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Firooza burned all of her cricket gear to hide it from the Taliban. Then Australia went into bat for her
It’s been three years since Afghanistan’s women cricketers escaped the Taliban. While determined to stay together, they are frustrated nothing has come of their pleas to play.
- by Daniel Brettig
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‘Hard to take’: Australia’s World Cup dominance ends with shock semi-final elimination
Australia’s pain from missing a first Twenty20 World Cup final in seven tournaments will carry into the home summer, after captain Alyssa Healy revealed the extent of the foot injury that kept her out of the knockout game.
- by Daniel Brettig
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‘How’s your heart rate’: Four wickets in last over seals Aussie win after injury crisis
Australia’s resilience was on full display as they shrugged off the losses of captain Alyssa Healy and pace bowler Tayla Vlaeminck to take down India in Sharjah and progress unbeaten to the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals
- by Daniel Brettig
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Australian cricket
‘Play a shot, Chamari’: Healy’s well-timed chirp in Australia’s opening World Cup win
Australia know they will have to find much more polish to get past New Zealand in their next match, but Alyssa Healy’s behind-the-stumps chatter was the picture of efficiency as her side claimed the wicket of Chamari Athapaththu.
- by Daniel Brettig
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Australian cricket
‘No room for slip-ups’: The threat to Australia’s quest for World Cup history
Meg Lanning knows how to win Twenty20 World Cups, and she set out how Australia can claim a seventh title with the tournament starting for the Aussies on Saturday.
- by Daniel Brettig
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Indian boss to take over world cricket amid $4.5 billion TV rights fight
Jay Shah will take over as chair of the International Cricket Council after forcing the resignation of the incumbent Greg Barclay, amid a $US3 billion dispute with its major broadcast rights holder.
- by Daniel Brettig
‘Not laughing’: Starc still sore from Afghanistan cup snub
Mitchell Starc has spoken of his unhappiness at being dropped for Australia’s T20 World Cup game against Afghanistan and has criticised the tournament’s format.
- by Daniel Brettig
‘Needs more oxygen’: Call for Amazon to share women’s World Cup with free-to-air network
Amazon should simulcast Australia’s matches for the upcoming women’s Twenty20 World Cup with a free-to-air network to maximise its audience, according to the former executive who oversaw the WBBL’s rise to the fourth most-watched sporting league in the country.
- by Daniel Brettig
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India
His dad is Modi’s right-hand man. India’s Jay Shah may soon be running world cricket
Why was Jay Shah on the podium when India won the Twenty20 World Cup? There is an election coming up.
- by Daniel Brettig
‘Gut wrenching’: South Africa’s choke puts India on top of T20 World
India had all the advantages in this World Cup, but it still took an extraordinary collapse by South Africa and a marginal umpiring decision to secure the trophy in Barbados.
- by Daniel Brettig
Chokers no more? South Africa break 32-year cup curse
Thirty-two years of World Cup hurt were wiped away in the couple of hours it took South Africa to hammer Afghanistan.
- by Daniel Brettig
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