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Australia are on track to go through a summer with an unchanged Test bowling attack for the first time in a decade, with the quicks unlikely to be rested against West Indies. Australia’s bowlers emerged from the Sydney Test with a clean bill of health after they helped to wrap up the 3-0 series win […]

Cameron Bancroft says he owes it to Australia to return to Test cricket and succeed, adamant he has healed his scars from the ball-tampering scandal and there would be no tension with his fast bowling team-mates. The race to replace David Warner as Test opener has entered the home straight, with the squad to face […]

Australia have been denied the chance to play a maiden cricket match in the US, with all of their Twenty20 World Cup group games to be staged in the West Indies. Organisers unveiled the schedule for this year’s historic T20 World Cup, which will be played in both the US and Caribbean islands, on Friday […]

Pakistan coach Mohammad Hafeez says he disagreed with captain Shan Masood’s decision not to inject player-of-the-series Aamir Jamal into the bowling attack earlier in Australia’s run chase at the SCG. The hosts cruised to an eight-wicket victory on day four of the third Test on Saturday, only briefly appearing troubled after Usman Khawaja went for […]

Brisbane’s top two men’s seeds have lived up to their billing to kill off home hopes James Duckworth and Rinky Hijikata in one-sided quarter-finals. Holger Rune staved off Duckworth’s best in a 6-2 7-6 (8-6) triumph on Friday, before rejuvenated Bulgarian Dimitrov imposed himself in a 6-1 6-4 defeat of Hijikata. Danish world No.8 Rune […]

Aamir Jamal insists Pakistan still has a shot at winning the third Test against Australia, believing the tourists’ late collapse could have happened to any team. But a recovery from 7-68 at stumps on day three is likely to require more magic from Aamir himself, Pakistan’s shining light in a series shaping as a 3-0 […]

If ever there was an advertisement to keep the New Year’s Test in Sydney it came in the sea of pink that washed over the SCG on day three against Pakistan. Some 32,061 fans were in the stadium by lunch on Jane McGrath Day, the centrepiece of the McGrath Foundation’s Pink Test, which is now […]

Alex Carey has taken a cheeky jab at David Warner for not wearing his now-infamous baggy green while fielding after it was returned during the third Test against Pakistan. Warner sparked an extensive search for his most-prized cricket possession on the eve of his final Test, when he claimed his backpack had been stolen. Inside […]

An ill-timed toilet break has contributed further to Pakistan’s summer of woe in the slips after debutant Saim Ayub took the tally of sitters dropped in the cordon to three for the series. Ayub offered David Warner a life when Australia’s retiring opener was on 20 on at the SCG on Thursday, putting down a […]

Ayna Sabalenka’s Australian Open title defence remains firmly on track after the world No.2 breezed into the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International. Unlike men’s Melbourne Park king Novak Djokovic, who suffered a shock setback in Perth, Sabalenka extended her winning streak in Australia to 13 matches with a 6-1 6-0 rout of China’s world No.33 […]