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Captain Pat Cummins' and another Travis Head played key roles in an IPL thriller overnight.
JUSTIN LANGER: What I learnt from a singing superstar and a cricket champion about fighting our inner demons and how that helps me teach my team to handle adversity.
Mitch Marsh says carrying the captaincy into next month’s T20 World Cup won’t change the approach that has resurrected his career, and confirmed his injured hamstring will be ready for game one.
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He’s never played an international T20 but if Ricky Ponting believes in him the Aussie selectors can too. Jake Fraser-McGurk has proven he can cut it in the IPL which should be enough to earn a World Cup spot.
Steve Smith has missed out on an Australian World Cup squad for the first time in 12 years, as Mitch Marsh was named as the nation's new men's Twenty20 captain.
Jake Fraser-McGurk's explosive heroics in the Indian Premier League are not enough to have him called into Australia's Twenty20 World Cup squad, over a veteran player who has ‘retired’.
Mitchell Starc may be having the IPL season from hell but he still has a few tricks in the bag, with the veteran paceman getting one-up on one of Australia’s hottest new batting talents.
Glenn Maxwell has made a winning IPL comeback with a wicket after a 12-day break but it was a tough day for his Aussie teammates Pat Cummins and Travis Head.
JUSTIN LANGER: There are superstars and then there’s MS Dhoni. I saw first-hand the mania that follows the former Indian cricket captain everywhere he goes. I was bowled over.
Australian allrounder Cameron Green has produced a matchwinning display with bat, ball and in the field to remind everyone why he was one of the IPL's big buys.
MITCHELL JOHNSON: Mitchell Starc is having the IPL season from hell and will be feeling immense pressure after failing to deliver on his big-money contract. But the Aussie veteran still has time to make amends.
David Warner has been dropped by Delhi Capitals after a poor run but Jake Fraser-McGurk hit a brisk 23 to help them win their latest exhilarating IPL contest.
The fact Ashton Agar, Marcus Stoinis, Jason Behrendorff and AJ Tye have given up State contracts next summer comes as the latest signpost in cricket’s move towards the freelancer model, writes Mitchell Johnson.
MITCHELL JOHNSON: The cricketing world has been firmly focused on the IPL but a change in England’s County Championship is causing a massive fuss. Here’s why I think it’s been a good albeit controversial move.
Australian cricket superstar Meg Lanning has opened up on the reasons she ended her international career aged just 31.