Leg Buys: Why Victorian coach quit just two weeks into new job
The freeze on women’s state contracts is over, a BBL winning quick is on the move, and the truth behind a coach’s two-week tenure – all that and more in the latest edition of LEG BUYS.
The freeze on women’s state contracts is over, a BBL winning quick is on the move, and the truth behind a coach’s two-week tenure – all that and more in the latest edition of LEG BUYS.
Mitchell Starc was paid $4.43m to play in the IPL, with one ball in the final he showed why he was worth every cent.
James Anderson and Stuart Broad both excelled in their 30s. And in that same age bracket, Mitchell Starc has taken the level up a notch for the veteran fast bowling brigade, writes DANIEL CHERNY.
Sam Perry and Ian Higgins have spent the past decade skewering Australian club cricket culture as The Grade Cricketer. Now, as they explain in between ‘champing’ SHANNON GILL, they’re taking their creation to New York.
Mitchell Starc bowled a sensational opening spell to fire Kolkata Knight Riders to their third Indian Premier League title with a eight-wicket thrashing of Pat Cummins’ Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Former Australian Test captain Tim Paine has expressed his interest in furthering his coaching career with the vacant Adelaide Strikers roll with the backing of two current stars.
Overlooking Jake Fraser-McGurk has little to do with how talented he is and everything to do with selecting a national T20I World Cup squad as opposed to an XI for a T20 league franchise.
Pat Cummins has dismissed commentary around his communication of the Jonny Bairstow stumping as a non-issue, but he still feels sympathy for Alex Carey.
Glenn Maxwell has continued his horror form into the IPL elimination final and finished the season with another golden duck. DANIEL CHERNY analyses if the star will make Australia’s Twenty20 side.
Only the timing is holding back Ricky Ponting from possibly coaching an international team after he was approached by India.
A Sydney Sixers star could return to the BBL this season, but it may not be in the magenta after a fierce rival’s interest. Plus, the latest Australian set to play County Cricket, in Leg Buys here.
Tickets for India and Pakistan’s T20 World Cup blockbuster in New York are being resold for as much as $22,000 each. It’s legal to buy them but there’s remains one big problem.
Queensland Cricket has completed its hunt for a new state and BBL coach, landing on a former South Africa captain with plenty of domestic experience in Australia.
Ashton Agar has had to be resilient throughout his 11-year international career, but maybe never more so than in 2023. He shares how ‘disaster’ ended up being the ultimate silver lining.
The hunt for the new Bulls and Heat head coach is down to its final three, with a former South African spinner the warm favourite to take the reins.
Arguably the greatest swing bowler in the history of Test match cricket has put the full stop on a magnificent career, with the final sentence to be written in July.
Cricket Victoria is set to welcome two new recruits into their high performance department, one of which has just left a coaching position at another state, and the other, a former Test quick.
Australian spinner Nathan Lyon claims the Aussies could have won last year’s Ashes series in England if he didn’t suffer the calf injury that left him sidelined for three and a half Tests. DANIEL CHERNY analyses the scenarios.
After jagging 50 wickets for Western Suburbs last season, leg-spinner Tom Brooks will move to Victoria in the hope of bowling his way into first-class cricket.
Travis Head ran riot in a staggering IPL demolition job as captain Pat Cummins celebrated his birthday with a monster 10-wicket win.
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