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• Sydney Thunder duo sent to hospital after sickening collision in BBL thriller

  03-01-2025 23:01
  Cam Bancroft and Daniel Sams clash heads in catch attemptThunder earn last-ball win over the Scorchers in PerthCameron Bancroft and Daniel Sams have been taken to hospital following a sickening clash of heads during Sydney Thunder’s pulsating four-wicket, final-ball victory over the Perth Scorchers on Friday night.Bancroft’s BBL season is over after the opener suffered a broken shoulder as well as a broken nose in the horror collision. The pair were still in a Perth hospital on Satur
  
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• Radical plan may result in two England-Australia Ashes series every three years

  06-01-2025 14:06
  ICC to discuss splitting 12 Test nations into two tiersIndia’s support or otherwise for the initiative is keyEngland and Australia could play two Ashes series every three years from 2027 onwards under a radical two-division plan being considered for Test cricket.According to a report in the Melbourne Age Australia, England and India, plus Jay Shah, the new chair of the International Cricket Council, are due to meet later this month to discuss splitting the 12 Test nations into two tiers. I
  
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• Having conquered the cricket world Pat Cummins must now bridge the generations | Jack Snape

  06-01-2025 04:03
  
  Winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade means Pat Cummins’ Australian side has won every Test trophy on offer to them. But his ageing side is crying out for new bloodAfter a hard-fought fifth Test victory over India to clinch the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a 3-1 margin, the post-series press conference with Pat Cummins, wearing a weary grin under a pink brim, began with a juicy full toss of a question: “As a captain,” the journalist asked, “do y
  
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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 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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• Rickelton hits 259 as SA take control against Pakistan

  04-01-2025 17:10 via bbc.com
  
  Ryan Rickelton moves joint-seventh in South Africa's all-time top scorers in a Test innings after hitting 259 in the second Test against Pakistan.
  
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• Duckett's 67 helps Stars to victory over Renegades

  04-01-2025 13:28 via bbc.com
  
  England’s Ben Duckett and Jacob Bethell featured as Melbourne Stars beat local rivals Melbourne Renegades by five wickets in the Big Bash League.
  
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• Rishabh Pant blast rocks Australia on 15-wicket day to keep India’s hopes alive

  04-01-2025 11:55
  
  Fifth Test, day two: Australia 181, India 185 & 141-6India’s bowlers step up after Bumrah hurts backPant smashes 61 from 31 balls as wickets tumbleWhen the fourth Australia-India Test at Melbourne finished with an hour to go on the final day, those who love the long game were sated. The experience was hearty and nutritious, like working your way through a large slice of dense and worthy rye bread. The first two days of the fifth Test in Sydney, by contrast, have been a pure sugar rush.
  
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• Bancroft broke nose and shoulder in BBL collision

  04-01-2025 11:25 via bbc.com
  
  Cameron Bancroft broke his nose and shoulder when he collided with team-mate Daniel Sams in the Big Bash League on Friday, Sydney Thunder reveal.
  
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• 'This is brilliant cricket' - Konstas ramps Bumrah

  04-01-2025 10:10 via bbc.com
  
  Teenage Australia opener Sam Konstas ramps India's Jasprit Bumrah for four in the final Test of the series in Sydney.
  
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• Siraj removes Konstas and Head in same over

  04-01-2025 10:01 via bbc.com
  
  Mohammed Siraj removes Sam Konstas and Travis Head in the same over to leave Australia 39-4 in their final Test against India in Sydney.
  
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• Australia v India: fifth men’s cricket Test, day two – as it happened

  04-01-2025 08:50
  
  India reach 141-6 at stumps on day two to lead fifth Test by 145 runsAustralia quick takes four wickets while Pant blazes half-century6th over: Australia 15-1 (Konstas 11, Labuschagne 2) Konstas is beaten! Lovely outswinger by Siraj. It’s a set-up for the wobble seam delivery on middle and leg next. Konstas keeps it out. Fourth ball is a wide and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant lands on the ball in his tumble to stop byes. He can’t stop that one! Konstas cracks another swinging ball throug
  
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• 'It's a gimme' - Kohli angry after falling to Boland

  04-01-2025 08:47 via bbc.com
  
  Virat Kohli is angry with himself for edging Scott Boland to Steve Smith in the final Test between Australia and India.
  
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• 'Strewth!' - Pant hits Starc for back-to-back sixes to reach 50

  04-01-2025 08:25 via bbc.com
  
  India's Rishabh Pant hits Mitchell Starc for back-to-back sixes to reach his half-century from only 29 balls against Australia in Sydney.
  
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• Cummins ends electric innings by India's Pant

  04-01-2025 07:51 via bbc.com
  
  Pat Cummins removes Rishabh Pant for an astonishing 61 in the final Test between Australia and India.
  
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• ‘My call’: India captain Rohit Sharma insists he was not axed for fifth Test

  04-01-2025 04:58
  
  Opener stands down after scoring 31 runs in three TestsTourists need win at SCG to level series against AustraliaA defiant Rohit Sharma says he made the call to drop himself for the fifth Test in Sydney, insisting he was not axed by selectors. Speaking for the first time since falling out of India’s side for the decisive Test against Australia at the SCG, India’s captain also rejected any suggestion his career was over.India had refused to say whether Rohit would play the fifth Test
  
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• Australia v India: fifth men’s cricket Test, day two – live

  04-01-2025 02:10
  
  Updates from the New Year’s Test at the SCGSam Konstas falls after making a bright startAny thoughts? Email Angus6th over: Australia 15-1 (Konstas 11, Labuschagne 2) Konstas is beaten! Lovely outswinger by Siraj. It’s a set-up for the wobble seam delivery on middle and leg next. Konstas keeps it out. Fourth ball is a wide and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant lands on the ball in his tumble to stop byes. He can’t stop that one! Konstas cracks another swinging ball through covers for tw
  
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• New Zealand thrash Sri Lanka in first ODI - scorecard

  04-01-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scorecard from the first one-day international between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.
  
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• Loughran replaces injured Hunter for Irish tour of India

  03-01-2025 16:21 via bbc.com
  
  Ireland wicketkeeper-batter Amy Hunter will miss this month's tour to India because of a foot injury with Joanna Loughran coming into the squad as her replacement.
  
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• Topping handed first Irish call-up for Zimbabwe tour

  03-01-2025 15:11 via bbc.com
  
  Northern Knights batter Morgan Topping earns a first call-up to Ireland's Test and ODI squads for the upcoming tour of Zimbabwe.
  
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• Dean Jones’s summer of discontent: 30 years on from an Australian selection saga | Shannon Gill

  03-01-2025 15:00
  
  The Victorian retired from international cricket in a huff in 1994 but with a pile of runs behind him was soon ‘itching to get back in’When the late Dean Jones marked his guard with that exaggerated scrape of his spikes, everyone else seemed to recede into the role of walk-on extras.Oscillating between genius, belligerence, and chaos, sometimes within the space of a few balls, you could not take your eyes off “Deano”. Even when he supposedly shunned the spotlight 30 summe
  
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• Dean Jones’ summer of discontent: 30 years on from an Australian selection saga | Shannon Gill

  03-01-2025 15:00
  
  The Victorian retired from international cricket in a huff in 1994 but with a pile of runs behind him was soon ‘itching to get back in’When the late Dean Jones marked his guard with that exaggerated scrape of his spikes, everyone else seemed to recede into the role of walk-on extras.Oscillating between genius, belligerence, and chaos, sometimes within the space of a few balls, you could not take your eyes off “Deano”. Even when he supposedly shunned the spotlight 30 summe
  
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