Weatherald given early backing with national contract
Jake Weatherald has been included on Cricket Australia's contract list for the first time, taking the place of Sam Konstas ahead of a busy 12 months of Tests.
Jake Weatherald has been included on Cricket Australia's contract list for the first time, taking the place of Sam Konstas ahead of a busy 12 months of Tests.
Victoria are eying a first-innings lead against South Australia in the Sheffield Shield final after bowling the visitors out for less than 200 at Junction Oval.
Amid some confusion, Victoria have used the injury substitute rule before dominating SA late on day three of the Sheffield Shield final.
A Sheffield Shield final featuring several plot twists will go down to the last day, with Victoria needing another 94 runs to beat South Australia.
Nathan McAndrew, who has overcome a form of vertigo, was named player of the final as SA won back-to-back Sheffield Shield titles for the first time.
Victoria's wealth of bowling options has left coach Chris Rogers with one of the toughest calls of his coaching career ahead of the Sheffield Shield final.
Victoria sent South Australia in to bat on day one of the Sheffield Shield final and claimed three wickets before rain stopped play.
Alyssa Healy has missed out on helping NSW to a WNCL title in her final competitive match, with Queensland putting up big numbers to claim the trophy.
Australia and New Zealand will play their entire four-Test trans-Tasman series in the space of a month, with cricket's calendar putting a squeeze on fixtures.
South Australia will be without a star fast bowler when they meet Victoria in the Sheffield Shield final.
Henry Hunt was man of the match for South Australia in the draw against Victoria, the sides now set to face off next week again in the Sheffield Shield final.
Queensland's batters continued their poor form to be bundled out for 221 to give a Beau Webster-inspired Tasmania an emphatic win in the Sheffield Shield.
NSW and Western Australia have played out an enthralling draw in the final match of the Sheffield Shield's regular season at Cricket Central.
Beth Mooney has proved the joint biggest-money buy in the auction for English cricket's The Hundred white-ball tournament, scooping a $A395,000 deal.
West Australian spinner Corey Rocchiccioli has taken his second five-wicket haul of the Sheffield Shield season, helping bowl NSW out for 232.
Queensland lost Matt Renshaw and Marnus Labuschagne in slumping to 3-48 after Michael Neser took the key wickets to dismiss Tasmania for 198.
Scott Boland and Todd Murphy each took three wickets, but half-centuries by Henry Hunt and Ben Manenti pushed South Australia to 9-295.
Campbell Kellaway's batting display has helped Victoria close in on South Australia's first innings total on day two of their Sheffield Shield clash.
Queensland and Usman Khawaja's hopes of returning to the Sheffield Shield final have been dashed after their batters crumbled against Tasmania.
South Australia captain Nathan McSweeeney took three wickets and three catches to restrict Victoria to 308, a three-run first-innings lead, before rain came.
Spinner Matt Kuhnemann defied Queensland for 201 deliveries to score 56 and put Tasmania in charge of the Sheffield Shield match in Hobart.
Tasmania have suffered a collapse of 6-36, killing off their hopes of qualifying for the Sheffield Shield final with a 70-run loss to Victoria.
India have slumped to 6-105 in their second innings - still requiring a further 20 runs to make Australia bat again - in the pink-ball Test at the WACA Ground.
Queensland have crashed to 6-43 chasing 267 for victory in their Sheffield Shield clash with Western Australia at Allan Border Field.
Alyssa Healy's international career is set to come to a close on Sunday, and her teammates want to see her bat for one final time in the Test arena.
Just five overs were bowled on Sunday as the Sheffield Shield match between Western Australia and Queensland finished in a draw.
Retiring captain Alyssa Healy has been chaired off by Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner after Australia wrapped up a 10-wicket Test win against India.
Perth Scorchers' Finn Allen has unleashed one of the great T20 knocks to destroy South Africa and power New Zealand into the final of the World Cup.
Victorian wicketkeeper Sam Harper has continued his rich vein of form with the bat on the first day of his side's Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania.
Travis Head has fallen for a single-digit score in his return to the Sheffield Shield for South Australia, while teammate Henry Thornton nabbed five wickets.
Queensland stars Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja were among the big-name batters to fall late on day one as WA paceman Cameron Gannon found his groove.