This Month
Warner, Marsh send Aussies back into World Cup top four
In a crucial match for Australia’s finals hopes, David Warner and Mitch Marsh found form to power their side to a 62-run win over Pakistan.
- Scott Bailey
April
Australia and New Zealand mark 100-day countdown to Women’s World Cup
Women’s World Cup co-hosts Australia and New Zealand marked the 100-day countdown to the global soccer showpiece with a call for gender equity in sport.
- Cordelia Hsu, Jill Gralow and Ian Ransom
February
Australia lift women’s T20 World Cup again in style
Meg Lanning’s champion side have won another global crown, successfully defending their title with an emphatic 19- run victory over hosts South Africa in Cape Town.
- Annesha Ghosh
October 2022
Fight begins over access to major sporting events
Potential changes to sports broadcasting rules could lead to big events disappearing from free-to-air broadcasters and moving to subscription streaming services such as Foxtel, Amazon Prime and Stan.
- Updated
- Edmund Tadros
September 2022
How one of Australian cricket’s unluckiest men got very, very lucky
The man once known to his mates as “the Prince of Perth” can’t wait to be back on home soil.
- Hans van Leeuwen
August 2022
Kapil Dev says cricket, like cinema, is undergoing disruption
The 63-year-old former cricket superstar has arrived in Melbourne for the screening of a movie about the World Cup victory he led India to in 1983.
- Michael Bleby
November 2021
Australia wins its first T20 World Cup by beating NZ in final
They clinched their maiden Twenty20 World Cup title after fiery fifties by Mitchell Marsh and David Warner fashioned an eight-wicket victory in Sunday’s game.
December 2020
Why Steve Waugh's only played cricket three times since retirement
He was Australia's most successful Test cricket captain - so why did he decline to ease into a post-retirement life of media commentary and coaching?
- Andrew Burke
July 2019
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Two phenomenal matches
The weekend saw two incredible matches with two incredible results.
- The AFR View
England wins Cricket World Cup
Ben Stokes helps England level after 50 overs in a dramatic finale that ends with a super over giving England its first championship after a seven-week tournament.
- Amlan Chakraborty
Australia crashes out of Cricket World Cup
England roars into final for the first time in 27 years against New Zealand with an eight-wicket victory over five-times champion Australia.
- Amlan Chakraborty
NZ ousts India to advance to Cricket World Cup Final
New Zealand heads to the World Cup final as they produced the bowling performance of the tournament edging out India by 18 runs at Old Trafford.
- Steve Douglas
England ends India's unbeaten run to revive semi-final hopes
Jonny Bairstow's century helps England beat India by 31 runs at the Cricket World Cup 2019, setting up a crucial match against NZ to make the final four.
- Amlan Chakraborty
June 2019
Australia outclasses England to reach Cricket World Cup semis
Australia crushes England by 64 runs to reach the semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup, putting the hosts in danger of not making the final four.
- Ed Osmond
- Opinion
- Opinion
This is the world's best cricket contest
India versus Pakistan ensures a spectacle unlike any other.
- Oliver Brown
