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Boycott threat by cricket’s biggest states forces women’s T20 change

Boycott threat by cricket’s biggest states forces women’s T20 change

Australia’s two most populous cricket states, Victoria and New South Wales, considered boycotting a new women’s Twenty20 tournament and playing matches among themselves before reaching a compromise with Cricket Australia on the competition format for this season.

  • by Daniel Brettig

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Why a South African leader is poised to unlock Australia’s opener debate

Why a South African leader is poised to unlock Australia’s opener debate

An old foe is taking the reins of an Australian cricket nursery. Can he unlock its potential and end the nation’s opener debate?

  • by Nick Wright
His career pre-dates YouTube and Facebook, now Anderson’s exit sets stage for a Bazball Ashes assault

His career pre-dates YouTube and Facebook, now Anderson’s exit sets stage for a Bazball Ashes assault

They admired his skill and sometimes were taken aback by his sledging. How Jimmy Anderson was seen through Australian eyes.

  • by Daniel Brettig
Reeve dreams of wearing the baggy green, but the number of south Asian cricketers at the top is going backwards

Reeve dreams of wearing the baggy green, but the number of south Asian cricketers at the top is going backwards

The number of Australian cricketers with south Asian heritage is growing at the grassroots and junior levels, but not in the elite teams. But there is a plan to help kids like Reeve Bal Pannu follow in the footsteps of Usman Khawaja.

  • by Daniel Brettig
‘It’s been an incredible 20 years’: Ashes foe Anderson confirms end of England career
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‘It’s been an incredible 20 years’: Ashes foe Anderson confirms end of England career

The pace ace’s record-breaking 22-year international career will finish at Lord’s in July, which means one of Australia’s great Ashes adversaries will not feature at next year’s series.

  • by Will Macpherson
Lyon: We’d have won the Ashes 4-0 if I’d been fit

Lyon: We’d have won the Ashes 4-0 if I’d been fit

Nathan Lyon believes Australia would have won the 2023 Ashes series 4-0 if he hadn’t broken down with injury.

  • by Ian Chadband
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In just 19 balls, Fraser-McGurk heaps more pressure on Australian selectors

In just 19 balls, Fraser-McGurk heaps more pressure on Australian selectors

He wasn’t deemed good enough for Australia’s T20 World Cup squad, but Jake Fraser-McGurk’s responded in the best possible way with another IPL batting blitz.

  • by Glenn Moore
Batting phenom Fraser-McGurk opens up on World Cup snub

Batting phenom Fraser-McGurk opens up on World Cup snub

Australian short-form batting sensation Jake Fraser-McGurk said he didn’t feel he had earned a place in the T20 World Cup squad despite his recent pyrotechnics in the Indian Premier League. 

The joy of six has not been entirely lost, but it’s getting there
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The joy of six has not been entirely lost, but it’s getting there

Cricket is overdoing a good thing with sixes. It is one thing to reinvigorate a sport to stay in line with the times, another to indulge it to death.

  • by Greg Baum
‘A little bit of magic’: Marsh’s X-factor and how Cummins helped mould Australia’s new T20 skipper

‘A little bit of magic’: Marsh’s X-factor and how Cummins helped mould Australia’s new T20 skipper

The bond between Mitch Marsh and Pat Cummins is a key plank of the recent success of the Australian side, underlining how the environment built by the Test captain has enabled the likes of Marsh and others to find their best, after years of inconsistency.

  • by Daniel Brettig
No room for ‘really exciting’ Fraser-McGurk in T20 World Cup squad

No room for ‘really exciting’ Fraser-McGurk in T20 World Cup squad

Despite glowing praise from chairman of selectors George Bailey, exciting white-ball tyro Jake Fraser-McGurk missed Australia’s Twenty20 World Cup squad.

  • by Malcolm Conn