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Details of 2027 Ashes, WTC final announced as Edgbaston, the site of Australia’s series-opening wins in 2019 and 2023, moved to third Test Australia’s taxing Test schedule could become even more demanding with just four days between next year’s World Test Championship final and the beginning of the Ashes, leaving open the possibility of the same six-Tests-in-two-months scenario they faced in 2023. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) also today revealed it has moved the 2027 Ashes series opener away from their twice-toppled fortress, Edgbaston, to the site of Australia’s infamous 60 all-out in 2015, Trent Bridge. But Pat…
While Bangladesh’s pace attack has won much of the plaudits for the side’s excellent recent form, Ashraful has been happy with the efforts of his batting group despite a slip up in their most recent Test outing against Zimbabwe in Harare when they were dismissed for just 140 and 185 in a massive defeat. Ashraful is confident his batters will be able to turn that around in Australia despite the strong squad the Aussies recently name, pointing to their good efforts against Pakistan in May when they registered an impressive 2-0 series sweep. “Our batters did really well over the…
Peter Clarke to take on dual NSW and Sixers coaching roles following Matthew Mott’s switch to the BBL team Sydney Sixers have completed their coaching reshuffle with NSW Breakers mentor Peter Clarke stepping into the vacant role as women’s head coach following Matthew Mott’s switch to the men’s team. Clarke, who has signed a two-year deal with the Sixers, will take on dual roles alongside his NSW commitments after leading the women’s team to last season’s WNCL final in his first campaign at the helm.Clarke’s side lost just one game during the home-and-away season before going down to Queensland by…
Sophie Molineux took out player of the match honours in her first game as Southern Brave captain Australia’s T20 World Cup-winning captain Sophie Molineux has led the Southern Brave to a remarkable eight-run victory over Welsh Fire in the English Hundred competition. The day after her Aussie teammate Phoebe Litchfield’s heroics in steering Sunrisers Leeds to victory over MI London at The Oval, new Brave skipper Molineux stepped up to show her class in a thrilling encounter at the Rose Bowl. Fire were in the box seat to hunt down the Brave’s score of 126 in Southampton after reaching 1-80…
Former Australia batter Aaron Finch likened England’s recent coaching and captaincy upheaval to a ‘circus’ and says many Australians have been watching things unfold from afar ‘giggling’ at their old rivals.Ben Stokes sensationally announced his retirement from international cricket during his side’s final Test match of their series defeat by New Zealand in June, with head coach Brendon McCullum later dismissed as head coach of the red-ball side. The Test side are therefore set for major changes amid a slump in form, having lost seven of their last nine matches. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player…
Sam Konstas and Kurtis Patterson will kick off their push for a berth on this year’s Test tour of South Africa in Darwin with the NSW batting pair to face Bangladesh in a warm-up match ahead of next month’s series against Australia. Selectors have today named a 14-player Cricket Australia XI to face the touring Tigers in a three-day red-ball fixture beginning on August 6, a week before the two-Test series opener at Darwin’s Marrara Stadium. The tour match will be played at the adjacent Marrara Cricket Ground with both sides agreeing to a 13-a-side contest, meaning it won’t have…
Southern Brave captain Sophie Molineux starred by taking three wickets to lead her side to a thrilling eight-run victory against Welsh Fire Women in The Hundred on Wednesday. The 2025 Hundred finalists set the Fire a target of 126 in the first innings, with Laura Wolvaardt starring with the bat, making an unbeaten 45 off 36 deliveries. Welsh Fire hit back, with opener Georgia Voll bringing up a score of 52 from 39 deliveries, while Freya Kemp added a further 39 runs to put pressure back on the visitors, before she was dismissed by a direct hit from Jemimah Rodrigues.…
Cricket’s oldest rivalry is expanding again, with the first-ever Mixed Disability Ashes to be staged in England in 2027.Australia’s men’s mixed disability team will travel next summer to face England in a Vitality IT20 series, with dates and venues still to be confirmed. Mixed disability cricket brings together physical disability, learning disability and deaf cricketers in one team, and England hosted the format’s first international series against India last summer. It means three England sides – the men, the women and the men’s mixed disability team – will all be competing for an Ashes urn next year.”It really signals the…
David Warner has admitted to mid-range drink-driving after having three glasses of wine on Easter Sunday David Warner, one of Australia’s greatest cricketers, has pleaded guilty to drink-driving. The high-profile cricketer was not required to appear in Waverley Local Court on Wednesday, but his lawyer Bobby Hill said the batter was admitting to the charge of mid-range drink driving on Easter Sunday. “The parties are in discussion about the facts,” Hill said.Warner returned a positive result for alcohol after he stopped short of a roadside test in Sydney’s east on April 5. When taken to Maroubra Police Station for a…
Cricket Australia announces new sponsorship deal that marks a first for men’s and women’s playing kits across all formats Australia’s cricketers will look a little different when they take the field in next month’s opening Test match against Bangladesh, but with a full-strength squad of familiar faces, it’s not the who that will be different. For the first time, Australia’s men’s and women’s teams will have a sponsor logo on the back of their playing kit. Hola Health has upgraded its partnership with Cricket Australia, signing an enhanced sponsorship deal that makes it a ‘Gold Partner’, upgrading its sponsorship less…