Posts Tagged "Australian Cricket"

With his bright red hair, tall frame and fierce winning instinct, Alister McDermott cuts a familiar figure on the cricket pitch. That’s because, like his father, former fast bowler and current Australian bowling coach Craig McDermott, Alister is on track for greatness.

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Former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh says the need for succession planning, particularly for the coming post-Ponting years, is upon us.

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It is obvious that Australia’s batting line-up is not settled. We have had five different openers since the start of the Ashes series.

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National selectors mustn’t make the same mistake again with Shaun Marsh. The 28 year-old left-hander has had two vastly different Test “careers”. The first against Sri Lanka with an outstanding 141 on debut, followed by 81, and 18, then 44 and a duck against South Africa.

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Australian one-day player David Hussey has lofty goals for whatever is left of his international cricketing career.

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Only two days after appearing to rejuvenate their barren tour, the Indian cricket team again lost direction in Sunday night’s heavy loss to Australia.

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While Michael Clarke led his baggy greens to a surprise 4-0 whitewash of India, Andrew Strauss led England to an humiliating 3-0 whitewash by Pakistan.

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Besieged left-hander Shaun Marsh will attempt to revive his Test hopes at the Gabba when Western Australia meet Queensland in a top-of-the-table Sheffield Shield clash starting on Monday.

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Former Test No.3 Usman Khawaja is refusing to look as far ahead as Australia’s tour to the West Indies as he focuses on continuing his century-making form in this week’s Sheffield Shield clash with Tasmania.

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Luckless Brett Lee’s broken little toe has forced the paceman out of the triangular one-day series in the latest injury to hit Australia’s fast bowling ranks.

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Top one-day cricket team Australia rallied from a shaky start to dominate India in their rain-shortened match at the MCG.

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At the beginning of the Australian summer of 1999, there were pleas from across the nation to allow Ian Healy one last Test series before retiring. As the selectors stood firm, the appeals were reduced to just one last home Test at the Gabba.

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Australia took on India in the first match of the ODI cricket series at the MCG.

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Give or take a few one-day cricket matches and a Davis Cup tie, the summer sports of tennis and cricket have come to an end. Compared to last summer, I am guessing most fans of these sports will have hope in their hearts.

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There are two avenues bowlers can use to build pressure in Test match cricket. The first is to beat the outside edge, strike the pad, coax the batsmen into playing shots they normally wouldn’t, create chances, and make the striker’s end an unnerving, uncomfortable place to be.

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In the last few years, cricket came to a crossroads, took a turn to the capitalist right, and blew on through a few more intersections.

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India have boosted their confidence ahead of Sunday’s opening one-day game against Australia, levelling the Twenty20 series with the home side 1-1.

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The suicidal run-out of Australian opening batsman Aaron Finch opened the door for the Indians to win their first game of the tour by eight wickets at the MCG last night.

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Cricket Australia may be basking in the afterglow of the Big Bash League, but another huge test is looming. Last night marked the end of Twenty20 international cricket in Australia for the summer and the coming month is filled with matches many fans see as irrelevant.

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New Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene is adamant his unpaid squad can put their money woes and off-field dramas behind them to turn around what’s been a bleak patch of Test and one-day results.

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