Ashton Agar has joined Northamptonshire for four Vitality Blast games, as a short-term replacement for Zimbabwe’s Sikander Raza. Agar, who has been named in Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign, will join the squad after the completion of the tournament, and will replace Raza when he heads off on national duty for Zimbabwe in their series

“The last nine years, I’ve prioritised Australian cricket. I have given myself a chance to give my body a break and spend some time away from cricket with my wife as well, so that’s certainly been where my head’s been for the last nine years,” Starc said at a press conference after the IPL 2024

Australia will be significantly shorthanded for their two T20 World Cup matches with players who were involved late into the IPL given the chance for a short break at home before heading to the Caribbean. They are set to have just nine players available for the match against Namibia on Tuesday (Wednesday morning Australia time)

One of the more forgettable IPL tournaments with the bat came to end with a lofted drive to long-on. It was Glenn Maxwell‘s fourth duck of the season for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. “What on earth was that from Glenn Maxwell?,” Kevin Pietersen said on the broadcast. “That there from Maxwell, I’m afraid to say, is

Pat Cummins is confident Australia can manage any turnover in personnel that comes over the next few years. He is hopeful that the majority of his Test side in particular can stay together while he is captain, with back-to-back home summers against India and England to come. While the retirement of David Warner at the

Travis Head might have taken this year’s IPL by storm, but he would like to limit his participation in T20 leagues to just two events per year and prioritise Test cricket. “This has been the first year in IPL for me in quite a while (since 2017),” Head told PTI. “I would put all my

Riley Meredith, the Australia fast bowler, has joined Somerset for their Vitality Blast campaign, and will remain with the club at least until the quarter-final stage of the competition. Meredith, 27, will also be available to play in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup group stages, plus a “managed number” of Vitality County Championship matches. “I’m

The new women’s domestic T20 competition in Australia will now be aligned to the eight WBBL clubs, alongside an ACT side, rather than state teams after pressure from Victoria and New South Wales over the proposed structure. The tournament, designed to make up for the reduced WBBL which has been trimmed to a 40-game regular

Jake Fraser-McGurk‘s stunning IPL made Australia’s selectors ponder a change to their T20 World Cup planning before it was decided they could not find room for him in the 15-player squad which will travel to the Caribbean. Despite an impressive home summer which included an ODI debut against West Indies he had been a long

Glenn Maxwell had one of his worst IPL’s ever to the point where he dropped himself midway through the tournament to save coach Andy Flower and captain Faf du Plessis having to make a difficult call that they ultimately might have made anyway. He was later recalled and dropped again having registered scores of 0,

Australia are set to take two travelling reserves to the T20 World Cup with Jake Fraser-McGurk and Matthew Short likely to be named as the 16th and 17th squad members who will join as cover in case of a tournament-ending injury to one of the first-choice 15. Australia’s chair of selectors George Bailey had suggested

Pat Cummins‘ key role in the controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow at Lord’s which ignited last year’s Ashes series has been revealed while team-mates have admitted they were concerned for Alex Carey‘s well-being in the aftermath. The incident, on the fourth day of the second Test, is a major theme in season three of The

Former South Africa limited-overs captain Johan Botha has been appointed as the new head coach of BBL reigning champions Brisbane Heat and Queensland in the Sheffield Shield and the Marsh Cup for the next three years. Botha, 42, was appointed following a thorough recruitment process in the wake of Wade Seccombe’s departure. Queensland WNCL and

Melbourne Renegades have hired Brisbane Heat BBL title-winning coach Wade Seccombe as their new high performance manager while former Australia fast bowler Clint McKay will take over as Melbourne Stars’ equivalent with the two clubs creating the new roles in an attempt to improve their on-field performance. Seccombe coached Heat to their second BBL title

Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting has lavished praise on Abishek Porel, the left-hand batter who has sparkled in multiple roles during IPL 2024, and indicated that he will don the keeping gloves against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on Sunday in the absence of the suspended Rishabh Pant. Capitals signed Porel in 2023 as a

Ben Dwarshuis, the Australia left-arm fast bowler, has signed for Durham for this summer’s Vitality Blast. Dwarshuis joins Durham as a replacement for Scott Boland, who was ruled out for the rest of the season with plantar fasciitis after playing in a solitary Championship match. Dwarshuis’s stint at Chester-le-Street comes off the back of a

