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Cricket
Marnus firms to pip Konstas for opening role as Australian squad for Test final takes shape
Marnus Labuschagne is favoured to join Usman Khawaja at the top of the order and tip out Sam Konstas when Australia faces South Africa to bid for back-to-back World Test Championship titles at Lord’s next month.
- by Daniel Brettig and Tom Decent
Latest
Is this the end of cricket between India and Pakistan?
India’s coach Gautam Gambhir, a former politician, has declared that India should stop playing all cricket against Pakistan following a recent militant attack on tourists in Kashmir.
- by Daniel Brettig
Analysis
Test cricket
Illicit drugs can attract a four-year ban, but Rabada only got a month. This is why
There is a lot of flex in global rules about illicit drug use among athletes. Former WADA director-general David Howman explains why
- by Daniel Brettig
Updated
Australian cricket
Rabada free to face Australia in Lord’s Test final after one-month drugs ban
The South African received a one-month ban after testing positive to a “substance of abuse”.
- by Daniel Brettig
Star spearhead Rabada banned for recreational drug use
South Africa’s star quick Kagiso Rabada has been hit with a ban after testing positive for a recreational drug. Read his comments here.
- by Daniel Brettig
How India’s 14-year-old batting wizard sounded an early warning to Australia
Vaibhav Suryavanshi has turned the heads of Sachin Tendulkar, Adam Gilchrist and even Formula 1 hero Oscar Piastri, but Australia had already been given an arresting glimpse of the budding Indian cricketer.
- by Daniel Brettig
IPL crackdown: Grade Cricketer takes down hundreds of videos after receiving ‘legal letter’
Indian cricket authorities have clamped down on The Grade Cricketer podcast, consumed by more than a million people around the world – compelling its creators to take down every single video they have produced for this year’s IPL.
- by Daniel Brettig
Opinion
Australian cricket
The more hostile the bowling, the more Keith liked it
Keith Stackpole, who died this week, was a fierce competitor, a loyal teammate and a courageous opening batsman who loved facing the short stuff.
- by Greg Chappell
‘He was scared of my face’: Andrew Flintoff sometimes wished he hadn’t survived Top Gear crash
In a new Disney+ documentary, the former England cricket captain describes the depression and trauma that rooted him to his living-room couch for seven months.
- by Simon Briggs
‘The beauty of immigration’: Inside Khawaja’s heartfelt mission for change
As he reflects on his upbringing as a new Australian, Usman Khawaja delivers a telling insight into the changes needed in the nation’s cricket landscape.
- by Nick Wright
Updated
Vale
‘If you had a son like Keith Stackpole you’d be very proud’: Bill Lawry’s heartfelt tribute to ‘Stacky’
Stackpole was an aggressive opening batter who was an important member of the Australian sides captained by Bill Lawry and Ian Chappell from 1966-74.
- by Andrew Wu and Jon Pierik
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