Australia expects Pat Cummins to be fit for the first Test of the blockbuster Ashes series in Perth and would back him in to bowl even if he doesn’t play a game before it.
Jackson Barrett
Star all-rounder Cam Green will miss a Twenty20 international series in New Zealand to play in Western Australia’s early Sheffield Shield matches.
Australian captain Pat Cummins will be rested until the start of the Ashes after bone stress was found in his back, while a teammate is calling it quits for T20 internationals.
Australian captain Pat Cummins could enter this summer’s monster Ashes series under an injury cloud, with a scan on his back expected to reveal an issue.
Jofra Archer and Mark Wood could be set to unleash in Perth in a salivating opening to the Ashes if former English fast bowler Stuart Broad gets his way.
Aaron Kirby
Spin was king in Cairns as veteran South Africa tweaker Keshav Maharaj decimated Australia with a career-best haul in the first ODI.
Oliver Caffrey
Jhye Richardson has returned to bowling for the first time since he cut his season short for shoulder surgery, but is no guarantee to be fit in time to contend for an Ashes spot.
Lance Morris and Mahli Beardman are two of the most exciting commodities in Australian cricket. And with veterans moving on, they are poised to take over the fabled Perth Scorchers bowling attack.
Australian great Steve Smith has savoured his debut in the Hundred, but it was a couple of his English Ashes rivals who stole the show at Headingley.
Ian Chadband
Australia’s chairman of selectors George Bailey has revealed exactly when they plan for recovering all-rounder Cam Green to return to the bowling crease.
England’s epic series against India finished in some of the most dramatic scenes cricket has ever seen on Monday evening. Here are three things we learned from Australia’s two biggest rivals.
Australia’s former Ashes nemesis, Stuart Broad, has started a slanging match with arch-rival David Warner months before he arrives Down Under to commentate on the series.
New Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg says scarcity is still part of Test cricket’s charm as the sport investigates splitting its best teams from the rest.
West Australian star Cam Green is full steam ahead on the road towards playing a home Ashes Test for the first time this year and will be unleashed in another series against South Africa.
The opening day of The West Test is officially a sell-out and The West can also reveal the second day of the Ashes match is tracking the same way, meaning the clash will trounce its own attendance record.
Batters as tall as AFL ruckmen that can hit the ball out of any ground in the world are turning the Australian T20 team into a different beast.
News Corp Australia
The Aussie champion’s effort was so acrobatic, his teammates had to actually check he wasn’t hurt.
Adrian Warren
Australian coach Andrew McDonald says there’s every chance Sam Konstas and Usman Khawaja will walk to the crease on the opening day of the Ashes in Perth despite the pair’s horror tour of the West Indies.
MITCHELL JOHNSON: The West Indies series has made very clear what the Test teen prodigy needs to do next.
Mitchell Johnson
Australian Test aspirants will have four Sheffield Shield matches to audition for an Ashes call-up under the new domestic fixture revealed on Monday.
He’s not Pat Cummins or Josh Hazlewood and nor should he be. Mitchell Starc has reached 100 Tests for Australia by doing it his way and that’s what has made him such a great asset.
‘Everything’s an option.’
Cameron Noakes
Australia hasn’t learnt a lot about it’s top order two Tests into the West Indies tour and there will be an opportunity for players to throw their hat in the ring ahead of the Ashes. Here are the contenders.
I was asked a question by somebody yesterday: can you change four out of your top six before an Ashes series? My reply was that you shouldn’t but that for Australia, it looks like it could happen.
