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England have booked extra training sessions in Brisbane ahead of the second Ashes Test as they look to rebound from their two-day drubbing in the series opener at Perth.The tourists announced on Monday that no first-choice players would travel to Canberra this weekend for the pink-ball tour game against a Prime Minister’s XI, with only batter Jacob Bethell and seamers Josh Tongue and Matthew Potts joining the Lions group. England will spend five days together in Brisbane ahead of the day-night Test at The Gabba from December 4, with an optional training slot on Saturday and a session on Sunday…
Alice Capsey’s four wickets – including three in an over – were not enough as Sophie Devine led Perth to a WBBL win over the Melbourne Renegades. Melbourne Renegades v Perth Scorchers | WBBL|11 Perth have survived a dramatic collapse to beat the Melbourne Renegades by four wickets and deny the home side a share of top spot on the WBBL ladder. Chasing 150 on Thursday at Junction Oval, the Scorchers were cruising at 2-116 in the 13th over. After taking two wickets, Sophie Devine had been promoted to open and her blazing innings had put Perth in what appeared…
Jemimah Rodrigues has been released by the Heat for the rest of WBBL|11, but two other stars will return as the Sixers meet the Heat Amelia Kerr will return to bolster the Sydney Sixers as they take on the winless Brisbane Heat in Adelaide on Friday. The Sixers sit in the middle of the table, locked in the battle with the Perth Scorchers and Adelaide Strikers for a spot in the top four, and will be looking to pick up momentum after a five-day lay-off since their last outing.Kerr missed the Sixers’ last three matches due to a quad concern,…
Paceman Brendan Doggett is unsure whether he will play in the day-night Test at the Gabba but has guaranteed he will be ready to fire if Pat Cummins is absent Brendan Doggett is mentally prepared and physically ready to rock for Australia at the Gabba should captain Pat Cummins not be available for the second Test. Doggett took match figures of 5-78 on debut in the eight-wicket win over England as Cummins continued his rehab after a back stress injury ruled him out of the first Ashes Test. Cummins bowled in the Perth nets and backed that up on Tuesday…
Melbourne Stars will look to local bowling depth to help cover the loss of their experienced international allrounder for the business end of WBBL|11 Melbourne Stars are set to lose Marizanne Kapp at a crucial point of their Weber WBBL|11 campaign, but Kim Garth has backed her replacement Maia Bouchier to help lead the club’s charge up the table. Kapp will return home following the Stars’ December 1 game against Hobart Hurricanes to link up with the South African squad ahead of their white-ball series against Ireland, ruling her out of their final two regular season matches and, should they…
Marnus Labuschagne’s batting coach Neil D’Costa explains how his pupil rediscovered his batting DNA and is now ready to enter another rich vein of Test form Marnus Labuschagne’s batting coach predicts the star’s best form is yet to come as he enters the “second phase mojo” period of his Test career. Coaching guru Neil D’Costa insists the 31-year-old has rediscovered his batting DNA after a lull that led to him being dropped for the recent West Indies tour. A mountain of runs, including five centuries in Sheffield Shield and One-Day Cup matches for Queensland, earned an Australia recall for the…
The Perth Stadium pitch, where the first Ashes Test finished inside two days, has officially been rated as ‘very good’ by the International Cricket Council. Under the ICC’s four-tier rating system, ‘very good’ is the highest ranking possible, awarded to pitches with “good carry, limited seam movement, and consistent bounce early in the match, allowing for a balanced contest between batters and bowlers”.The opening NRMA Insurance Test saw 19 wickets fall on the opening day as England were bowled out for 172 with Mitchell Starc taking career-best figures of 7-58 before Australia’s batters collapsed to be 9-121 at stumps. Day…
Current and former national captains, Alyssa Healy and Meg Lanning, are among the 23 Australians who will be vying for a spot in the Women’s Premier League (WPL) on Thursday as the Indian competition hosts its first mega player auction since its inaugural season in 2023. Megan Schutt, Sophie Molineux and Tahlia McGrath are notable absentees, while quick Darcie Brown’s name appears on the WPL auction list for the first time. Australians in the WPL mega auction Reserve price INR 50 lakh (A$91,650): Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning, Phoebe Litchfield, Kim Garth, Georgia Wareham, Heather Graham Reserve price INR…
Beth Mooney and Alana King chatted runs, wickets, titles and success on this week’s edition of The Surge Podcast The motivation behind Mooney’s will to win No one has scored more runs than Beth Mooney in the WBBL, but the Perth Scorchers star insists she’d give a few thousand of them away if it meant adding more Big Bash titles to her resume. Mooney became the first player to pass 5,000 runs in WBBL|10, and after scoring a century early in Weber WBBL|11 is currently on 5,215, 403 runs clear of second-placed Ellyse Perry (4,812) on the league’s all-time scoring…
Gloucestershire Cricket is thrilled to confirm the signing of T20 World Cup winner Dawid Malan, who will join our Vitality Blast squad for the 2026 and 2027 seasons. The move marks the third county of Malan’s distinguished career, following a thirteen-year spell with Middlesex and five seasons at Yorkshire. During his time at Headingley, he became a key figure in their T20 programme, captaining the side in 2025 and finishing as Yorkshire’s top Blast run-scorer in both 2023 and 2024. The batter brings a wealth of success from both domestic and international cricket. He won the forerunner to the Vitality…