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Rampant Starc puts Australia in dominant position
Mitchell Starc is one wicket away from capping one of his greatest performances in the baggy green with a hat-trick and 10-wicket haul.
Mitchell Starc is one wicket away from capping one of his greatest performances in the baggy green with a hat-trick and 10-wicket haul.
Mitchell Starc has received good news on the injury front but Australia’s spearhead may yet endure more Boxing Day heartbreak.
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Test paceman Mitchell Starc has joined a select club – and sent an ominous warning to England ahead of the Ashes – claiming his second hat-trick of the match to bowl NSW to a 171-run victory over Western Australia at Sydney’s Hurstville Oval yesterday.
Australian cricket’s newest hat-trick man, Mitchell Starc, wants the Blues brothers’ bowling quartet to stay together right through the season, so they can continue wreaking havoc on opposing batting lineups.
Australia’s Ashes puzzle is no closer to being solved, with the opening Sheffield Shield round tossing up more questions than answers for national selectors – apart from an emphatic display by returning quick Mitchell Starc as he tore through the Redbacks at Adelaide Oval.
Australian Cricketers’ Association chief Alistair Nicholson is disappointed Cricket Australia has threatened players to accept the governing body’s proposed remuneration overhaul.