The Melbourne Renegades have sacked their BBL coach, David Saker. The Victorian first took over at the ‘Gades in 2015 but left after a season when he got the call-up to Australian national duties as the fast-bowling coach. Saker came back to the Melbourne franchise in 2021, leading it to a finals berth just once … Read more
Just days before Australia name their T20 World Cup squad, Jake Fraser-McGurk has made an irresistible demand for a place with his latest staggering demonstration of batting pyrotechnics in the IPL. The 22-year-old Delhi Capitals opener pulverised the Mumbai Indians attack to the tune of 84 off just 27 balls at Delhi’s home Arun Jaitley … Read more
Mitchell Starc has been forced to miss his latest IPL ordeal because of injury … and the Australian star can afford to feel mightily relieved he did after his Kolkata side got hit for six in an amazing world-record T20 run chase at Eden Gardens. Jonny Bairstow led Punjab Kings to an extraordinary eight-wicket triumph … Read more
USA Cricket Vice-Captain Aaron Jones poses next to a giant cricket ball, installed at a marketplace to mark 100 days to go for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, in Miami, Florida, on Feb. 22, 2024. Chandan Khanna | Afp | Getty Images A major cricket world cup is coming to U.S. soil for the … Read more
Former Australian Test cricketer Michael Slater has been remanded in police custody after being charged with more than a dozen offences. Slater, 54, had his case mentioned in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Monday. He was arrested on 19 charges relating to offences allegedly committed on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast between December 5, 2023 and April 12 … Read more
Nathan Lyon has revealed his disappointment that Cricket Australia bosses have prevented him from playing his first full season of county cricket in England with Lancashire. On the eve of his county championship debut at the start of the English season, the veteran spinning ace said on Thursday his hands had been tied over the … Read more
Australian opener Travis Head has smashed an 18-ball half century for Sunrisers Hyderabad in a record-breaking night for the Indian Premier League which saw the highest-scoring T20 match in history. Sunrisers’ mammoth first innings total of 3-277 was the biggest in IPL history, but Mumbai gave chasing it down a good shake, falling just 31 … Read more
Big Bash League cricket player Nikhil Chaudhary has denied raping a woman in Queensland. Chaudhary, 27, is on trial in the District Court in Townsville on Monday after he pleaded not guilty to raping the woman in his car on Flinders St in the city’s nightlife precinct in May 2021. He met the woman at … Read more
David Warner has been surprisingly overlooked in The Hundred draft as Andrew Flintoff kick-started a West Indies rush by snapping up Nicholas Pooran with his first pick. The Australian left-hander, who recently retired from the Test scene, has travelled the world playing white-ball cricket since 2009 and most recently featured in the UAE for the … Read more
Cricket Australia has called off a series against Afghanistan for the second time in as many years due to “government advice”. Australia’s men were scheduled to face Afghanistan in three Twenty20s this year under the International Cricket Council’s future tours program. But CA has postponed the series that would have been played in the United … Read more
