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Mitch Marsh hooking Mark Wood for six.

He was dropped and stopped bowling, but selectors say Mitch Marsh’s Test career isn’t over

With England set to bring a battery of pacemen Down Under for next summer’s Ashes series, Marsh has been given another contract by the selectors, who value his aggression off the back foot.

  • Daniel Brettig

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Josh Hazlewood hasn’t played since breaking down with a calf injury in mid-December.

Hazlewood still under a cloud as Boland firms for world title spot

Josh Hazlewood won’t play for NSW before the end of the cricket season, presenting Scott Boland with the rails run into the World Test Championship decider.

  • Robert Dillon
Sam Konstas is bowled by Scott Boland at the SCG.

Don’t play it again, Sam: Seven balls, three trick shots, 10 runs

The swashbuckling approach that launched Sam Konstas’ international career has again brought him undone after an eventful seven-ball innings in the Sheffield Shield.

  • Robert Dillon and Jon Pierik
Patterson Labuschagne composite

Resurgent two-Test wonder threatens Labuschagne’s Ashes mission

Once Australia’s golden boy, Marnus Labuschagne has endured a lean two years. Now, five men are coming for his spot – and one in particular.

  • Nick Wright
Cameron Green is set for a stint as a batsman only.

Body blow: Injury to stop Australia’s gun all-rounder from bowling until tail of India Tests

Cameron Green is expected to be available to play against India as a batter from the start of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy showdown.

  • Daniel Brettig
Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany gives the deal two thumbs up at the SCG on Tuesday.

Foxtel lands international cricket extension as boss pours cold water on Amazon deal

Foxtel boss Patrick Delany has played down the impact of Amazon’s ICC broadcasting rights deal in Australia as his company announced its own multiyear contract extensions.

  • Calum Jaspan
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Australia lifts the World Test Championship trophy.

As it happened World Test Championship 2023: Australia to celebrate world Test championship before turning attention to Ashes

Follow along as Australia attempts to bowl India out and win the World Test Championship at The Oval.

  • Roy Ward
Travis Head’s century setup the match for Australia.

Test Championship ratings: How Australia’s players fared against India

Australia have won the World Test Championship in emphatic style at the Oval. Here’s how we rated each member of the winning team.

  • Daniel Brettig
The Australian team celebrate winning the World Test Championship.

From panic to precision: How Australia became the world’s best Test side

It was fitting that Australia sealed the title of world’s best Test team by so clinically closing out a match they had dominated.

  • Daniel Brettig
The Australians celebrates winning the ICC World Test Championship at the Oval.

‘A gold medal’: Cummins compares Test Championship victory to Olympics

Australia claimed their first World Test Championship title with an emphatic 209-run victory over India at the Oval on Sunday.

  • Malcolm Conn

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