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Pink balls return in round five of the Sheffield Shield with Queensland to host Victoria and South Australia to face off with WA under lights at the Gabba and Adelaide Oval respectively. Those matches both kick off at 3pm AEDT on Saturday with NSW to host Tasmania in the remaining round five fixture, which will be a red-ball affair as Cricket Central in western Sydney beginning at 10.30am. While each team’s Test squad members have departed for higher duties after a star-studded round four, there’s still plenty of big names in action this weekend with Victorian Matt Short and Tasmania’s…
The Sydney Sixers gave been instructed to put their horror performance against the Melbourne Stars behind them as they look to regroup against the ladder-leading Hurricanes on Saturday night Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Stars | WBBL|11 Matthew Mott has told his star-studded Sydney Sixers to erase the worst loss in the club’s history from their memory, as they fight to rebound from a nightmare at home. The Sixers flew to Hobart on Friday fresh off a crushing 111-run rain-affected loss to Melbourne Stars, with only a 36-hour gap until their clash with the Hurricanes. In a Thursday night horror show…
With both sides evenly matched, the Ashes of 2025-26 could be one of the closest seen in Australia for many decades England ready for ‘tough and gruelling’ Ashes series: Stokes After more than 40 years of one-sided Ashes series in Australia, the time may have come for a classic. Cricket’s most famous rivalry has regularly delivered in England, especially since the iconic 2005 battle when Michael Vaughan’s team finally reclaimed the urn for the first time in 16 years. You have to go back to 1982-83 for the last time the Ashes was still live heading into the final Test…
In the past 50 years, no Englishman has achieved what captain Ben Stokes has been tasked with over the coming months – regaining the Ashes in Australia.While Mike Brearley, Mike Gatting and Andrew Strauss have all captained England to away success Down Under over the past half-century, each of those three triumphs came after a home Ashes win in the previous series. It’s not since the weather-affected 1970/71 series that Australia hosted as reigning champions and failed to retain the urn, while England have not won a Test – let alone a series – against their rivals on away soil…
After all the talk, it is almost time for The Ashes.England begin their bid for a first Test series win in Australia since 2010/11 on Friday when the first game of five gets under way at Optus Stadium in Perth (2.20am UK). We asked Sky Sports pundits Nasser Hussain and Mark Butcher what is key for the tourists, who have lost 13 and drawn two of their last 15 Tests in Australia since that 3-1 success 15 years ago. Nasser and Butch also make their picks for leading run-scorer and wicket-taker, assess whether tempers will flare, and tell us how…
Meg Lanning has hit her highest T20 score, the 135 from 74 balls more than tripling the 42 made by the Sydney Sixers in their loss to the Melbourne Stars Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Stars | WBBL|11 Meg Lanning has produced one of the greatest innings in WBBL history, with a vintage century leading the Melbourne Stars to a rain-affected 111-run flogging of the Sydney Sixers. In a stunning reminder of why Australia’s former captain was for a long time the world’s best bat, Lanning hit 135 from 74 balls at North Sydney Oval on Thursday night. Her knock help…
Inside Aussie camp’s first day in Perth as Ashes tilt begins Libby Beath had wanted her son to be a tennis player. Growing up in the remote northern Australian outpost of Darwin, Jake Weatherald’s weekends were mainly spent at football grounds during the wet seasons that drench the tropical capital, and cricket ovals in the dry season when the agonising humidity is mercifully dialled back for a few months. While Weatherald represented the Northern Territory in tennis as a junior, his mother accepted she was fighting a losing battle. The young left-hander was showing his preference for cover drives over…
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Em Arlott set to make a Big Bash debut after replacing Chamari Athapaththu, but Laura Harris will be denied a sibling showdown Laura Harris wants to land a knockout blow on her former team, as the Sydney Thunder look to build on momentum from their first win of Weber WBBL|11. Harris will face the Brisbane Heat for the first time since she sensationally swapped clubs at the end of last season, but she will be denied a chance to go toe-to-toe with her sister Grace, after the Heat revealed the Australia star would miss the game due to calf soreness.England…
Hobart are five-from-five to start the WBBL season, after beating the Melbourne Renegades by six wickets in a rain-impacted match Melbourne Renegades v Hobart Hurricanes | WBBL|11 Heather Graham has helped send Hobart two wins clear at the top of the WBBL table, leading the Hurricanes to a rain-marred six-wicket win over Melbourne Renegades. Initially set 156 by the second-placed Renegades, Hobart’s innings was delayed twice by rain and lightning before they reached an adjusted target of 106 with an over to spare. Graham was the star of the show, bagging 3-23 with the ball to halt the Renegades’ momentum…