Surrey have signed Australia fast bowler Spencer Johnson for their first eight matches of the Vitality Blast. The left-armer, who did not make the cut for Australia’s T20 World Cup squad, is no stranger to south London after turning out for Oval Invincibles last summer. He took five wickets for Invincibles in their successful 2023

A player found not guilty of rape will likely return to play for the Hobart Hurricanes in the BBL despite not informing the franchise about the criminal proceedings. In March, Nikhil Chaudhary was found not guilty by a jury of raping a 20-year-old woman in a car in Townsville in 2021. Cricket Tasmania says it

Skipper Mitchell Marsh will not be fit to bowl until the final week before Australia’s T20 World Cup squad heads to the Caribbean, but coach Andrew McDonald is confident he will be fully fit for the opening game of the tournament. Marsh was ruled out of the IPL early last month due to a hamstring

Rising star Jake Fraser-McGurk says he has no issues with missing out on Australia’s T20 World Cup squad and believes he wasn’t in a position to feel like he had earned a place in the final 15-member squad. Fraser-McGurk was a notable omission from Australia’s squad last week alongside Steven Smith as the selectors opted

Australia veteran Josh Hazlewood believes Jake Fraser-McGurk‘s time will come in Australian colours but lamented that there was no room for either him or Steven Smith in Australia’s 15-member T20 World Cup squad, admitting that Smith’s leadership and experience will be sorely missed in the Caribbean. Australia’s selectors caused a stir last week when they

Starc finally sizzles after early struggles Five games into the IPL, Mitchell Starc is starting to roll after claiming 3 for 28 in Kolkata’s Knight Riders’ big win over Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday night. Starc’s form had been a major talking point after his expensive start to the tournament given his huge price tag

The IPL has reached the halfway point, and some of Australia’s best T20 players made headlines for a variety of reasons in the first half of the tournament. Here is how they fared over the last week. Head’s hot streak bodes well for World Cup Travis Head has IPL bowlers shaking in their boots right

Injury worries aside, Stoinis sent a reminder of his ceiling as a T20 cricketer with a stunning unbeaten 124 to guide Lucknow Super Giants home against Chennai Super Kings. It was a masterclass in T20 batting having been promoted to No.3. He also showed that he can be more durable than he has been in

Pat Cummins continued to put on a masterclass with the ball and with his captaincy in the IPL as he steered Sunrisers Hyderabad to a thrilling final ball victory over Rajasthan Royals. He could have made things a lot easier for himself had he held a straightforward catch that Yashasvi Jaiswal offered in the powerplay

Australia have replaced India as the No. 1 Test team in the ICC men’s rankings after the annual update. India, though, have retained the top spot in the ODI and T20I rankings. In this cycle, the matches played only after May 2021 are taken into consideration for the ranking, which means India’s 2-1 series win

A decision on Will Pucovski‘s playing future has been delayed with Victoria receiving a special exemption from Cricket Australia (CA) on his state contract after his assessment with a medical panel was pushed back due to the fact he had suffered extended symptoms from his latest concussion in March. Cricket Victoria (CV) finally released their

Paddy Dooley has been left off Tasmania’s contract list after the Tigers went on a spin-recruitment drive to land Test spinner Matthew Kuhnemann and Australia Under-19 World Cup winning offspinner Raf MacMillan. Dooley was recruited from Queensland for the 2023-24 season after joining Hobart Hurricanes in the BBL and played seven of Tasmania’s eight Marsh

Australia’s new T20I captain Mitchell Marsh has confirmed his recovery from a hamstring “is on track” despite initially taking longer than expected, although he admits he can’t afford a setback in the build-up in Australia’s first World Cup match against Oman on June 6 in Barbados. Marsh has not played since his last appearance for

Australia’s brightest young T20 batting talent Jake Fraser-McGurk and one of their finest three-format batters of the generation Steven Smith have both been left out of Australia’s provisional 15-member T20 World Cup squad with selectors opting to take a second specialist spinner in Ashton Agar and a spare allrounder in Cameron Green to give them