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Back in the baggy green? Selectors plan for Glenn Maxwell’s Test comeback

Back in the baggy green? Selectors plan for Glenn Maxwell’s Test comeback

Glenn Maxwell is in line for a long-awaited return to Australia’s Test team this summer, as the national selectors ponder a radically altered line-up.

  • by Daniel Brettig

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Who is Cooper Connolly? The story behind Australian cricket’s newest wildcard

Who is Cooper Connolly? The story behind Australian cricket’s newest wildcard

Connolly’s composure has already taken him a long way. Selectors now hope his combination of calmness and power will help the 20-year-old grow into one of the most important role players in the national set-up.

  • by Daniel Brettig
Australia are about to tour England. This is why it’s bad for cricket

Australia are about to tour England. This is why it’s bad for cricket

Cricket’s international calendar will be placed under renewed scrutiny when Australia tour Scotland and England next month for a series of matches with no meaning or context whatsoever.

  • by Daniel Brettig
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
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
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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
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