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Opinion: Gentleman’s game? Keep dreamin’
‘Cricket: The Gentleman’s game’. It’s a phrase so robustly used by the upper cricketing echelons that fans could be forgiven for anticipating an old man’s match, debated instead of contested and located in a local country club rather than on the dustbowls of Hyderabad.
Stars put Sixers in a spin
A Glenn Maxwell-inspired Melbourne Stars have downed the Sydney Sixers by 5 wickets in a thrilling encounter on Sunday night.
Perry named Sixers captain
Sydney Sixers and Aussie Women’s cricket star Ellyse Perry has been announced as the side’s first ever captain ahead of this year’s WBBL campaign.
Silk pleased with progress of Manly pair
Sydney Sixers bowlers Jackson Bird and Stephen O’Keefe have put rival BBL batsman on red alert with the pair showing their quality in the Sixers disappointing loss on Sunday.
Haddin: Crunch moments costing us
Sydney Sixers captain Brad Haddin believes the side’s top order needs improving if the side is to knock of the Thunder, as the Sixers were downed by the Brisbane Heat by 6-runs on Sunday.
Have the Wests Tigers found their next Farah?
The Wests Tigers are looking to lock up their junior talent and have sighted young rake Daniel Peck as a successor to veteran Robbie Farah in a few years’ time.
Wests Tigers SG Ball coach Mathew Head, who had stints at St George Illawarra, Wests and Hull in his playing career, has had his eye on Peck since day one and thinks the teenager’s maturity on the field defies his age.
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The real reason Australia lost the Ashes
Many have not been able to answer the question over how Australia can be rolled for 136 at Edgbaston and 60 at Trent Bridge while the POMs pile on the runs.
It all comes down to Australian batsmen adopting a foreign tactic in unfamiliar conditions, and its ramifications were severe.
Why the future of Australian cricket is being undermined
Australian captain Steve Smith echoed predecessors by declaring his new-look side, which will take on New Zealand and West Indies this summer, is an ongoing part of a process of ‘generational change’.
But when will the change cease?
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Strangers in whites: Smith’s blind auditions
With the Australian side constantly on the road, Steve Smith hadn’t even seen the two Test hopefuls in the nets, let alone a game.
Coach Darren Lehmann’s dossier is equally thin.
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