Cricket

Australian are confident Steve Smith will be fit to return for the Boxing Day Test after the star’s dramatic late withdrawal in Adelaide handed veteran Usman Khawaja a shock reprieve. 

All the broadcast and streaming details as Australia and England battle for supremacy.

Cam Green has reaped a giant purse after drawing the highest bid for an international player in Indian Premier League history, having initiated a heated bidding war in the first round of the mega-money auction.

John Williamson will perform at Adelaide Oval as part of a tribute to the terror attack victims, while the entire Sydney Swans team visited the ever-growing memorial today.

LISA STHALEKAR: The Poms can pledge to change their reckless ways to save the Ashes, but it is probably too late to avert a series disaster.

Australia have named their XI for Adelaide, finalising a big selection call around Usman Khawaja. See the team changes here!

Tim Seifert has become only the second Melbourne Renegades player to score a BBL century as he set up a victory over the Brisbane Heat.

England have resisted the urge to make wholesale changes to their XI as they look to save their Ashes dreams in Adelaide, making just one change from the side that was crushed in Brisbane.

GEORGIE PARKER: The Pat Cummins-led team ranks with Australia’s best to have played despite how nostalgic we like to be about the past.

Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins has issued an urgent call for people in NSW to donate blood in the wake of Sunday’s deadly terror attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

NRL clubs, the AFL and Cricket Australia are all saying the same thing in strongly worded statements.

The move has been made in the wake of the devastating terror attack in Bondi.

The former Test captain and popular commentator was caught among the terror.

West Australian wunderkind Cooper Connolly began the new BBL season the way he finished the last, powering the Perth Scorchers to a five-wicket win over arch-rivals Sydney Sixers.