Pakistan
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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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
‘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
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
- Analysis
- Australian cricket
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
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- Cricket World Cup
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
- Analysis
- ICC Men’s World Cup
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
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 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
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