"When I was injured, a lot of members in the team said that we want to win this World Cup for Pratika. I got to know this from someone outside the team. When we won the finals, I was the 16th player, but I was given the same respect. I was taken to the stage in a wheelchair. This team is lik
Australia skipper Mitchell Marsh won the toss and elected to bowl first in the fourth T20I of the five-match series against India, which is being played at Carrara Oval here on Thursday.
Australia captain Pat Cummins has said he is eager to play as much cricket as possible in the upcoming Test summer but admitted he may have to manage his workload carefully depending on the demands of each match.
"I'd like to see the selectors pick the sides, not the players. There's been a lot of players recently picking sides and saying who should be in the team. That's the selectors' job," he said.
Former Australian pacer Michael Kasprowicz said on Wednesday that the first Ashes Test is a chance for a struggling Marnus Labuschagne to solidify his spot as a number three batter after a recent red-hot run in domestic cricket.
Australia's Matthew Short outlined the threat posed by mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy and the exacting challenge to nullify him in down under where surfaces hardly offer any assistance to the ball tweakers.
The number one T20I batter in the world, Abhishek, has been India's driving force with his vast array of shots and heavily loaded arsenal. He scoops, flicks, pulls, drives, sweeps, and often muscles the ball into the stands with his brute force.
Former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson firmly believes that India's "ridiculously talented batter" Shubman Gill will be able to navigate through the challenge of switching to different formats and overcome his inconsistent patch.
India's bowling coach Morne Morkel explained the reasoning behind resting left-arm seamer and team's highest wicket-taker in the shortest format of the game, Arshdeep Singh, in the first two T20Is of the series against Australia, stating that the team is focused on exploring different bowlin
Opener Sam Konstas misses out, whereas Marnus Labuschagne earns a recall, and Jake Weatherald is also included in the squad as Australia announces their squad for the first Test of the Ashes 2025-26 series against England starting from November 21.