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One key factor in Australia’s game is helping their push to claim a second straight ODI World Cup, and Alana King’s 3-38 from her past 20 overs highlights it Alana King’s legspin has helped turn Australia into the middle-overs queens, with data showing how winning that period is fuelling their ODI World Cup defence. Australia enter the crunch part of the tournament on Saturday with the top four already set and the last group game against South Africa to determine top spot. The winners of that match will face hosts India in a do-or-die semi-final. The losers take on England…
Australia and South Africa will both have a point to prove on Saturday as they go head-to-head in a mouth-watering top-of-the-table ODI World Cup showdown. Confidence and momentum are on the line ahead of next week’s semi-finals, and the winner will fly to Mumbai to meet fourth-ranked India at DY Patil Stadium on October 30.The match at Indore’s Holkar Stadium will be the first meeting between the rivals since the Proteas stunned Australia in last year’s T20 World Cup semi-final in Dubai, dumping the favourites from the tournament. In the aftermath of that defeat, Australia embarked on a period of…
Inclement weather forced the Pakistan versus Sri Lanka match in the Women’s Cricket World Cup to be abandoned.Just 4.2 overs were bowled in between heavy showers, with Pakistan reaching 18-0 in a match reduced to 34 overs before the rain intervened again. Pakistan end the competition winless, with three points gained from no results, though they had two of the semi-finalists, Australia and England, in deep trouble during earlier group matches.They looked well set for an upset over England when the elements halted their pursuit of 113 with Pakistan on 34-0. Then they had the reigning champions 76-7 before Beth…
Australia captain Alyssa Healy’s recovery from a calf strain remains a day-to-day process approaching the business end of the World Cup Alyssa Healy has returned to training in positive signs for the remainder of her ODI World Cup campaign, but Australia will wait to make a late call on her availability for Saturday’s final round game against South Africa. The Australia captain sat out Wednesday’s win over England after suffering a minor calf strain during a training session on October 18, but joined her teammates at Holkar Stadium on Friday afternoon, where she undertook a light session.Speaking to media on…
Ashleigh Gardner says confidence has been key to her career-best streak with the bat in ODIs – and Australia’s next World Cup opponent has played no small part in her success. Gardner’s unbeaten 104 against England in Indore on Wednesday night was her third century in her last seven one-day international innings.It continued a hot streak that started against India in Perth last December, when she hit a half-century, before following up with a then-career-best 74 from 62 deliveries a fortnight later in Wellington. In Hobart in January, when Gardner struck her first hundred in any international format in the…
Miserly quick “in a pretty good place” as he prepares to mix white- and red-ball overs in Ashes build-up None-for: Unlucky Hazlewood somehow goes wicketless While Josh Hazlewood looks ready to begin the Ashes now, Australia’s pace lynchpin is confident a few more white-ball games and a solitary Sheffield Shield outing will prime him for the Test series beginning in four weeks’ time. Captain Mitch Marsh labelled Hazlewood’s 0-29 against India in the second ODI in Adelaide as “the best none-for I’ve ever seen”. The 34-year-old quick did not disagree when asked if he had bowled a better spell without…
Match details Who: Australia v South Africa What: ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, Match 26 When: October 25, 2025, 8:30pm AEDT first ball Where: Holkar Stadium, Indore How to watch: Amazon’s Prime Video Live scores: Match Centre Officials: Nimali Perera, Kim Cotton (on field), Sarah Dambanevana (TV umpire), Jacquline Williams (fourth), Trudy Anderson (referee) News and reactions post-play: cricket.com.au and the CA Live app What’s at stake The winner of the top-of-the-table clash will finish the round stage in first position and fly to Mumbai to meet India, who have locked in fourth…
All the latest news and details as Australia and India head to Sydney for the third ODI Match facts Who: Australia v India What: BKT Tyres ODI Series, third ODI When: Saturday October 25, 2025, first ball 2:30pm AEDT Where: SCG, Sydney Live scores: Match Centre How to watch: Kayo Sports and Foxtel How to listen: ABC Radio, Triple M and SEN Radio. New this summer, the CA Live app has teamed up with NRMA Insurance so you can listen to radio streams in real-time with no delay to live play using zero-latency technology. Cricket Radio…
Australia’s batters have scored more centuries at this ODI World Cup than they have at any previous edition, with a chance to enter unchartered territory in their final round game against South Africa on Saturday. Ashleigh Gardner’s unbeaten 104 was Australia’s fifth hundred in as many matches this tournament – and they almost had a sixth, with Annabel Sutherland falling just short of triple figures on 98 not out.It means with at least two games to go – the showdown with the in-form Proteas in Indore plus a semi-final next week – Australia have already equalled the record for most…
There are two Sheffield Shield matches scheduled in Australia prior to the opening Test of the summer against England in Perth from November 21, with selectors keeping a close eye on the five-match series that is part of the ongoing ICC World Test Championship cycle. Australia T20I squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Sean Abbott (games 1-3), Xavier Bartlett, Mahli Beardman (games 3-5), Tim David, Ben Dwarshuis (games 4-5), Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood (games 1-2), Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Glenn Maxwell (games 3-5), Mitchell Owen, Josh Philippe, Matthew Short, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa. Australia ODI squad (third game): Mitchell Marsh…