Adam Zampa could play his first red-ball cricket since the 2022-23 season after being named in New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield squad to face Tasmania while Australia white-ball quick Xavier Bartlett is set for a first-class return after injury. Zampa last played a first-class match in February 2023 but has a window in his schedule […]

The fixture, which was announced by Cricket Australia (CA) earlier this August, will replicate the Centenary Test of 1977 which Australia won by 45 runs, matching the margin of victory in the first Test played in 1877, which was also won by Australia. Source link

India opener KL Rahul fell to a debatable DRS decision before lunch on the first day of the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test in Perth, with Sanjay Manjrekar saying such an “important decision” should have been made with more visual evidence. Rahul, batting on 26, had been given not out by on-field umpire Richard Kettleborough, after

Keep an eye on Nitish Kumar Reddy this series, says Morne Morkel. India’s bowling coach is hopeful that the bowling attack they have brought over to Australia can cause problems, especially with the conditions in Perth. Morkel has had his work cut out over the past few days, overseeing a set of bowlers who haven’t

Scott Boland will play for the Prime Minister’s XI in the two-day pink-ball fixture against India in Canberra in order to keep himself match ready should he be needed during the Test series. Sam Konstas, who played for Australia A against India A, will also feature alongside Matt Renshaw who was overlooked for that series

Archer, 29, recently returned to action, following a long injury lay-off, playing in the white ball series in the West Indies. At the 2022 mega auction Mumbai Indians had shelled out INR 8 crore (USD 1.06 million approx. then) on Archer even though the England fast bowler had just undergone elbow surgery at the time

Mohammad Nazir, the former Pakistan offspinner and umpire, has died. Nazir jr, as he was also known, died in Lahore after a protracted illness. He was 78. He played 14 Tests and four ODIs for Pakistan. Although the Tests were spread across 14 years, he was best remembered for the impact in his very first

India had last played a day-night Test, against Sri Lanka, in Bengaluru in March 2022, when they won by 238 runs. When India last played a day-night Test at the Adelaide Oval, they folded for 36 in their second innings but they bounced back spectacularly to win the series 2-1. Source link

Jasprit Bumrah and Pat Cummins kinda sorta sparkled in their freshly pressed Test whites on Thursday morning. Swap the green grass for a catwalk stage and Perth for Paris – the picture would’ve been complete. A photo op with the Border-Gavaskar trophy brought two of the world’s leading fast bowlers together and over the next

The wait is finally over, and Pat Cummins might feel a sense of relief that the Border-Gavaskar series has arrived. He stood on the outfield at the MCG three weeks ago, the day before the start of an ODI series against Pakistan and fielded more questions about the Test side than he did about the