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‘Bad for business’: Cricket Australia facing Aus $10m loss after two-day Test at MCG

  
The Guardian - 12.27.2025 Original article ›
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Over 90,000 people were to fill the stands at the MCG cricket grounds in Melbourne, Australia, for the third day of the Third Ashes Test match with England. England won in 2 days after losing in Perth in Australia in 3 days. This means losses for Cricket Australia. More questions about the pitch with 10mm of grass that was not much help for spin bowling, and did very well for pace bowlers like Carse and Starc. 

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Australia v England: Rory Burns’s duck typifies heightened nerves and frozen muscles of Ashes cricket

  
The Times - 12.08.2021 Original article ›
Simon Wilde
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Cummins gets 5 wickets, England's top batsmen out for three ducks, two years of preparation show the tension, the need to throw the "million dollar fast ball" as bowler Harmison did in Brisbane in 2006 sending the ball straight to second slip. This time the first ball by Mitchell Starc dismisses Burns. This is the first day of the Australia England Ashes cricket series.

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Australia edge England as 20 wickets fall on wild day one of Boxing Day Test

  
The Guardian - 12.26.2025 Original article ›
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Ashes Test at MCG 2025 Day One shocker -20 wickets fall on this cricket pitch in Melbourne, Australia. England bowl out Australia for 152 then get bowled out themselves for 110- in just 1 day. Before the coin was tossed there was dismay at England's performance. Now there are questions about how many of the 94,000 fans at the MCG cricket grounds will stay for the rest of the match. The series is settled. Not since 1901 have so many wickets fallen on 1 day in the Ashes at the MCG cricket grounds.

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Australia v India: third men’s cricket Test, day five – live

  
The Guardian - 12.18.2024 Original article ›
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Deep and Bumrah hold off the Aussies in the Third cricket Test at the Gabba in Brisbane, Australia. Australia on Day 5 can only score 150 runs aggressively and hope to bowl India out in a short time -but that is a stretch. So the Test being drawn it leaves India and Aussies at 1-1, heading to the MCG.

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England v Australia: Cricket World Cup 2023 – live

  
The Guardian - 11.04.2023 Original article ›

‘Finally we’ve won one’: Stokes delighted by Ashes Test win but pitch was ‘not ideal’

  
The Guardian - 12.27.2025 Original article ›
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"Not ideal" says Ben Stokes, "yeah disappointing" says Steve Smith, about the 10mm of grass on the pitch that led to 20 wickets on the first day 36 wickets by the second day. Cricket Australia is disappointing a lot of fans when the Test match at MCG cricket grounds is over in 2 days- not since 1904 has something like this happened at MCCG- and there is an investigation, too much left to the cricket grounds preparation experts without supervision by Cricket Australia. Stokes says to be brutally honest it was bad for 90,000 fans. About England critics after losing 3 Tests, Stokes says that now goes to zero the idea of England not having won at all. Stokes and Root hug in the locker room, a sign of relief.

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India cricket: Virat Kohli & Jasprit Bumrah among Australia series talking points

  
BBC Sport - 01.06.2025 Original article ›
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More thoughts on the Test Series Australia vs India this time from the BBC. Rohit Sharma and Kohli slump, newcomers Jaiwal and Konstas, Jasprit Bumrah without bowling support, and Cummins-Starc-Boland.

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ICC Cricket World Cup: Why beating Australia is a big deal for India in a cricket World Cup

  
The Indian Express - 10.09.2023 Original article ›

India vs Australia Prime Minister’s XI Test Day 2, LIVE Cricket Score: IND beat PM XI by six wickets in Canberra

  
The Indian Express - 12.01.2024 Original article ›
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Gill and Jaiswal get India to 257 for 4 wickets past PM's 11 Australia's 240 all out in a 1 day cricket match in Canberra.

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Arrogant England’s cricket machine collapses like a castle of dust in 11 days | Barney Ronay

  
The Guardian - 12.20.2025 Original article ›
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Barney Roney Analysis of England's 3-0 defeat in three matches in Australia in December 2025. Roney writes in the BBC Analysis that there was a basic lack of tension and discipline, of not doing the homework needed and not recognizing the need for homework when playing a side like Australia. Australia without Cummins, Smith and other injured players- made it work with Mitchell Starc and Travis Head in the bowling and batting attack. Roney does not fault Stokes as much as he does McCallum the coach of the England team. Other reports show Stokes and the England cricket team spending time at the beach for days that suggested a lack of discipline. England did not trust the process it trusted the captain's instincts and brave comments, Australia trusted the process and this helped it improve as the game went on even without key players. 

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MCG record under threat as PMs join 100,000 for Test cricket’s biggest day

  
The Guardian - 03.07.2023 Original article ›
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The Test cricket attendance record of 91,000 set at the MCG grounds in Australia for the 2013-14 Ashes cricket is likely to be exceeded for the Fourth India Australia Test match. It will be played at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday. Both the Australian pm Albanese and India's pm Modi will be in attendance and hand out bats before the match.

