The two teams that started the journey of Test cricket at MCG will face each other once again at the same venue after 150 years
Steve Smith said at one stage his Australian side thought England would score 400 runs on a flat track here but his bowlers pulled the team back to a "chaseable" target of 352, ultimately winning their high-scoring Champions Trophy match by five wickets on Saturday. Australia's five-wicket win was the highest-ever chase by any team at an ICC white-ball tournament, the previous best being Pakistan's 345 against Sri Lanka at the 2023 men's World Cup. "We thought 350 was chaseable. Looked like they (England) would get 400 but we trusted each other's skills, took pace off at the right times, hit hard lengths, squeezed and controlled the back end," Smith said at the post-match presentation. "Marnus bowled nicely too and took a few wickets. The two 'keepers (Alex Carey and Josh Inglis) have been batting beautifully, (they are) in great form," said the skipper who opted to bowl after winning the toss. Inglis was the main architect of the five-wicket win as he played the innings of his lif
Duckett also powered England to the highest team total in Champions Trophy history
The incident was particularly unusual, as India is not scheduled to play any matches in Lahore
The match between Australia and England in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will take place at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium
Australia vs England HIGHLIGHTS: Alex Carey and Josh Inglis help Australia chase down the highest team total in ICC Champions Trophy in Lahore
Australia lead England in ODI World Cups, while the English side enjoys the advantage in the Champions Trophy over the Aussies
In a surprise move, England announced their Playing XI two days before the scheduled start of the match
Australia vs England pitch report: Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium, known for its batting-friendly pitches, recently hosted two matches during a tri-series, both producing scores exceeding 300.
Check the rankings of India, Pakistan, New Zealand and Bangladesh, who are part of Group A in ICC Men's Champions Trophy.
Australia lost to England in the group stage in both the 2013 and 2017 Champions Trophy to end their campaign with zero wins
England won the toss and will bowl first in the second one-day international against Australia at Headingley on Saturday. Travis Head's career-best 154 not out Thursday powered the tourists to a seven-wicket win in the opener of the five-match series between the fierce cricket rivals. Australia looks even stronger with senior players Mitchell Starc, Glenn Maxwell and Josh Hazlewood back after they sat out in Nottingham because of illness. Ben Dwarshuis, Sean Abbott and Cameron Green are out. Olly Stone replaces Jofra Archer in England's only change. ___ Australia: Travis Head, Matt Short, Mitchell Marsh (captain), Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Aaron Hardie, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood England: Phil Salt, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Harry Brook (captain), Jamie Smith, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Olly Stone, Matt Potts, Adil Rashid.
Australia batter Cameron Green is likely to skip the white-ball series in Pakistan later this year and instead play Sheffield Shield to prepare himself for the the big-ticket home Test series against India in December, according to head coach Andrew McDonald. The same template worked for the 24-year-old in the ongoing Test series in New Zealand as he hit a career-best 174 not out in Australia's big win in the first match here on Sunday. He was not included in the recent T20I series against the West Indies and New Zealand and instead earmarked him for West Australia's Sheffield Shield fixture against Tasmania in Hobart, where he struck an unbeaten 103 to provide an ideal warm-up for the first Test against the Kiwis. "It's a big decision to leave anyone out of international cricket when they're potentially in the best eleven, so I'm glad he (Green) embraced that when we had that conversation with him, and the return on it is pretty immediate," MacDonald said. "The next stress point o
Former captain Michael Vaughan feels Australia looked jaded in the recent home Test series against the West Indies and said England stand a great chance in next year's Ashes if a "Dad's Army" is fielded by their arch-rivals. Vaughan said most of the players in the current Australian Test side are ageing and the need of the hour is to infuse fresh talent in order to continue dominating world cricket. Australia drew the recent two-Test series against the West Indies, who have a poor record Down Under. Playing in only his second Test, Shamar Joseph single-handedly guided West Indies to a narrow eight-run win at Brisbane, returning with stunning figures of 7/68 in the second innings. "There was not much optimism in Australia that it would be a great Test summer because the two touring teams, Pakistan and West Indies, had poor recent records Down Under. But it was actually very competitive, as proved by the Windies pulling off that stunning win at the Gabba," Vaughan wrote in a column f
England vs Australia Highlights, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Updates: Adam Zampa starred with both bat and ball and took a stunning catch in the field to take Aussies to their fifth straight win
Mitchell Marsh returned home and Glenn Maxwell has been ruled out before Australia's all-important World Cup clash against arch-rivals England in Ahmedabad
Maxwell was concussed after falling from a golf cart and would miss Australia's World Cup match against England on Saturday, November 4 in Ahmedabad
An emotional England could not break the opening stand of the Aussies which reached 135 in 40 overs on Day 4. They now need 249 in 98 overs on Day 5 to win the match with weather permitting
England vs Australia 5th Ashes Test at the Oval: Pat Cummins wins the toss and elects to bowl first. Todd Murphy replaces Cameron Green in Australia Playing 11
England announced an unchanged team on Wednesday to play Australia in the fifth and final Ashes test at the Oval. England record wicket-taker James Anderson, who turns 41 on the fourth day, retains his place in the side despite a disappointing series so far while pacer Mark Wood and all-rounder Chris Woakes have both been passed fit. The fifth test starts Thursday. Australia takes a 2-1 lead into the match and has already retained the urn but England is looking to level the series after the final-day washout at Old Trafford in the drawn fourth test. Jimmy Anderson is the greatest fast bowler to play the game, England captain Ben Stokes said. He's not had the impact and the wickets he'd have liked to in this series, he's come under a bit of flak, but he's a quality performer. Australia arrived in south London with an insurmountable lead as holder of the Ashes, but a similar scenario in 2019 saw the team come unstuck in the final test and forced to settle for a drawn series. Austra