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England selected Will Jacks over Shoaib Bashir as their lead spinner for the third Ashes Test because they were “backed into a corner” by the team’s batting struggles, according to the tourists’ spin bowling coach Jeetan Patel.England surprised many by leaving out Bashir at the Adelaide Oval, a ground where having a quality spin option is seen as essential, with the decision coming under the spotlight on Friday as Australia moved closer to taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series by dominating day three. Jacks, who impressed with the bat after being brought in for the second Test…
The Sydney rivalry is heating up ahead of Saturday’s derby with Sixers’ Ben Dwarshuis responding to David Warner’s prodding remarks Ben Dwarshuis was asleep when Punjab Kings splashed A$725,000 on at this week’s Indian Premier League auction but there’ll be no resting as the winless Sixers seek to “set the ship right” in Saturday’s Sydney Smash. The Sixers will go into the first Sydney derby of BBL|15 on the back of two losses from two games and Thunder captain David Warner didn’t shy away from rubbing it in with some pointed media comments on Thursday as they try and make…
England’s camp admit they need something magical as their hopes of an Ashes comeback fade Australia v England | Third Ashes Test | Day Three England captain Ben Stokes was fit to bowl. He did not. England rate Shoab Bashir their No.1 tweaker. He was not selected for the traditionally spin-friendly Adelaide Oval. Why? Because of results that happened weeks ago. Instead, England picked Will Jacks, a batting allrounder, as their spinner for an Adelaide Test they had to win to save the Ashes. Jacks subsequently became the first English bowler to concede more than 100 runs in each innings…
England Test captain Ben Stokes is “fit to bowl” despite not featuring with the ball as Australia built a sizeable lead on day three of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide.Travis Head struck a magnificent, unbeaten 142 as Australia closed on 271-4, leading by 356 to leave England – already 2-0 down in the series – on the brink of Ashes defeat with two Tests to play. Stokes top-scored with 83 in England’s first-innings 286, an innings that lasted more than five hours across days two and three, with the England captain seemingly shown to be struggling with cramp in…
Australia v England | Third Ashes Test | Day Three Usman Khawaja’s answers to Australia’s Steve Smith SOS and Alex Carey’s sustained brilliance this Ashes series have left selectors with myriad considerations for the rest of the summer – and beyond. As Travis Head announced emphatically that he is here to stay as a Test opener, the performances of Khawaja and Carey, both in new roles in the batting order, have given George Bailey’s panel some enviable conundrums going into the final two Tests in Melbourne and Sydney. Khawaja had been cut from the XI earlier this week and his…
Australia v England | Third Ashes Test | Day Three If Travis Head’s spectacular stand-in effort as opener in Perth didn’t end Australia’s long search for a dynamic new opener in the wake of David Warner’s retirement, then surely today’s Adelaide epic did. Inside four entertaining hours on day three of the third Ashes Test, Head both demoralised a briefly reinvigorated England and added a new string to his attacking bow during his magnificent 142no: that of third-innings enforcer. It is a role that Warner – and Matthew Hayden before him – turned into an art form. England had owned…
Australia v England | Third Ashes Test | Day Three Sealed with a kiss, Travis Head’s love for Adelaide Oval and its rowdy punters has left England on the brink of a yet another Ashes capitulation Down Under. Ben Stokes, having pushed himself to physical and mental exhaustion, spent time off the field and was unable to bowl on day three as the series he has so desperately fought to keep within his team’s grasp slipped away. Head’s hometown fans milled back out over the River Torrens and into Adelaide’s city bars heaving with festive cheer talking only of their…
For the first time, the Stars and Renegades will have a trophy to play for beginning their BBL|15 Melbourne derbies in January Now that there’s a large and colourful trophy on the line, the BBL’s Melbourne derby could be set for a return to the halcyon days. In the 15th season of the competition, the Stars and Renegades will play for the Melbourne Mace, unveiled in weird and wacky scenes at the Fitzroy Town Hall on Friday. Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece carried the 1.4m trophy, weighing more than 10kgs, down to Renegades captain Will Sutherland and Stars skipper Marcus…
Get all the latest team news and broadcast details for a near sell-out Sydney Smash at Engie Stadium Match facts Who: Sydney Thunder v Sydney Sixers What: Match 7, KFC BBL|15 Where: Engie Stadium, Sydney When: Saturday, December 20. Bat flip at 6.30pm AEDT, first ball at 7.15pm AEDT How to watch: 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 selling fast with fewer than 1,000 remaining. Get the here Live scores: Match Centre Highlights, news and…
Another devastating Travis Head hundred helped Australia into a dominant position in the third Test at Adelaide, leading by 356 with six second-innings wickets still remaining as they look to retain the Ashes with two games to spare.Another chastening defeat followed in the day-night Test in Brisbane, and England were already up against it in Adelaide going into the third day’s play after their latest batting collapse saw them limp to 213-8 by stumps on the second evening in reply to Australia’s first-innings 371. Ben Stokes (83) led from the front, as has so often been the case during his…