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T20 World Cup, Pakistan vs Australia Highlights: Matthew Wade, Marcus Stoinis power Australia into final with win over Pakistan | Cricket News - Times of India

  
The Times of India - 11.12.2021 Original article ›

Graceful Shubman Gill looks like India’s present and future with bat | Geoff Lemon

  
The Guardian - 03.11.2023 Original article ›
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Geoff Lemon compares the  youngest batters on the Indian and Australian Test cricket teams and their graceful batting, Shubman Gill and Cameron Green. Shubman Gill's century gave India a good start against Australia leading to superb batting from Kohli with 186 and his partnership with Axar Patel in the fourth Test match against Australia.

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A new culture? This is same old snide Australia

  
The Times - 01.12.2021 Original article ›
Matthew Syed
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Disbelief at what happened in the Sydney cricket Test with the comments of Paine to Ashwin and the activity on the crease by Smith, as Indian batsmen held on to save the day. Readers comments are interesting. One reader says Brett Lee is the Australian bowler who should be the role model for Australia. Then again Richie Benaud from the sixties and seventies going far back is what the Australians need to go back to. Other readers say this is not just Australian cricket, it is cultural in Australia.

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The Ashes: the inside story of an England camp divided, distracted and desperate for golf

  
The Times - 01.18.2022 Original article ›
Simon Wilde, Hobart
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The story told in The Times how England collapsed to a 4-0 loss in Ashes Cricket Tests against Australia in 2022. Lack of preparation, poor selection of bowlers, and a better prepared Australian team led to the debacle. There is also the history of performance in Australia- since 1990 England won only 6 Tests out of 45 Test played in Australia, and lost 32 Tests, with 7 drawn.

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Joe Root and Tim Paine must cope with agonies of being Ashes captains

  
The Times - 07.31.2019 Original article ›
Mike Atherton, Chief Cricket Correspondent
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As England and Australia prepare for Ashes cricket Test series, Mike Atherton looks at the two captains, Tim Paine for Australia and Joe Root for England. Tim Paine is an unlikely captain because of not playing in enough matches after hand injuries and surgeries. He is a Tasmanian and played on and off for Australia. He also came in unusual circumstances as a captain after failures of the Australian team, with his close relationship with coach Justin Langer. Joe Root by comparison is a top batsman and has made it to the top after playing well for England in many matches. 

The result is a contrast in the two sides. Yet in cricket as in any sport anything can happen. And the Australian side will do its best to upset any predictions.

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Australia walk barefoot around Edgbaston to create ‘positive energy’ before World Cup semi-final with England

  
The Times - 07.08.2019 Original article ›
Steve James
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The Australia vs. England semifinal in World Cup cricket 2019, brings back the traditional cricket spirit in the two countries. This game comes before the celebrated Ashes cricket series between the two countries. The Australian team walks barefoot on the Edgbaston cricket grounds just to connect with the earth. Coach Justin Langer of the Australian team believes in this practice of "earthing"or "barefoot healing". Feeling the grass under the feet connects with the positive energy from the earth and the ground below.

Langer former Australian opener batsman has written a book "Seeing the Sunrise" which is devoted to philosophy and psychology, and is a about overcoming self-doubt. The team made a circle of the grounds at Edgbaston, getting to know the field from all vantage points, and then met with Langer in a circle, exchanging stories, laughter, and memories.

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Australia v India: third men’s cricket Test, day four – live

  
The Guardian - 12.17.2024 Original article ›

IND vs AUS: Modi and Albanese’s lap of honour to mark 75 years of IND-AUS friendship, see pics | The Indian Express| Page 1

  
The Indian Express - 03.10.2023 Original article ›
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The prime ministers of Australia and India at the fourth cricket Test in Ahmedabad's cricket stadium. Modi interacts with India's cricket team.

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Australia v India: fourth men’s cricket Test, day three – as it happened

  
The Guardian - 12.28.2024 Original article ›
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A record for Day 3 at MCG of over 83,000 in Australia India Fourth Test Cricket, the largest since 1937. The record for total attendance of 255,000 is likely to be broken. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar build a 127 run partnership and Reddy gets to 105. India are only 114 runs behind a massive Australian first innings of 474 with 1 wicket in hand.

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Australia v India: fifth men’s cricket Test, day one – as it happened

  
The Guardian - 01.03.2025 Original article ›

The quiet rise of captain Aaron Finch to upper echelon of ODI batsmanship behind Australia’s revival

  
Hindustan Times - 12.01.2020 Original article ›
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Australian cricket captain Aaron Finch is only 6 runs short of Indian Virat Kohli as the highest run scorer in ODI one day cricket. His batsmanship has revived the Australian team with 6 centuries and 8 half centuries since the beginning of 2019 and a total of 1739 runs in 35 games.  Only Rohit Sharma comes close in centuries scored.

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Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Kotla pitch ready to test spin-wary Australians again

  
The Indian Express - 02.15.2023 Original article ›
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Another pitch for spin bowlers at the Ferozeshah Kotla grounds in India before the 2nd cricket Test against Australia.

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Cricket’s Version of the Hidden Ball Trick Sparks an English Summer Panic

  
WSJ - 07.05.2023 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson
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The controversial runout of batsman Bairstow in the Australia England Ashes cricket series. This game was played at the MCC Lord's cricket ground.

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Alyssa Healy ton helps Australia crush West Indies and reach Women’s World Cup final

  
The Guardian - 03.30.2022 Original article ›
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Alyssa Hayley and Rachael Haynes with an opening stand of 219 runs help Australia win the semi final of the World's Cricket Cup with the West Indies.

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