[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Former Australia star opener Matthew Hayden and captain Steve Waugh have been left shell-shocked by the axing of Travis Head for the opening Test of the four-match Test series against India. Australian team included right-handed batter Peter Handscomb ahead of Head. Head was adjudged 2021-22 Ashes “Player …
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[ad_1] SYDNEY: Former Australia captain Belinda Clark on Thursday became the first woman cricketer to have a sculpture unveiled in her honour.The World Cup-winning captain, prolific run scorer and key figure in the off-field development of the sport was immortalised in bronze outside the Sydney Cricket Ground.“I’m excited to have …
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[ad_1] SYDNEY: Usman Khawaja was stranded just short of a pinnacle double-century when rain interrupted Australia’s run plunder against South Africa in the third Sydney Test on Thursday.In another dominant day for the Australians with the series already won, Khawaja peeled off an imperious unbeaten 195 – his highest Test …
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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Former Australia captain Ian Chappell feels that with T20 leagues “popping up faster than weeds in summer”, international cricket’s ambitious but “implausible” future programme is headed for a breakdown of epic proportions. In his column for ‘ESPNcricinfo’, Chappell wrote that hastening the process could be the absence …
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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Former captain and batting mainstay Steve Smith started the Australian summer with a bang hitting a record-equaling hundred on the second day of the first Test against West Indies at Perth. Smith equaled the record of Sir Don Bradman‘s 29 Test hundreds to add another feather to …
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[ad_1] MELBOURNE: Just three days after the T20 World Cup final Down Under, Australia played an insignificant 3-match one-day international series against the champions England which saw a poor turnout to the stadiums. This in turn led to the criticism of the Australian Cricket Board for the manner in which …
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