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‘If Steve Smith opens…’: Michael Clarke makes bold prediction after David Warner’s retirement

With David Warner hanging up his boots from Test cricket for Australia, a vacancy has opened up at the top of the batting order for the side. There are plenty of players who can stake a claim to be Warner’s replacement at the top of the batting order, including the likes of Cameron Bancroft, Marcus Harris and Cameron Green. The country’s World Cup-winning captain Ricky Ponting has backed Bancroft to take up the role left open after Warner played his 112th and final Test for Australia: against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground last week. However, Australia’s World Cup winning captain Michael Clarke has thrown his weight behind Steve Smith as Australia’s Test opener. Clarke went as far as saying that the veteran batter can become the best opener in 12 months if he is given a chance. “...

22Dec

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Usman Khawaja says he will contest ICC’s armband charge, claims it was for ‘personal bereavement’

Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has said that he will not wear a black armband for the Test match against Pakistan at the MCG, but will challenge the charge against him by the International Cricket Council. Khawaja was reprimanded by the ICC for sporting a black armband on his arm in the first Test against Pakistan at Perth, which Australia won convincingly by 360 runs. It must be noted that the ICC reprimand does not carry a financial or playing penalty. “The ICC asked me day two (of the Perth Test) what (the black armband) was for, I told them it was for a personal bereavement. I never ever stated it was for anything else,” Khawaja told reporters on Friday. “I respect the ICC and all the regulations they have, I will be asking them and contesting them… From my point of view, that ...

15Dec

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He doesn’t deserve it: Ricky Ponting on Glenn Maxwell’s bid to return to Test cricket for Australia

As explosive batter Glenn Maxwell eyes a return to the Australian Test side in 2025, former skipper Ricky Ponting thinks otherwise. “No one deserves a chance unless you’ve got a truckload of first-class runs behind you. I’m a no; he doesn’t deserve it. But, if he gets a chance to go back and make some first-class runs, then he can force his way back in,” Ponting said on Channel 7. Maxwell, who is one of the stars of Australia’s triumphant 2023 world Cup campaign, has played only 7 Tests for the Baggy Greens since his debut in 2013 with his last match coming against Bangladesh in 2017. He has made just 44 Shield appearances in his career, representing Victoria and since October 2019, he has made just one appearance in the tournament. He, however, has played in the County Championship la...

13Dec

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Why Usman Khawaja won’t be wearing shoes featuring human rights slogans for Palestinians in Gaza

Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has decided to abort his plan to have sporting messages of support for Palestinians in Gaza written on his shoes for the first Test against Pakistan at Perth’s Optus Stadium, which will start from Thursday. The Pakistan-born opener had shown off messages like “Freedom is a human right” and “All lives are equal”, written on his playing shoes in the colours of the Palestinian flag, during Australian cricket team’s training session on Tuesday ahead of the first Test against Pakistan. When asked by journalists if he was planning on sporting those messages on his shoes for the match against Pakistan, he had replied in the affirmative. But Australian captain Pat Cummins told journalists on Wednesday that the player has had a change of heart. “He had some w...

12Dec

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Australia’s Usman Khawaja to show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza with messages on shoes

Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja plans to show solidarity with Palestinians by sporting shoes with slogans on them during the Test match against Pakistan cricket team at Perth. On Tuesday, as the Australian cricket team held a training session ahead of the first Test, photographs emerged of Khawaja’s shoes bearing the messages: “Freedom is a human right” and “All lives are equal”. Israeli forces have attacked Gaza in retaliation ever since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. The cricketer then confirmed to Sydney Morning Herald that he was planning on wearing the shoes on Day 1 of the first Test in Perth. The two teams will play the second Test in Melbourne before the last match in Sydney. The batter has shared a couple of posts on social media about the Israel-Palestine conflict, mak...

2Dec

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India vs Australia tip off XI: Washington Sundar to get a game, Deepak Chahar seeking redemption and more

Going into the final game of the IND vs AUS T20I series, to be played in Bengaluru, India will be looking to test their bench strength as they have already sealed the bilateral affair with a win in the fourth T20I in Raipur. Though there has yet to be a perfect performance from the Surykumar Yadav-led side so far in the series, they have managed to overcome challenges and pulled off wins. Bowling with the new ball has been something India have struggled with throughout the series. The Australian new ball bowlers haven’t been perfect either. But the difference in the two sides has been the quality of spinners. Compared to inexperienced Tanveer Sangha, India’s Ravis Bishnoi and Axar Patel extracted a lot more from the surfaces. If bowling has been a negative for both sides, the batting u...

28Nov

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Why Steve Smith and Adam Zampa are not playing Guwahati T20 against India?

Six Australia cricketers, including Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Adam Zampa, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis and Sean Abott are set set to leave the five-match T20I series against India mid-way and will fly home. Cricket.com.au has reported that Steve Smith and Adam Zampa had already flown home, while Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis and Sean Abbott are set to fly home on Wednesday after the third T20I. Travis Head, who won the player of the match in the semifinal and final is the sole player from Australia’s victorious World Cup squad to remain in India, along with Tanveer Sangha who travelled with the squad as a reserve. Josh Phillipe and Ben McDermott have flown to India and are available for tonight’s match in Guwahati, with Ben Dwarshuis and Chris Green to join the squad ah...

