Australia are set to lock horns against New Zealand in a three-match T20I series at the latter's home. Ahead of the series, T20 captain Mitchell Marsh has confirmed the top order of the team. The series will be Australia's last T20 assignment before the big-ticket World Cup in June this year.
Australia defeated West Indies by eight wickets in the first ODI. Wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis (65), Cameron Green (77*) and skipper Steve Smith (79*) scored half-centuries each.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma saw his name move out of the top 10 for the batters in ICC's latest Test rankings owing to a 7-place rise of Australian batter Travis Head. Head smashed a return-to-form century against West Indies in Adelaide and helped Australia recover from a collapse to win the game.
India's star batter Virat Kohli competed with Australian captain Pat Cummins and World Cup 2023 final hero Travis Head for the biggest ICC award. Kohli was India's leading run-getter in Tests in 2023 and also won the Player of the Tournament award at the World Cup 2023.
Brisbane Heat played some outstanding brand of cricket during the course of the league stage. They won seven out of their 10 games, bagged 16 points and conceded just one. Sydney Sixers finished second on the points table.
Josh Hazlewood dazzled brightly with his spectacular performance with the ball. He bagged 4/44 in the first innings and backed it up with a match-winning fifer (5/35) in the second to leave West Indies dazed. Travis Head won the Player of the Match award for his gutsy 119 in the first innings.
Australia have already announced their playing XI for the opening Test of the series to be played at the Adelaide Oval. Steve Smith is all set to open the innings for the Aussies for the first time in his Test career.
Sunrisers Hyderabad signed star Sri Lankan spin all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga for a base price of INR 1.5 crore but had to scorch INR 20.50 crore to sign Australian captain Pat Cummins in the Indian Premier League 2024 auction.
Former Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner revealed that he has been blocked by the 2016 champions on social media websites. Warner wanted to report his Australian teammates Travis Head and Pat Cummins' stories since they were both picked by SRH but he couldn't.
The hero of the World Test Championship final and World Cup final for Australia, Travis Head is set to play for the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2024 edition of the IPL. Head last played in the IPL in 2017 for the Royal Challengers Bangalore and will be returning to the league after six years.
IPL auction 2024 Highlights: The auction is being held outside India for the first time in history as Dubai hosts the bidding war of the highly loved and popular league - IPL. MI, CSK, Royal Challengers Bangalore and all the other teams will be looking to boost their squads.
Australia have named their Playing XI for the 1st Test one day before the game in Perth. They have reappointed one of their World Cup stars as vice-captain of Tests. Australia and Pakistan will be playing three Test matches against each other.
David Warner is set to retire from Test cricket after the upcoming Pakistan series. While a few specialist openers are in fray to replace him, Travis Head's name also did the rounds after a brilliant show opening against India earlier this year.
Nahida has become the first-ever women's Bangladesh player to claim the ICC Player of the Month award. She has been fairly impressive with her performances in the recent past and brought laurels for the country.
Adelaide Strikers had a BBL 12 to forget as they managed to win just five out of their 14 games and finished second from the bottom on the points table.
Having scored more than 22,000 runs in Tests and ODIs, Brian Lara is one of the legends of cricket. Apart from the runs he scored, Lara is known for playing long innings as his knocks of 400* and 501* in red-ball cricket. Now, Lara has picked a current batter who can break those records.
The clock has started ticking for probably the biggest mini IPL auction in the recent few years with some of the biggest names in the pool to get picked on December 19 in Dubai. Among big names, seven of Australia's World Cup stars have registered themselves in the top bracket of INR 2 crore.
The Indian Premier League 2024 will have a lot of star attraction as it will lead to the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024, slated to be played in the USA and the West Indies.
One user on X (formerly Twitter) shared the video with a caption insinuating Sharma's dismissal was unfair. Another post featured an image purportedly showing Head dropping the catch, with a caption alleging that the third umpire failed to review it, claiming it was not out.
Several trolls targetted the wives of Australia's star allrounder Glenn Maxwell and Travis Head after Australia's domineering display in the final in Ahmedabad ended India's hopes of ending their drought at ICC events. Head was announced as the Player of the Match (POTM).
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