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Dashing leftie’s likely elevation creates leaves Webster and Inglis vying for vacant spot Travis Head is expected to return to the role of opener at the Gabba after his match-winning hundred in the first NRMA Insurance Ashes Test. With Usman Khawaja ruled out due to a back issue and Australia opting not to add a replacement in his stead, Head immediately emerged as the obvious candidate to fill the slot alongside newcomer Jake Weatherald in the second Test, beginning Thursday. “I’d probably expect Trav to open with the make-up of our squad,” said Scott Boland late Tuesday afternoon. “I guess…
Ollie Pope has told his England team-mates to “put a helmet on next time” after some members of the squad were pictured riding e-scooters without head protection – but insists the intense media scrutiny will not force the tourists to stay indoors.Ahead of the day-night second Ashes Test in Brisbane from Thursday, captain Ben Stokes, wicketkeeper Jamie Smith and injured bowler Mark Wood were snapped riding electric two-wheelers in the city without the mandatory safety helmets. Queensland laws allow for a fine of 166 dollars (around £82) for anyone found doing so. Pope told reporters on Tuesday: “Just put a…
England spinner Sarah Glenn will link up with the injury-hit Heat as they look to avoid a winless WBBL|11 Brisbane Heat’s hopes of avoiding an unwanted piece of Weber WBBL history have been cruelled by further injuries, with experienced pair Grace Harris and Nicola Hancock to miss their last two games of the season. Harris has been ruled out after splitting the webbing between her thumb and forefinger while fielding off her own bowling in Sunday’s loss to the Adelaide Strikers, an injury which required three stitches in her hand. Brisbane Heat squad v Thunder: Charli Knott (c), Lily Bassingthwaighte,…
Sydney Sixers have thrown their record defeat to the Stars “out the window” as the teams prepare for a blockbuster rematch Ellyse Perry says the Sydney Sixers are well prepared for a rematch with Meg Lanning and the Melbourne Stars, as they go head-to-head on Wednesday in a game that will help shape the WBBL|11 top four. Less than two weeks after Lanning’s blazing 135 set up the Stars’ 4-219 at North Sydney Oval, and Kim Garth ran riot to rout the Sixers for 42 as they suffered the WBBL’s largest ever defeat, the sides will meet at Drummoyne Oval…
England have taken heed of the Gabba’s reputation as a graveyard for visiting spinners in day-night Tests as they picked allrounder Will Jacks over frontliner Shoaib Bashir to play in the second NRMA Insurance Ashes Test. Mark Wood’s dodgy left knee has sidelined him from this week’s pink-ball encounter in Brisbane. The visitors have replaced him with Jacks, a versatile T20 blaster who bowls useful off-breaks but has not played a Test in three years. The move away from an all-pace attack is the only change for Ben Stokes’ men after their eight-wicket defeat in the series opener. England XI:…
Veteran opener ruled out of day-night Ashes Test in Brisbane with back injury with Aussies again pondering opening combination options Usman Khawaja’s international future is up in the air after the opener was ruled out of the second NRMA Insurance Test against England due to the back injury he suffered in Perth almost two weeks ago. Josh Inglis and Beau Webster are both in the mix to return to Australia’s XI after the Aussies ruled out Khawaja but did not replace him in the squad. Khawaja, who turns 39 later this month, had a 30-minute hit in the Gabba practice…
England have named Will Jacks in their team for the second Ashes Test in Brisbane, with the all-rounder replacing Mark Wood in the only change from the team that lost the series opener in Perth.Wood had been expected to miss out after skipping England’s first training session in Brisbane due to an issue with his left knee, but the selection of Jacks could be seen as a surprising move. The off-spinner, who will bat at No 8 in the order, has played only two Test matches, both coming on the 2022 tour of Pakistan in which he claimed a five-for…
Ashton Turner smashed four sixes in his unbeaten half-century as Western Australia notched victory over Victoria ahead of the BBL break Victoria v Western Australia | One-Day Cup Victoria’s one-day cup campaign is on the brink after a seven-wicket defeat from Western Australia at Melbourne’s Junction Oval. Top of the ladder and firing in the Sheffield Shield, the Vics sit on the bottom in the battle for the Dean Jones Trophy with a 1-4 record. WA motored home in their chase, cantering to victory with 32 balls to spare. After WA captain Ashton Turner won the toss and elected to…
Like the rest of us, Ollie Pope knew the dangers associated with driving on the up in Perth. Especially on a fifth stump line, well out from under his eyes. It was why he cursed himself after his dismissal in England’s fateful second-innings collapse. But under maverick Kiwi Brendon McCullum, these England players are gamblers. And so on a sweltering Brisbane afternoon, surrounded on the Gabba outer by the Anglo-Australian cricket media, Pope spoke in such terms. “It was my first Test match there, and I was pretty clear that I knew that was the risk on that pitch,” he…
Twenty20 superstar Glenn Maxwell has acknowledged the IPL has ‘shaped him as a cricketer and as a person’ Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has opted out of next month’s Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions in Abu Dhabi, ending a 13-season stint in the lucrative T20 competition. The explosive hitter was bought by Punjab Kings for 42 million rupees ($712,602) for last season but only returned 48 runs and four wickets in seven games, and was released by the side in November. Maxwell, who has played in the IPL since 2012, said the league helped in shaping him up as a cricketer.…