Sport
Cricket
Why Labuschagne is Australia’s World Cup fall guy as Sangha, Hardie lead Gen Next
Test star Marnus Labuschagne has been left out of Australia’s upcoming World Cup campaign in India as Pat Cummins rests up with a fractured wrist and a pair of bolters are named.
- by Dan Walsh
Latest
Cummins played final Test with a suspected fractured wrist
A young leg-spinner is a chance to be named next week for the limited-overs tours of South Africa and India that will be a strong pointer to Australia’s World Cup campaign.
- by Andrew Wu
Khawaja fumes after Australia, England stung by over rates
A revised system for over rate penalties in Tests has still resulted in major fines and points lost for Australia and England.
- by Daniel Brettig
World Cup Warner facing home Test threat from Shield rivals
David Warner may be overtaken in the Test queue for the home summer by Sheffield Shield performers during the ODI World Cup later this year.
- by Daniel Brettig
Two-match series are killing Test cricket: McDonald
Cricket’s leaders should set a three-match minimum for all Test series if they truly wish to keep the game’s longest format flourishing, Australian coach Andrew McDonald declared after an enthralling Ashes series.
- by Daniel Brettig
Opinion
The Ashes
A salute to Bazball: It works, damn it
England didn’t wrestle the Ashes back from Australia’s grasp, but they did validate their post-modern game. Bazball can’t be dismissed as a gimmick, and some interesting years lie ahead.
- by Greg Baum
Snake halts play during Twenty20 match in Sri Lanka
The Lanka Premier League match between Galle Titans and Dambulla Aura had to be stopped when players noticed an unwelcome visitor during the latter’s innings.
Australian players locked out of post-series drink with England
Ben Stokes took to social media at 4:11 am local time to clarify the “misunderstanding” that prevented the two teams from meeting up for the traditional post-series drink in the dressing room.
- by Malcolm Conn, Daniel Brettig and Andrew Wu
Analysis
The Ashes
All they’ll be remembered for: Why this was an Ashes series for our polarised times
Like so much else in 2023, the Ashes series polarised: from the Jonny Bairstow stumping, to the contrasting plans of the two teams going head-to-head.
- by Daniel Brettig
Satire
The Ashes
If the Moral Ashes mattered: World Test championship, Ashes retention are no consolation for losing Moral Urn
Australia’s triumph in the World Test Championship final, and retention of the Ashes on English soil for only the second time since 2001, have failed to ease the anger on these shores at the failure of Cummins’ men to regain the Moral Urn.
- by Andrew Wu
‘Missed opportunity’: Cummins laments series draw as Ashes era ends
With just two Test regulars under 30, the selectors will look to start regenerating the team after Australia failed to seal their first series win in England for 22 years.
- by Malcolm Conn