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A depleted Australian team will vie for a third ICC Champions Trophy title when it kicks off its campaign against archrival England in Lahore on February 22. Australia, the only team to have won consecutive titles (2006 and 2009), will be without skipper Pat Cummins, who led the team to the ODI World Cup crown…
Star batter Travis Head was named the winner of the prestigious Allan Border Medal for the top Australian men’s cricketer, while young all-rounder Annabel Sutherland was awarded the Belinda Clark Medal at the Australian Cricket Awards held here on Monday. Head, who had an outstanding year across all three formats with 1,427 runs since the…
Mitchell Marsh of Australia takes a catch to dismiss Rishabh Pant of India during day five of the Men’s Fourth Test Match in the series between Australia and India at Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 30, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has been ruled of next month’s…
Australia tweaker Nathan Lyon has donated three bats signed by India internationals Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, and Ravichandran Ashwin for a silent auction, the proceeds of which will be used to support cricketers with disability. Australia captain Pat Cummins, batter Steve Smith and Lyon himself also signed on the three bats. This was done during…
The chairs of Cricket Australia (CA), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the International Cricket Council (ICC) are reportedly set to meet later in January to discuss where each of them stand on the matter of the introduction of a two-tier structure in Test cricket. According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald,…
File photo of ICC president Jay Shah. | Photo Credit: PTI The ICC in collaboration with cricket boards of India, Australia and England is exploring the possibility of a two-tier Test system to facilitate more series between big three nations. The Age reported that Jay Shah, the new ICC chairman, is set to meet Cricket…
Australian all-rounder Beau Webster is feeling “speechless” after his impressive debut against India during the fifth Test here, which the hosts won by six wickets to reclaim the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a decade. Webster made 57 and an unbeaten 37 in the two innings of the Sydney Test, important contributions in the match’s context, besides…
