Sydney, March 22 (IANS) Cricket Australia on Sunday unveiled an action-packed schedule for the 2026-27 international summer, featuring 27 matches across 14 venues over an extended eight-month window, which commences in August with two Tests against Bangladesh and concludes with the historic 150th anniversary Test against England at the MCG scheduled for March next year. The much-anticipated Test series between Australia and India ‘Border-Gavaskar Trophy’ tour, a final frontier for the likes of C…
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Sydney, March 19 (IANS) Emergency warnings have been issued for thousands of people as Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle approaches the northeast coast of Australia’s Queensland.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said in an update at 7 a.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time on Thursday (2100 GMT on Wednesday) that Tropical Cyclone Narelle had reached Category 4 strength and could intensify into a Category 5 storm before making landfall early on Friday.The BoM said that very destructive wind gusts in e…
Sydney, March 7 (IANS) Five people were rescued, and patients have been evacuated from a hospital amid major flooding in the Australian state of Queensland and the neighbouring Northern Territory (NT).Flood warnings were in place for rivers and catchments across most of Queensland as of Saturday morning due to heavy rainfall from a slow-moving tropical storm that made landfall on the state’s northeast coast on Friday afternoon local time.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said the tropical low was …
Sydney, March 6 (IANS) A severe weather warning for dangerous flash flooding has been issued in Australia’s Queensland as a tropical low storm system approaches the state’s northeast coast.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said in the warning that the tropical low was expected to bring intense rainfall to a 350-km stretch of coast in Queensland’s tropical far north from Friday morning.”Locally intense rainfall, which may lead to dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding, is possible this morni…
Brisbane, Feb 27 (IANS) The legendary Meg Lanning will be joining the Australian support staff for the Under-19 women’s tri-series in Queensland next month, said Cricket Australia (CA) on Friday. Lanning, who retired from international cricket in 2023 but continues to play domestic and franchise cricket, will serve as a development coach for the tri-series, which will also feature England and Sri Lanka to be played in Brisbane and Gold Coast from March 30 to April 18.She will work alongside head…
Brisbane, Feb 23 (IANS) Australia have turned their attention to the 50-over format as they seek a response in the multi-format contest against India, with retiring captain Alyssa Healy set to headline several changes for Tuesday’s first ODI in Brisbane.After conceding the T20I leg 2–1, the hosts are poised to reshuffle their XI for the 50-over games. Healy will return to the top of the order, replacing Georgia Voll, and is expected to partner with regular opener Phoebe Litchfield. Leg-spinn…
Sydney, Jan 21 (IANS) Two people were killed in a head-on collision between two vehicles in the Australian state of Queensland, police said.A statement from the Queensland Police Service (QPS) on Wednesday said that the two vehicles were traveling in opposite directions on a highway when they collided near the small town of Epsom, 790 km northwest of the state capital of Brisbane, around 10:10 p.m. local time on Tuesday.The sole occupants of both vehicles, a 49-year-old man and a 39-year-old wom…
Sydney, Jan 20 (IANS) A man was taken to the hospital on Tuesday morning after he was attacked by a crocodile in the northeast Australian state of Queensland.Emergency services were called to reports of an animal-related incident at a stream near the small town of Ingham, over 1,000 km north of Brisbane in Queensland’s tropical far north, at around 8:40 a.m. on Tuesday.A spokesperson for the Queensland Ambulance Service told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that a man aged in his 20…
Sydney, Jan 18 (IANS) A boy, believed to be aged about 12, is in a critical condition after being bitten by a shark at Sydney Harbour beach in Australia on Sunday.The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported that emergency services were called to Hermitage Foreshore Walk near Shark Beach at Vaucluse, an eastern suburb of Sydney, at about 4:20 p.m. local time on Sunday afternoon, following reports of a boy being bitten by a shark.ABC quoted the NSW Ambulance service as saying that the b…
Sydney, Jan 14 (IANS) The Premier of Australia’s Queensland said on Wednesday that regions in the state’s north and northwest remain at risk of flooding despite easing rainfall.David Crisafulli told Nine Network television on Wednesday morning that parts of Queensland’s tropical north and northwest have received more rainfall over the past week than they typically would in an average year.According to forecasts from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), rainfall across Queensland was expected to ease…