The Ashes 2025-26: England win staggering two-day Test against Australia in Melbourne  BBC‘Utter shambles’: Cricket world turns on Aus  News.com.au‘Bad for business’: Cricket Australia facing Aus $10m loss after two-day Test at MCG  The Guardian"Can't Be More Blunt": Cricket Australia Breaks Silence On 2-Day Ashes Test Finishes  NDTV SportsPunishments set to be handed down as $16 million could be lost in Ashes 'shambles'  Yahoo News AustraliaAustralia belted, England vindicated and Test cricket wounded in MCG farce  Australian Broadcasting Corporation'State of shock': Cricket reckons with two-day pitch fiasco  cricket.com.auThe mind-boggling costs Cricket Australia 'could incur' after England seal two-day Boxing Day Test victory  Daily Mail‘State of shock’: MCG curator faces music with big admission over Boxing Day debacle  Fox Sports

[BBC : Sat, 27 Dec 2025 06:32:55 GMT]

Curator was in a ‘state of shock’ watching match unfold‘We’re very, very disappointed it’s only gone two days’The MCG’s head curator has conceded staff went “too far” in preparing a pitch that favoured the bowlers too heavily in the Boxing Day Test, saying he was in a “state of shock” while watching the match unfold.But the stadium’s chief executive is standing by the under-fire curator after the Test match between Australia and England finished within two days. Continue reading...

[Cricket | The Guardian : Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:20:05 GMT]

Melbourne Cricket Ground head curator Matthew Page says he was in a “state of shock” during England’s two-day defeat of Australia in the Boxing Day Test.

[BBC Sport : Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:04:52 GMT]

On Reports Of BCCI Meeting India Great VVS Laxman For Head Coach Post, Big Details Emerge  NDTV Sports

[NDTV Sports : Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:24:02 GMT]

What winning in Melbourne says is: here is what you could have had with Australia’s weaknesses exposed Na-na na-na na-na na na na, Duckett’s on the piss. On the piss. Duckett’s on the piss.Don’t take me home, please don’t take me home. And while we’re here, stand up, stand up, please do stand up if you love a two-day Test on a pitch as green and ridged as an under-ripe roasting potato. For an hour in mid-afternoon on day two at the MCG England’s top order finally did the thing. The clocks stopped. Dogs miaowed. Birds flew backwards across the sky. And Test cricket turned into darts. Continue reading...

[Cricket | The Guardian : Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:00:38 GMT]

Chasing down a mammoth score unshackles the batsmen.

If the stroke makers keep their nerve to the end, it is a spectacular occasion that is enjoyed by the cricket crowd as boundaries are intermingled with the "will they/wont they" nervous tension of a record run chase.

[Last updated: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:06:35 AEDT]

Rohit Sharma was the first man to hit 250 in a one-day international when he smashed 264 in the fourth ODI against Sri Lanka in 2014. Rohit beat the previous record of 219 made by fellow Indian Virender Sehwag against West Indies in 2011.

[Last updated: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:05:26 AEDT]

Chris Gayle hit the fastest century in World Twenty20 history as West Indies crushed England by six wickets in Mumbai in 2016. Where does Gayle sit on the list of all time fastest centuries?

In Test cricket, Brendon McCullum broke the joint record of Viv Richards and Misbah with a 54 ball century against Australia in the 2nd Test in 2016.

AB de Villiers took 31 balls to smash the fastest century in one-day internationals.

In T20s, Namibia’s Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton set a new world record with the fastest ever century, taking just 33 balls to reach triple figures and fire his nation to victory over Nepal in 2024.

[Last updated: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:04:26 AEDT]

Ricky Ponting and James Sutherland, take note. This story is representative of a growing phenomenon in Australian cricket. It was penned by a typical Australian fan who hits out hard at its current team’s lack of sportsmanship and the resulting drop in interest to follow cricket.

[Last updated: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:40:38 AEDT]

The term ‘Match Fixing’ is used as a catch-all for a whole range of things and is usually an inaccurate term as the result of a match certainly isn’t always involved. It is likely to be a particular event, or series of events, within a match which are manipulated rather than an entire match. Are we doing enough to stamp out this menace in cricket?

[Last updated: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:39:39 AEDT]