Cricket
Every Cricket story from across SNNI, newest first.
Photo: BBC Urdu / Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0)Haris Rauf signs with Adelaide Strikers for full BBL|16 season
The fast bowler's move fills Adelaide's maximum quota of three overseas players alongside Ben Stokes and Mark Chapman, with his Strikers debut due on December 16 in Canberra.
Photo: EGilham / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)Harmer rips through Australia as South Africa seize Test series 2-1
South Africa bowled Australia out for 111 in pursuit of 288, with Simon Harmer taking a career-best 6-16 and Kagiso Rabada reaching 350 Test wickets in the fewest deliveries ever.
Photo: EGilham / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)South Africa beat Australia to win Test series and reclaim world No.1 ranking
South Africa held on at Newlands to win the series decider and the three-match series 2-1, after Wiaan Mulder and Ryan Rickelton's second-innings centuries set up a target Australia could not chase down.
Aryan Sharma headlines Victoria's Under-19 squads for Brisbane nationals
Cricket Victoria has named its Metro and Country squads for next December's national championships, with a trio of players fresh from Australia Under-19 duty in India included.
South Africa 4-140 as Bavuma falls late on tense day three at Newlands
South Africa closed day three with an effective lead of 40 runs and six wickets in hand, with the series tied 1-1 after wins apiece in Durban and Gqeberha.
Photo: The original uploader was Figaro at English Wikipedia . / Wikimedia (Public domain)Sam Harper returns to Victorian Shield squad for Gabba clash
Mitch Perry and uncapped Matt Hennig earn maiden Sheffield Shield call-ups as Victoria heads to Brisbane without Matt Short, who is recovering from a hip procedure.
Photo: Naparazzi / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0)Maddinson returns to lead NSW Blues after 11-year wait
The Test batter takes over the Sheffield Shield captaincy from Lachlan Shaw for the clash with Tasmania in Hobart, with Bryce Jackson recalled to the squad.
Photo: paddynapper / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0)Ed Cowan elected to Cricket Australia Board as NSW nominee
The former Test opener steps down from the Cricket NSW board after seven years to take up his new post following the governing body's annual meeting on 28 October.
Konstas hits second century in four days as NSW beat WA
Western Australia's Sam Whiteman made 116 before falling to Jack Nisbet, with a mix-up that ran out Ashton Agar as Whiteman neared his century, leaving WA winless after three matches.
South Africa crush Australia by innings and 31 runs to level series
Travis Head's defiant century could not save Australia from an innings defeat in Gqeberha, as the three-Test series was levelled 1-1 ahead of the Cape Town decider.
Will Salzmann rejoins Sydney Thunder for BBL|16 after injury setback
The Camden-born allrounder, fresh off a player-of-the-match innings for New South Wales, returns to the club that first picked him three seasons ago.
Photo: DustyNail / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)Bavuma's 179 lifts South Africa to 9-425 before Boland's five-wicket haul
Temba Bavuma shared a South African Test record eighth-wicket partnership with Simon Harmer as South Africa recovered from 6-110 on the third day in Gqeberha.
Boland takes two wickets in two balls as rain disrupts second Test
Boland's recall after a seven-month lay-off paid off immediately as Australia left out spinner Nathan Lyon for an all-seam attack, with Temba Bavuma surviving the hat-trick ball to reach stumps unbeaten.
Photo: Dave Morton / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)Sixers re-sign leg-spinner Jafer Chohan, launch new SCG fan bay
The Sydney Sixers have locked in English leg-spinner Jafer Chohan for a third Big Bash season and launched a permanent South Asian supporter bay called Magenta Mela.
Photo: The original uploader was Moondyne at English Wikipedia . / Wikimedia (Public domain)Lachlan Shaw, 23, to captain NSW Blues for first time in Perth Shield clash
The wicketkeeper-batter becomes the Blues' 124th first-class captain against Western Australia while regular skipper Nic Maddinson stays in South Africa with the Test squad.
Photo: kadehufflepuff / Openverse (Public domain)Trent Boult locks in for Thunder's full BBL|16 campaign
The New Zealand quick joins fellow Kiwi Lockie Ferguson at Sydney Thunder, with coach Andrew Flintoff hoping the pair can sharpen the club's new-ball attack.
Photo: Mathew F / Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)Sixers land breakout WA spinner Rocchiccioli for BBL|16
The 28-year-old off-spinner, who took the most wickets by a WA spinner in 55 years last Sheffield Shield season, has signed a one-year deal and will line up alongside Josh Philippe and other new teammates at the SCG.
NSW Blues hand four uncapped players shot at One-Day Cup debut
Charlie Stobo will captain the white-ball side for the first time as the Blues field a 13-player squad missing several players on Australia A and Test duty.
Photo: Donaldytong / Wikimedia (Public domain)Cricket Australia reveals gold-trimmed kit for 150th Anniversary Test
The MCG clash against England in March will be the first men's day-night Test played at the ground, with ticket demand so high Cricket Australia ran its first-ever ballot.
South Australia crush Victoria by an innings to open Shield defence
Debutant Noah McFadyen and stand-in captain Ben Manenti both scored maiden first-class centuries, with Manenti leading the side after regular captain Jake Weatherald was ruled out with concussion symptoms.