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Both teams are searching for their second win of the season as the Thunder host the Scorchers in Western Sydney Match facts Who: Sydney Thunder v Perth Scorchers What: Match 16, KFC BBL|15 Where: Engie Stadium, Sydney When: Tuesday, December 30. 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…
Coach indicates squad for tournament could be announced in the coming days ahead of February’s opener Pat Cummins will be named in Australia’s T20 World Cup squad next month with scan in January to reveal whether or not he will be able to play as he continues to manage his back injury. Cummins missed the first two Tests of the NRMA Insurance Ashes series with “bone stress” in his back before returning to help seal the urn with six wickets in Adelaide. He was subsequently put on ice for the remaining two Tests with the series result decided and will…
Sixers have ‘made their own bed’ with early losses but their BBL|15 campaign remains on track The Sydney Sixers’ season is not yet entering do-or-die territory, says spinner Ben Manenti, who insists the perennial heavyweights remain “pretty calm” despite their slow start to the BBL. The Sixers have only once started a summer worse through four games than this year, with a 47-run defeat of rivals the Sydney Thunder their only win to date. Star recruit Babar Azam has only cracked double digits once in four knocks, while the Sixers had to contend without gun pace bowler Sean Abbott until…
Usman Khawaja was one player McDonald did guarantee would appear in Sydney, with the Australian coach dismissing any thoughts the veteran batter would announce his retirement from international cricket. Khawaja was dropped from the side for the second Test in Brisbane, but responded well in Adelaide when contributing scores of 82 and 40 after earning a late reprieve on the day of the game when Steve Smith was ruled out of the contest. “He’s with his family at the moment, having a couple of days off, and we will build into Sydney, and we’re always having conversations around where players…
As Mitchell Starc straps himself up to complete a third consecutive home summer of playing every Test, the indestructible fast bowler has been backed to do what no Australian fast bowler has done for almost 70 years. Starc will turn out in his home Sydney Test this week pushing to send the series margin to 4-1 over England and cap one of the best individual Ashes series of recent times. With regular bowling partners Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood limited to two Tests between them this summer due to injury, the left-armer has snared 26 wickets at 17…
England arrived in Australia with a four-strong pace cartel ready to rock the hosts. They will end the series with just one of them still standing Brydon Carse is officially England’s last out-and-out speedster standing after Gus Atkinson was ruled out of the Sydney Test with a hamstring injury. Hurt on the second morning in Melbourne, Atkinson was officially scratched from the Ashes series finale in Sydney on Monday with scans confirming the injury in his left leg. Atkinson was initially part of a four-strong pace cartel for the opening Test in Perth, with he, Carse, Mark Wood and Jofra…
Australian selectors are unclear whether the Sydney Test will be Usman Khawaja’s last with coach Andrew McDonald saying no discussions have been had regarding the veteran’s playing future. The SCG Ashes Test looms as a potential swansong for the 39-year-old batter, exactly 15 years after he made his debut at the same venue against the same opponents. Khawaja began the Ashes series as one of Australia’s openers, a role he had held since returning to the side in the early stages of 2022. But severe back spasms while fielding in the Perth Test prohibited him from opening the batting and…
Glamorgan announced the death of Hugh Morris, the former chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), at the age of 62 on Sunday. Morris won three Test caps for England in 1991 as an opening batsman and also led Glamorgan to the Sunday League title two years later as captain. After his playing career came to an end, Morris went on to hold a series of senior positions at the ECB. Following a stint as deputy and acting chief executive, he served as England’s first managing director from 2007 to 2013, during which time the men’s team…
Former England and Glamorgan batter Hugh Morris has died following a battle with cancer.Morris, who later spent time as chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board during a hugely successful period for the men’s national team, passed away at the age of 62.The Cardiff-born cricketer became the Welsh county’s youngest ever captain aged 22 before returning to the role later in his career, leading them to the Sunday League title in 1993, their first trophy in 24 years.An opening batter, Morris made three appearances for England and helped Glamorgan become county champions in 1997 – his final year…
Joe Root says it would be “silly” for England to change their management team after the Ashes defeat and insists the players are “absolutely committed” to the current set-up.England lost the first three Tests in Australia across just 11 days of cricket, piling pressure on captain Ben Stokes, coach Brendon McCullum and director of cricket Rob Key. However, the two-day victory in the Boxing Day game at the MCG ended an 18-Test winless run for England in Australia stretching back to their triumph in the 2010-11 series. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Sky Sports’ Nasser…