Lance Morris and Mahli Beardman are two of the most exciting commodities in Australian cricket. And with veterans moving on, they are poised to take over the fabled Perth Scorchers bowling attack.
Jackson Barrett
Australian great Steve Smith has savoured his debut in the Hundred, but it was a couple of his English Ashes rivals who stole the show at Headingley.
Ian Chadband
Australia’s chairman of selectors George Bailey has revealed exactly when they plan for recovering all-rounder Cam Green to return to the bowling crease.
England’s epic series against India finished in some of the most dramatic scenes cricket has ever seen on Monday evening. Here are three things we learned from Australia’s two biggest rivals.
Australia’s former Ashes nemesis, Stuart Broad, has started a slanging match with arch-rival David Warner months before he arrives Down Under to commentate on the series.
New Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg says scarcity is still part of Test cricket’s charm as the sport investigates splitting its best teams from the rest.
West Australian star Cam Green is full steam ahead on the road towards playing a home Ashes Test for the first time this year and will be unleashed in another series against South Africa.
The opening day of The West Test is officially a sell-out and The West can also reveal the second day of the Ashes match is tracking the same way, meaning the clash will trounce its own attendance record.
Batters as tall as AFL ruckmen that can hit the ball out of any ground in the world are turning the Australian T20 team into a different beast.
News Corp Australia
The Aussie champion’s effort was so acrobatic, his teammates had to actually check he wasn’t hurt.
Adrian Warren
Australian coach Andrew McDonald says there’s every chance Sam Konstas and Usman Khawaja will walk to the crease on the opening day of the Ashes in Perth despite the pair’s horror tour of the West Indies.
Aaron Kirby
MITCHELL JOHNSON: The West Indies series has made very clear what the Test teen prodigy needs to do next.
Mitchell Johnson
Australian Test aspirants will have four Sheffield Shield matches to audition for an Ashes call-up under the new domestic fixture revealed on Monday.
He’s not Pat Cummins or Josh Hazlewood and nor should he be. Mitchell Starc has reached 100 Tests for Australia by doing it his way and that’s what has made him such a great asset.
‘Everything’s an option.’
Cameron Noakes
Australia hasn’t learnt a lot about it’s top order two Tests into the West Indies tour and there will be an opportunity for players to throw their hat in the ring ahead of the Ashes. Here are the contenders.
I was asked a question by somebody yesterday: can you change four out of your top six before an Ashes series? My reply was that you shouldn’t but that for Australia, it looks like it could happen.
Australia wants Cam Green to succeed. Selectors want him to succeed at No.3. But his recent batting mishaps hint at a cluttered mind — and he has already had five of his eight hits before the Ashes.
The Aussies have made the call on the veteran batter just 20 days after his gruesome injury.
Oliver Caffrey
Steve Smith is certain both Sam Konstas and Cam Green can find success at the top of the order, despite their poor returns in the first Test against the West Indies.
Jake Santa Maria
MITCHELL JOHNSON: The top order is a mess and there is one very simple fix if Steve Smith is willing to do the right thing.
The Australians have totally blown away the hosts and even a forgotten star managed an act of brilliance.
JACKSON BARRETT: Five months out from the first Ashes Test, there are just two players with undeniable claims to their spots in the starting XI.
Josh Inglis still doesn’t know where he is batting in the opening Test against West Indies, with Australia poised to wait on one final look at the Barbados wicket before making a call on their order.
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