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Victoria’s Sam Elliott took the big wicket of Alex Carey.

Can Australia’s next opener please stand up? Bowlers dominate Shield final

Victoria has its nose in front at stumps on day two of the Sheffield Shield final, but the national selectors watching the game are yet to find an answer to the big question facing them before Australia’s next test.

  • Andrew Wu

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Iranian Women’s national soccer team coach Marziyeh Jafari (left) and captain Zahra Ghanbari during the Women’s Asian Cup Iran press conference at Robina Stadium on the Gold Coast on Sunday. The team is in Australia to compete in their second Women’s Asian Cup.

Football, cricket, F1: World of sport adjusts as Iran conflict erupts

England captain Ben Stokes and predecessor Andrew Flintoff are among foreign nationals looking to get out of the Gulf region.

  • Daniel Brettig and Emma Kemp
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.

‘Terrible what they are doing to him’: Chappell, Gavaskar, Border, Waugh make humanitarian appeal for Imran Khan

Fourteen former international cricket captains from five Test teams have appealed to the Pakistan government to request better prison treatment for Imran Khan.

  • Daniel Brettig
Steve Smith did not have the same impact as in recent matches.

Smith added to Australia’s T20 squad; India-Pakistan tensions may send future world cups to Australia

Steve Smith has been formally added to Australia’s Twenty20 World Cup squad in the vacant spot left by Josh Hazlewood.

  • Daniel Brettig
We break down Usman’s Tariq’s unusual bowling action.

Unusual but perfectly legal: Breaking down the bowling action of Pakistan’s mystery spinner

Usman Tariq’s mystery spin surprised and frustrated Cameron Green in Lahore. But that doesn’t mean he did anything illegal - far from it. We use video to analyse his approach, pause and side-arm sling.

  • Daniel Brettig
Pakistan’s captain Babar Azam leaves the ground after losing his wicket.

Pakistan’s India World Cup boycott may cost world cricket $250 million

Pakistan’s decision to forbid its national cricket team from playing against India at the Twenty20 World Cup may cost world cricket more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

  • Daniel Brettig
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Cameron Green

Cam Green should leave bowling actions to umpires. Australia’s T20 team has bigger problems

Australia has now been battered twice in as many games on foreign soil in the lead-up to the T20 World Cup, and Green is clearly looking for excuses.

  • Daniel Brettig
Australia’s Adam Zampa, left, celebrates with teammate after the dismissal of Pakistan’s Usman Khan during the first T20 cricket match between Pakistan and Australia, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Zampa four-fer can’t save Australia’s makeshift crew in T20 Pakistan defeat

It was left to the evergreen spinner to spearhead the push of a shadow side featuring three newcomers and without a host of top names. It wasn’t enough.

  • Ian Chadband
Imran Khan went from World Cup winner, to prime minister to now prison.

Imran Khan is in a Pakistan ‘death cell’ and the cricketing world is silent

Sons of the jailed World Cup-winning captain and former prime minister fear for his life as the world turns a blind eye to his treatment.

  • Oliver Brown
A screengrab from the promotional video for the Australia vs India series.

The Grade Cricketer were involved in a video with Kayo. They were abused by Indian fans for it

A promotional video where Australian cricketers put a light-hearted spin on India’s refusal to shake hands has been deleted, but the timing of the video was not what media and fans first thought.

  • Jon Pierik