8:45 AM IST Australia Women’s vice-captain Rachael Haynes is willing to take on any role asked of her at next year’s ODI World Cup even it means giving up the opening position where she made her maiden century at the start of the last season. In three matches against Sri Lanka, which were the only
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2:52 PM IST Cricket Australia’s financial warnings have been questioned by the players’ association which has said the game’s position remains positive with the sport not yet feeling the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic suffered by the winter codes. The Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA), led by chairman Shane Watson, met on Monday and will now
Marnus Labuschagne discusses his batting with Justin Langer © Getty Images Australian cricketers will need to be prepared to do more for themselves when the game returns in a world reshaped by the Covid-19 pandemic. One fallout from the crisis could be a reduction in the support staff around the national teams as Cricket Australia
Yuvraj Singh led the Indian batting charge with an 80-ball 84 © Getty Images The world champions are taking an early flight home from Nairobi. Australia had beaten India in seven straight ODIs prior to this to be the outright favourites coming into the first quarter-final of the ICC Knockouts, but a young Indian team
11:10 AM IST Marnus Labuschagne has rigged up nets in his backyard so that his fence doesn’t get damaged, has got the dog-thrower working and taped up tennis balls to keep his hand in during isolation, but the enforced downtime of the last couple of months has also given him a chance to reflect on
3:33 PM IST The fate of the men’s T20 World Cup in Australia, slated for later this year, could yet come down to the likely absence of crowds rather than the challenge of getting teams into the country. The shape of the 2020-21 season in Australia remains in significant doubt, but there have been a
3:17 PM IST Kevin Roberts, the Cricket Australia chief executive, has given no indication the governing body will rethink its drastic cuts to the salaries of staff who have been stood down, even though he apologised to employees for the way the decision was communicated. As the CA chairman Earl Eddings and fellow director Paul
4:00 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Ellyse Perry, the premier Australia allrounder, has been re-signed by her WBBL franchise, Sydney Sixers, for a further two seasons. The leading run-scorer in the WBBL, with 2612 runs against her name and 32 wickets to boot, Perry has captained the Sixers since the domestic T20 league’s inaugural edition in
A view across the redeveloped Junction Oval in Melbourne © Getty Images Up to half of Cricket Victoria’s staff have been sacrificed, with community cricket particularly hard hit, in a restructuring of the state association that has been explained away as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic but has origins stretching back nearly a decade.
2:16 PM IST Shining the ball with saliva or sweat will be restricted in Australia under a framework released by the federal government about the staged return of both professional and recreational sport amid the coronavirus pandemic. The guidelines, drawn up by the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in conjunction with medical experts, sporting bodies
George Bailey has made an early impression on the selection process © Getty Images Players left off Cricket Australia’s men’s contract list for next season will not feel any better than the countless others to have a similar experience over the 35 years since the governing body unified marketing and playing contracts into one authoritative
5:15 PM IST Cricket’s custodians in Australia should have the luxury of being able to wait on the outcomes of the winter football codes’ attempts to return to play before making any far-reaching decisions about cutbacks to the game’s costs, the Queensland board director Ian Healy has said. As Cricket Australia (CA), their state association
8:16 AM IST Usman Khawaja and Marcus Stoinis have lost their Cricket Australia contracts after falling out of favour with the national selectors over the past 12 months, leaving both with a particularly steep battle to return to international cricket whenever it resumes after the coronavirus pandemic. Alongside Nathan Coulter-Nile, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Harris, Shaun
11:59 AM IST Tahlia McGrath, who was handed a Cricket Australia contract for the 2020-21 season, could be tasked with filling the sizeable shoes of Ellyse Perry should the world’s No. 1 allrounder suffer any delays or setbacks in her recovery from hamstring surgery and has also had her leadership credentials endorsed. McGrath, 24, was
Tahlia McGrath pulls © Getty Images Allrounder Tahlia McGrath has been included among 15 contracts handed out for Australia’s women’s squad alongside the expected inclusions of fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck and allrounder Annabel Sutherland. Top-order batters Nicole Bolton and Elyse Villani lose their deals having dropped out of the reckoning over the last 12 months.
