged the Temba Bavuma edge that left him with a compound dislocation of his finger – and at risk of missing the West Indies series.
- Daniel Brettig
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- World Test Championship
Smith’s race against time: The sickening injury that puts star’s West Indies tour in doubt
Placed on a splint for the next two months, Steve Smith’s finger will be a major impediment to batting, and he will need to test it out soon if he still intends to play in the Caribbean.
- Daniel Brettig
- Analysis
- World Test Championship
Star of Sandpapergate gives Australia a batting lesson, takes Proteas to within 69 runs of victory
Aiden Markram hasn’t just put his own name in lights – he’s placed a figurative interrogation lamp on Australia’s top six batters. At stumps on day three in London, he had helped guide the Proteas to 2-213, needing just another 69 runs to pull off a remarkable win.
- Daniel Brettig
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- Australian cricket
‘It has been a great ride’: Steve Smith retires from ODI cricket but commits to Ashes summer
The former skipper walked away from the 50-over format after Australia’s loss to India in the Champions Trophy semi-final.
- Daniel Brettig
- Analysis
- Australian cricket
‘They’ve got to grow up’: India’s biggest advantage against Australia wasn’t what you think
India’s coach Gautam Gambhir snapped at reporters amid suggestions of undue advantages for India at the Champions Trophy.
- Daniel Brettig
Bairstow revisited? Stumping controversy avoided as Smith takes the high ground
Australia avoided a repeat of the Jonny Bairstow saga after deciding to withdraw an appeal during their Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan in Lahore.
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ASX Runners of the Week: Wide Open, Pacific, Forbidden Foods & Olympio
This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Wide Open. It surged on news its high-protein lupin isolate was approved for export into China.
- Andrew Todd
Next Gen XI: What the Australian Test team could look like in 2027
The selectors have handed baggy green caps to five debutants in the past seven Tests, so generational change is already underway. There could be more to come before the 2027 tour of England, where Australia has not claimed an outright series win since 2001.
- Jon Pierik
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