Paine’s real ‘crime’ is getting caught out
Australian cricketers have normal human appetites and weaknesses; they’ve performed great deeds on the field and done stupid things off it.
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Shield match suspended over positive Covid test
Emerging fast bowler Will Sutherland tests positive to Covid-19, forcing Victorian team into isolation ahead of Sheffield Shield match against NSW.
Racism row takes Root into spotlight
Captain Joe Root and his Test team are under pressure to address the England’s scandal from their Ashes training base in Queensland.
Revealed: Wade’s World Cup injury shock
Australia’s medicos kept a secret from Matthew Wade before he strode on to the pitch for the World Cup final – one that was only revealed when the Cup was won.
Why Langer could outlast his own team at Test level
A former teammate of Justin Langer’s believes Australia should be in no rush to discard the coach as an era of massive change looms for the Test team.
No boundaries on the man who would be king
The latest BLM movement – Be Like McGowan – honours a man with the power to lock out all non-West Australians, but noble enough to allow an Ashes Test.
Ashes dream over before it begins
Embattled opener Will Pucovski is set to miss the entire Ashes summer.
Shootout canned as Aussies usher in new era of clarity
New Aussie selector George Bailey is well aware of selection room anxieties and it’s quite clear he’s trying to minimise them for the players he now presides over.
Cricket’s voiceless finally heard
Rather like Michael Holding’s Black Lives Matter speech in 2020, accusations of racism from a former England cricketer are forcing everyone in the game to stop and think.
Khawaja, Swepson in as Ashes squad named
The Ashes squad is picked and now the battle is on for at least a couple of batters to earn selection for the first Test, with a super-sized second team also named.
Sombre reason behind WBBL match rescheduling
Adelaide Strikers players have been forced to reschedule their recognised First Nations Round clash as they mourn the passing of one of cricket’s most innovative administrators.
Racism row burns Vaughan and Root
Former and current stars of English cricket Michael Vaughan and Joe Root are both facing challenges to their reputations on the eve of the Ashes.
Clarke makes bombshell call on Langer future
Walk, or not to walk, that is the question. Justin Langer has earned the right to exit on his own terms, says Michael Clarke, who then raises eyebrows with what he thinks the timing will be.
Phoenix-like, they’ve risen for the Ashes
Love is in the air. A plane load of it, along with the Australian men’s first T20 World Cup trophy, are hurtling their way back to Australia and the Ashes.
The $3 million gamble that turned Marsh into national hero
Mitchell Marsh first played in the IPL at 17, but money wasn’t everything – international success was his heart’s desire and now the much-maligned 31-year-old is on top of the world.
Hazlewood’s same string finds new bow
If anyone embodied the unfashionable nature of Australia’s approach to the Twenty20 World Cup it was the boy from Bendemeer, Josh Hazlewood.
Finch’s shunned veterans reformat modern game
Has Australia bent T20 cricket to a game in its image by sheer force of will (and talent and fortune)?
England’s plane ride from hell with Aussie champs
England’s players were forced to wait until Australia’s T20 tournament ended before sharing a flight bound for the Ashes tour.
The recession Australian cricket had to have
Australia’s victory was one for the true believers. And, to be frank, these were mighty scarce when they were thumped 4-1 by Bangladesh a few short weeks ago.
How Aussies celebrated T20 heroics
Written off as no chance, Justin Langer’s men defied the odds to seal their maiden World Cup title in devastating fashion.
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