25Nov

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Does India have bowlers who can finish games with the bat and where does Steve Smith fit for Australia?

The format may change, but some things in Indian cricket appear to remain the same. One of them is lack of batting depth; one can’t expect too many runs after No.7. This is what held Virat Kohli and KL Rahul back in the middle overs of last Sunday’s World Cup final, and it almost turned the tables on them in the first T20I against Australia in Vizag on Thursday. They needed 15 runs in 14 balls with five wickets in hand when skipper Suryakumar Yadav got out after a 42-ball 80, but the team almost managed to fluff its lines; had it not been for Rinku Singh’s presence in the middle, they probably would have lost, even against an Australian side missing its whole first-choice bowling attack. Surya, Rinku and Ishan Kishan ensured that India chased down their highest-ever successful chase in ...

23Nov

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R Ashwin on how Pat Cummins’ brilliance and Australia’s understanding of Ahmedabad conditions left him in awe

When Pat Cummins won the toss and opted to bowl first against India in the final of the 2023 ODI World Cup at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday, there was some surprise in the cricketing fraternity. While there was expectation of dew to play its part in the second innings it still was a brave call against the host in front of thousands of fans who were all rooting for Rohit Sharma’s men. And Australia have often relied on the mantra of ‘bat first and put runs on the board in a big game.’ However, the decision paid off big time for the Aussies as they won their sixth World Cup beating India by six wickets. Indian off-spinner Ashwin Ravichandran on his YouTube video revealed his conversation with the Australian chief selector George Bailey during the innings break. “I chatt...

23Nov

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Pat Cummins | The atypical Aussie captain

Pat Cummins wears a broad smile as he stands awkwardly on the makeshift stage, the ODI World Cup trophy held low in his hands. He looks to one side and waits for his teammates to join him in the celebration. The Australian cricket team had only just ripped the script of India’s fairytale campaign and its captain was politely waiting for the dignitaries to leave the platform before the team could rush in and together lift Australia’s sixth World Cup trophy.Rewind to 2006, when an Australian side at the peak of its powers won a first Champions Trophy that had long eluded them. At the presentation ceremony after the final, Ricky Ponting, the chief architect of that golden generation, beckons the BCCI president to hand over the trophy and the rest of the team pushes the official off the sta...

23Nov

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‘World Cup final result means that cricket won’: Ex-Pakistan cricketer Abdul Razzaq in India’s defeat to Australia

Former Pakistan cricketer Abdul Razzaq has implied that Australia’s victory over India in the World Cup final was a win for the sport of cricket, because of how lopsided the advantage was towards the Men in Blue, who were hosting the showpiece event. The all-rounder’s comments came just days after he had to apologise to making disparaging comments about an Indian actress on stage at an event. “Indians were over-confident (in the final),” Razzaq started as he analysed India’s performance in the World Cup final and what went wrong for the overwhelming favourites. Australia won the toss and against conventional wisdom, chose to field first. But Pat Cummins was proved right in the big decision as Australia, who were rare underdogs in a World Cup final, claimed their sixth trophy. “Aga...

21Nov

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Why the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup format we saw in 2023 is not good for the game

At the end of 48 matches where Australia, perhaps inevitably, were crowned champions, there is a lingering question that the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup leaves us with. What is a “World Cup” supposed to be?This is not to be confused with the questions surrounding the 50-over format itself. That is for another day. This is also not supposed to be about India not being able to win the ICC title that has eluded them for more than a decade now, despite all the resources at their disposal. Trying to answer that will take a whole week. This is, at its heart, a question surrounding what a tournament of this magnitude is supposed to mean for the game. Because, as it stands, the last two editions of this tournament have been played in a format that is rigged to favour the best teams to rise to ...

21Nov

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Chennai scare against Australia saw Team India opt for sluggish track for World Cup final

The scare that India got in their first World Cup game against Australia at Chennai prompted the Indian team management to opt for a sluggish pitch for the final in Ahmedabad. However, this would prove to be the home team’s folly as Australia was able to break India’s unbeaten 10-win streak.In India’s opening game of the World Cup, Aussie pacers Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc had reduced the hosts to 2/3. And had Mitchell Marsh pouched Virat Kohli’s skier off a Hazlewood ball soon afterwards, it would have been 20/4. The Australians were defending only 199 and the fielding lapse turned out to be terminal. India would go on to win the game easily but the scars of the trip to Chennai stayed. The Indian Express had learnt that ahead of the final, the Indian think tank was worried that ...

20Nov

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Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell’s wife Vini Raman hits back at trolls over ‘hateful vile DMs’

Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell’s wife Vini Raman hit back at trolls on social media asking them to “stay classy” after implying that she had received “hateful vile DMs” on her Instagram account. Raman posted a carousel of photographs on her Instagram account after Australia defeated the Indian cricket team by six wickets in the Cricket World Cup final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The photos also included a message for fans. “aaaaand cue all the hateful vile DMs. Stay classy… Can’t believe this needs to be said BUT you can be Indian and also support the country of your birth where you have been raised and more importantly the team your husband plus father of your child plays in #nobrainer. Take a chill pill and direct that outrage towards more important world issues...

