Mahli Beardman becomes just the second Australian to snare a five-for in their ODI debut as England is skittled for 131 in Perth.
Hours after Cummins' extraordinary press conference on the Cape Town Test of 2018, a young fast bowler made a big splash at England's expense
Pat Cummins promises he will answer every question thrown at him as he fronts a press conference on Friday following allegations revealed in Usman Khawaja's book, Sabr, earlier in the week. Over the course of 70 minutes he covers a range of topics from sandpaper and ball tampering to Australian cricket culture and his friendship with Khawaja ‘Abrasive’, ‘arrogant’ and ‘ugly’: standout moments from Pat Cummins’ sandpapergate press conference Continue reading...
Australia captain Pat Cummins has described allegations from ex-team-mate Usman Khawaja that every Australian player knew about using sandpaper to tamper with a ball in a 2018 cheating scandal as “utter nonsense”
Former Australia opener David Warner has stood by Usman Khawaja's revelations about the 2018 Sandpapergate scandal, saying Test captain Pat Cummins threw Khawaja "under the bus" at a press conference in Sydney this morning.
England have again opted in favour of Liam Dawson, leaving Adil Rashid out for the first ODI against Australia
Updates from the ODI series opener at Perth Stadium Play start time is 11.30am AWST/2.30pm AEDT/3.30am BST Any thoughts? Get in touch with an email Australia: Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (capt), Cooper Connolly, Matt Renshaw, Josh Inglis (wk), Cameron Green, Jack Edwards, Xavier Bartlett, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson, Mahli Beardman. Beardman is called into the XI for his ODI debut after being handed his cap by fellow West Australian Mike Hussey. The young fast bowler says that he went to scho...
Australian cricket captain breaks silence over allegations in Usman Khawaja’s book about 2018 ball tampering in South Africa After a torrid week, Australia’s Test captain, Pat Cummins, promised he would answer every question thrown at him in one of the most eagerly anticipated press conferences in recent sporting memory. And, over the course of 70 minutes at Cricket Central in Sydney, he did just that, covering a range of topics from sandpaper and ball tampering to Australian cricket culture...
Australia Test captain Pat Cummins dismissed his former team-mate Usman Khawaja's claims as "utter nonsense" after the recently retired batter said in his autobiography that the whole side were aware of ball-tampering that took place on their 2018 tour of South Africa.
Cummins insists he did not know of ball tampering plot in South Africa ‘No masterplan around using illegal methods,’ Cummins says Pat Cummins has flatly denied Usman Khawaja’s claims that the entire team was implicated in the 2018 sandpaper scandal as “complete and utter nonsense” and “100% wrong” in a defiant appearance at a press conference a week after the allegations came to light. Appearing before dozens of reporters and cameras at Cricket NSW’s headquarters in Sydney, Cummins refuted th...
Australia captain says Khawaja's suggestion that the entire 2018 Cape Town XI knowing that sandpaper was being used on the field is 100% wrong
Australia Test captain Pat Cummins is set to speak to the media at Cricket NSW's headquarters about Usman Khawaja's recent revelations about Australia's ball tampering in 2018. Follow live.
Usman Khawaja's revelations on Sandpapergate may have come eight years after the fact, but time has not changed Australia's response to the cricket scandal.
Australia are set to host England in a three-match ODI series from November 13. Here is how you can watch the games live via TV and live streaming around the world.
Beardman will make his ODI debut while England likely need to decide which frontline spinner to play, but no one is really talking about that
Ahead of captaining Australia against England, Marsh was peppered with questions about 2018 but repeatedly said wouldn't be sharing his story at this time
White-ball captain refuses to answer questions about ball tampering Australia Test skipper Cummins to address media in Sydney on Friday Mitch Marsh has refused to answer questions around Australia tampering with the ball during the tour of South Africa in 2018, the day before Pat Cummins is due to speak to media about Usman Khawaja’s allegations. Australia’s white-ball captain, who was part of the Test team that played in South Africa eight years ago, repeatedly deflected questions about the...
Australia captain Pat Cummins has called a press conference for Friday to have his say on 'Sandpapergate' after former team-mate Usman Khawaja's explosive claims that the entire dressing room knew about the ball-tampering scheme that took place on the tour of South Africa in 2018.
After a week of conversation about ball tampering from the 2018 tour of South Africa, Australia Test captain Pat Cummins is set to respond publicly.
Australia captain can confront ball tampering scandal with transparency about former team environment and how its members made their choices In March 2018, Steve Smith was handed a shit sandwich by Cricket Australia. Smith had helped in its preparation, as captain of an Australia team whose ball tampering experiments on their tour of South Africa had got out of control, but it was always questionable that CA limited the blame to Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft. Usman Khawaja’s recent...
