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• David hits rapid 62 as Hurricanes beat Strikers

  05-01-2025 13:58 via bbc.com
  
  Australia’s Tim David hits a rapid 62 not out to give Hobart Hurricanes a five-wicket win over Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League.
  
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• World Test Championship - Australia join SA in final

  05-01-2025 11:13 via bbc.com
  
  Australia have joined South Africa in June's World Test Championship final - BBC Sport looks at the points table, how it all works and how you can follow the final.
  
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• Australia v India lived up to hype, says Cummins

  05-01-2025 10:46 via bbc.com
  
  Australia's series against India lived up to the weighty expectations, says home captain Pat Cummins after his side won 3-1 to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
  
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• Australia race to victory and series win over India

  05-01-2025 08:20 via bbc.com
  
  Australia race to victory on day three of the Fifth Test in Sydney with Scott Boland taking 6-45 to help regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
  
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• Australia beat India to claim series victory

  05-01-2025 08:11 via bbc.com
  
  Watch highlights as Australia beat India by six wickets in Sydney and win the five-match Test series 3-1.
  
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• As the Taliban open their doors to tourism, they are closing windows on women | Catherine Bennett

  05-01-2025 08:00
  
  Specialist travel companies are using euphemisms to avoid the gender apartheidHaving denied Afghan women jobs, education and free movement, ordered them to be totally covered, banned them from parks, removed their critical healthcare and silenced them with a ban on audible speech, the Taliban have plainly reached the point where the joy of torturing half the population has to be balanced, like any sensible exercise in mass persecution, with the needs and enjoyment of the male and free.What, for
  
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• Debutant Webster clinches series victory for Australia

  05-01-2025 07:26 via bbc.com
  
  Debutant Beau Webster scores the winning runs as Australia beat India by six wickets to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
  
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• 'Can you believe it?' - Smith falls one short of 10,000 Test runs

  05-01-2025 07:24 via bbc.com
  
  Steve Smith falls to Prasidh Krishna, leaving the Australian batter one short of reaching 10,000 career Test runs.
  
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• 'Can you believe it?' - Smith falls one run short of big milestone

  05-01-2025 07:24 via bbc.com
  
  Steve Smith falls to Prasidh Krishna, leaving the Australian batter one short of reaching 10,000 career Test runs.
  
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• Australia’s bowlers batter India to keep home fires burning for World Championship tilt

  05-01-2025 06:37
  
  India 185 & 157; Australia 181 & 162-4, win by six wicketsHead and Webster see hosts home for 3-1 series successIn the very end, it was less fizz than fizzle, though something else had earlier threatened. Mind you, the very end came right in the middle, Australia winning the fifth Test against India halfway through the third day in Sydney.It wasn’t even the middle if you counted overs bowled, the match using 197 of a possible 450 on a pitch that grew less fit for purpose with each
  
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• Australia win Border-Gavaskar series 3-1 against India – as it happened

  05-01-2025 05:15
  
  Travis Head and Beau Webster lead winning run chase of 162India come to rue day two injury to bowling star Jasprit Bumrah35th over: India 148-7 (Washington 7, Siraj 1) Mohammed Siraj at No9 is not a comforting prospect for India. So presumably Bumrah will bat last, if he must, to make sure that warm-up is next to his bowling warm-up? The Indian camp said he had back spasms, which might be manageable. Siraj gets a run first ball though, to fine leg, and Washington has a big square drive to end th
  
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• Australia v India: fifth men’s cricket Test, day three – live

  05-01-2025 02:34
  
  Updates from Day 3 of New Year’s Test at the SCGAustralia 71-3 at lunch needing 91 runs for victoryAny thoughts? Email our writers35th over: India 148-7 (Washington 7, Siraj 1) Mohammed Siraj at No9 is not a comforting prospect for India. So presumably Bumrah will bat last, if he must, to make sure that warm-up is next to his bowling warm-up? The Indian camp said he had back spasms, which might be manageable. Siraj gets a run first ball though, to fine leg, and Washington has a big square
  
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