The NRL has announced the draw for the 2024 Pacific Championships, with four weekends of footy being announced across four countries. Promotion and relegation has also been introduced, with the third-place Pacific Cup men’s and women’s team to play against the winner of the Pacific Bowl tournament for their respective place in the top bracket....
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‘Strong guys that smack it miles’: Steve Smith opens up on T20 disappointment after World Cup omission
Australian cricketer Steve Smith has vowed to keep pushing his case for a national T20 recall after missing selection for the upcoming tour of the United Kingdom. The 35-year-old, who played the most recent of his 67 T20Is in February, was not selected for June’s T20 World Cup campaign in the Caribbean, where Australia failed...
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Inside Zampa’s journey from scrapheap to X-factor… and why it raises unthinkable question
The late Shane Warne remains Australia’s undisputed greatest spinner in white-ball cricket, but that might not be the case in five years. Since he was dropped from Australia’s starting XI during the 2019 World Cup, Adam Zampa has established himself as one of the most important figures in the national white-ball side. The leg-spinner was...
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Cricket 2024: Steve Smith playing Major League Cricket, cricket in America, T20 World Cup in Caribbean and United States, Glenn Maxwell, Ricky Ponting, Travis Head
Steve Smith will make his return to the crease along two Australian stars in the United States less than a week after the final of the T20 World Cup he was overlooked for is decided in the Caribbean. The former Australian captain will be joined by World Cup-bound teammates Glenn Maxwell and Travis Head when...
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The moment new T20 World Cup skipper Mitch Marsh proved he was ready to lead his country
An off-Broadway tour of South Africa during a mammoth year for Australian cricket proved the stage where the nation’s T20 captain Mitch Marsh demonstrated to national selectors that he was far more than just a powerful all-rounder. Just over a month after the Western Australian rebooted his Test career in stunning circumstances during the Ashes,...
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Fraser-McGurk, Smith miss out as Australia names experienced 15-man squad for T20 World Cup
Australian selectors have rejected the temptations offered by precocious talent Jake Fraser-McGurk and will rely on a core group of established cricketers in a bid to become the first nation to be world champions in all three formats of the sport at the same time. The 15-man squad to head to the West Indies for...