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Ashleigh Gardner says she would be ready to take up the Australian captaincy if given the opportunity, even though it’s not a role she has ever dreamt of holding. The past 12 months has seen Gardner make major advances in her leadership experience, with the allrounder taking over charge of sides in three different T20 leagues around the world. She will start the new year with a flight to India where she will again lead the Gujarat Giants in the Women’s Premier League (WPL). Gardner had taken over the captaincy at the franchise from Australian teammate Beth Mooney last season…
Where Australia’s leading batter goes in the Test order beyond this summer is anyone’s guess as Travis Head said his stint as an opener will be up for review at the end of the Ashes. Another standout performance from Head, whose third-innings 46 finished as the two-day MCG Test’s top score from either team, was overshadowed by England’s drought-breaking win and the scrutiny on the seam-friendly pitch.The left-hander’s series run tally now stands at 437 from eight innings, 146 more than the next highest (Alex Carey’s 291) and 181 more than the best-performed England batter (Zak Crawley’s 356). Head has…
Like Brett Lee and countless other fast bowlers before him, Jhye Richardson couldn’t help but continually glance up at the electronic scoreboard. The Australian quick knew the state of the game. Instead, he was looking for the number that would pop up in the corner of the giant Melbourne Cricket Ground screens a few seconds after every delivery. He was checking how fast he was bowling. “Every ball,” Richardson told cricket.com.au with a grin of the habit that developed during his Test return. Fast bowling legend Lee, on Sunday inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, would do the…
Australia v England | Fourth Ashes Test | Day Two The demons of the 2017-18 Ashes bore-draw was the chief factor in the Melbourne Cricket Club producing a Boxing Day pitch tilted too heavily towards favouring fast bowling, and which failed to get the fourth Ashes Test into a third day. Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg has vowed that his organisation would undertake an end-of-season review of the management of Test wickets around the country as administrators grapple with balancing a preference for seam-friendly surfaces with the aggressive batting tactics teams are now using to combat them. Greenberg expects…
Australian Ashes Test squad members Beau Webster and Josh Inglis will turn out for the Hurricanes and Scorchers respectively ahead of the SCG Test Australia’s reserve allrounder Beau Webster has been released from the squad to play in the Big Bash League for Hobart. Josh Inglis, who was dropped for the rapid-fire Boxing Day Test, will also return to the BBL and play for Perth, ahead of the fifth and final Ashes Test. After their BBL matches, both players will re-join the Australia squad in Sydney to prepare for the New Year’s Test at the SCG, starting on January 4.…
Get all the latest team news and broadcast details as the Hurricanes host the Renegades at Ninja Stadium Match facts Who: Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades What: Match 15, KFC BBL|15 Where: Ninja Stadium, Hobart When: Monday, December 29. Bat flip at 6.30pm AEDT, first ball at 7.15pm AEDT How to watch: Channel Seven, 7plus, Fox Cricket, Kayo Sports Listen: ABC, SEN Radio. Listen in standard and real-time with no delay to live play via Cricket Radio on the CA Live app. Find out more here Buy tickets: Tickets are on sale here Live scores: Match Centre Highlights, news and reactions after the match:…
It’s the type of cricketing yarn that offers up an irresistible mix of ’90s nostalgia and the sheer thrill of express fast bowling. December 20, 1999. Brett Lee has not long turned 23. He is at the WACA Ground in Perth, playing his 16th first-class match – a Sheffield Shield fixture for NSW against WA. Featuring in the contest are no fewer than 18 past, present and future internationals. And standing in the slips cordon are Steve and Mark Waugh, two men Lee is desperate to impress in his bid to win a Test debut. “I can remember it like…
England’s “hollow” Ashes victory in Melbourne brought about feelings of “huge frustration” as it showed just how different the series could have been had had they focused from the start.Those are the views of Sky Sports’ Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton after England rebounded from heavy, and largely self-inflicted, defeats in Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide to win a two-day Test at the MCG and dash their hosts’ hopes of a 5-0 sweep. The tourists’ lack of preparation before the first Test – they played one intra-team match against the England Lions – was panned before a ball was bowled in…
England’s “hollow” Ashes victory in Melbourne brought about feelings of “huge frustration” as it showed just how different the series could have been had had they focused from the start.Those are the views of Sky Sports’ Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton after England rebounded from heavy, and largely self-inflicted, defeats in Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide to win a two-day Test at the MCG and dash their hosts’ hopes of a 5-0 sweep. The tourists’ lack of preparation before the first Test – they played one intra-team match against the England Lions – was panned before a ball was bowled in…
A 21-year-old debutant rose to the occasion to help guide the Brisbane Heat to victory in front of a noisy Gabba crowd Heat debutant holds nerve to win thrilling final over Debutant Brisbane quick Tom Balkin delivered a double-wicket final over as the Heat beat Adelaide in a Gabba Big Bash League roller-coaster. The Heat set the Strikers 180 to win on Saturday and were in the box seat until second-gamer Jerrssis Wadia (34 off 16) hit three sixes and a four from his first four balls to leave the visitors needing 36 off 30. But the Heat took 5-16…