Sport
Cricket
Langer fall-out continues as sacked physio sues CA
All eyes are on Cricket Australia’s high-performance manager Ben Oliver after sacked physio David Beakley settled his court case against CA for unfair dismissal.
- by Malcolm Conn and Daniel Brettig
Latest
Perry hopes to wind back the clock to bowl at Commonwealth Games after suffering ‘young person’s injury’
Ellyse Perry’s place in Australia’s Commonwealth Games plans is likely to be restricted to batting only after a back stress fracture.
- by Daniel Brettig and Jon Pierik
Cricket academy system famous for producing Ponting, McGrath to be phased out
Australia’s rising stars will no longer follow in the academy footsteps of Ricky Ponting and Glenn McGrath.
- by Daniel Brettig
Updated
Australian cricket
‘My great mate’: Australian coach deals with tragic loss as he accepts England job
Australia’s women’s coach Matthew Mott, who is still trying to come to terms with the loss of his great mate Andrew Symonds, will join Brendon McCullum in charting an Antipodean path for England’s men’s team.
- by Daniel Brettig
Updated
Big Bash
End of an era: Cricket Australia shifts ODIs to make way for Big Bash
Three ODIs against South Africa will begin significantly earlier than traditional day-night start times this summer. Cricket Australia’s head of operations and scheduling, Peter Roach, calls it “creative scheduling”.
- by Daniel Brettig
‘I wish we had one more day, one more phone call’: Symonds’ impact measured by tributes
The tributes paid to Andrew Symonds illustrate the impact he had on those who watched him on the field, or shared their lives with him.
- by Daniel Brettig
Queensland Cricket Chairman Chris Simpson pays tribute Andrew Symonds to close mate
Karl Stefanovic, Chris Simpson pay tribute to Andrew Symonds.
‘A heart-and-soul type of guy’: Teammates pay tribute to Symonds
Andrew Symonds has been remembered as a fiercely loyal friend, a supremely talented player, and a man whose great passions were his children, the outdoors, and cricket.
- by Malcolm Conn, Cloe Read and Danny Weidler
Monkeygate’s huge toll on Andrew Symonds
Monkeygate may have shortened Andrew Symonds’ international career by as much as five years, according to those close to him.
- by Daniel Brettig
Updated
Vale
‘Really hurts’: With Symonds’ death, cricket world in mourning again
The last Instagram post from Andrew Symonds was about his devastation over the passing of his former teammate Shane Warne. On Sunday, the cricket world was in mourning once again.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Roy Ward
Analysis
Australian cricket
Why Andrew Symonds meant so much to us
In a spiritual sense, Andrew Symonds occupied the same wondrous place in Australian cricket dreams as Shane Warne and Rod Marsh.
- by Daniel Brettig