WA’s white-ball captain Ashton Turner has no doubt the State’s One-Day Cup and Sheffield Shield sides are ready to put a pair of disappointing campaigns behind them and compete for titles once again.
Josh Kempton
Usman Khawaja, who re-signed with the Brisbane Heat, says Australian batter Matt Renshaw is in perfect position to make a success of his Test cricket return.
Joel Gould
A brutal, brilliant career-best knock from Harry Brook helped England crush the visiting Sri Lankans to open their three-game T20 series in emphatic fashion.
Staff Writers
Ten years after scoring his first international century in a Test match, Matt Renshaw has a second, in an ODI, and says he now feels at home with his game.
Glenn Moore
India have taken a 2-0 lead in their three-match T20 series with Afghanistan following a seven-wicket win in Delhi.
A sparkling 109 from Matt Renshaw has laid the platform for Australia to defeat Zimbabwe by 59 runs in the in the first ODI of their African tour.
Australia's build-up to their ODI World Cup defence starts in Zimbabwe with stand-in skipper Mitch Marsh hoping the young guns emulate his breakthrough there.
Brendon McCullum and Kevin Pietersen are in harness as England begin a T20 series with Sri Lanka, while new Test supremo Stephen Fleming has arrived in the UK.
Rory Dollard
WA star Aaron Hardie will miss an upcoming Australia A tour of India due to injury, but may yet be available for the State’s first game of the new Sheffield Shield season.
Big-hitting Abhishek Sharma blasted a blistering 82 as India beat Afghanistan by seven wickets in a T20 international.
Perth-born Test cricketer Cameron Green has married his long-time partner Emily Redwood.
Zach Margolius
With concurrent Australia and Australia A tours set to thin WA’s middle-order batting stocks in the early stages of the domestic season, the State’s white-ball captain is set for a Sheffield Shield recall.
Professional athletes become good at managing uncomfortable situations. But that doesn’t mean they are performing at their best, and doesn’t remove the increased possibility of injury, writes Mitchell Johnson.
Mitchell Johnson
Hosts England were given a scare on the fourth morning before securing victory over Pakistan in the third Test and a series sweep.
Furious six-hitting from Pakistan's No.9 batter, pace bowling newcomer Razaullah Khan, has capped a terrific fightback against England in the Edgbaston Test.
Former Australian Test batter Greg Blewett says the Aussie selectors’ faith in an ‘unpickable’ Marnus Labuschagne is holding the Test team back.
Aaron Kirby
Cricket will feature at the 2028 LA Olympics, but former Australia captain Ricky Ponting says the sport's growth in the US has been slower than he expected.
Chiranjit Ojha
With Perth Scorchers’ championship-winning opener Finn Allen confirming a move to Melbourne Stars, the reigning title winners are left with a gaping hole at the top of the order ahead of BBL 16.
Jake Lehmann was a centurion for Hampshire in a losing cause while his father Darren has coached Northamptonshire to a key county championship win.
Ian Chadband
Ollie Robinson starred with both bat and ball to hasten England's charge towards a 3-0 Test series clean sweep of Pakistan at Edgbaston.
Neil Squires
Statues of Dennis Lillee, Zoe Goss and Joseph Nogolo have been unveiled at the Nelson Crescent entrance to the redeveloped WACA Ground
Glen Quartermain
WA Cricket has not set a time frame for deciding whether it opts in or out of privatising the Perth Scorchers, but CEO John Stephenson has flagged they may test the market first.
Cricket Australia says private investment in BBL clubs won’t affect its control over the competition, but that’s hard to believe. Control has a habit of being chipped away over time, writes Mitchell Johnson.
One of Australia’s greatest fast bowlers has been immortalised at the venue where he sparked the most fear in opposition batters.
Tyler Lewis