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Australia’s all-format men’s stars have October free from international cricket for the first time since 2020 Nic Maddinson looks set to continue his career as an opener after returning home to NSW and he could be partnered by Steve Smith if the Aussie superstar is available for the Blues’ Sheffield Shield matches in October. For...

Cricket Australia has today announced the schedule for the inaugural T20 Spring Challenge, with the competition set to begin later this year.   The newly introduced T20 Spring Challenge will be played in a 10-day window across Sydney and Adelaide, creating an exciting build-up to the Weber WBBL season while increasing playing opportunities for domestic...

Test stars’ long absence from domestic red-ball competition to end with four Shield rounds scheduled before Border Gavaskar series opener Australia’s leading male players will have a rare chance to pit their red-ball skills against one another, with the Sheffield Shield’s critical role in priming Test stars for their bid to wrestle the Border-Gavaskar Trophy...

A new-look women’s domestic season will get underway in September, while the new T20 league will provide the ideal warm-up to WBBL|10 The new women’s domestic T20 tournament will be staged across Sydney and Adelaide in the lead-up to Weber WBBL|10 in October and will be dubbed the ‘T20 Spring Challenge’, Cricket Australia has confirmed....

Cricket Australia has announced the schedule for the inaugural T20 Spring Challenge, where Sydney Thunder will play a minimum of four matches across a 10-day window. This new competition, which serves as an exciting pre-cursor to the Weber WBBL|10 season, includes fixtures against the Heat, Stars, Scorchers, and Sixers, with a semi-final and final to...

Historic all-abilities match brings star spinner back to Home of Cricket for first time since being hobbled during last year’s Test series Given his painfully harrowing experience at the venue barely a year earlier, Nathan Lyon could be forgiven for shying away from a return visit to Lord’s. But when he signed to play with...

The State’s rapidly improving female squad, meanwhile, has ambitions to win the Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) ahead of a campaign that starts on Tuesday 24 September at the WACA Ground. WA begin their One-Day Cup (ODC) season against New South Wales at Cricket Central in a rematch of last year’s Final, remembered for Hilton...

Amanda-Jade Wellington and Adam Zampa each took three wickets as Oval Invincibles’ women and men’s teams both romped to wins on the opening day of The Hundred Oval Invincibles were able to call upon some timely Australian spin assistance as The Hundred got under way in London with wins for both their men’s and women’s...

Sean Abbott – Surrey Matches: 8 | Runs: 45 | SR: 132.35 | 50s: 0 | HS: 24no | Wickets: 15 | Econ: 7.93 | BB: 5-18 Abbott returned to Surrey after a memorable 2023 campaign and has again delivered for his county team. The quick took 15 wickets in only eight matches, including a...

Kim Garth and Megan Schutt to feature in England’s Hundred as replacements for Sophie Molineux and Grace Harris Grace Harris and Sophie Molineux have been ruled out of The Hundred due to injury, with Australian teammates handed late call-ups to the English tournament in their place. Harris will miss her planned stint with London Spirit...

Nathan Ellis has never been under any illusions as to where he sits in the pecking order among his fast bowling idols – Australia’s ‘big three’ of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc. But lately he’s been contemplating if that’s a mentality he needs to change as he targets becoming a mainstay of Australia’s...

Best of Cooper Connolly in the Big Bash (so far) Everyone remembers the Big Bash final but for Cooper Connolly, his belief stems from a moment three years earlier in the quieter surrounds of Benoni’s Willowmoore Park some 20km east of Johannesburg. The crowd barely nudged three figures that day, a far cry from the...