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The Strikers open their BBL|15 campaign against the Sixers, who are seeking their first win of the season Match facts Who: Sydney Sixers v Adelaide Strikers What: Match 4, KFC BBL|15 Where: SCG, Sydney When: Wednesday, December 17. Bat flip at 6.30pm AEDT, first ball at 7.15pm AEDT How to watch: Channel Seven, 7plus, Fox Cricket, Kayo Sports  Listen: ABC, SEN Radio. Listen in standard and real-time with no delay to live play via Cricket Radio on the CA Live app. Find out more here Buy tickets: Tickets are on sale here Live scores: Match Centre Highlights, news and reactions after the match: cricket.com.au, the…

John Williamson will perform at Adelaide Oval as part of a tribute to Bondi terror attack victims, with Pat Cummins and Ben Stokes ready for a sombre Test Pat Cummins has detailed how horrifying footage of the Bondi Beach terror attack hit him hard, as Cricket Australia announced a series of tributes for the third Ashes Test. The week’s Adelaide Test will mark the first major sporting event in Australia since Sunday’s mass shooting, with the country still very much in mourning. John Williamson will lead a rendition of True Blue as a tribute to victims before the game begins…

Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon will return for Australia in the third Ashes Test against England – but there is no place for veteran batter Usman Khawaja.Captain and fast bowler Cummins will play for the first time since July after overcoming a back injury, while off-spinner Lyon is recalled after being omitted from the day-night second Test in Brisbane as the home side picked an all-pace frontline attack. Michael Neser – who bagged a five-wicket haul on his home ground at The Gabba to help Australia into a 2-0 series lead – and fellow seamer Brendan Doggett drop out of…

One of them was flat-out “embarrassed” by his most recent dismissal; the other had no qualms calling out a pair of “shocking shots” that cost him his wicket in Brisbane and Perth. It was plain language, plainly delivered. Refreshing, too, because amid the cliché-fest that these meandering days between Ashes Tests tend to become, Cameron Green and Harry Brook ditched the cricket-speak and simply owned their errors. ‘Shocking shots’: Brook owns batting mistakes But maybe, for supporters on both sides of the Ashes divide, it was a little maddening too. This pair of prodigies perhaps felt comfortable enough to speak so…

Strikers | Heat | Hurricanes | Renegades | Stars | Scorchers | Sixers | Thunder The Weber WBBL’s ‘Player Movement Window’ has kicked off just days after the WBBL|11 champions were crowned.  The nine-day period, which aims to streamline the player movement process between clubs, and help clubs and players make earlier contracting decisions, will run until 5pm AEDT on Wednesday, December 24. During that time, clubs can trade a player with another club – noting this process does not necessarily need to be reciprocal. Teams can also sign players from other clubs who are not contracted beyond WBBL|11, and…

Mehidy has batted in a variety of different positions during his 114-game ODI career, but the hard-hitting right-hander is keen to cement a spot in the middle-order during the lead-up to the next World Cup. “What I always say is that I’m a player who has played in every position for Bangladesh, from opening all the way down to No.9. I know every role and how to play in each position,” Mehidy said. “I’ve felt that my most impactful innings came when I batted at No.8, batting with the bowlers. I’ve won many matches that way, against India, against Afghanistan.…

Pat Cummins insists Usman Khawaja’s international career is not over despite the soon-to-be 39-year-old being overlooked for a recall in the third Ashes Test in Adelaide. Cummins and Nathan Lyon will both return for Australia’s tilt at clinching the urn at Adelaide Oval this week but there was no room for Khawaja, with selectors instead sticking with Travis Head and Jake Weatherald as their opening pair. Australia XI: Travis Head, Jake Weatherald, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Josh Inglis, Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland   England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie…

England have stuck with their underperforming batters making just one change for Adelaide, Josh Tongue coming in for fellow seamer Gus Atkinson. Tongue is quick with a habit of rolling over tailenders, and has twice dismissed Steve Smith, but can be wayward.  There is no place for Shoaib Bashir despite England spending two years readying the novice spinner for this Test. With Bashir struggling for form part-timer Will Jacks, who is a better batter and fielder, has been preferred. “It’s going to be disappointing for Bash. We just feel having Jacksy down at No.8 strengthens our batting a little bit,”…

Aussie skipper re-signs to the Thunder’s supplementary list ahead of his Ashes return As he prepares to return to the Test arena tomorrow against England in Adelaide, Australian captain Pat Cummins has also returned to the Sydney Thunder roster after re-signing as a supplementary player for KFC BBL|15. Cummins, who is yet to play this home international summer, is poised to lead Australia in the third Test beginning Wednesday after recovering from a back stress injury.Though his immediate focus is on winning the Ashes with his side holding a two-nil lead, the door is open for Cummins to play for…

Weatherald explains what Smith’s strange gesture means Jake Weatherald has given a strong endorsement for Usman Khawaja’s return as an opener in the third Ashes Test, with the two-Test talent revealing more details on the Jofra Archer-Steve Smith Gabba duel as well as his own emerging rivalry with England’s spearhead. Weatherald expects a rousing homecoming welcome in Adelaide, the city he cut his teeth in as a Sheffield Shield cricketer before moving to Tasmania two years ago. While he now lives in Hobart, he spends considerable time in the South Australia capital where his wife Rachel still lives and runs…