Injured duo on track to return to full fitness for ODI tri-series in the Caribbean. Confidence is building among Cricket Australia’s medical team that Steve Smith and Mitch Marsh will be fit for next month’s ODI tri-series in the West Indies. Smith and Marsh both headed home at the start of the week, cutting short their
The West Indies captain Jason Holder declined an offer to make a game of the rain-ruined third Test against Australia in Sydney because he did not think his side was ready to try to go for the win. In a scenario that the Caribbean side would have struggled to create over a full five-day match
Australia captain Steven Smith and India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin have finished 2015 as the ICC’s top-ranked Test batsman and bowler respectively. Ashwin finished as the No. 1 ranked Test all-rounder as well, for the second time in three years. While Smith leapfrogged Kane Williamson, Joe Root and AB de Villiers to the top, Ashwin achieved
Slowly but surely, Australia worked their way through the West Indies for a victory that kept the Frank Worrell Trophy in their possession for 20 unbroken years, stretching back to the triumph of Mark Taylor’s team in the Caribbean in 1995. Having fought hard over the final two days of the Test, West Indies lost
It wasn’t a dead rubber, but neither was it a particularly competitive finish to the series. Led by a strong performance from their fast bowlers, who rolled England for 138, Australia cruised to an eight-wicket victory in the final ODI Old Trafford and ended their three-month tour of England, which featured the disappointment of another