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Michael Atherton described England’s bowling in the opening session of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane as “awful”, with Australia feasting on short, wayward deliveries to get their first innings off to a flier.England, having added nine runs to their overnight score of 324-9, swiftly set about taking some early wickets but instead saw Australia race to 130-1 in 21 overs by the ‘dinner’ interval – a scoring rate made all the more remarkable given the innings started with three maidens. “[England] awful in the morning,” Atherton said on Sky Sports Cricket’s ‘Ashes Daily’ Podcast. “They just bowled badly, it’s…
Michael Atherton described England’s bowling in the opening session on day two of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane as “awful”, with Australia feasting on short, wayward deliveries to get their first innings off to a flier.England, having added nine runs to their overnight score of 324-9, swiftly set about taking some early wickets but instead saw Australia race to 130-1 in 21 overs by the ‘dinner’ interval – a scoring rate made all the more remarkable given the innings started with three maidens. “[England] awful in the morning,” Atherton said on Sky Sports Cricket’s ‘Ashes Daily’ Podcast. “They just…
Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day Two Consider the recent trend of right-arm bowlers having success coming around the wicket to left-handed batters, and then consider this statistic: when presented with that scenario in the 2024-25 Sheffield Shield, Jake Weatherald averaged 282. For the past three years or so – “ever since I got better, actually” – Weatherald has been visualising his innings pre-match. At the Gabba on Thursday, well before the toss in this second NRMA Insurance Ashes Test, Weatherald was out in the middle of the Gabba, trying to picture how proceedings might play out…
A relentless Australia seized a 44-run lead over England in the day-night second Ashes Test in Brisbane on Friday, with aggressive opener Jake Weatherald and Steve Smith leading the charge. By stumps the hosts had not only reeled in England’s first-innings 334 but raced clear, ending a draining day two on 378-6 in front of a big and boisterous crowd at a humid Gabba. A decent lead is shaping as pivotal, with the pitch likely to deteriorate in the coming days. The hosts are 1-0 up in the series after beating England in Perth inside two days. “That was a…
Bizarrre scenes in Adelaide during the innings break in the Strikers-Hurricanes clash saw the match abandoned, a result that keeps alive the Strikers’ finals hopes Adelaide Strikers v Hobart Hurricanes | WBBL|11 A ball that was inadvertently rolled into the Karen Rolton Oval pitch during the innings break forced the WBBL|11 match between Adelaide Strikers and Hobart Hurricanes to be abandoned on Friday night. Umpires were left with little choice to abandon the match after the ball created a “hole” in the surface. It’s understood an errant throw during the Strikers’ warm-up to take the field saw the ball get…
Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day Two Another frenetic day of Ashes action felt like a case of bizarro world in Brisbane as Australia’s batters Bazballed their way through an extraordinary three sessions, going to stumps at 6-378 with a lead of 44. Spectators at this point might be wondering whether this NRMA Insurance Ashes series will deliver a normal day of cricket. Certainly that wasn’t the case on day two of this second Test at the Gabba, as the home side borrowed from their opponents’ playbook, scoring at 5.18 runs per over in blazing their way…
England were punished for wayward bowling and a catalogue of dropped catches as Australia carved out a first-innings lead on day two of the pink-ball second Ashes Test at The Gabba.Replying to England’s Joe Root-inspired 334 all out, Australia reached 378-6 by stumps for a lead of 44 as Steve Smith (61), Marnus Labuschagne (65) and Jake Weatherald (72) each passed fifty after feasting on short, wide and full deliveries from their opponents’ attack across the first two sessions in Brisbane. England shot into life in a two-wicket 57th over under the lights with the expensive Brydon Carse (3-113) bowling…
The Hobart Hurricanes have officially locked in top spot and will host the Weber WBBL|11 final. The race for the remaining finals berths will go down to the wire this weekend, with five teams batting it out for three spots with three regular season matches remaining. After 37 matches in WBBL|11, the Hurricanes cannot be overtaken at the top of the table, with their position confirmed following Sydney Sixers’ defeat to the Melbourne Renegades on Friday. The Stars are second on 11 points despite two losses in a row, while Sixers are third and are trailing the Stars only on…
Jhye Richardson has taken four wickets as the England Lions were all out for 166 in a tour match, before Australia A finished day one 2-155 Jhye Richardson has announced his triumphant return to bowling, taking four wickets in his second game back from injury as Australia A punished a hapless England Lions. The hosts went to stumps on day one of their four-day match in Brisbane at 2-155, after Richardson had taken 4-35 to help bowl England out for 166. Richardson would almost certainly have figured in Test contention for this summer, had he not been recovering from shoulder…
Ruwantha Kellapotha led the recovery after Tasmania won the toss and batted poorly in the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia South Australia v Tasmania | Sheffield Shield | Day 1 Tasmanian Sheffield Shield debutant Ruwantha Kellapotha has led a rescue mission for his new team, scoring a half-century on day one against South Australia. Batting at No.8, Kellapotha top-scored with 50 as Tasmania could only manage 195 after winning the toss on Friday at Adelaide Oval. They slumped to 6-86 before Jake Doran made 44 at No.6 and tailender Gabe Bell posted his highest first-class score of 27. Jordan…