Ten months ago, Todd Murphy was a fringe state cricketer with one first-class match to his name, struggling to break into Victoria’s starting XI – but after a breakthrough summer in the Sheffield Shield, the spectacled 22-year-old is on the verge of becoming Australia‘s 465th men’s Test cricketer. On Wednesday morning, Murphy was one of...
Justin Langer has revealed why he opted against being interviewed for the second series of The Test as current players weighed in on the former coach’s dramatic exit. Langer’s departure will be a central element of the behind-the-scenes documentary, to be released on Prime Video on Friday, offering an insight into how players reacted to...
He can bowl, he can bat, he can field, and he’s our 47th Test captain, but the one thing Pat Cummins can’t do has been revealed. The second season of the Amazon documentary series ‘The Test’ went behind the scenes of the Australian tour of Pakistan in March 2022, where the team found themselves in...
A cheeky changing room moment involving Usman Khawaja and Scott Boland detailed the latter’s humbleness as he prepared to make his Australian Test debut against England at the MCG. Boland was a relatively anonymous name to the average Australian before the third Test of the Ashes series last summer, although he had excelled for Victoria...
The Australian cricket team has shed more light on what led to Justin Langer’s departure as coach, revealing players were “walking on eggshells” around him. Cricket Australia and Langer mutually agreed to part ways last February after players expressed concerns over his coaching style and Langer rejected a reduced contract extension. It came as a...
Next up, India. Following another undefeated home summer, Australia’s attention quickly turns to the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which has been in India’s possession for nearly six years. It’s notoriously difficult to defeat India in their background; of their most recent 43 home Tests, they’ve lost two. Notably, Australia doesn’t have any warm-up matches scheduled ahead of...
Australia’s Sydney selection conundrum might return for Nagpur with news that Cameron Green and Mitchell Starc are “touch and go” for the series opener against India. The duo are missing the third and final Test against South Africa after suffering finger injuries that could keep them out of action well into February. Green, who is...
Farewell, 2022. You were really something. It was an enormous year from start to finish, as the world opened up and we finally began to transition into a post-Covid landscape. There were packed houses across the globe and the sporting stories lived up to their expectations. Watch Australia v South Africa. Every test match live...
How do you replace a cricketer as irreplaceable as Mitchell Starc? The Australian quick suffered a damaged tendon on his bowling hand during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa, ruling him out of next week’s match in Sydney. Starc is now racing against the clock to recover before February’s Test tour of India. Watch...
Almost 70,000 fans poured into the MCG on Monday to see Australia host South Africa and pay tribute to the late great Shane Warne. It’s the first Boxing Day Test since Warne’s death stunned the cricket world back in March and the punters turned out in droves to pay their respects. Thousands of Australian fans...