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[ad_1] After Annabel Sutherland’s immense double-century on day two of the first-ever Test between Australia and South Africa, the visitors need a miracle to overhaul a deficit of 432 runs when they resume on 3/67. Australia declared late in the day at 9-575 – the highest Women’s Test innings score in history – with a … Read more
[ad_1] Australia’s women’s team faces South Africa for the first time in Test cricket history from 2pm AEDT in a landmark return to the WACA. The beloved Perth venue has not hosted a men’s Test since the 2017/18 Ashes, while it is a first women’s Test at the iconic ground since 2014, when Ellyse Perry … Read more
[ad_1] Australia only has three matches before it needs to lock in a 15-player squad for this year’s T20 World Cup in the United States and West Indies. Next week, the Australians travel to New Zealand for a bilateral T20 series against the Black Caps, sending across a full-strength squad for the three-match campaign. The … Read more
[ad_1] Victorian opener Tom Rogers celebrated Valentine’s Day by blasting the sixth-highest score in Australian one-day domestic history, a career-best 196 (142) against New South Wales at North Sydney Oval on Wednesday. The 25-year-old clobbered 15 boundaries and 15 sixes at the picturesque venue, falling agonisingly short of becoming the fourth player to score a … Read more
[ad_1] Jason Gillespie has given cricket fans a heartbreaking reminder of what we’ve lost after being asked to come up with a ‘Best Off-field XI’ for a radio show in South Australia. Gillespie, 48, played 71 Test matches and 97 one-dayers from 1996 to 2005 with the wildly successful Australian cricket team of that era. … Read more
[ad_1] Test cricket returns to the WACA for the first time in seven years this week, with the Australian women’s team facing South Africa for a four-day contest that gets underway on Thursday. The iconic Perth venue has not hosted Test cricket since the 2017/18 Ashes, while the national women’s side hasn’t played there since … Read more
[ad_1] New Zealand strike bowler Trent Boult was recalled Wednesday for the Twenty20 international series against Australia but the hosts will be without Kane Williamson and Daryl Mitchell. Boult is in a 14-man squad for the three-match series but only available for the last two games in Auckland, with fellow veteran seamer Tim Southee to … Read more
[ad_1] Among the 20,025 spectators watching Will Sutherland’s international debut at the SCG on Sunday was sister Annabel, who had flown up from Adelaide earlier that day. The 22-year-old, currently representing Australia in the ongoing multi-format series against South Africa, had jumped on an earlier flight than her national teammates after being informed of her … Read more
[ad_1] Australian all-rounder Ash Gardner has won her second Belinda Clark Award, narrowly beating out superstar teammate Ellyse Perry for the coveted prize. During the Australian Cricket Awards in Melbourne on Wednesday evening, Gardner became the seventh cricketer to receive the accolade on multiple occasions, joining modern greats Karen Rolton, Shelley Nitschke, Meg Lanning, Beth … Read more
[ad_1] Australia have responded from Sunday’s shock loss to South Africa, claiming a series deciding win in Tuesday’s T20 clash at Blundstone Arena in Hobart. After they were beaten for the first time in any format by the Proteas at Manuka Oval on Sunday, the host nation withstood a best-ever total of 7-162 from South … Read more