Written by Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 34th over: Australia 119-5 (Webster 36, Carey 14) Another wallop by Webster. This one gets him three runs through point from Krishna’s first ball and makes him Australia’s top scorer. Krishna is still getting lift and zip from this pitch even […]
The Matildas may have offered the nation a historic ratings bonanza last year, but in 2024 the list of Australia’s most-watched sporting broadcasts returned to orthodoxy despite a shift from the old idiot box towards smart TVs and gadgets. Free-to-air live sports dominate the list of most watched programmes. So dominant are sporting events only […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 93rd over: Australia 342-6 (Smith 78, Cummins 25) Finally a bouncer! Bumrah revs it up to 138kph and Cummins is immediately made to look awkward. He flinches at the next one too, a little rattled. India’s captain moves a leg gully […]
My father was a man of his generation, which meant when summer rolled around and the cricket season started, he insisted on muting Channel Nine’s coverage and blasting the ABC’s radio commentary instead. Ours was a complicated relationship but one thing for which I’ll be forever grateful was the way my father shared his love […]
Australia have only just begun the first of back-to-back home summers where an ageing side is seeking to cement its legacy in a pair of Test series against arch-rivals India and England. Yet one match into the stretch of 10 high-stakes clashes and cracks are already starting to appear that might end some international red-ball […]
Cricket Australia will fly flags at half-mast and black armbands will return to players’ uniforms as the sport prepares to mark the 10-year anniversary of Phillip Hughes’ death. Saturday’s Sheffield Shield round will begin two weeks of commemorations for Hughes, whose life was tragically cut short days before his 26th birthday in 2014. Officials have […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 90 mins: Cam Burgess digs a cross out from about the same spot inside the six-yard box that he scored an old goal from against Japan. The Socceroos survive their biggest scare of the night but Abdullah Al Hamddan’s pace is […]
Australia are no closer to landing on the opener to partner Usman Khajawa in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series after three of the leading contenders failed to grasp their opportunity on day one of the match against India A in Mackay. Sam Konstas and Cameron Bancroft were both dismissed for a duck […]