Fast bowler Peter Siddle believes his Australian pace cohorts will be spoken of just as highly as their vaunted South African rivals this summer. The tourists’ pace trio of Dale …

England offspinner Graeme Swann has returned home from the tour of India in order to spend time with his ill baby daughter, the England and Wales Cricket Board says. However, …

Watch, if you can stomach it, YouTube footage of Allan Donald receiving the new ball during Australia’s first innings in the second Test against South Africa at a benign SCG …

Life begins at 30, according to Mike Hussey. Well, as a Test batsman anyway. More often than not Hussey – now 37 – is the Australian cricketer feeling the heat …

Rookie Matthew Wade has vowed to carry on the Australian cricket tradition of combative and lippy wicketkeepers doing all they can to win. Following in the footsteps of glovemen like …

Australia great Rodney Marsh says concerns over ball colour should not stop the staging of day-night Tests, given it is more than 30 years since he played in floodlit “Supertests” …

Pakistan’s wily off-spinner Saeed Ajmal said on Wednesday he was thrilled at joining Adelaide Strikers for the Australian Big Bash Twenty20 league next month. He is one of three Pakistani …

Western Australia need a coach and a captain and could do with a slice of luck after a series of close calls went in Victoria’s favour in Wednesday’s one-day clash …

They might have the best pace bowling battery in world cricket but South Africa’s batting line-up has left Ricky Ponting nonplussed, the former captain saying the Proteas bats were no …

Flattery won’t get you anywhere with hardened South African allrounder Jacques Kallis. As much as the 37-year-old appreciated the charm offensive launched by the host camp ahead of the first …

Western Australia were looking for a coach, looking for a captain and looking for clues as they were bowled out for 181 in Wednesday’s one-day cup clash with Victoria at …

It’s a marriage made in heaven: Test great Justin Langer returning to coach Western Australia in their hour of need. Langer is the raging hot favourite to land the top …

South African great Barry Richards has identified legspinner Imran Tahir as the Proteas’ weak link which Australia’s experienced middle-order will exploit in their heavyweight battle. Richards feared the likes of …

Victoria’s one-day international representative Clint McKay limped off with a hamstring injury during Wednesday’s one-day cup clash with Western Australia at the MCG. McKay’s right-hamstring tear raises doubts over his …

If Australia reclaim the world No.1 Test ranking this summer, they can thank a man who by his own admission was never good enough to play international cricket. It would …

Ricky Ponting will take part in some sprint work on Thursday which the former Australian skipper hopes will dispel any fears of him being a last-minute withdrawal from Friday’s first …

Western Australia have won the toss and will bat first in Wednesday’s one-day cup game against competition leaders Victoria at the MCG. The match is due to start in overcast …

Lachlan Stevens has resigned as coach of the Western Australia and Perth Scorchers cricket teams, admitting the season start has been “extremely challenging”. The 33-year-old Stevens will have his last …