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Hurricanes captain Elyse Villani has called on the Big Bash to introduce a Pride round, as Hobart prepares to host its annual game on November 29 Cricket was a refuge for a young Elyse Villani trying to find herself. It was the place she felt safest to be her true self, and the Hobart captain wants the same for all members of the LGBTQIA+ community. As the Hurricanes prepare to host their annual Pride match, against Perth Scorchers on November 29, Villani has called on other clubs and the league to follow the Hurricanes’ lead, saying there was “no excuse”…
Match facts Who: Australia v England What: First NRMA Insurance Test, men’s Ashes When: November 21-25, first ball 10.20am local time (1.20pm AEDT; 2.20am GMT) Where: Perth Stadium Live scores: Match Centre How to watch: Channel Seven, 7plus, Kayo Sports, Foxtel and TNT Sports (UK and Ireland) How to listen: ABC Radio, Triple M, SEN Radio and BBC (UK only). All radio broadcasts will be available to stream 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: A final release of…
A team in disarray or classy operators waiting to show their worth on home soil? Which version of Australia are England likely to be presented with when the talking stops and the cricket finally starts in one of the most highly-anticipated Ashes series in memory? Are Ben Stokes’ England catching an ageing ‘Dad’s Army’ Australia at the right time with injuries aplenty or will they end up getting burnt if the Bazballers choose to fight fire with fire? Whichever side of the coin you land, there is no escaping the bare statistic that winning Test series away from home is…
Can Steve Smith reprise last summer’s heroics? Which fast bowlers hold the key for England? Can Joe Root finally break his Australian drought? These are just some of the talking points ahead of the Ashes. CAN BAZBALL SUCCEED DOWN UNDER? Since Brendon McCullum took over as coach in 2022, England’s win rate away from home is 50 per cent (8-8). The only time ‘Bazball’ faced a fellow Test powerhouse on the road, they were smoked 4-1 by India in early 2024. England will start the Ashes having played just one warm-up game, against their second XI, in Australia. But a…
Sam Konstas will face international opposition for the first time since his Test axing with the opener named in the Prime Minister’s XI to face England between the first two Ashes Tests. Former Test bat Peter Handscomb will captain the side in the two-day pink-ball contest in Canberra from November 29 that shapes as important preparation under lights for Ben Stokes’ side ahead of the day-night Test at the Gabba. Prime Minister’s XI to face England: Peter Handscomb (c), Benji Floros, Campbell Kellaway, Campbell Thompson, Charlie Anderson, Doug Warren, Hugh Weibgen, Joel Curtis, Nathan McSweeney, Oliver Peake, Peter Siddle, Sam…
A pair of half-centuries from Pakistan’s middle order have secured victory in the series finale against Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi Mohammad Rizwan and Fakhar Zaman have guided Pakistan to complete a 3-0 series sweep of Sri Lanka with a clinical six-wicket victory in their third and final ODI. Rizwan made an unbeaten 61 and Zaman 55, their second successive half-centuries, to ease Pakistan to their target on 4-215 with 32 balls still remaining on Sunday. Sri Lanka had earlier wasted a brisk start before they were bowled out for 211 in 45.2 overs after Shaheen Shah Afridi, returning to lead…
A young allrounder on the rise didn’t shy away when she found herself in the spotlight during the closing stages of Sunday’s WBBL|11 Melbourne derby at the Junction Oval Tess Flintoff was a bundle of nerves heading into her first Melbourne derby against her old club, but the allrounder couldn’t have asked for a better ending than striking three boundaries to ice victory for the Melbourne Renegades. On strike with the Renegades needing 12 off 12, Flintoff took on one of the world’s most in-form white-ball death bowlers – Australia star Annabel Sutherland – and hit her for six, four…
Sir Andrew Strauss has hailed Ben Stokes as “phenomenal” ahead of the upcoming Ashes series but has warned the England Test captain of Australia’s efforts to get under his skin.Stokes is looking to lead England to their first series win in Australia since 2010/11, with the combined scoreline on the three tours since reading a dismal 13-0 against the tourists. And the media mind games began immediately when the England skipper was labelled a “cocky complainer” by the West Australian newspaper when the team arrived in Perth ahead of the first Ashes Test on November 21. Please use Chrome browser…
However, South Africa soon retook control, with Simon Harmer leading the charge by picking up three crucial wickets. Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja tried to steady the innings, but India managed to build only a slender lead of 30 runs as the hosts were bowled out for 189. The hosts also weren’t helped by the fact that their skipper Shubman Gill suffered a neck injury and had to leave the field three balls into his innings, and played no further role in the Test. India’s spinners, led by Ravindra Jadeja (4/50), reduced South Africa to 93/7 at the end of…
Ollie Pope feels that pressure on his place in the England XI has made him more prepared than ever for the Ashes as he aims to improve on a poor average of 15.70 against Australia.Pope’s spot at No 3 has come under threat from Jacob Bethell but the former’s knocks of 100 and 90 in the sole warm-up ahead of Friday’s first Test in Perth have pretty much guaranteed he will play. The Surrey batter averaged 11.16 across six innings when England were hammered 4-0 in the previous away Ashes in 2021/22, mustering just 67 runs in total and a…