Team Australia (AP Photo) The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is all set to commence in Pakistan and the UAE, starting February 19. This ninth edition of the tournament will feature eight of the best ODI teams, marking the first time the Champions Trophy is being played since 2017. The defending champions, Pakistan, will be hosting…
Australian cricket team (AP Photo) Australia, South Africa, England form the Group of Death as Afghanistan eye more upsets. TOI analyses Group BAUSTRALIAStrengths: No other team has a better record in global events — six 50-over World Cups, one T20 World Cup and two Champions Trophies make them the most fearsome white ball unit. An…
Australia captain Steve Smith (Pic credit: CA) Australia’s stand-in skipper Steve Smith remains confident about his team’s prospects at the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, despite a 2-0 ODI series loss to Sri Lanka.Australia, plagued by selection setbacks, entered the series without key players Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Mitchell Marsh, all sidelined due to injuries….
NEW DELHI: Mitchell Starc pulled out of this month’s event in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates for personal reasons and Australia will attempt to win the ICC Champions Trophy for the first time since 2009 using a completely new pace bowling line-up.As the only player from Australia’s “big three” fast bowling attack to participate…
Sam Konstas and Jasprit Bumrah (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Former Australian pacer Damien Fleming expressed surprise over Jasprit Bumrah‘s aggressive response to Sam Konstas during the fifth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Sydney. Fleming noted that Bumrah’s reaction seemed to inspire his teammates before Usman Khawaja was dismissed off the last ball of Day…
L-R: Jasprit Bumrah, Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma (Getty Images) SYDNEY: The fifth Test between India and Australia ended on Sunday and the visitors are now scrambling for tickets to head home after spending close to two months Down Under. They were originally scheduled to fly out on January 8 but with the match ending…
Australia’s captain Pat Cummins, centre, is congratulated by teammates after taking a wicket. (AP/PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: An out-of-sorts Indian team succumbed to a six-wicket loss in the fifth and final Test, handing Australia a 3-1 series victory and reclaiming the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a decade. This defeat, coupled with India’s inability to make the…
Sunil Gavaskar. (Photo by Philip Brown/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar was no less than furious after India succumbed to a six-wicket defeat against Australia in Sydney on Sunday.The win enabled Australia to win the series 3-1 and reclaim the coveted Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time since 2014-15. Gautam Gambhir press conference:…
Australia celebrate the wicket of Mohammed Siraj as he walks from the field on Day 3 of the fifth cricket Test between India and Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground. (AP/PTI) India will not play the World Test Championship (WTC) Final for the third time in a row after losing the fifth and final Test…
Australia’s Scott Boland, left, celebrates after dismissing India’s Virat Kohli. (AP/PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s batting mainstay Virat Kohli‘s struggles outside the off-stump were on full display once more as he ended the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on a disappointing note. In India’s second innings at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday, Kohli edged a Scott Boland…
