Root won’t show his Ashes hand
Joe Root says he is not playing mind games as he rejects calls to name an XI before Wednesday’s first Test
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Inside the captaincy interviews of cricket’s odd couple
Pat Cummins used to sleep on Steve Smith’s couch. Now they’re leading Australia into an Ashes battle. Get the inside word on how they will work together again.
Ashes: Perth Test officially moved
No decision will be made on a new venue before the series begins, with Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne in the frame.
We know what Lyon did last summer
Nathan Lyon took an inglorious nine wickets at 55.1 last summer. He needs only one more wicket for 400 — but a whole lot more to avoid the sack.
Ashes crashers: Adelaide responds to WA Test poach bid
The WA government says moving the second Ashes Test to Perth is a ‘no-brainer’. But the idea of swapping Tests hasn’t gone down so well in South Australia. See the latest.
Cummins must redefine art of captaincy
Can Pat Cummins control his emotions in a one-on-one contest with a batsman and think critically and coolly about the bigger picture?
Absolute humiliation: Sixers demoralise awful Stars
The Sydney Sixers have obliterated the Melbourne Stars by inflicting the heaviest BBL defeat in history to leave the visitors in serious damage control mode after the season’s opening game.
Absolute humiliation: Sixers demoralise awful Stars
The Sydney Sixers have obliterated the Melbourne Stars by inflicting the heaviest BBL defeat in history to leave the visitors in serious damage control mode after the season’s opening game.
Boxing Day furore: Big Bash team’s venue blow-up
Privately seething about being forced to fly to Perth on Christmas Day and then face hotel quarantine has one Big Bash team calling out Cricket Australia’s stance as contradictory.
Starc lights up Smith, Marnus in ominous Ashes warning
It’s the training session that will send a shiver down England’s spine after Mitchell Starc made two of the world’s best batsmen look like park cricketers.
Captains go toe to toe in Ashes scrap
Pat Cummins has the wood on Joe Root in toe to toe contests, which should hold him in good stead as they meet for the first time as captains
Rough diamond Stokes now shines
Ben Stokes is always looking for an opportunity to score. He still has that competitive desire, but he has married it to a greater match awareness.
Cautious George holds his nerve before Ashes storm
New chairman of selectors George Bailey has decided calmness and consolidation is the best way forward for Australia’s Test team, at least for now, writes ROBERT CRADDOCK.
Outcast to shoeys: Stoinis’s evolution to Aussie WC hero
Marcus Stoinis reveals how Ricky Ponting helped ressurect his international career and provided an insight into the mid-pitch laughs which helped Australia win the T20 World Cup.
Ajaz Patel makes history with 10 wickets
New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel has become the first bowler in 22 years — and third of all-time — to take 10 wickets in an innings.
Cricket on red alert as Omicron threatens Ashes schedule
Back-up plans are being put in place as cricket officials prepare for the Omicron variant to disrupt the summer’s blockbuster schedule.
‘He’d be perfect’: Why 500-game hero who skittled Warner should be a ‘multi-millionaire’
Rob Aitken would have been a “multi-millionaire” had the dawn of Twenty20 cricket arrived a decade earlier, according to Cricket Australia umpire and former first grade captain Greg Davidson.
How the baggy green became an asset beyond value
Not everything seen in the Australian cricket cap is as it seems: indeed, most common assumptions nurtured about it are erroneous.
The rebuilt Lord Beefy chooses wine over the whine
He’s had Covid, had both hip replaced, endured major spinal surgery and lost his best mates but Ian Botham is wining not whining
Maxwell told: Don’t give up on Test dream
More than four years after his last Test match, Glenn Maxwell has been told he could be needed — and soon.
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