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The second-highest run-scorer in the history of Test cricket was branded ‘Average Joe’ by the West Australian newspaper after arriving for England’s away Ashes trip.Joe Root has racked up 13,543 Test runs – only India great Sachin Tendulkar (15,921) has more – but the West Australian focused on his fairly modest record Down Under with their frontpage headline. Root is yet to score a Test hundred in Australia with his best knock across three tours – two of which he was captain for – the 89 he struck in the 2021/22 series at Brisbane. Instagram This content is provided by…
The second-highest run-scorer in the history of Test cricket was branded ‘Average Joe’ by the West Australian newspaper after arriving for England’s away Ashes trip.Joe Root has racked up 13,543 Test runs – only India great Sachin Tendulkar (15,921) has more – but the West Australian focused on his fairly modest record Down Under with their frontpage headline. Root is yet to score a Test hundred in Australia with his best knock across three tours – two of which he was captain for – the 89 he struck in the 2021/22 series at Brisbane. Instagram This content is provided by…
Chris Woakes thinks Australia have gifted England a psychological boost ahead of The Ashes by not staging the opening Test in Brisbane.The Gabba has been home to the curtain-raiser between Australia and England since 1986 with the hosts winning seven and drawing two of the 10 subsequent Tests. However, Optus Stadium in Perth is the venue for this year’s first game – from November 21 – before the players head to Brisbane for the day-night second game from December 4. Image: The Gabba will not host the first Ashes Test of 2025/26 with the series starting at Optus Stadium in…
Ashes squad member Brendan Doggett took five wickets to help South Australia dismiss Tasmania for 209 Tasmania v South Australia | Sheffield Shield | Day 1 Australia’s top six for the first Ashes Test became no clearer after Tasmania duo Jake Weatherald and Beau Webster failed to stake compelling claims against South Australia. South Australia paceman Brendan Doggett, also in the 15-man Ashes squad for Perth, showcased why he is regarded as next cab off the rank for Australia with 5-66 in a superb exhibition of seam bowling on a green Bellerive Oval deck. Weatherald, hoping to make his Test…
Left-armer took four wickets on day one at the SCG as Peter Handscomb weathered NSW’s Test-like attack to post a century NSW v Victoria | Sheffield Shield | Day 1 Mitchell Starc says his bowling is starting to click again, after taking four wickets on his return to first-class cricket against Victoria at the SCG. Playing his first red-ball match in almost four months, Starc bowled with speed and went through Victoria’s top order before the visitors finished at 7-340 on Monday at the SCG. The Test quick finished with 4-91 then told Australia coach Andrew McDonald he was back…
Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc warmed up for The Ashes series against England with a four-wicket haul for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield.Starc (4-91) dismissed four of Victoria’s top six on day one of the game in Sydney with his Australia team-mate, off-spinner Nathan Lyon (2-65), removing the other two. Josh Hazlewood (0-54) bowled a wicketless 18 overs while another Ashes squad member, Sean Abbott, picked up the other wicket to fall as Victoria closed on 340-7. Australia squad for first Ashes Test Steve Smith (captain), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Brendan Doggett, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood,…
Hurricanes’ English recruit reflects on career-best WBBL knock on a night she didn’t know how many runs she was on Danni Wyatt-Hodge had just made Hobart Hurricanes’ highest ever WBBL run chase look like a cakewalk, not that she was any the wiser. Having revealed post-match she couldn’t decipher the scoreboard at Allan Border Field in their season opening win over Sydney Thunder, the English batting star would have also been unaware that she’d just notched her best Big Bash score from 76 matches. The 34-year-old opener was the star of Hobart’s clinical six-wicket victory to kick off their Weber…
Annabel Sutherland and Meg Lanning both scored half-centuries before the Strikers’ batting innings was cut short by rain Melbourne Stars v Adelaide Strikers | WBBL|11 A vexing downpour has rained on the Melbourne Stars’ parade in their opening match of the Weber WBBL|11 season, with their Junction Oval fixture against Adelaide Strikers abandoned after a promising first innings. After losing two wickets at the hands of Amanda-Jade Wellington (2-20) within the space of 19 balls, Meg Lanning and skipper Annabel Sutherland — playing her 100th WBBL match — each notched half-centuries to guide their side to 5-184 from their 20…
After making minor changes to his action, the Test allrounder is expected to bowl against Queensland in the Sheffield Shield this week ahead of the Ashes Cameron Green’s reworked action is set to undergo its most gruelling on-field test at the WACA, in what looms as a crucial week for Australia ahead of the Ashes. Green is set to bowl his first overs in a competitive match in six weeks, when he returns on Tuesday from minor side soreness against Queensland in the Sheffield Shield. Officials expect the 26-year-old to bowl 15 to 20 overs for Western Australia, in the…
Will Salzmann becomes second player subbed out of a Sheffield Shield match with injury after fielding mishap Salzmann subbed out after tearing hamstring trying to save boundary New South Wales young gun Will Salzmann has been subbed out of his side’s blockbuster Sheffield Shield clash with Victoria after injuring his hamstring while fielding in the opening session on day one. Salzmann tore his left hamstring while sliding to try and stop a Harry Dixon boundary in the fourth over at the SCG on Monday. The 21-year-old sprinted about 60m from gully after Dixon drove Test paceman Josh Hazlewood firmly through…