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Ben Stokes poured more misery on axed England Test team-mate Zak Crawley but Kent got on top against Durham at Beckenham in the County Championship on Friday.Crawley, 28, was taken out of the firing line for England’s three‑Test series against New Zealand, his struggles in the Ashes having shown no sign of improvement during the opening weeks of the County Championship season with Kent. He made 30 before miscuing Test captain Stokes to Matthew Potts before 19-year-old Ben Dawkins and veteran middle-order batter Sam Northeast, 36, put on 303 together. Dawkins capped his maiden first-class ton by ending the day…
The most expensive English woman in the Hundred auction is ready to make her mark on the international stage. All-rounder Dani Gibson has bounced back from an injury-riddled spell which had kept her out of England action since March 2025. She had made a strong start to 2026, making her first England ODI appearance on the back of securing her record-breaking £190,000 contract for Sunrisers Leeds. A washout on Wednesday prevented Gibson from bettering her score of 19 in the first ODI against New Zealand – but, with a T20 World Cup on the horizon, it’s safe to say she…
Annabel Sutherland says carefully managing player workloads will become increasingly important as the women’s schedule becomes busier, following her return to Australia’s T20I squad. Sutherland sat out Australia’s white-ball tour of the West Indies in March in order to fully recharge ahead of next month’s T20 World Cup in England and Wales.While it is commonplace in the men’s game for top players to miss the occasional tour, it is very rare for the Australian women to opt out of a series. But the two-time reigning Belinda Clark Award-winner said it had been necessary following a packed six-month period that started…
Should he earn a debut when Australia head to Pakistan later this month, Victorian wunderkind Ollie Peake will snatch Ricky Ponting’s record as the youngest out-and-out batter in the country’s decorated men’s ODI history. And Peake, who was this week selected amid a raft of fresh faces for the Pakistan ODI leg of a broader white-ball tour that also encompasses Bangladesh, says he will be tapping into his limited experiences both domestic and abroad in order to bolster his belief for the challenges that await him. For much of the past fortnight he has been in Brisbane, working with Australia’s…
The Ricky Ponting-moulded Punjab Kings started as the hottest team in the IPL but a fifth-straight defeat leaves them struggling to seal a playoff spot Xavier Bartlett has suffered the unenviable misery that so many death-over bowlers experience in the batter-friendly world of the IPL as he got smashed for three sixes in five balls while the Punjab Kings crashed to their latest defeat in Dharamsala. The Ricky Ponting-coached side with a strong Australian influence, who’d begun the campaign with victories in their first six completed matches, looked desperately to Bartlett to stop them free-falling to a fifth consecutive loss…
The 20-year-old is already clocking speeds of over 120kph and is eager to add even more pace to her bowling. However, Lucy Hamilton understands that mastering line, length, and swing will be key to cementing her place in an Australian side filled with established stars and legends of the game. “You’ve got a bit of an edge, a difference, and how can you use that? It’s exciting, knowing where my cricket can take me,” said the young quick. “You always want to be faster, but it’s about trying to cement your spot in the team by being accurate, swinging the…
Grace Harris is determined to claim the label of ‘Australia’s most versatile player’, following her recall for next month’s T20 World Cup. Harris was left at home when Australia departed for a white-ball tour of the Caribbean in March, but her unique skillset and recent history of success in the United Kingdom was enough to earn her a ticket to Heathrow later this month.The 32-year-old is not yet clear what her role in the Australia XI could look like, having been used in a situation-based, floating position when picked in recent times. That has meant she has needed to be…
Former Blues players Peter Forrest and Daniel Smith join the NSW coaching staff ahead of 2026-27 season Brad Haddin has made his first moves in shaping his NSW coaching team, enlisting former Blues players Peter Forrest and Daniel Smith as assistants for next season. Haddin, who is currently serving as an assistant under Ricky Ponting at IPL franchise Punjab Kings, begins his tenure as NSW men’s head coach when preseason gets underway next month after being named Greg Shipperd’s replacement in March.Shipperd was sacked by Cricket NSW in January to give the team a “new direction”, but the veteran mentor…
Liam Scott wasn’t expecting a tap on the shoulder. Invited to Australia’s early May training camp in Brisbane, the allrounder was just happy to be sharing some net sessions with the country’s best cricketers. But head coach Andrew McDonald pulled him aside last week and delivered the special news face-to-face: Scott would be named in Australia’s next one-day international squad the following week. “It was a pretty nice moment,” Scott told cricket.com.au. “Obviously, a lot of hard work goes in over the years and for me, it’s a dream come true to get the chance to hopefully play for Australia.”…
Australia’s men’s teams have been blessed by high-quality left-arm fast bowlers but, despite their dominance, it’s something the women have missed Best of Lucy Hamilton in the WNCL In an Australian team blessed with generational talents, Lucy Hamilton is bringing something new to the table. The 20-year-old has rocketed into the frame this year, debuting in all three formats for her country in March, and is now set to play in next month’s T20 World Cup in England and Wales. The left-arm quick is pushing 120kph and confident she’ll get quicker, but says it will be her swing, seam and…