4:57 PM IST Scotland are willing to host their scheduled games against New Zealand and Australia behind closed doors if necessary, but will wait on guidance from those boards and government advice before making any decisions. While the fixtures are yet to be officially postponed, it looks highly unlikely that they will take place as
12:17 PM IST Australian cricket’s state associations and players’ union will be presented with Cricket Australia’s opened financial books and forecasts on Thursday, the same day centrally contracted players for Australia’s men’s and women’s team are to be announced. While April 30 had always been set down as the deadline for CA central contracts to
2:59 AM GMT Malcolm Speed, the former Cricket Australia chief executive, believes the incumbent Kevin Roberts has “stumbled” in trying to explain how the game’s finances have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and also stressed that any chief executive must work to build respect rather than popularity. CA is now attempting to deal with
5:44 AM GMT There remain more questions than answers about how the next Australia cricket season will look due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but Australia batter Beth Mooney believes the Women’s Big Bash could be a success as a domestic players only event if international travel remained restricted. The WBBL would be
2:04 AM GMT What’s the latest situation at Cricket Australia? The majority of staff, approximately 200, will be stood down next week on 20% of their salary or the equivalent of the Australian government’s JobKeeper payment of A$1500 per fortnight, which was introduced to help companies during the pandemic, until the end of the financial
5:19 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Graeme Watson, the former Australia allrounder who was battling cancer, has died at the age of 75. Primarily a middle-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler, he played five Tests from 1967 to 1972 and two ODIs in 1972. After starting his domestic career at Victoria, Watson earned an Australia call-up
3:49 PM GMT India 275 for 4 (Tendulkar 134, Azharuddin 58, Fleming 2-47, Kasprowicz 2-48) beat Australia 272 for 9 (S Waugh 70, Lehmann 70, Prasad 2-32, Kanitkar 2-58, Agarkar 2-61) by six wickets Is sport at its best when it throws up the unpredictable? Or does it reach its heights when a genius shows
8:04 AM GMT International exemptions to allow an India touring party to arrive in Australia next summer would be seriously considered by the federal government in the event of wider travel bans, strongly suggesting that Cricket Australia will be able to avoid losing up to A$300 million in revenue in the wake of the coronavirus
Peter Handscomb was appointed Middlesex captain in November © Quinn Rooney/Getty Images Under normal circumstances, Peter Handscomb would have just finished leading Middlesex in their second County Championship fixture of the season against Glamorgan. Instead, the closest he has come to his new team is phone calls from the other side of the world with
2:06 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Essex have announced that Peter Siddle‘s contract has been deferred to 2021 on account of the coronavirus pandemic. Siddle, 35, had been due to spend a third season as the club’s overseas player in the County Championship and the Royal London Cup, but following the postponement of the campaign and
9:09 AM GMT Big picture It is said often that cricket is an individual pursuit masquerading as a team sport. On April 22, Sachin Tendulkar proved and disproved it at the same time. Having fielded and bowled in the crazy heat of a Sharjah April afternoon, Tendulkar dipped his feet in ice to manage the
6:23 PM GMT Cricket has never faced a crisis quite like this. With much of the world still deep in Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns, administrators are facing an unprecedented situation. At some point in the near future, sport will resume but in what form, when and where exactly, no-one knows. On Thursday, the chief executives of
2:35 AM GMT Stood down staff at Cricket Australia may find themselves working at Woolworths after the chief executive Kevin Roberts approached the supermarket giant and cricket sponsor about temporary work opportunities amid the coronavirus pandemic. Roberts, who has maintained there is a united front in cricket about cash-saving decisions including mass staff stand downs
CA is believed to be planning for a 50% reduction in revenue for next summer © Getty Images Kevin Roberts, the Cricket Australia chief executive, has faced questions from staff about the decisions to stand down all but a handful of employees on 80% wage cuts until July for a saving of only A$3 million
9:11 AM GMT A five-Test series played exclusively at Adelaide Oval with players housed in the ground’s new hotel is far from an outlandish suggestion as Cricket Australia contemplates all possible ways of ensuring that India’s scheduled tour takes place next summer in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. CA’s chief executive Kevin Roberts stressed