Pitch battle: Cricket NSW stumps Bears’ plan for historic return match
Perth Bears hoped to play their return match at their spiritual home, North Sydney Oval, but grade cricket is standing in the way.
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Perth Bears hoped to play their return match at their spiritual home, North Sydney Oval, but grade cricket is standing in the way.
There are more losers than winners out of Usman Khawaja’s revelations. Even the players to whom he dedicated a chapter of his book don’t come out without bruises.
The next World Cup will bring major internationals to the US for the first time since the England-New Zealand Denver Test in 2018.
Cricket Australia, and its Test players, might look back to their failure in 2018 to honestly and broadly tell the truth about what happened at Newlands and on that tour.
Melbourne have stormed back from 28 points down against Geelong to kick the final five goals of the game and book an AFLW preliminary final berth in stunning scenes at Ikon Park.
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The English amateur cricketer who went viral for finger-clicking trickery has been handed a two-year suspension, the North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League has said.
Usman Khawaja’s latest claims about the infamous 2018 ‘Sandpapergate’ series have set the cricket world alight, prompting Cricket Australia to release a statement.
A 12-team tournament has been characterised as a power grab by the top-playing rugby nations to the detriment of Fiji, Japan and the Pacific islands.
After years of complications with developers and an eventual price tag of more than $40 million, Cronulla finally have a home base again. Now for a new stadium.
Usman Khawaja’s memoir is about to be released, and contains a remarkable revelation about the Australian team’s use of sandpaper earlier in the now infamous 2018 Test tour of South Africa.
The former Bulldogs, Magpies, Blues and Kangaroos great, who died this week, came from the era of true rugby league characters – so he had plenty of material.