The shortest Ashes Test in 104 years left travelling England fans anguished at their team's attitude and had implications, too, for Perth

Kane Williamson has been included in New Zealand's 14-man squad for a three-test series against the West Indies next month after missing the Black Caps' last test series in Zimbabwe and most of their white-ball matches so far this season.

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia coach Andrew McDonald is hopeful skipper Pat Cummins will be able to play in the second Ashes test and thinks it highly unlikely that quick Josh Hazlewood will miss the whole series.

How do you even begin to measure the ineptitude of England’s batting here? Perhaps it is the fact that they bowled Australia out for 132 and yet still contrived to lose by eight wickets in two days. Or that Alastair Cook faced more balls in making his Brisbane double century in 2010 than the entire team did across two innings of this pulverising in Perth.

The former England international will be outnumbered by Australians as one of only two 'Poms' in the Fox Sports commentary box for the Ashes

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Preliminary blueprints for the Palm Avenue Community Park show possible plans for a cricket field for youth along with green space, a playground, picnic tables, public restrooms and a parking lot.

On Australian television, cricket scores are presented in the opposite way to what they are in England and most other countries. For example, a score of 200-4 would actually be shown as 4-200, with the wickets taken displayed first instead of the runs.

A group of Wellington cricket players have been left bruised and battered, after a social Twenty20 match turned into violent chaos over the weekend.