Now the World Test Championship final is all but over, Australia’s batting order is back to where it started.
Jackson Barrett
It’s the hottest ticket in town. So hot that if you don’t get in quick, you won’t get in the door. Ticket sales for The West Test have reached unprecedented heights and thousands of tourists are coming for it.
Cam Green’s eyes were bigger than his stomach in a nervous return to Australia’s Test team and it leaves selectors with some questions to answer, regardless of how this final plays out, writes Jackson Barrett.
The opening day of The West Test is on the verge of becoming a sell-out — even before general public tickets go on sale — amid unprecedented interest in the blockbuster Ashes series.
The World Test Championship final is all set up for another fourth-innings masterclass from Australia’s spin-bowling mastermind. That’s the risk South Africa chose to take, writes Jackson Barrett.
Marnus Labuschagne has one final chance in the second innings of this match to save his Test career. Now that he is opening, there is no room for failure with Sam Konstas watching on, writes Jackson Barrett.
Cam Green’s return Test innings was short-lived as the West Australian fell in the early stages of the World Test Championship final on Wednesday night.
Marnus Labuschagne’s credentials as an opener will receive an instant examination, with Australia set to bat first in the World Test Championship final.
Steve Smith has been confirmed as Australia’s No.4 for next week’s World Test Championship final, leaving Cam Green to shape the rest of the order. Here’s how they could line up in London.
Bitter Ashes enemy Stuart Broad hopes to crash one last Australian party as South Africa leans on the retired English seamer to give them an edge in next week’s World Test Championship Final.
Aaron Kirby
West Australian cricket megastar Mitch Marsh has recaptured his love for cricket after a testing summer and has left Perth Scorchers bosses licking their lips at what he could offer next season.
Marnus Labuschagne's hopes of a World Test final place have taken a hit in Cardiff on a day another Aussie, Caleb Jewell, cracked a glorious first county ton.
Ian Chadband
MITCHELL JOHNSON: The struggling Queenslander is the Australian team’s weakest link and should make way for a new-look top order against South Africa next month.
Mitchell Johnson
WA’s Cam Green has revealed vocal home support spurred him to his second County century in a knock that all but seals his place in Australia’s World Test Championship final XI.
Josh Inglis is still yet to decide whether or not he will return to India for the hasty resumption of the IPL, just two days out from his team’s next match, but another Australian star has pulled out.
Cam Green can turn a lean run of batting form and leap above Australia’s top-order logjam in Gloucestershire’s four-day clash with Kent.
West Australian all-rounder Cam Green has been named in Australia’s squad for the World Test Championship final and is set to play five-day cricket for the first time in 16 months.
Australia are poised to make a major reshuffle to fit West Aussie all-rounder Cam Green in its team for next month’s World Test Championship final.
West Australian all-rounder Cam Green is on the verge of pencilling his name into Australia’s XI for June’s World Test Championship final as Gloucestershire faces Leicestershire in Bristol.
Mitch Marsh has cast aside a season plagued by injury and poor form to launch into the Indian Premier League.
Teenage pace sensation Mahli Beardman has opened up about getting his body up to scratch physically to take the rigours of long-form cricket, declaring he is ‘mentally ready’ to play red-ball cricket.
Samantha Rogers
West Australian all-rounder Cam Green is confident his back issues are behind him after his spinal fusion surgery.
MITCHELL JOHNSON: Cricket Australia’s contract list has renewed speculation on who they are favouring to anchor the middle order against England next summer.
Australian selectors have not ruled out Mitch Marsh playing a role in next summer’s blockbuster home Ashes series, but his future as a genuine all-rounder hangs in the balance.
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