Former Test captain Mark Taylor quit as a Cricket Australia director Monday to give the organisation a clean slate to...
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Japanese superstar Keisuke Honda scored on his A-League debut in front of 40,000 fans, but it wasn’t enough to secure...
Sprint superstar Usain Bolt has turned down a contract from Maltese champions Valletta and will remain in Australia to pursue...
An inquest into the supposed suicide of renowned cricket writer Peter Roebuck in South Africa in 2011 is set to be reopened, his former employer reported Monday. English-born Roebuck, 55, was covering the Test series between South Africa and Australia when he plunged to his death from the Southern Sun Hotel in Cape Town.South African police said he leapt out of a sixth floor window after two officers arrived to arrest him over a claim of sexual assault by a...
Sprint superstar Usain Bolt looks set to make his first start as a professional footballer Friday, a challenge he said...
Australia coach Justin Langer claims there is a worldwide problem with ball-tampering, partly due to unresponsive pitches, while vowing it will never happen under his watch.The former Test opener, appointed when Darren Lehmann quit in the aftermath of a cheating scandal in South Africa this year, has been working to fix the team’s behaviour and earn back respect.He said he was shocked when he learned players had taken sandpaper onto the field to deliberately alter the ball in the third...
Former national coach Darren Lehmann revealed Wednesday how he has paid a heavy emotional toll over the ball-tampering scandal and...
Usman Khawaja is facing surgery on his knee, dealing rattled Australia a heavy blow as they face the prospect of...
Sprint king Usain Bolt could be making his way to Europe after being offered a two-year professional football contract in Malta, reports said Tuesday, following his goal-scoring exploits in Australia.Bolt, 32, has been on trial with A-League club the Central Coast Mariners since arriving in Australia in August in his bid to pursue a boyhood dream of becoming a footballer after retiring from athletics last year.The 100 metres world record-holder scored his first two goals in professional football on Friday...
Australia’s battling draw against Pakistan has ushered in a new era for a team desperate to redeem itself in the wake of the sandpaper cheating scandal, media said Friday.In their first Test outing since the ball-tampering fiasco in South Africa, the Australians salvaged a draw in the opening Test in Dubai thanks to a dogged 141 from batsman Usman Khawaja.While such a result would not normally be cause for celebration, ABC columnist Richard Hinds praised the way Australia refused to...
Test great Matthew Hayden said Monday he had “dodged a bullet” after suffering head and neck injuries, including a spine fracture, while surfing during a holiday in Queensland. Hayden, a top-order batsman who was last year inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, fractured his spine near the base of his neck, tore several ligaments and hurt his forehead after being dumped into a sandbank while surfing with his son Josh off North Stradbroke Island on Friday. “Fractured C6,...
