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[ad_1] Cameron Green’s difficult summer with the bat continued with a single-digit score as pace bowlers ran rampant on the opening day of three Sheffield Shield matches on Friday. The WA all-rounder was trapped LVW for six by Tasmanian debutant Kieran Elliott as 41 wickets tumbled across the three games, with only six batters managing … 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] Sherfane Rutherford and Andre Russell have blasted the West Indies towards a 37-run victory in the dead rubber at Perth Stadium, denying Australia a clean sweep in the white-ball portion of the tour. Russell smacked seven sixes during his ferocious 71 (29), reviving the West Indies innings after the tourists initially collapsed to 5-79 … Read more
[ad_1] Australia is looking to secure a series whitewash over the West Indies when it faces the two-time T20 World Cup champions at Perth Stadium on Tuesday evening. Having won the previous T20s in Hobart and Adelaide, the Australians have taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. The tourists won the toss and … Read more
[ad_1] During Thursday’s Under-19 World Cup semi-final in Benoni, Australian bowler Callum Vidler, having just beaten Shahzaib Khan’s outside edge, walked up to the Pakistan opener and pointed towards his head. The 18-year-old, a self-confessed “pest” in the changerooms, noticed the left-hander had started backing away from shorter deliveries, with footwork heading towards the leg … Read more
[ad_1] Australian dynamo Glenn Maxwell went on a rampage at Adelaide Oval on Sunday evening, smacking a hundred in the second T20I against the West Indies. The Victorian slapped an unbeaten 120 (55), which included 12 boundaries and eight sixes, as the hosts posted a massive team total of 4-241 in the South Australian capital. … Read more
[ad_1] Australia have utterly embarrassed the West Indies in the third and final ODI but while the world champions flexed their muscles, the visitors will have the shoulder their fair share of the blame. While the West Indies once again took a slow and steady attitude before dropping from 1/38 to 86 all out — … Read more
[ad_1] Australian fast bowler Lance Morris is at risk of missing this month’s Test tour of New Zealand after sustaining a side strain during Tuesday afternoon’s ODI against the West Indies at Manuka Oval. The 25-year-old limped off the field three balls into his fifth over during the dead rubber in Canberra, not returning for … Read more
[ad_1] Australia has cruised towards a 3-0 whitewash over the West Indies following Tuesday’s crushing eight-wicket victory at Manuka Oval. After the tourists were bowled out for 86 in less than 25 overs, Australia only needed 41 deliveries to chase down the measly target, with young opener Jake Fraser-McGurk blasting 41 from 18 balls. Meanwhile, … Read more
[ad_1] Queensland slugger Ben McDermott has been lifted out of his team’s Sheffield Shield clash and parachuted in to the Australian ODI squad after a hamstring injury to Matt Short. McDermott punched out a century for the Bulls against Tasmania on the weekend and has been added to the national squad ahead of Tuesday’s dead-rubber … Read more