Former Australia Test captain Tim Paine has retired from domestic cricket, calling time on his career at stumps in Tasmania’s Sheffield Shield match against Queensland at Bellerive Oval. Paine, who skippered Australia in 23 Tests between early 2018 and 2021 and played 35 Tests overall, left the field to a guard of honour from players…

The UK’s equality watchdog issued a statement on Tuesday saying it’s “likely to be lawful” for sporting bodies to ban transgender athletes in order to ensure fairness and the safety of competitors. The intervention comes after The Telegraph reported that a middle-aged person who had transitioned from a man to a woman—and who was described by a…

Many of the world’s most powerful people and institutions want us to eat the bugs (bite the beetle, chew the cricket, nosh on the night crawler, and so on and so forth.) But will the American people get with the programming? An employee of the factory “L’Atelier a pates” (“The pasta shop”) empties a basket…

HYDERABAD, India—Twenty people were injured in a stampede when thousands of people thronged counters selling tickets for an India–Australia Twenty20 cricket match in southern India, police said on Thursday. The crush of cricket enthusiasts occurred as the tickets sale started at three counters at the Gymkhana grounds in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana state. Nearly…

MELBOURNE, Australia—The body of cricket great Shane Warne is back in Australia. Just before dawn outside Bangkok his coffin—draped in an Australian flag—was put into an ambulance at the Thai Police Forensic Institute and driven to an international airport. A private jet flew Warne’s body back to his hometown of Melbourne, landing at Essendon airport…

Australian cricket veteran Adam Gilchrist paid tribute to long time friend and teammate Shane Warne in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporations’s Leigh Sales. When asked about what it was like to play with Warne, Gilchrist said: “It was the highlight of my cricketing career as simple as that.” “The team victories were amazing,…

The family of late Australian cricket icon Rod Marsh has been offered a state memorial service by the West Australian (WA) Government. Born on 1947 in the WA suburb of Armadale in the city of Perth, Marsh is likely to be laid to rest in the state of South Australia, where he resided. Should the…

Australian cricketer Shane Warne, considered the greatest leg-spin bowler of all time, has died after suffering a suspected heart attack at his villa in Thailand, his management company confirmed on Friday. He was 52. “It is with great sadness we advise that Shane Keith Warne passed away of a suspected heart attack in Koh Samui,…

Australian cricket legend Rod Marsh has died aged 74 after suffering a heart attack. The star wicketkeeper from the 1970s and 80s was flown from Bundaberg to Adelaide Hospital earlier in the week after suffering a heart attack last Thursday, Fox Cricket reported. He remained in an induced coma until passing away on Friday morning….

Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins has broken his silence on why coach Justin Langer (JL) was not offered another long-term contract, despite his success in taking the team to T2O World Cup and Ashes victories. Since Langer’s resignation on Saturday, Cummins has come under fire for not supporting his coach and for the possible role…