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Tests or T20? Top players may skip BBL after India showdown

Tests or T20? Top players may skip BBL after India showdown

Australia’s showdown with India and a bid for back-to-back world Test titles may keep all but a handful of Pat Cummins’ team from featuring in the Big Bash League this season.

  • by Daniel Brettig

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Newcomer thrives as cricket’s circle of life closes in on Jimmy Anderson

Newcomer thrives as cricket’s circle of life closes in on Jimmy Anderson

Jimmy Anderson started his Test cricket career with a bag of wickets at Lord’s, just as Gus Atkinson did on debut in Anderson’s farewell Test 21 years later.

  • by Adam Collins
‘Not laughing’: Starc still sore from Afghanistan cup snub

‘Not laughing’: Starc still sore from Afghanistan cup snub

Mitchell Starc has spoken of his unhappiness at being dropped for Australia’s T20 World Cup game against Afghanistan and has criticised the tournament’s format.

  • by Daniel Brettig
Blond highlights: Keeping pace with Anderson’s remarkable 20-year Test career
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Test cricket

Blond highlights: Keeping pace with Anderson’s remarkable 20-year Test career

Australians first laid eyes on a peroxide-tipped Jimmy Anderson more than two decades ago. As he prepares for his farewell from the Test arena, we pick out five of the pace legend’s finest moments.

  • by Dan Walsh
‘Needs more oxygen’: Call for Amazon to share women’s World Cup with free-to-air network

‘Needs more oxygen’: Call for Amazon to share women’s World Cup with free-to-air network

Amazon should simulcast Australia’s matches for the upcoming women’s Twenty20 World Cup with a free-to-air network to maximise its audience, according to the former executive who oversaw the WBBL’s rise to the fourth most-watched sporting league in the country.

  • by Daniel Brettig
Global warning: Test cricket may shrink to six teams within four years
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Test cricket

Global warning: Test cricket may shrink to six teams within four years

Test cricket may be played by as few as six countries within a few years without greater equalisation measures by its richest boards – India, England and Australia.

  • by Daniel Brettig
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His dad is Modi’s right-hand man. India’s Jay Shah may soon be running world cricket
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India

His dad is Modi’s right-hand man. India’s Jay Shah may soon be running world cricket

Why was Jay Shah on the podium when India won the Twenty20 World Cup? There is an election coming up.

  • by Daniel Brettig
The Bazball reality: England entertain, but their opponents win
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England

The Bazball reality: England entertain, but their opponents win

England’s lofty Bazball rhetoric is divorced from the reality that Ben Stokes’ team faces. They entertain; their opponents win.

  • by Daniel Brettig
Stokes sledges Aussies again as Labuschagne’s county side fall one short in world record chase

Stokes sledges Aussies again as Labuschagne’s county side fall one short in world record chase

Marnus Labuschagne and Glamorgan captain Sam Northeast both scored centuries to set up a grandstand finish in the county clash against Gloucestershire.

‘Jonny will hate me saying this’: Root admits Lord’s stumping was fair

‘Jonny will hate me saying this’: Root admits Lord’s stumping was fair

Jonny Bairstow was dropped from the England Test team this week, and has now had a big-name teammate admit his Lord’s stumping was fair.

  • by Daniel Brettig
Afghanistan’s women cricketers are in exile in Australia, unable to play. This is their plea

Afghanistan’s women cricketers are in exile in Australia, unable to play. This is their plea

The cricketers want the game’s power brokers to fund formation of a team outside Taliban control.

  • by Daniel Brettig