REUTERS – Australia captain Steve Smith was named ICC Cricketer of the Year for 2015 on Wednesday after scoring a world leading 1,734 runs at an average of 82.57 with seven centuries over the voting period. The 26-year-old right-hander kept the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in Australia for the third straight year after pace bowler […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia batsman David Warner has profited from his opening partnership with Joe Burns but the fledgling relationship could be nipped in the bud by selectors for the Boxing Day test against West Indies. Since teaming up with Queenslander Burns in the opening test of the New Zealand series, Warner has smashed three […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Frustrated coach Phil Simmons has called on the West Indies Cricket Board to do more to get top players back into the test team rather than playing in lucrative Twenty20 tournaments. Chris Gayle and a plethora of West Indies cricketers have lit up Australia’s domestic Big Bash League tournament, even as the […]
REUTERS – Australia captain Steve Smith was named ICC Cricketer of the Year for 2015 on Wednesday after scoring a world leading 1,734 runs at an average of 82.57 with seven centuries over the voting period. The 26-year-old right-hander kept the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in Australia for the third straight year after pace bowler […]
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Mitchell Marsh’s spot in a rebuilding Australia side is assured for at least the Boxing Day test against West Indies but the all-rounder is feeling some heat to score runs to shore up his place. The 24-year-old has been a virtual fixture since replacing Shane Watson after the first […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Uncapped pace bowler Scott Boland has been called up to the Australia squad for the second test against West Indies after Nathan Coulter-Nile dislocated his shoulder in a domestic Twenty20 match, Cricket Australia said on Tuesday. Boland joins Josh Hazlewood, Peter Siddle and James Pattinson as the pace options for the Boxing […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – West Indies are considering a recall for leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo as they look to fight their way back into the series in the second test against Australia later this week. The tourists’ bowlers were flogged to all parts of the Bellerive Oval during the innings and 212 run defeat in Hobart which […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Usman Khawaja proved his fitness with an unbeaten century in the domestic Twenty20 Big Bash League at the weekend to secure his place in the Australia team for the second test against West Indies. Australia coach Darren Lehmann had said the top order batsman’s place in the team for the Melbourne test, […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – West Indies coach Phil Simmons has lamented a lack of match practice for his embattled team ahead of the second test against Australia. The Caribbeans, trailing 1-0 in the three-match series after being trounced in the series opener in Hobart, were given only a two-day tour match in the leadup to the […]
By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A year on from taking the reins from an injured Michael Clarke, Australia captain Steve Smith has passed most of the tests presented in leading a team in the throes of transition. While Smith’s formal coronation followed Australia’s stinging Ashes defeat in England, his first taste of the captaincy […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia spinner Nathan Lyon fought hard to cement his place in the test team and now hopes to convince selectors of his white ball prowess in time for the World Twenty20 in India. Lyon celebrated his 50th test against West Indies in Hobart last week but played the last of his eight […]
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Usman Khawaja’s bid to reclaim his spot in Australia’s top order for the Boxing Day test against West Indies is back on track after the batsman was passed fit to play in the domestic Twenty20 competition. Khawaja missed the West Indies series-opener in Hobart and the third and final test against New […]
