Frustrated by the state of the practice and warm-up pitches dished up on previous tours of the subcontinent, Australia plan to prepare for the Indian Test series in Dubai.
In the corresponding fixture last year, more than 80,000 fans converged on the MCG. No-one expected such as turn-out. The Stars have usually had the edge over their cross-town ...
Another Melbourne derby, another BBL uptick. Undeterred by the woozy weather, more than 71,000 crammed into the MCG to see the the Renegades upset the Stars, also to see ...
Former captain Ricky Ponting has become the third ex-international to take on an interim coaching role with the Australian Twenty20 team next month.
Plus playing at Manuka Oval will help lure players to any Canberra franchise.
Melbourne Stars captain Meg Lanning fronted the match referee for clarification on cricket's rain rule after her team was upset in Sunday's rain-marred women's Big Bash League ...
Sean Abbott has revealed the secret behind his rapid rise to the top of the Big Bash bowling ranks.
Starc's match-winning exploits in Melbourne completed a bumper 2016 for the left-arm speedster and Hazlewood enters the third Test against Pakistan also coming off a fine year ...
His lean record with the ball has raised questions ahead of his likely Test debut, but Hilton Cartwright is adamant he can fill the third seamer's role for Australia in the ...
England are at a crossroads - so what needs to change?
The Strikers' have extended their unbeaten New Year's Eve record at the expense of the Sydney Sixers.
Branded a limited-overs specialist and not a red-ball player by Shane Warne, Steve O'Keefe has declared himself comfortable in his own skin as he seeks to ram home with ...
Agar hasn't played a Test since the 2013 Ashes but his latest inclusion in the Australian squad brings with it hope that he can return to the XI, for the Sydney Test against ...
Former Test spinner Greg Matthews expects Steve O'Keefe to join Nathan Lyon in the Aussie XI.
Darren Lehmann says the challenge for his Australian team in the new year is to flourish in more unforgiving conditions, having emerged against Pakistan victorious on a flat ...
Clint McKay says Shane Watson and Andre Russell can save the Thunder's ailing Big Bash season.
The series between Australia and Pakistan has been played in good spirit but there is clearly some acrimony off the ground.
If you build it, they will come. And come they did indeed. In big numbers. Twelve months ago a staggering crowd of 80,883 descended on the MCG for the Big Bash League ...
The team may have already been picked but there was no shortage of advice for national selector Mark Waugh at the Gabba on Friday night.
The priority for the Australian cricket team right now is not to find or invent an all-rounder to ease workloads, it is to confirm a No.6 who can play spin well and find a ...
It was a hard act to follow but master blaster Chris Lynn has done it again.
Selector and coach Darren Lehmann has given off-spinner Nathan Lyon a ringing endorsement, saying he remains the country's No.1 slow bowler as Australia drafted tweakers Steve ...
Herewith a lesson in not giving up, for Australia, for the Boxing Day faithful, for Test cricket aficionados everywhere.
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq could take the extraordinary step of quitting ahead of next week's third Test as a result of the fall-out of the losing Boxing Day clash.
Who knows where this Pakistan cricket team would be without their captain, Misbah-ul-Haq.
Having almost won the unwinnable in Brisbane, Pakistan proceeded to lose the unloseable in Melbourne. Each is a rare and acquired art, but it is at the latter that they have ...
Former England Test star Kevin Pietersen believes corruption in cricket will never be fully stamped out as fresh reports of bookmakers targeting young Australian cricketers emerge.
Nathan Lyon responded to criticism from his captain and coach by producing his best spell of the summer as Australia capitalised on a "sloppy" Pakistan to conjure a remarkable ...
Follow full live coverage of the final day of the second Test from the MCG.
Canberra's best hope of securing BBL content looks to be a Sydney Thunder match.
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