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The International Cricket Council (ICC) denied Australia batter Usman Khawaja's attempt to spread awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The ICC declined Khawaja's latest application to display an image of a dove and an olive branch on his bat and shoes. The ICC's clothing and equipment regulations prohibit players and team officials from displaying personal messages on their clothing or equipment.
Ahead of the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, Delhi Capitals (DC) on Friday named Australian all-rounder Jake Fraser-McGurk as a replacement for Proteas bowler Lungisani Ngidi. IPL released a statement that the South African seamer has been ruled out of the upcoming season due to an injury. It added that Fraser-McGurk joined the Delhi-based franchise with his reserve price of Rs 50 lakhs.
Star Australian batter Steve Smith has not been having best of the times as an opening batter, as his downward slump continued during the first Test against New Zealand in Wellington. During the first Test, he was dismissed for 31 in 71 balls by Matt Henry and then later for a three-ball duck in the second inning by Kiwi skipper Tim Southee. This has added to Smith's lean run that started just during the start of the new ICC World Test Championship cycle.
Star Australian opener David Warner surpassed Pakistan's Mohammed Rizwan to become the seventh-highest run-maker in T20I cricket on Sunday. Warner accomplished this feat during Australia's second T20I match against West Indies at Adelaide. In the match, Warner scored 22 in 19 balls, with three fours and a six. His runs came at a strike rate of over 115. In 101 matches, Warner has scored 2,986 runs at an average of 33.17 and a strike rate of over 141. He has scored a century and 25 fifties in the format, with the best score of 100*.
Star Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell continued his purple patch which started during the ICC Cricket World Cup in India last year, which has seen him not only secure the sixth marquee cricket tournament with the team but also break or equal with some big records. Maxwell, also known as 'The Big Show' hit his fifth T20I century against West Indies in the second T20I at Adelaide on Sunday, scoring 120* in 55 balls, with 12 fours and eight sixes. His runs came at a strike rate of 218.88.
Star Australia opener David Warner surpassed England batter Jos Buttler in the list of most runs scored by a batter in T20Is after playing a blistering knock against West Indies at Bellerive Oval in his 100TH T20I on Friday. The southpaw played a marvellous knock of 70 runs from just 36 balls which was laced with 12 fours and a six. Warner was awarded the Player of the Match for his match-winning performance in the first T20I of the three-match series. He is the only player to have fifty-plus scores in his 100th Test, ODI and T20I and also to win a 'Player of the Match' in all of them.
Star Australia batter Steve Smith opined that his team did not take him seriously when he told them that he wanted to move to the top of the batting order after David Warner's retirement. Smith said today that looking at himself as an opener for the first time in a 13-year Test career first came to his mind while playing against England during last year's Ashes series when Warner first gave signs of his potential retirement from the longest format of the game.
Star Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has vowed to play in the world's biggest cricket league, the IPL "until he can't walk anymore". The 35-year-old, who played a massive role in Australia's ODI World Cup-winning campaign in India recently, will once again don the colours of Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL next year. "The IPL will probably be the last tournament I ever play, as I will play the IPL until I can't walk anymore," Maxwell was quoted as saying by Australian Associated Press (AAP) at the Melbourne Airport on Wednesday.