25-year first shaking up this yearâs Ashes For the first time since the 1996-97 Aussie summer, the SCG wonât host a final Test as a venue.
Cricket by Robert Craddock 19th May 2021 1:08 PM Australia s Ashes defence is set to feature a high powered off-field chess match where big-name bowlers are rotated throughout an historic six-Test summer. Cricket Australia will on Wednesday confirm a robust Test match summer featuring the enchanting Afghanistan team visiting Australia for the first time for a Hobart Test from November 27, in which captain Tim Paine will finally get the chance to lead his country before his home-town audience.
25-year first shaking up this yearâs Ashes For the first time since the 1996-97 Aussie summer, the SCG wonât host a final Test as a venue.
Cricket by Robert Craddock 19th May 2021 1:08 PM Australia s Ashes defence is set to feature a high powered off-field chess match where big-name bowlers are rotated throughout an historic six-Test summer. Cricket Australia will on Wednesday confirm a robust Test match summer featuring the enchanting Afghanistan team visiting Australia for the first time for a Hobart Test from November 27, in which captain Tim Paine will finally get the chance to lead his country before his home-town audience.
Australia s Test drought poses possible Ashes problems
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19 May 2021, 16:43 GMT+10
Australia are set to play six matches in fewer than eight weeks next summer, after a gap of 312 days since their last assignment against India in January, meaning an idling Test team will have to re-learn the fundamentals of the longest form of the game in an almighty hurry.
A one-off Test against Afghanistan at Bellerive Oval in November-December - Hobart s first Test match since November 2016 - will be followed by an Ashes series that will take in matches at the Gabba, Adelaide Oval (day-night), the MCG, the SCG and concluding at Perth Stadium in mid-January. It s the first time Sydney has not hosted the conclusion of an Ashes series since 1995, when the WACA Ground was the scene of the final match in early February.
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MELBOURNE – Batting star Marnus Labuschagne will miss Australia’s white-ball tour of West Indies in July due to “logistical complexities”, Cricket Australia said yesterday.
The 26-year-old, who is currently playing for Glamorgan in the English County Championship, was left out of a 23-man squad and is expected to now continue his duties with the Welsh club.
Labuschagne made his name in Tests, where he averages 60 from 18 matches, but recently broke into the One-Day International side and averages nearly 40 from 13 games.
National selector Trevor Hohns said but for the current COVID-19 pandemic, the player would have definitely made the Caribbean trip. (CMC)
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