When Bavuma walked into the post-match news conference and carefully placed the glittering mace – the prize awarded to the WTC winners – down on the table in front of him, the significance of the moment was not lost. It is more than three decades since South Africa’s cricketers were readmitted to the international fold...
A “terrific” piece of bowling from Australia’s Mitchell Starc brings Tristan Stubbs’ uncertain innings to an end as the South African exits with eight runs from 43 balls in the ICC World Test Championship Final. FOLLOW LIVE: ICC World Test Championship – South Africa v Australia Available to UK users only. Read full article at...
South Africa’s Temba Bavuma, who was struggling with a hamstring injury, is caught by Alex Carey off the bowling of Pat Cummins to give Australia the perfect start to Day four of the ICC World Test Championship final. FOLLOW LIVE: ICC World Test Championship – South Africa v Australia Available to UK users only. Read...
Tiffanie Turnbull and Katy Watson BBC News, Sydney PA Media The Aukus submarine deal is pivotal for Australia’s security in the region Australia’s defence minister woke up to a nightmare earlier this week – and it’s one that has been looming ever since the United States re-elected Donald Trump as president in November. A landmark...
Australia captain Pat Cummins gets South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada out to pick up his 300th career Test wicket and finish with figures of 6-28 in the first innings of the ICC Test Championship final at Lord’s. FOLLOW LIVE: ICC Test Championship final – South Africa vs Australia day two Available to UK users only. Read...
Australia are looking to defend the title the won by beating India in the final at The Oval two years ago. The rotating cast of openers used since Warner called time on his Test career has included Steve Smith, Nathan McSweeney, Travis Head and Sam Konstas. While Smith and Head are back in their usual...
Katy Watson Australia correspondent Watch: How snakes and spiders are milked for venom With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic pot. “He’s posing,” the spider-keeper jests as it rears up on its back legs. It is exactly what she’s...
Australia bowler Mitchell Starc will not return to the Indian Premier League when it resumes on Saturday. Starc, 35, has played in all 11 matches for Delhi Capitals, who remain in contention for the play-offs, but will not return, with Australia’s World Test Championship final to follow next month against South Africa at Lord’s. Fellow...
Kelly Ng Reporting fromSydney, New South Wales BBC/Kelly Ng Mandarin and Cantonese dominate conversations in Burwood, an area often billed as Sydney’s second Chinatown With days left to the election, Australian opposition candidates have been wooing a crucial group that turned its back on the conservative Liberal-National coalition in the last election: Chinese Australian voters....
Getty Images In Western Sydney, an audience of Stetson-wearing Australians are sitting in their fold-up camping chairs, swigging beers and eating a spiralled fried potato on a skewer known as a ‘chip on a stick’. People here are enjoying bull rides, barrel racing and bucking broncos. It feels like a slice of Americana in New...
Simon Atkinson BBC News, Yarrabah, Far North Queensland Getty Images Indigenous Australians are by most socio-economic measures the most disadvantaged people in the country On the journey into Yarrabah, there is nothing to suggest a national election is just days away. Posters for candidates, inescapable in other parts of Australia, are conspicuously absent as you...
The two British tourists who drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef have been named. Robin Reed, 46, and his son Owen, 17, who were from Caerphilly county in south Wales, were swept out to sea on 13 April while swimming at a beach...
Two British tourists have drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. A boy, 17, and a man, 46, were swept out to sea on Sunday while swimming at a beach without lifeguards in Seventeen Seventy – a town in Queensland named for the year...
The BBC spoke to voters in Sydney, Australia about the country’s housing crisis ahead of the federal election on 3 May. From feeling trapped in renting, to wanting more investment in public housing, residents share their experiences and what they’d like to see the government do to help. More on this story. Read full article...
Mitchell Starc took his first five-wicket haul in T20 cricket as Delhi Capitals cruised to a seven-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. The 35-year-old Australia left-arm quick claimed 5-35 as Sunrisers were bowled out for 163 after their skipper Pat Cummins had won the toss and batted first. Aniket Verma hit...
