India
Back in the baggy green? Selectors plan for Glenn Maxwell’s Test comeback
Glenn Maxwell is in line for a long-awaited return to Australia’s Test team this summer, as the national selectors ponder a radically altered line-up.
- by Daniel Brettig
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Tests or T20? Top players may skip BBL after India showdown
Australia’s showdown with India and a bid for back-to-back world Test titles may keep all but a handful of Pat Cummins’ team from featuring in the Big Bash League this season.
- by Daniel Brettig
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Test cricket
Global warning: Test cricket may shrink to six teams within four years
Test cricket may be played by as few as six countries within a few years without greater equalisation measures by its richest boards – India, England and Australia.
- by Daniel Brettig
Analysis
Australian cricket
His dad is Modi’s right-hand man. India’s Jay Shah may soon be running world cricket
Why was Jay Shah on the podium when India won the Twenty20 World Cup? There is an election coming up.
- by Daniel Brettig
‘Gut wrenching’: South Africa’s choke puts India on top of T20 World
India had all the advantages in this World Cup, but it still took an extraordinary collapse by South Africa and a marginal umpiring decision to secure the trophy in Barbados.
- by Daniel Brettig
Analysis
ICC Men’s World Cup
Drama and farce reign, but Australia didn’t deserve a World Cup semi-final
Afghanistan sealed Australia’s World Cup fate at 1.05am Caribbean time, but the defining moment of a failed campaign arrived well before then.
- by Daniel Brettig
Australia dumped from T20 World Cup but Afghanistan’s tactics under scrutiny
After losing to India, Australia missed the semi-finals when Bangladesh lost to Afghanistan in dramatic and controversial circumstances.
- by Malcolm Conn
Analysis
ICC Men’s World Cup
Five things Australia must do to save their T20 World Cup campaign
A historic loss to Afghanistan has left Australia in serious danger of missing the T20 World Cup finals just seven months after claiming the one-day World Cup.
- by Malcolm Conn
Burnout fears for Head ahead of massive Test summer
World Cup strike force Travis Head is yet to receive Cricket Australia’s nod of approval to play in the US-based Major League Twenty20 tournament next month.
- by Daniel Brettig
‘We’re in the Big Apple!’: India fightback stuns Pakistan as cricket chases American dream
French basketball phenom Victor Wembanyama was among the celebrities in the stands for the T20 World Cup clash marketed as the most watched match ever.
- by Adam Collins
Analysis
Analysis
‘It’s almost a no-win role’: Why you won’t see an Australian as India’s $2 million coach
It’s the best-paid coaching job in world cricket, and it’s up for grabs. So why won’t an Australian coach India?
- by Daniel Brettig