Bangladesh go bang bang.
This is a pretty monumental choke here
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Yep
There is a bloke out there on 149no and these idiotic tail Enders are trying to win it off their own bat. Tip and run you morons
You must be behind in your coverage
Australia wins
What a great day for Australian sport.
We beat Turkey 2-0 and then we down the bangladeshi’s by one wicket.
Two amazing results
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Geez, that bowling unit suggests the depth in Australian cricket might not be what it once was.
I do rate Bartlett. But Dwarshius and Meredith are both 30 odd and not much more than solid state level quicks.
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Dwarshius has only played 10 first class games. His pathway was big bash to international team. I’ve always felt this odd, we’re putting in guys who aren’t solid first class cricketers into our international odi team as though a few tricks makes up for solid, proven technique.
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If we can get our younger quicks fit it will be ok. Blokes like Morris and Spencer Johnson playing would mean Dwarshuis would not be getting a game.
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Our younger quicks are Beardman, Vidler and Straker. Those are the ones that will determine the bowling strength of Aussie cricket going forward.
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This.
I reckon that’s the generation of quicks that needs to come through and emerge as genuine quality.
I’m not sure there is a heap to get excited about in the 23-31 year old contingent.
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As you (sort of) were, then.
They’re alive: Melbourne Stars revived after two-week merger saga
June 16, 2026 — 3:55pm
Cricket Victoria chief executive Nick Cummins has confirmed an extraordinary end to the two-week saga around the “merger” of the Stars and the Melbourne Renegades.
Having extinguished the Stars brand pending Cricket Australia approval on June 2, Cummins said that the Melbourne Stars will now take the field this season, and did not rule out the green uniforms remaining in perpetuity.
Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell when they led the Melbourne Renegades and Stars.Chris Hopkins
“What you can rule in is that the Stars will play as the Stars,” Cummins told this masthead. CV will communicate the decision to club members later on Tuesday.
Cummins reiterated that the Stars team would still be the team of Cricket Victoria, while the Renegades would play this season in caretaker mode, ahead of a possible 100 per cent sale to a private investor.
The revival of the Stars after they were set to be renamed the Melbourne Rangers or similar, recalled short-lived merger attempts like those of the “Fitzroy Bulldogs” in 1989, or the “Melbourne Hawks” in 1996.
It was driven by the objections of other states to the move, which were made clear to Cricket Victoria at a meeting inside Cricket Australia’s Jolimont headquarters on Monday.
At that meeting, states agreed in-principle to a phased model for the sale of clubs, subject to a series of major caveats – including reform of the Cricket Australia board – that must be settled before Victoria’s sale plans can go ahead.
Former Melbourne Stars president Eddie McGuire and his former deputy John Wylie had both been outspoken critics of the move.
“At face value, it’s a strange and retrograde step in my view,” Wylie had told this masthead. “There’s 15 years worth of brand development that’s gone into developing the Stars and the Renegades and the history of commercial sports franchises shows that these things have value.
“So to blow that up and start again is an interesting move.
“I don’t think it’s axiomatic with foreign ownership that if that’s the way the Renegades go, [it] would turn Melbourne into a one-team town. Look at the English Premier League – foreign ownership of Manchester City made the club more popular.”
The Stars’ revival has been driven partly also by practicalities. It is now the judgment of CV and its BBL staff that there won’t be sufficient time to make all the moves required to successfully rebrand the Stars in time for this year’s WBBL and BBL competitions.
As CEO of Cricket Victoria, Nick Cummins is spearheading the state’s plans to privatise one of its Big Bash League licences.Getty Images
Therefore, apparel orders to kit supplier New Balance will be for green Stars uniforms, rather than blue-and-white Rangers concepts, which were being worked on by designers up until Monday.
At the same time, the Renegades will continue to exist in something of a halfway house, under the caretaker stewardship of former Melbourne Stars general manager Max Abbott, plus a small staff.
Former Stars, Sydney Sixers, Victoria and New South Wales coach Greg Shipperd has been mooted as one possible coach of the Renegades this season, with Stars coach Peter Moores likely to stay with that team as a senior assistant to Cameron White, who coached the Renegades last summer.
Cummins outlined the three scenarios for the Renegades.
“One is that a buyer comes in and they want to change the name, and we do that before the start of the season,” he said. “I think the longer this goes on, the less likely that is to happen.
“The second one is that the buyer comes in and wants to run the team but says we’ll do the full brand change next year.
“The third is the buyer comes in and says, ‘Yep, we’re all good, but we’ll take over the team on the first of February’.
“So all three of those options are in play, and we won’t know which one it’s going to be until we’re a lot deeper into the sale process.”
Cummins had voluntarily withdrawn from the meeting of state chairs with CA chair Mike Baird after CV initially planned to send him in the place of the state’s chair Ross Hepburn, who is overseas.
CV was represented on Monday by board director Shaun Richardson, who is an executive at National Australia Bank. Cummins said everything he had done regarding the sale of the Renegades had been with the full knowledge and assent of his board and in close consultation with CA, rejecting any notion that he had gone “rogue”.
“Everything I do as a representative of Cricket Victoria and the board,” he said. “All I’ve done is deliver the board’s strategy.
“Not only have I been working with the board on this for 18 months, but also working with Cricket Australia and the other states.”
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Aussies go 1 up in the t20’s against the Bangers thsnks mostly to 47 from Cooper Connoly
Wow a few interesting selections. Joel Davies makes his debut, as did Nikhil Chaudhary who didn’t even an Aussie citizen. He only arrived form India in 2020
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That’s surprising that he can play and not even be PR. Even more surprising that you would pick him before PR. Technically he could be playing for Australia and still be deported
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Only when Pauline gets in
Now you’ve done it, Rosso
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We all thought it.
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Joel Davies should be picked in every 20/20 game for AU
Maiden test ton for Glenn Phillips.
Kiwis 8/391
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