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Strong PM’s XI squad named to face Pakistan Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel (NSP) have named the men’s squad for the Prime Minister’s XI match against Pakistan in Canberra. South Australian batter Nathan McSweeney will captain a strong squad which features six players with experience at Test level. Cameron Bancroft (505 runs), Beau Webster (487) and McSweeney (456) are the current leading Marsh Sheffield Shield run scorers, while Queensland quicks Mark Steketee and Michael Neser combined for 78 wickets last season. Cameron Green, Marcus Harris, Todd Murphy, Jimmy Peirson and Matthew Renshaw all featured in Australia’s Test squad during the recent Ashes campaign in England. Thilan Samaraweera has been named Head Coach of the side after previously working with Australia A and Australia’s male underage pathway squads. The playing squad will be supported throughout the match by local ACT Premier cricketers who will have the ...

Nov 23, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , , , ,
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    Why Knox is streets ahead of Roebuck This sort of article usually takes days to write. People ask me whether I attend cricket matches? I say no. They ask me whether I follow it on TV. I say no because TV tires my eyes. They then ask me how I call myself a cricket follower. I say – by reading about cricket. Apart from Knox and Haigh there are a host of other cricket writers I read in the local newspapers. Baum is one of them. Stranger things at Edgbaston, where sneaky Steve Smith’s the arch-villain By Malcolm Knox August 2, 2019 When Steve Smith reached his milestone 50th and 100th runs at Edgbaston on Thursday, and when he was out after one of the great innings in Ashes history, a funny thing happened. Sections of the crowd in the Eric Hollies Stand, England cricket’s version of the MCG’s ...

Aug 5, 2019 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , Comments 0
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SHAME, SHAME, SHAME, AUSTRALIA – By Trevine Rodrigo (Melbourne)   Australian Cricket hit new depths with the ball tampering scandal in South Africa and any excuse to cover up the happenings in the African sub-continent will only worsen the way the ‘gentleman’s game’ will be looked at from now on after their unsavory instigation that dragged the sport to its lowest ebb.  By Stephen Smith’s and Cameron Bancroft’s own admission to using desperate and extreme measures to change the course of the game, there is now a storm enveloping one of the most popular sport in the world putting the ICC under the pump to deal with it with the full force of its power to ensure that it will never be tolerated in the future.  The Australian ploy to gain unfair advantage over the South Africans is unforgivable as much as it will be a stain on Cricket for ...

Mar 26, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Home, Trevine Rodrigo Tagged , , , , , , Comments 0
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