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The Sydney Sixers opened their campaign with a win over Sydney Thunder. Can they make it 2-0 against the Tasmanian outfit?

• Jon Pierik

An off-season of change has continued at Hawthorn with chief executive Stuart Fox leaving to become the Melbourne Cricket Club's new chief.

• Jon Pierik

Buoyed by their fightback in Brisbane, Pakistan have declared they will head into the Boxing Day Test with great confidence.

• Laurence Rosen

Melbourne Stars captain David Hussey has backed teammate Marcus Stoinis to break into the Australian Test line-up sooner rather than later.

• Andrew Wu

Mitchell Starc is adamant there will be no repeat of history, declaring he is ready to cop another punishing workload in order to play his first Boxing Day Test.

• Jon Pierik

Usman Khawaja has vowed to try and "cash in" on his strong form as he seeks a repeat of his Boxing Day spoils of last year.

• Scott Spits

Brad Hogg's infectious smile and sunny disposition could add more than just sparkle to the Melbourne Renegades this Big Bash League season.

Melbourne Stars allrounder Evan Gulbis will return home to Australia to prepare for the BBL having been axed by his New Zealand Twenty20 team for a late night out before a ...

• Nathan Lyon

There is nothing like walking out on the MCG and singing the National Anthem in front of a huge crowd.

• Ronny Lerner

Extra police will be in attendance at the Boxing Day Test in the wake of the foiled Christmas Day terror plot in Melbourne as Victoria Police chief commissioner Graham Ashton ...

• Andrew Wu

Steve Smith has learned there is much more to captaincy than scoring a bucket of runs.

• Jon Pierik

As leading US sports spread their message across the high seas, witness the NBA's growing presence in Asia and the NFL's foothold in London, cricket's hopes for stability in ...

• Dean Jones

Australian selectors went old school by picking some in-form players in the aftermath of the Hobart fiasco. Then there was Nic Maddinson.

• Scott Spits

Bolters to the Australian Test team are seemingly becoming more commonplace these days.

Embattled opener Aaron Finch found his groove with a swashbuckling half-century as the Melbourne Renegades downed the Sydney Thunder by 48 runs.

• Martin Flanagan

In 2012, Ian Coutts visited the small western Victorian town of Harrow as an Australia Day ambassador, and was struck by the local history centre and the story it told of ...

• Scott Spits

He's current out of the Australian team but a mountain of runs from Adam Voges has earned the veteran batsman a prime middle order spot in the ICC Test Team of the Year.

• Chris Barrett, Andrew Wu

Australia's selectors have made some head-scratching selections, and the same can be said of the men who picked the International Cricket Council's Test team of the year.

• Scott Spits

It's the season-opener for the Melbourne Renegades at Etihad Stadium. Just a few days before Christmas, cricket fans have taken advantage of a beautiful Melbourne day to head ...

• Jon Pierik, Andrew Wu

Former Australian captain Mark Taylor says David Warner's drop in form is "cyclical" and has backed him to end his Boxing Day bogey in the second Test against Pakistan.

• Andrew Wu

Pakistan assistant coach Steve Rixon has lobbed a grenade at the Australian dressing room, suggesting the team's coaching staff is telling captain Steve Smith what fields to set.

• Myles Houlbrook-Walk

Among other things on his Christmas list, Sydney Sixers fast bowler Doug Bollinger wants a victory in his first home game of the Big Bash League against the Hobart Hurricanes ...

• Jon Pierik

As he fights for his Test future, Nathan Lyon is expected to be confronted with a turning MCG deck which could unexpectedly work against him in the second Test against Pakistan.

• Claire Siracusa

There were fireworks during the Big Bash League clash at Adelaide Oval on Wednesday night, but not all of them were on the field.

• Jon Pierik

Cricket Australia has questioned whether it will continue to provide direct funding of the players association, as tensions grow between the parties.

• Mitchell Van Homrigh

Most eyes were on Brendan McCullum, Chris Lynn and Ben Cutting as they lit up Adelaide Oval in a thrilling win over the Strikers, but there was a debutant for the Brisbane ...

South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has lost his appeal against a charge of ball-tampering, which stemmed from the recent second Test in Hobart, against Australia.

Brisbane Heat recruit Alex Ross revealed he was the subject of some verbal barbs from his former Adelaide Strikers teammates before having the last laugh in his side's ...

• James Buckley

Ryan Gibson is fast emerging as one of the Sydney Thunder's key men in this season's Big Bash League.