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Wednesday was Beau Webster’s day at the SCG, with the recalled Tasmanian starring with both bat and ball ‘Off-spin is muscle memory’: Webster Beau Webster believed all summer he was good enough to play in the Ashes before intensifying Australia’s selection debate by proving it at the SCG. Playing as a second allrounder alongside out-of-sorts Cameron Green, Webster made an unbeaten half-century and took Test career-best bowling figures to help Australia wrest control of the series finale. A woeful dropped slips catch from Green before lunch compounded pressure that has mounted on the first-choice allrounder this series. After day four…
‘It was always coming’: Bethell’s stunning call Before this week, Jacob Bethell had scored two centuries against grown men. His first came in a county second XI game for Warwickshire in April 2022 when he was 18. The second came in September in a bilateral ODI against South Africa. He came close in Wellington little more than a year ago, nicking off for 96 against New Zealand in Wellington. So it would follow that he might have the jitters as Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland thundered in to him while he was one shot away from his maiden Test –…
Australia v England | Fifth Ashes Test | Day Four Australia are closing in on a fourth Ashes Test victory this summer with the effect of Jacob Bethell’s dazzling coming-of-age century neutered by another sequence of bewildering England own-goals. The recalled Beau Webster emerged as the unlikeliest of heroes on the penultimate day of the final NRMA Insurance Test, making up for the hosts’ lack of a frontline spinner by taking three wickets with his secondary bowling skill including injured captain Ben Stokes. Stokes, who walked off the field with an adductor injury on Wednesday morning midway through his 101st…
Australia v England | Fifth Ashes Test | Day Four It took Scott Boland until the very last innings of the series, but he was not going to be denied his man. From the final ball of his 11th over, with Sydney’s mid-afternoon mercury hitting 30 degrees, Boland trapped Joe Root bang in front of middle stump. There have been more penetrative Boland spells through this series; the second innings in Perth, and the first in Melbourne both quickly spring to mind. But through the middle stretch of this fourth day at the SCG, we were privileged to witness Boland…
Jacob Bethell scored a sublime maiden first-class century to give hope to an England fightback in the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney before a late wobble on the fourth evening left the tourists eight wickets down and with a lead of 119.Bethell, at just 22 years old and in only his sixth Test, demonstrated precisely why he was identified by the England selectors just over a year ago despite lacking a professional hundred at the time, finishing the day unbeaten on 142 and cementing the troublesome No 3 spot. After Australia were bowled out for 567 in their first innings…
Babar Azam graces the MCG as the Stars and Sixers renew their fierce rivalry Match facts Who: Melbourne Stars v Sydney Sixers What: Match 27, KFC BBL|15 Where: MCG, Melbourne When: Thursday, January 8. 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: cricket.com.au, the CA Live and…
England captain Ben Stokes limped from the field with a groin injury on day four of the final Ashes Test against Australia.Stokes, who has been his side’s most reliable bowling option throughout a difficult trip, pulled up after 10 balls on Wednesday morning at the SCG with Jacob Bethell concluding his over. The 34-year-old departed for the dressing room mid-over, with a team spokesperson later confirming a groin issue. Image: Stokes wants to stay as England captain after the Ashes series defeat A short statement read: “Ben Stokes is currently being assessed for a right adductor complaint. We will provide…
England captain Ben Stokes limped from the field with a groin injury on day four of the final Ashes Test against Australia.Stokes, who has been his side’s most reliable bowling option throughout a difficult trip, pulled up after 10 balls on Wednesday morning at the SCG with Jacob Bethell concluding his over. The 34-year-old departed for the dressing room mid-over, with a team spokesperson later confirming a groin issue. Image: Stokes wants to stay as England captain after the Ashes series defeat A short statement read: “Ben Stokes is currently being assessed for a right adductor complaint. We will provide…
There’s usually just one winner in cricket. But on Tuesday’s WNCL game at the Bellerive Oval, there were two It has been a contrasting few months for Rachel Trenaman and Georgia Redmayne. Trenaman was part of the Hobart Hurricanes’ maiden WBBL title win – and a second consecutive one in the T20 Spring Challenge – while Redmayne’s Brisbane Heat ended without a single win. But when the two opening bats found themselves leading their respective states sides as stand-in captains on the return to the WNCL, the fortunes flipped towards Redmayne. On Tuesday, she registered a crucial century and led…
A record breaking 2025 has earned New Zealand quick Jacob Duffy a maiden trip to the T20 World Cup Pacer Jacob Duffy has been named in New Zealand’s squad for the Twenty20 World Cup after an outstanding 2025 in which he captured 81 international wickets. The 31-year-old broke Richard Hadlee’s 40-year-old record of 79 wickets in a year and rose to second place on world T20 bowling rankings. He is the only member of a New Zealand squad boasting 1064 T20 international caps who has yet to play at a T20 World Cup. Duffy joins an experienced New Zealand pace…