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Arundhati Reddy stars in rain-hit SCG T20I as India begin Aus tour with win | Cricket News

Arundhati Reddy stars in rain-hit SCG T20I as India begin Aus tour with win | Cricket News

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3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Feb 15, 2026 11:01 PM IST Rain forced an early end with India comfortably ahead in the run chase in the first T20I against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Chasing 134, India were off to a flying start, reaching 50/1 after 5.1 overs when rain became strong enough for players to be taken off the field at SCG. The DLS par score was 29, and with 5.1 overs bowled, the match was just about deemed complete and India were winners by 21 runs to make a strong start to the multi-format series Down Under against the world No 1 side. Vice-captain Smriti Mandhana was unbeaten on a 17-ball 16 with Jemimah Rodrigues for company when the heavens opened up. Shafali Verma played her part with two sixes in an 11-ball 21 to fashion India’s comfortable lead on the DLS sheet. Earlier, Arundhati Reddy picked up four wickets as India produced a superb bowling and fielding effort after Harmanpreet Kaur opted to bowl first against Sophie Molineux’s Australia in her first …

Steve Smith pips Sachin Tendulkar with 37th Test century at SCG, surpasses England legend in Ashes ton tally | Cricket News

Steve Smith pips Sachin Tendulkar with 37th Test century at SCG, surpasses England legend in Ashes ton tally | Cricket News

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Australia stand-in captain Steve Smith responded to Joe Root’s 41st Test century with a flawless knock of his own at the Sydney Cricket Ground, smashing his 37th century in the format during the third day of the Ashes contest on Tuesday. Walking in at the fall of nightwatcher Michael Neser earlier in the day, Smith breezed through to a seamless century after Travis Head made the most of the flattened conditions to slam a whirlwind 163 that reduced the lead of England’s first-innings 384. Smith edged out Sachin Tendulkar to his 37th Test hundred in only 219 innings, one quicker than the India batting legend who reached the mark in 220 innings. Smith’s compatriot Ricky Ponting remains the fastest to reach the milestone in Tests, having recorded his 37th ton in 212 innings. He is followed by Kumar Sangakkara, who reached there in 218 innings in his career. Interestingly, Root who brought up his 41st Test ton on Monday, remains the slowest to the mark, having bagged his 37th hundred in 284 innings. ALSO READ …

Travis Head Joins Australia’s Elite List With Historic Hundred at SCG

Travis Head Joins Australia’s Elite List With Historic Hundred at SCG

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The Australian batter Travis Head has registered his name in history during the final test of the Ashes 2025-26 at Sydney Cricket Ground. On day 03 of the test, the destructive batter brought up his 12th test century, further establishing himself as one of Australia’s most reliable red-ball batters in recent years. Head brought up his maiden test century in this venue and also levelled the record for the most centuries by an opener in a single Ashes series. It was the third hundred of the series for Travis Head after he played a match-winning innings in Perth and Adelaide. He joined an elite club featuring 11 other players, who have left an indelible mark on Ashes history with consistency at the top of the order. He will be joining a list that consists of players – Matthew Hayden, Alastair Cook, Michael Slater and Jack Hobbs. Travis Head has his first Test century at the SCG and his third of the series!#Ashes | #PlayoftheDay | @nrmainsurance pic.twitter.com/U3jcL2cRde — cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 5, 2026 Resuming the …

‘Should you touch another player? The answer is no’: AUS legends react after Stokes-Labuschagne SCG mid-pitch exchange | Cricket News

‘Should you touch another player? The answer is no’: AUS legends react after Stokes-Labuschagne SCG mid-pitch exchange | Cricket News

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The back-end of the Ashes series witnessed some spice on the field when England captain Ben Stokes and Australia batter Marnus Labuschagne were involved in a fiery exchange at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday. Despite putting on a hefty 384 on the back of Joe Root’s record-breaking 160, his 41st Test century, across two days, Australia munched into the visitors’ lead in quick time with in-form Travis Head storming to a quick-fire half-century. Batting alongside Marnus Labuschagne for the second wicket, Head continued his onslaught with a steady diet of boundaries. Labuschagne seemed to have hit Stokes’ nerve when his constant jibes from the non-strikers’ end coincided with Head slamming the England captain for two consecutive fours. As Stokes walked back, he could be seen hurling back a few words while wrapping an arm around Labuschagne and extending the conversation. According to news.com.au, Stokes appeared to tell the Aussie No. 3 to “shut the **** up.” Things got pretty heated 👀#Ashes pic.twitter.com/UHum32WUH0 — cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 5, 2026 Stokes proceeded to pat Labuschagne on …

Todd Murphy is hopeful for spinners having a big role in Sydney Ashes Test

Todd Murphy is hopeful for spinners having a big role in Sydney Ashes Test

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Australian off-spinner Todd Murphy is hopeful of spinners having a role in the fifth and final Test of the Ashes 2025-26 series at Sydney Cricket Ground. Spin hasn’t played much of a role in the ongoing series, with pacers dominating the proceedings right from the Perth Test. The SCG has historically favoured spinners. While England have sidelined their frontline spinner, Shoaib Bashir, in the four Tests so far, Nathan Lyon too has had only a limited role to play for Australia. However, with Lyon out due to injury and the Sydney Cricket Ground being a favoured venue for spinners, Murphy has reasons to believe that he might have a big role to play in his debut home Test. “I don’t think going into the series there was ever that planning or idea that spin wouldn’t play a role. I think it’s sort of just been how it’s eventuated. I think it’ll evolve from year to year. Next year it could be completely different,” said Murphy. ALSO READ | Stuart Broad heaps praise on Josh Tongue: …