Graeme Hick, Australia's batting coach at the time of the 2018 tour of South Africa, weighs in on the recent revelations about Sandpaper-gate, labelling Usman Khawaja's claims "absolutely false".
White-ball tour begins in Perth on Friday but there is only one story in Australian cricket and the tourists are not it It feels like five minutes since England were last in pristine Perth, preparing – or rather under-preparing – to win back the Ashes, only for their glass jaw to be shattered by the flashing blade of Travis Head and a two-day defeat at Optus Stadium . But 12 months on, the mood is much changed. Beyond the fact this is merely a white-ball tour – three one-day internationals st...
Batter has not played since July and now faces race to be fit for South Africa Tests
Australia fast bowler Riley Meredith will return to Somerset in 2027 to play in their T20 Blast campaign.
Australia in-fighting dominates news agenda as Perth contest looms on Friday
Peter Handscomb slammed his first first-class century in 25 innings to help Victoria dominate the opening day of their Sheffield Shield encounter against Western Australia on Wednesday, November 11, at the MCG.
The WA and Australia A offspinner rang Australia's recent destroyer for advice on his craft
Hear from Joe Root as England announce Jacob Bethell is out of the Australia series.
England's Joe Root says he does not believe ball-tampering was rampant across the international game at the time of Australia's 'Sandpapergate' scandal as he chose not to pile in on his Ashes rivals following Usman Khawaja's explosive claims.
The interminable sandpaper scandal will drag on to the next press conference, social media post or book, until it festers into something much bigger than it needs to be There are some stories that you look back on and wonder whether we lost our collective minds. In Australia, 2018 was not a good year for banking executives, for prime ministers, for oily lord mayors and for cardinals. But the greatest betrayal of trust apparently concerned our national cricket team. There was public bawling, r...
‘We weren’t aware anything was taken on the field’ CA: no ‘compelling reason’ to establish new inquiry Mitchell Starc has denied claims made in Usman Khawaja’s new book that more than the three players suspended for ball tampering had knowledge of the sandpaper plan in South Africa in 2018. Starc became the first of the Australia bowling group who played in the 2018 Cape Town Test to speak out following the publication of Khawaja’s book on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Retired Australia batter says he was told to "shut up, you P**i" as tempers flared after controversial Bairstow stumping
Usman Khawaja's autobiography has exposed the limbo Australian cricket finds itself stuck in over the sandpaper scandal, writes Stephan Shemilt.
Australia batter Usman Khawaja alleges he was racially abused by an MCC member during the Ashes Test at Lord's in 2023.
Former Australia captain Michael Clarke says fans of the national side "can't trust what's real" and has called for the investigation into the 2018 Australia ball-tampering scandal to be reopened.
Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc has denied any prior knowledge of 'Sandpapergate' after former team-mate Usman Khawaja's explosive claims that the entire dressing room knew about the ball-tampering scheme in South Africa in 2018.
With the issues raised in Cape Town still to be resolved, Usman Khawaja’s book threatens to damage reputations and divide cricket’s tight community Australian cricket thought it had left its great shame behind, burying it in the days after Cameron Bancroft was shown on the big screen in Cape Town putting sandpaper down his pants. Cricket Australia acted swiftly at the time, suspending the young batter, his captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner. Too swiftly, according to Usman Khaw...
Former Australia opener reveals how the team worked on the ball to trigger a South Africa collapse
Cricket Australia will not reopen an investigation into the infamous 2018 Sandpapergate controversy, according to chief executive Todd Greenberg, in the wake of Usman Khawaja's claims that the entire Australian Test team knew it was happening.
Usman Khawaja and David Warner's Sandpapergate revelations may have set the scene for civil war in Australian cricket as the 2018 ball-tampering scandal continues to captivate and damage.
David Warner has thrown his full support behind former Australia opener Usman Khawaja, who claimed that the side's entire dressing room knew about the ball-tampering scheme in Cape Town in 2018.
David Warner says he throws his "full support" behind former team-mate Usman Khawaja following his claim that all the Australia players knew about ball-tampering.
Former vice-captain breaks his eight-year silence Test captain Pat Cummins is expected to face questioning this week David Warner has broken his eight-year silence and says it is “100% accurate” that every player knew of the sandpaper plot, giving “full support” to Usman Khawaja. The former vice-captain of the Test team also claimed Cricket Australia’s investigation was “rushed and botched”, as he backed his former teammate’s account in a social media video shared on Monday evening. Continue...
"We remain comfortable with the findings of our integrity process," Cricket Australia says about its investigation into the 2018 ball-tampering scandal
Australia have dropped Marnus Labuschagne for the four-Test series at home to New Zealand.
