O'Keefe in hot water over offensive comments to female player
The 32-year-old was fined $20,000 over his drunken antics at the after-party of the Steve Waugh Medal in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Chris Barrett is a Sports Writer with The Sydney Morning Herald.
The 32-year-old was fined $20,000 over his drunken antics at the after-party of the Steve Waugh Medal in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Cricket Australia is looking into an alleged incident involving James Pattinson which followed Victoria's historic third straight Sheffield Shield win last week.
Cricket Australia's promotion of next summer's Ashes could be jeopardised, leading players having a filmed an advertisement for the series that stands to be shelved unless a truce can be reached to settle the continuing industrial dispute.
Australia's batsmen starred with seven centuries between them in the series clean sweep of Pakistan but Darren Lehmann has forecast that they will have to adopt different tactics and be prepared to "grind it out" to be competitive in India next month.
Australia have wrapped up victory in the third Test before tea on day five at the SCG, clinching a 3-0 series whitewash against Pakistan.
Andrew Jones believes it is feasible for the SCG to host a pink-ball match as well as retaining the New Year's Test.
A Test summer in which Australia were in deep in crisis heads into its final day with Steve Smith's team on the brink of a clean-sweep celebration.
It's been years since we've seen Border, Boon, Jones, McDermott and Steve Waugh assembled together on the SCG but that is set to happen this month when the 1987 World Cup-winning team is honoured.
Australian opener Matt Renshaw has been ruled out of the remaining two days of the third Test after being struck in the helmet for the second time in three days on Thursday.
There have been calls for Peter Handscomb to be installed as Australia's wicketkeeper ahead of next month's tour of India and despite the unlikeliness of that unfolding those campaigning for him were given no reason to be dissuaded on Thursday.
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