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Sam Harper has continued the best summer of his career, whacking a 76-ball century for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia Western Australia v Victoria | Sheffield Shield | Day One Sam Harper’s rapid-fire 76-ball century has laid the foundation for Victoria’s strong opening day at the WACA, helping the visitors to 7-338 against Western Australia. Fresh off the best BBL campaign of his career, Harper blitzed 119 from 109 balls for the ladder-leading Victoria in the Sheffield Shield on Monday morning. The 29-year-old unleashed an array of cover drives and powerful strikes down the ground as…
Australia have pulled the trigger on adding Steve Smith to their T20 World Cup squad hours before their crunch match with Sri Lanka Australia have finally added a 15th member to their T20 World Cup squad with Steve Smith officially added to the group ahead of tonight’s must-win encounter with Sri Lanka. Smith takes Josh Hazlewood’s spot in Australia’s World Cup squad with a replacement not immediately named when the paceman was ruled out of the tournament earlier this month as he recovers from an Achilles injury.The right-hander trained with the squad in Kandy on Sunday evening after arriving in…
14 wickets fell as runs were hard to come by on day one of Queensland’s Sheffield Shield match against South Australia Queensland v South Australia | Sheffield Shield | Day One South Australia allrounder Liam Scott took career-best figures, but four final session wickets for Queensland has them right back in their Sheffield Shield contest at the Gabba. After sending the Bulls into bat, SA rolled Queensland for 185 in 66.5 overs before going to stumps on 4-62 in a wicket-filled opening day. Scott claimed 5-33 to record his second five-wicket haul in the Sheffield Shield and his first in…
Tess Flintoff made a maiden WNCL ton but Mikayla Hinkley’s 86 was good enough to take Western Australia home Victoria v Western Australia | WNCL Western Australia’s upward climb on the WNCL ladder has continued with a six wicket win over a plagued Victorian side at Jubilee Park in Melbourne’s Ringwood. A maiden WNCL century from Australian contracted Tess Flintoff was in vain as Mikayla Hinkley’s 86 off 120 guided WA to the total of 245 with 17 balls to spare. The two sides had started their season in a similarly disconcerting fashion with four losses but have had contrasting…
Having appeared in twelve finals series, including reaching eight deciders and claiming three titles, it’s fair to say the Sydney Sixers are a very consistent BBL team. For the seventh consecutive season, the Sixers finished a BBL regular season in the top two, an achievement the club’s general manager Rachael Haynes recognises as no easy feat. “We’ve constantly led the way in that respect,” Haynes said. “Moises (Henriques) and Greg (Shipperd) have done a fantastic job leading the club and putting some really good things in place to set those standards and making sure we’re consistently part of finals campaigns.…
Australia v India | First T20I Australia coach Shelley Nitschke has pushed back on suggestions Sunday’s loss to India was a ‘false start’ to their new era in the shortest format, adamant there is plenty of time to refine plans for the mid-year women’s T20 World Cup. Playing their first T20I in almost 12 months, Australia made several key changes to their batting line-up for the opening T20I against India, who were full of confidence coming off a 5-0 T20I series sweep against Sri Lanka in December. Australia were then bowled out for 133 in 18 overs. Vice-captain Tahlia McGrath…
Shelley Nitschke has described the call to drop vice-captain Tahlia McGrath from Australia’s T20I side as “a really tough one” but has backed the allrounder to fight her way back in. Just last month, McGrath was one of three candidates interviewed for the Australian captaincy, but on Sunday she was left out of the XI to play India at the SCG – the first time she has been omitted since her international recall in late 2021. Speaking to reporters after Australia’s 21-run (DLS) defeat saw them go 0-1 down in the T20I series, Nitschke revealed the thinking behind the decision…
‘Representing Italy very special to me and my family’: Ben Manenti There are batters, bowlers and allrounders, but Ben Manenti can break the Italian cricket team down into three other categories; fluent speakers, competent speakers and those who can pick up bits and pieces. He falls in the latter for both as someone who can piece phrases of the Italian language together and “sort of understand it”, but once his more proficient teammates get going, he admits he’s “gone”. “Once Italians start talking, they start flying and that’s where they lose me,” Manenti told cricket.com.au from Kolkata ahead of their…
T20 World Cup’s showpiece fixture, in doubt until Monday, saw Suryakumar Yadav’s men maintain their winning record over their rivals India have continued their remarkable World Cup stranglehold over Pakistan but a fractious build-up spilled on to the field as the teams again did not shake hands at the end of their Colombo contest. Defending champions India steamrollered their neighbours by 61 runs in a grudge group A match at the Twenty20 World Cup to swagger into the Super Eight stage of the tournament on Sunday. Pakistan’s government only gave the go-ahead for the team to fulfil the match on…
Mitch Marsh returns to training as Marcus Stoinis declared fit to face Sri Lanka in crucial T20 World Cup match Stoinis ‘battered’ but declared fit to face Sri Lanka Mitch Marsh is pushing for a World Cup return against Sri Lanka after the men’s T20 captain got through Australia’s training session on the eve of their crunch clash with the tournament co-hosts. It’s believed a final call on Marsh’s fitness will be made on the morning of the match to see how he recovers from the extended session, but the signs were positive for the former champions regaining their leader…