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England all out for 183 on opening day of India Test series
England captain Joe Root became his country’s most prolific run-scorer in history but it was an otherwise inauspicious beginning to the series for the hosts.
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Australia’s Twenty20 side staggers to seventh defeat in eight matches
Comfortably beaten by Bangladesh, the tourists fell 0-2 behind in a series that is not even being broadcast into Australia.
- by Daniel Brettig
Thompson in on-court stoush
Australian Jordan Thompson was held back by the umpire in a heated first round clash against Sweden's Elias Ymer at the Citi Open in Washington DC.
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Tour blackout: Australia thrashed by Bangladesh in match not broadcast on TV
Australian cricket followers will be able to watch England’s Test series against India on TV and hear it on radio even as the men’s national team remains subject to the first tour blackout in almost 30 years.
- by Daniel Brettig and Malcolm Conn
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Australian cricket
Australian cricket team’s first broadcast blackout since 1994 confirmed
Australia’s Twenty20 international series against Bangladesh will not be screened at home after Fox Sports declined to pick up the rights.
- by Malcolm Conn and Daniel Brettig
Warne tests positive for COVID-19
The 51-year-old former Test spinner is in isolation after feeling unwell before his team’s clash in The Hundred in the UK.
A new generation: Bailey replaces Hohns as selection chair
George Bailey’s appointment as Australia’s new selection chair marks an enormous generational shift, following the retirement of Trevor Hohns - making the former national white ball captain the youngest helmsman of the national panel in living memory.
- by Daniel Brettig
England’s Ashes boycott threats ‘unhelpful’ to families request
The threat of an Ashes boycott by the England team if they cannot bring their families to Australia this summer could make the situation worse.
- by Malcolm Conn
Ben Stokes to take ‘indefinite break’ from cricket to focus on mental health, injury recovery
The England all-rounder wants “to prioritise his mental wellbeing and to rest his left index finger”, which he broke in the Indian Premier League in April.
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Australian cricket
Chief selector Trevor Hohns, the last link to Australia’s dominant era, retires
Trevor Hohns, whose time in charge of selection adds up to a combined 16 years, quietly managed successful transitions of several generations of international cricketers.
- by Daniel Brettig