Smith guides Australia to healthy position
Steve Smith guided Australia to 60-2 at stumps on the third day of the second Test against the West Indies in Brisbane.
Steve Smith guided Australia to 60-2 at stumps on the third day of the second Test against the West Indies in Brisbane.
Australia took the late wicket of Tagenarine Chanderpaul to even the contest after a fascinating second day’s play in the second Test against the West Indies in Brisbane.
Shamar Joseph was denied Alex Carey’s wicket when the bail spun in its groove, but didn’t fall!
Kavem Hodge and Joshua Da Silva put on 149 runs for the sixth wicket to lead a West Indies fightback against Australia on the first day of the second Test on Thursday.
Glenn Maxwell is being investigated by Cricket Australia after the all-rounder was reportedly hospitalised following a big night out.
Australia thrashed the West Indies by 10 wickets in the first Test at the Adelaide Oval on Friday.
A brilliant attacking century from Travis Head and an inspired spell of bowling from Josh Hazlewood put Australia in complete control of the first Test against the West Indies in Adelaide.
West Indies debutant Shamar Joseph took two top-order wickets during Australia’s reply to the visitors’ first-innings total of 188 in the opening Test in Adelaide.
Australia head into the two-Test series against the West Indies beginning in Adelaide on Wednesday as the hottest of favourites.
Steve Smith will open the batting alongside Usman Khawaja against the West Indies in place of the retired David Warner.
Australian all-rounder Cameron Green will start the first Test against the West Indies, but who replaces David Warner as opener remains to be seen.
Australia opener David Warner drew the curtain on his 112-Test career with a swashbuckling 57 against Pakistan on Saturday, leaving his home SCG to a standing ovation.
David Warner went out the way he began with a rumbustious innings to guide Australia to an eight-wicket victory and 3-0 Test series sweep over Pakistan in Sydney on Saturday.
Josh Hazlewood claimed three wickets in an electrifying over to bowl Australia into a potential winning position over Pakistan in an absorbing third Test in Sydney on Friday.
David Warner has been reunited with his missing “baggy green” Test caps after the veteran Australian cricketer issued a public plea.