Tim Paine on Sydney pitch for 5th IND vs AUS Test: I would have given it the lowest possible rating and effectively placed the SCG on notice | Cricket News

Tim Paine on Sydney pitch for 5th IND vs AUS Test: I would have given it the lowest possible rating and effectively placed the SCG on notice | Cricket News

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Former Australian cricketer Tim Paine slammed the pitch for the final Test at Sydney Cricket Ground. The Test ended up in two-and-a-half days with none of the teams reaching the 200 run-mark. The surface was seaming around throughout the Test match and showed signs of inconsistent bounce as the cracks opened up. “It meant batting relied more on luck than skill and although the ICC gave it a satisfactory rating, I would have given it the lowest possible rating and effectively placed the SCG on notice: dish up something like that again and you will be suspended from hosting international cricket,” Paine wrote in his column vs News Corp via Yahoo. Earlier ICC has rated the Sydney pitch as ‘satisfactory,’ which is the second-highest category. “The SCG has been striving to bring out their unique characteristics of early pace and bounce before the pitch wears and spins. This year was a step in the right direction to achieving this which provided an exciting finish to the Border Gavaskar Trophy series and bodes well for the Ashes …

Toughest SCG Pitch, Got Chainsawed: Steve Smith On Missing 10,000 Runs Milestone

Toughest SCG Pitch, Got Chainsawed: Steve Smith On Missing 10,000 Runs Milestone

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Veteran Australian batter Steve Smith has said he had never encountered a wicket like the one at the SCG, after falling one run short of reaching 10,000 career runs in the five-match Test series against India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. In Australia’s first innings of the fifth Test here, Smith edged a delivery to slip just five runs shy of the landmark. In the second innings, Prasidh Krishna’s delivery rose sharply from short of a length and Smith advanced down the pitch, only to fend it into the gully to be dismissed on 9999 Test runs. “I got chainsawed didn’t I! Pretty nasty delivery actually; back of a length, I thought ‘oh, there’s one to punch through point’ and it just took off,” the former Australian captain told ‘Triple M’ after their six-wicket win on Sunday that gave them the trophy after a decade. “It wasn’t to be (reaching 10k Test runs), but that’s alright we got the result we were after. “Absolutely (toughest SCG pitch I’ve played on). By a mile. It …

Usman Khawaja calls Sydney wicket a ‘stinker’, Steve Smith says it ‘was toughest SCG pitch I’ve played on’

Usman Khawaja calls Sydney wicket a ‘stinker’, Steve Smith says it ‘was toughest SCG pitch I’ve played on’

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Usman Khawaja might have ended up on the right side of the result, and Pat Cummins declared the veteran opener would be persisted with later. But it didn’t stop the Aussie opener from speaking his mind about the surface and the tension it wrecked inside him. He called the wicket a ‘stinker’ that had kept him on knife’s edge. “I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t want to talk about it too much beforehand, but the wicket was a stinker,” Khawaja told ABC Grandstand post the BGT reclaiming after a 3-1 win. “It wasn’t like a traditional SCG wicket with the new grass on it, there’s cracks all over it, it’s been tough batting, the scoreboard will tell you that. Thankfully we were on the right side of the win but when it’s a wicket like that you’re always on a knife edge,” he added to ABC. Steve Smith went a step further to dissect the vile strands of the wicket, after chucklingly admitting he had been shredded – at 9999 career runs, at that. “I …

Watch: Virat Kohli shows his pockets to SCG crowd gesturing there is no sandpaper | Cricket News

Watch: Virat Kohli shows his pockets to SCG crowd gesturing there is no sandpaper | Cricket News

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At the end of the 11th over of Australia’s second innings on the third day of the fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Virat Kohli was engaged in a battle with the Australian fans at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), gesturing that there is no sandpaper in his pockets or inside his pants. The gesture was in a reference to the infamous sandpaper incident where Australia were caught tampering with the ball in 2018 in Cape Town against South Africa. Kohli turned his pockets inside out to show that they were empty. He then stretched the waistband of his pants to show that he had nothing inside either in a reference to Cameron Bancroft’s act of hiding a piece of sandpaper in his underwear. “What is that about?”#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/HwNZXhKW1S — cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 5, 2025 Interestingly, back in 2019 Virat Kohli was given the ICC’s Spirit of Cricket award for his actions during the ODI World Cup match between India and Australia at The Oval. The then Indian captain urged fans not to boo Steve Smith while the …

Sunil Gavaskar slams SCG pitch, calls it ‘not ideal’ for Test match | Cricket News

Sunil Gavaskar slams SCG pitch, calls it ‘not ideal’ for Test match | Cricket News

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After 26 wickets fell in the first two days of the SCG Test, Sunil Gavaskar has slammed the pitch and said the pitch is “not ideal” for the Test match. “When I saw the pitch I did say the cows could have gone and grazed on it,” Sunil Gavaskar said on ABC Sport. “This is not the ideal Test match pitch that you want because you want it to go into a fourth or the fifth day. Unless there is rain I don’t see us being here on day four.” Gavaskar also said that “all hell would have broken loose” if the same thing happened on an Indian pitch. “All hell would have broken loose. There would have been all kinds of innuendos, all sorts of comments about ‘Is this a good pitch?’” he said. “Even former players who played on this pitch before were so surprised. We had Glenn McGrath saying he’d never seen that much grass on the pitch. “The point is, when you go overseas you have to be prepared to play …