A digest of news from Australia, France, Aotearoa and your local bookshop Turmoil in Australia On 20 August the Wallaroos issued a combined statement condemning RA for its unbalanced treatment of them viz å viz the Wallabies. They claim that promises of a full-time professional coach and pro-contracts have not be fulfilled. Major players are
The Australian Croquet Association has announced their Golf Croquet players selected to play in the GC World Team Championship, known as The Openshaw Shield Included in the selection is the latest Women’s World Champion Jamie Gumbrell, who competed along with 55 other players from around the world, at the GC Women’s World Championship held here
Australia and Wales The sextet that makes up the elite group of the new WXV divides into two. Canada, England, France and New Zealand sit far ahead of Australia and Wales. This split neatly mirrors their world rankings, 1-6, but the fear remains that even within those subdivisions wide gaps will appear when the tournament
England v Australia – Third ODI Taunton, 18 July On another tense and exhilarating day England achieved the apparently impossible. Here are a few stats to swivel the eyes: Australia hadn’t lost an ODI series since 2013. England beat Australia in the Ashes series of seven matches 4-3. Australia retain the Ashes. The series ended
Maple Leafs v Wallaroos Ottawa, July 14 This had the makings of one of the few tight match-ups in the final series of Pacific 4 matches. The Wallaroos had shown enormous improvement in their previous games, beating the Eagles with ease. The Maple Leafs knew they couldn’t take things lightly (as if they ever would).
England v Australia First ODI Bristol, 12 July 2023 Have you studied sports psychology? No? Nor have I. So how do we explain how this game turned out the way it did? England won an extraordinary third match on the trot against an Australian eleven that is quite unused to reverses. In Australia’s innings England
After the Trent Bridge test match Jon Lewis has made two changes for his ODI squad to face Australia in the final trio of games in the 2023 Ashes. Tammy Beaumont and Lauren Filer reappear at the expense of Alice Davidson-Richards and Emma Lamb. Heather Knight (captain, Western Storm) Tammy Beaumont (The Blaze) Lauren Bell
England v Australia – Third T20 Lord’s – Attendance 21,610! England achieved the impossible by beating the world champions for the second time in three, to inflict a first series defeat on the Aussies for six years. Gold shirts were spotted leaving the ground before the final action. For most of the Australian innings the
Pacific Four Series, Ottawa The Wallaroos demolished the Eagles, to gain their first win over them for two decades. The rest of the world must sit up and take notice. For a squad so lacking international contests, most of the opposition coming from relentless Kiwis, their standard of play reached remarkable heights. From the first,
Three-match We Got Game ODI Series in the Metro Bank Women’s Ashes Series officially a sell-out Vitality IT20 Series sets two consecutive record attendances, ticket sales approaching 20,000 for Lord’s Over 94,000 tickets sold for the Metro Bank Women’s Ashes Series The We Got Game ODI Series between England Women and Australia Women in the
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