Australia chair of selectors George Bailey confirms the No. 3 will be dropped following an extended lean run
Under-fire batter will not feature in upcoming New Zealand series ‘Still possible’ he will be recalled for tours to India and England Marnus Labuschagne has been dropped from Australia’s Test squad. Chairman of selectors George Bailey confirmed on Monday that Labuschagne would be omitted from Australia’s yet-to-be-named squad for the first Test against New Zealand. Australia’s next Test begins on 9 December in Perth, but Bailey and his panel have made an early call to put Labuschagne out of h...
Australia have rested the trio of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, and Josh Hazlewood for the upcoming ODI series against England, which begins in Perth on November 13.
Usman Khawaja says he has "not thrown anyone under the bus" with revelations about the sandpaper scandal that engulfed the Australia team in 2018.
Usman Khawaja insists he has not "thrown anyone under the bus" after excerpts from his autobiography claimed the entire Australia team were aware of the ball-tampering scheme on the tour of South Africa in 2018.
Usman Khawaja has claimed that the entire Australia team was aware of the use of sandpaper in the Cape Town Test of 2018.
Fast bowler will return to UK to have big toe problem assessed
"That's part and parcel of selling books, I suppose," Darren Lehmann, Australia head coach on that 2018 tour of South Africa, says about the timing of Usman Khawaja's revelation
On today’s episode of The Scoop, Peter Lalor raises concerns about Australia’s Test team and Steve Smith’s future, while we also look at the rise of Nigerian cricket.
Josh Tongue has been ruled out of England's white-ball tour of Australia due to a toe injury.
Former Test opener says object also used in Port Elizabeth Cricket Australia still ‘comfortable’ with bans only for trio Usman Khawaja has claimed “all” of the Australia touring party knew about the plot to tamper with the ball against South Africa in Cape Town in 2018 and the team also used sandpaper during the second Test at Port Elizabeth. The former Australia batter said the team used sandpaper to tamper with the ball before Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera while handling the object...
Former Australia opener Usman Khawaja has claimed that the side's entire dressing room knew about the ball-tampering scheme in Cape Town in 2018.
Concern among counties due to reliance on ECB funding Optimism that eventual figure could be reduced to £35m The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is forecasting losses of tens of millions of pounds next year despite hosting the Ashes, with county executives told last week that the deficit could be as large as £50m. The anticipated shortfall, after posting a profit of £12.6m in 2025, is due to a combination of the cyclical nature of the governing body’s media revenues, which is largely de...
Mark Butcher has said Australia must be wary of their ageing current bowling attack, and should avoid making the same mistake of the Waugh-Ponting era in the early 2000s.
Hussey will be a consultant with a major focus on the 2028 Olympics and T20 World Cup but will also work with the team for the 2027 Ashes and ODI World Cup
Australia recruit Michael Hussey as a long-term batting consultant to help them prepare for the 2027 Ashes and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Lauren Winfield-Hill and Katya Witney discuss the latest from the WBBL, before they are joined by former ECB Women's Cricket Performance Director Jonathan Finch.
On the latest episode of the Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast, Cameron Ponsonby and Ben Gardner are joined by Ben Jones to review South Africa's 2-1 Test series victory, including Simon Harmer’s rise, Temba Bavuma’s leadership.
England are set to face Western Australia in a 50-over tour match on Saturday, November 7. Here are the squads, live streaming details, and match timing for the encounter.
Simon Harmer, who claimed a 10-wicket haul at Cape Town to lift South Africa to 2-1 series win over Australia, questioned the imbalance in Test scheduling.
In the latest episode of the Scoop, Simon Harmer speaks to Phil Walker about South Africa’s epic 2-1 Test series victory against Australia, where he picked up a 10-fer at Cape Town.
From the miracle of Mumbai, gamechanging centuries and a rare Test ton, here are half a dozen of the Big Show’s most destructive knocks Glenn Maxwell has bowed out from international cricket, leaving behind a trail of destruction razed by his most blistering innings and unconventional shots. Yet for all the outrageous highlights and gamechanging knocks, the 38-year-old’s legacy is tainted by an unshakeable feeling that he remained an unfulfilled talent. The Big Show was denied a farewell appe...
After an enthralling Test series between South Africa and Australia, six Wisden writers give their verdicts on the contest.
Explosive batter calls time having amassed 2,897 runs at 28.97 38-year-old will continue to play franchise cricket Australian short-form cricket star Glenn Maxwell has retired from the international game. The 38-year-old had already retired from one-day international cricket in 2025 but has hung up his bat and gloves for Australia’s T20 team, as well as for his state. “Post the last one-day game for Victoria, speaking to my teammates and letting them know that was going to be my last game for...
The hosts hammered Australia in the third Test by 176 runs to clinch the series 2-1. Here's how the World Test Championship points table looks like after that result.
South Africa beat Australia in the third and final Test in Cape Town by 176 runs. Here are the updated ICC men's Test team rankings after their 2-1 series triumph.
How a team of South Africa camera operators discovered Australia's sandpapergate scandal as it happened.
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