20Nov

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India vs Australia: Suryakumar Yadav to lead Indian team in T20I series at home vs World Cup champions

Suryakumar Yadav will lead the Indian cricket team against the Australians in the five-match T20I series which starts just four days after the Aussies claimed their sixth World Cup title by defeating India by six wickets at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Ruturaj Gaikwad will be Surya’s deputy for the first three games, while Shreyas Iyer will join the squad as vice-captain for the last two T20Is in Raipur and Bengaluru. Surya was handed over the reins of the team in the absence of Hardik Pandya, who picked up an injury at the recently-concluded Cricket World Cup. The Baroda all-rounder lost his balance while trying to stop a shot from Bangladesh opener Liton Das and dragged his right boot while landing on the pitch. As The Indian Express had reported, it is likely that the an...

20Nov

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After an unprecedented Cricket World Cup, India’s Virat Kohli ends up as tragic-hero

In the midst of the silence that engulfed the arena stood Virat Kohli, his vacant stare wandering into the skies, with the forlorn look of someone betrayed. He puffed his cheeks out in anguish and ruffled his hair, in unusual disorder, with long cold fingers, as he waited impatiently for the torture of collecting the player of the tournament plank, a souvenir of pain, on the most heartbreaking of all nights.Even in the most harrowing hour, he was the centre of the crowd’s attraction. A section of teary-eyed fans chanted his name, as glances of sympathy peered from every corner of the stadium. Those would have made his pain even more intense. Hastily, coldly, he picked the piece of meaningless trophy, its value no more than that of a stone, and hurried up the long stairway to the dressin...

20Nov

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Ricky Ponting lauds Pat Cummins’ faultless captaincy, pinpoints ‘gutsy move’ that swayed World Cup final vs India

After Australia defeated overwhelming favourites India by six wickets in the Cricket World Cup final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting heaped praise on Pat Cummins for his “faultless captaincy” and picked out a “gutsy move” that influenced the final. Cummins won the toss at Ahmedabad, and to everyone surprise, asked Indian to bat first. Even Indian skipper Rohit Sharma admitted that he would have batted first had he won the toss. That moment proved pivotal, as the Indian team faced a rare batting slump and could only post a total of 240 runs. The five-time champions chased down the total with six wickets in hand, thanks to Travis Head scoring 137. When Ponting was asked about Cummins’ captaincy after the finale, he first dismissed the ...

20Nov

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Marnus Labuschagne’s coach writes: When Marnus told me ‘Mate, that World Cup Final was designed for me!’

The night before the World Cup final I had told Marnus Labuschagne: “Miracles happen. You would have dreamed of playing for Australia in this match and finishing it. This is the stage, this is the day you have lived for. Miracles do happen.” And Marnus replied, “Amen!”It’s been some journey for him. Every day there would be talk that he won’t be picked for the next match and as he said he was “unofficially dropped” five times this World Cup. In our chats, we would keep reiterating, “Those are out of your control’. In the night, after the final, I texted him, “Miracles do happen!” And he replied, “Mate, that game was designed for me!” It certainly was. He had to get out there, and bat without worries. Just bat. Travis Head was already flowing. Marnus’s job as I saw it was to just bat and...

19Nov

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World Cup final: After defeat to Australia, Rahul Dravid says India ‘gave everything’; unsure about his own future

EMOTION ran high among the Indian players as they walked back to the dressing room after coming second-best by a distance to Australia in the World Cup final. It was a feeling of disappointment at not realising the dreams of more than a billion people. The trophy that had eluded them since 2011 remained out of reach. Rohit Sharma’s tears found their way out, he tried not to show it but to no avail. Mohammed Siraj sobbed and head coach Rahul Dravid revealed that the dressing room was an emotional place. “He’s (Rohit) disappointed, as are many of the boys in the dressing room. There was a lot of emotion in that dressing room. It was tough to see as a coach, because I know how hard these guys have worked, what they’ve put in, the sacrifices they’ve made. So, it’s tough. It’s tough to see ...

19Nov

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Rashid Khan deconstructs his blueprint of bowling to Indian batters ahead of World Cup final

The Indian cricket team has been at its marauding best coming into Sunday’s Cricket World Cup final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The hosts have won all their nine group stage matches before defeating New Zealand by 70 runs in the semi-final. One of the key reasons behind this has been the start that the batters have provided India. India vs Australia Live Score, World Cup 2023 Final Not surprisingly, there are three Indian batters in the top 10 batters in the run-scorers’ list. Virat Kohli leads the way with 711 runs. Indian captain Rohit Sharma is fifth with 550 runs while Shreyas Iyer is seventh with 526 runs. What is jaw-dropping is that Kohli has a batting average of 101.57 coming into the final. Meanwhile, Rohit’s runs in the 10 matches have come at an astonishing str...