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Jake Fraser-McGurk's explosive heroics in the Indian Premier League are not enough to have him called into Australia's Twenty20 World Cup squad, over a veteran player who has ‘retired’.
Mitchell Starc may be having the IPL season from hell but he still has a few tricks in the bag, with the veteran paceman getting one-up on one of Australia’s hottest new batting talents.
Glenn Maxwell has made a winning IPL comeback with a wicket after a 12-day break but it was a tough day for his Aussie teammates Pat Cummins and Travis Head.
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JUSTIN LANGER: There are superstars and then there’s MS Dhoni. I saw first-hand the mania that follows the former Indian cricket captain everywhere he goes. I was bowled over.
Australian allrounder Cameron Green has produced a matchwinning display with bat, ball and in the field to remind everyone why he was one of the IPL's big buys.
MITCHELL JOHNSON: Mitchell Starc is having the IPL season from hell and will be feeling immense pressure after failing to deliver on his big-money contract. But the Aussie veteran still has time to make amends.
David Warner has been dropped by Delhi Capitals after a poor run but Jake Fraser-McGurk hit a brisk 23 to help them win their latest exhilarating IPL contest.
The fact Ashton Agar, Marcus Stoinis, Jason Behrendorff and AJ Tye have given up State contracts next summer comes as the latest signpost in cricket’s move towards the freelancer model, writes Mitchell Johnson.
MITCHELL JOHNSON: The cricketing world has been firmly focused on the IPL but a change in England’s County Championship is causing a massive fuss. Here’s why I think it’s been a good albeit controversial move.
Australian cricket superstar Meg Lanning has opened up on the reasons she ended her international career aged just 31.
PETER LALOR: The Big Show is a big out but Maxwell is not the only Aussie hot under the collar in India. One young gun is firing on all cylinders as some big names struggle with the T20 World Cup months away.
Former cricket star and TV commentator Michael Slater has been refused bail after being charged with more than a dozen offences, including assault and stalking.
Travis Head has made his first T20 century, battering RCB for 102, to set up Pat Cummins' Sunrisers Hyderabad for a record score and an IPL victory.
JUSTIN LANGER: This week in India I visited a café in Lucknow known as the Sheroes Hangout. It’s a café run by survivors of acid attacks. Women and girls with scarred faces but inspiring mindsets.
The WACA is renowned for its fiery battles, but an off-field culture war has inflamed a toxic state of affairs in cricket that has riven the venerable institution in two.