Sport

Cooper Connolly, Sam Konstas and Matthew Renshaw should all tour Sri Lanka.
Sport
Justin Langer

The next gen batters that must tour Sri Lanka

Never has a tour of the island nation been as important with a chance to shape the team’s future beckoning for selectors.

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Virat Kohli, Beau Webster, Ben Stokes could face off more often with the proposed Test format shake-up.
Sport
Lisa Sthalekar

The price of messing with global Test format

LISA STHALEKAR: After the best home series in living memory fans are chomping at the bit to see the major nations play each other more often, but is it really a good idea?

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Bowlers always come out on top when tempers flare.
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Mitchell Johnson

There can only be one winner in cricket’s war of words

MITCHELL JOHNSON: When tempers flare in the middle, some players would be wise to let their batting do the talking, none so more than Sam Konstas.

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Sam Konstas' run-in with Jasprit Bumrah has divided fans.
Sport
Georgie Parker

The most worrying aspect of the Sam Konstas circus

GEORGIE PARKER: The teen sensation is just the tonic the cricketing public were looking for, but his youthful exuberance comes at the risk of alienating him from those he needs most.

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A view of the scoreboard showing total attendance during day five of the fourth Test.
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Sport
Mitchell Johnson

If you think this Test series is big, wait ‘til next summer

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Australia and India has become the most-watched Test series, and when you look at the population of India, that makes sense

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 02: Mitchell Marsh of Australia is seen during an Australia nets session at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 02, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)
Cricket
Lisa Sthalekar

2025 to herald start of a new era of Australian cricket

Remember it was about this time last year that we celebrated and cried with Mitch Marsh as he accepted and spoke about what it meant to win the Allan Border Medal as the best Australian male player of 2023

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Nick Kyrgios is not happy about Jannik Sinner of Italy being handed a minimal ban for doping.
Opinion
Georgie Parker

Tennis facing a PR disaster over doping punishments

GEORGIE PARKER: The penalties tennis players face are often seen as arbitrary and seem influenced by factors such as their reputation.

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Keep cricket away from Christmas Day, please.
opinion
Opinion
Lisa Sthalekar

Please, make the right call on a Christmas Day BBL match

LISA STHALEKAR: While Test cricket will always take centre stage in this country, what has been pleasing to watch is the resurgence of Big Bash. However, let’s not go too far.

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Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
Markets
Daniel Newell

Foxtel offloaded to UK streamer for $3.5b

Foxtel has been sold in a $3.5 billion deal that will bring UK sports entertainment juggernaut DAZN to Australia’s shores — and catapult local codes such as AFL and NRL onto a bigger global stage.

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Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne and Nathan McSweeney all failed at the Gabba.
Sport
Mitchell Johnson

The under fire batter we should cut some slack

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Boxing Day is looming as D-day for Australia’s top three but selectors should show more patience with one of them, despite his failure to fire this series against India.

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Steve Snith, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
Sport
Lisa Sthalekar

Why it’s hard to admit the end of the road is near

Several cricket legends are facing a moment of truth this summer with one having to face the toughest call of all.

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Rohit Sharma and Shane Warne.
Sport
Caitlin Bassett

The tough call no skipper wants to make

CAITLIN BASSETT: Every cricket star goes through a rough patch but sometimes a team has to bite the bullet.

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Cooper Connolly can cement himself as a Scorchers superstar this season.
Sport
Mitchell Johnson

The tough call BBL heavyweights had to make

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Perth proved on Sunday why they are the most successful team in the BBL, but they are gunning for their sixth title without one key player.

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AFL stars like Christian Petracca are paid vast sums compared to our top female athletes like the Matildas.
Sport
Georgie Parker

The damning stat that shows how bad sport gender pay gap is

GEORGIE PARKER: Women’s sport is more popular that every, but the players are nowhere near being rewarded for it has well as they should be.

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Paul Kelly and Phillip Hughes.
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Sport
Justin Langer

The moments that still bring me to tears

JUSTIN LANGER: Those ancient warnings that a warrior does not weep and a provider cannot crack are hard to break. 

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