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JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Cricket Australia has announced its T20I and ODI squads for the upcoming white-ball series against South Africa, set to begin on August 10. The squads include several changes, with some senior players rested and new talent getting an opportunity. Young all-rounder Mitchell Owen has earned his maiden ODI call-up after impressive performances in the T20 series against the West Indies earlier this month. The 23-year-old scored 125 runs at a strike rate of 192.30 in that series, including a half-century on debut. He also made headlines last domestic season by smashing 149 runs off just 69…
COACHING COUP During his four-year tenure, KKR won the title in 2024 © BCCI Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) have roped in Bharat Arun as their bowling coach for the upcoming seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The former India pacer, widely credited for guiding and inspiring India’s bowling unit during his tenure as bowling coach, joins LSG after a successful stint with Kolkata Knight Riders, which included a triumphant season in 2024. He was at KKR for four years, starting from the 2022 season. None of the parties involved, KKR, LSG and Arun himself, chose to comment on the…
Schedule and salary cap adjustment to increase lure of BBL and private ownership among recommendations for future of the Big Bash Moving the BBL season to launch in conjunction with the Boxing Day Test, pushing more games after the Test summer and allowing private investment in the clubs are options now under consideration to evolve the Big Bash, Cricket Australia confirmed today. The schedule shift to allow more Australian internationals to feature in more games, and an increase in the salary cap to draw more top-tier international players, is the key recommendation of the report. Recommendations about alternative forms of…
INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Gill is learning to balance technique, temperament, and work ethic in ways that will carry him through the challenges that surely lie ahead ©Getty On the tense final day of the Old Trafford Test, Shubman Gill lingered in the 90s for 36 deliveries. Since 2008, there have been 275 scores of 90 or more for India in Test cricket, and only three have crept slower through that stretch. And this was from a batter who recently tore into a T20 hundred in just 49 balls. Even with the flat pitches, this Anderson-Tendulkar series has not…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF AUSTRALIA, 2025 Head and Hazlewood missed the recently concluded tour of West Indies © Getty Travis Head and Josh Hazlewood have returned to the limited-overs squads for the home series against South Africa that kickstarts the Australian summer. Both Head and Hazlewood were not picked for the recently-concluded five-match T20I series in the Caribbean that the Australians won 5-0. Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins were also not considered for that series against West Indies and they continue to be rested ahead of a busy home season. As a result of Cummins’s absence, Mitchell Marsh will lead…
West Indies have less than 70 hours to dust themselves off following their five-nil defeat to Australia but skipper Shai Hope insists there are positives they can take into their three-match T20 series against Pakistan in Florida. West Indies are back in action just three days after being swept for the second straight T20 series at home, after losing all three matches to Bangladesh last December, and they’ll be desperately searching for their first win of the home season having been beaten in all three Tests against Australia.Like the Test series, where the Windies were level with Australia across the…
Mitch Owen’s rapid rise has continued with a maiden call-up to Australia’s one-day international squad to face South Africa in August. The Australians named a pair of 14-player squads on Wednesday that will face the Proteas in three T20s and three ODIs in Darwin, Cairns and Townsville with Owen’s name listed in both. Owen is the only uncapped player in either squad and it comes after a successful debut on the just-completed tour of the Caribbean where he played all five T20s against West Indies and finished with a strike rate of 192.30. Australia squads to face South Africa Both…
SINGAPORE: Katie Ledecky claimed a sixth 1,500 metres freestyle title and a record-extending 22nd world championships gold medal in Singapore on Tuesday as Romanian rocket David Popovici added the men’s 200 crown to his Paris Olympic triumph. There was also gold for Australia’s backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown, who foiled American rival Regan Smith once again to claim the 100 title in a thriller, while South Africa’s Pieter Coetze clinched the men’s race. Unbeaten in the 1,500 since the age of 13, world record holder Ledecky came home ahead of Italian Simona Quadarella with Australian Lani Pallister winning bronze at the…
BASSETERRE: Australia completed a 5-0 sweep of the West Indies in their Twenty20 international series with Ben Dwarshuis’s bowling paving the way for a three-wicket victory in Basseterre, Saint Kitts on Monday. Mitchell Owen top-scored for Australia with 37 off 17 balls, while Cameron Green (32), Tim David (30) and Aaron Hardie (28 not out) all made valuable contributions as the visitors reached their target of 171 with 18 balls to spare. The win sealed the first T20 series sweep by an Australian men’s team in the West Indies, and saw them end the tour with a perfect 8-0 record…
SINGAPORE: Katie Ledecky claimed a sixth 1,500 metres freestyle title and a record-extending 22nd world championships gold medal in Singapore on Tuesday as Romanian rocket David Popovici added the men’s 200 crown to his Paris Olympic triumph. There was also gold for Australia’s backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown, who foiled American rival Regan Smith once again to claim the 100 title in a thriller, while South Africa’s Pieter Coetze clinched the men’s race. Unbeaten in the 1,500 since the age of 13, world record holder Ledecky came home ahead of Italian Simona Quadarella with Australian Lani Pallister winning bronze at the…