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England headed into the final Ashes Test hoping to make the series score 3-2 – but a 4-1 Australia win looks the most likely scenario now after a day of toil for the tourists. Spreaker This content is provided by Spreaker, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Spreaker cookies or to allow those cookies just once. You can change your settings at any time via the Privacy Options. Unfortunately we have been unable to…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL The Pakistan Super League has taken another step toward expansion as the first qualified bidder for its two new teams has been officially confirmed. According to details released ahead of the upcoming auction, Inverex Solar Energy has secured the top position among the ten entities approved to participate in the PSL teams bidding process. League officials confirmed that Inverex Solar Energy has been recognized as Qualified Bidder Number One, marking an important milestone in the run-up to the auction. Being placed first on the qualified bidders list reflects the company’s preparedness, financial standing, and long-term strategic…
The best of Steve Smith’s 13th Ashes century Flashback exactly one year to Jane McGrath Day, 2025, and Steve Smith disappointed us all. With a pair of twos in Australia’s second innings of the fifth Test against India in Sydney, he made his way to 9,999 Test runs. And then, just like that, he was out, fending a rising ball to gully and leaving a stunned crowd feeling as though they’d been short-changed on their chance to witness history. With Smith though, particularly at this advanced stage of his career, history is never far away. Turn up for the next…
The best of Steve Smith’s 13th Ashes century Steve Smith’s claim to be the ‘best since the Don’ grew stronger as Australia’s most eccentric cricketer joined Travis Head in tonning up and quelling England’s hopes of salvaging anything further from their Ashes tour. A deplorable opening session from the visitors that saw Head dropped three times, Smith once, Head let off on a run-out chance and Ben Stokes burn his final two reviews on a nightwatch all proved telling in the Aussies reaching 7-518 by stumps and holding a 134-run first-innings lead. Smith, granted a dream platform of walking to…
Steve Smith scored his first hundred of this Ashes series and Travis Head his third as Australia punished England’s dropped catches to open up a 134-run lead after day three of the fifth and final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.Smith (129no) hit his 37th Test ton and 13th against England after being grassed on 12 by Zak Crawley at leg slip, as he became the second-highest run-scorer in Ashes cricket, above England legend Jack Hobbs and behind only Australian great Don Bradman. Head (163 off 166) was spilled by Will Jacks on 121 and 156 – the first error,…
The 36-year-old’s ton was crucial as he took Australia’s lead past the 50-run mark on day three after Head had given the hosts the perfect platform. Starting the day at 166/2, Head continued to assert himself on the English bowlers as he notched up his 12th hundred before adding another 63 runs to get Australia within hundred runs of the English total before being dismissed. Smith, well supported by Cameron Green, then helped Australia go into the lead and assume a position of strength while notching up milestones of his own. Australia had secured the series after winning the first…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Indian middle-order batter Shreyas Iyer has been appointed captain of the Mumbai team for the remaining matches of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 season. The decision comes after all-rounder Shardul Thakur was ruled out of the tournament due to injury, prompting the team management to hand leadership responsibilities to Iyer for the final phase of the competition. Mumbai, who are placed in Group C of the tournament, will play their last two group-stage matches in Jaipur. The team is scheduled to face Himachal Pradesh on January 6, followed by a fixture against Punjab on January 8.…
Sophie Molinueux and Molly Strano’s return could not turn around Victoria’s dwindling fortunes ACT Meteors v Victoria | WNCL The ACT Meteors have worsened Victoria’s woes after handing them their fifth defeat of the Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) season while opening their own account. This is the capital-based side’s third straight win over the suffering Victorians with all three coming in similar fashion, only the margin increasing each time. In their two meetings last season, ACT chased down totals of 180 and 172 in the 47th and 33rd overs respectively. In both those games, experienced campaigner Katie Mack made…
Scorcher-turned-Renegade Jason Behrendorff isn’t expecting an overly friendly reception from the passionate Perth locals when he faces his former side at Optus Stadium Behrendorff tops the BBL|14 tally in last season as a Scorcher Jason Behrendorff may have won four championships and taken 140 wickets for the Perth Scorchers, but the veteran seamer isn’t anticipating warm welcome home when he returns to Optus Stadium for the first time in his new club colours. After 106 matches across an immensely decorated decade in orange, Behrendorff became the first player to switch allegiances as part of the BBL’s first Player Movement Window…
Glenn McGrath has thanked the Australian and English teams as well as fans for their support for his foundation’s work for cancer care Josh Hazlewood might have missed the Ashes series but his sister’s contributions to the Pink Test may be just as valuable as the injured bowler’s right-arm seam deliveries. Headed by cricket legend Glenn McGrath, the McGrath Foundation celebrated its 18th Pink Test fundraiser on day three of the SCG Test on Tuesday, aiming to fund more in-home cancer nurses.Tamworth-based Casey Hazlewood, sister of injured Australian superstar Josh, is one of the 343 cancer care nurses currently employed…