How slow can CSK keep starting before it hurts them?

Apr 19, 2018: Their batsmen aren't exactly explosive off the first ten deliveries they face. It hasn't hurt them yet this season, but can that last?

Tasmania v South Australia, Sheffield Shield 2017-18, Hobart, 4th day

Tasmania survive Travis Head ton to sneak thrilling win

Mar 8, 2018: The South Australia captain scored 145 off 167 to move his team within sight of a famous win, but they eventually fell 17 runs short of chasing down 331

County news

Head hopes to push Test claims with Worcestershire deal

Feb 9, 2018: Head will be available for the majority of the season, apart from when Australia tour for the limited-overs matches in June and the tail-end of the County Championship

Adelaide Strikers v Hobart Hurricanes, BBL final, Adelaide

Hungry Weatherald makes a certainty of it

Feb 4, 2018: Jake Weatherald has been slower to find his feet in T20 but it has been a combination of persistence by the Adelaide Strikers and evolution on the young left-hander's part that led him to Sunday's innings

Big Bash League 2017-18 news

CA won't set BBL player availability rule

Feb 3, 2018: The BBL chief commented after Travis Head, D'Arcy Short and Alex Carey were released to take part in Sunday's competition decider in Adelaide, the day after Australia's opening Twenty20 triangular series match in Sydney

Adelaide Strikers v Melbourne Renegades, BBL 2017-18, 2nd semi-final Adelaide

Strikers' semi survival all in the Head

Feb 2, 2018: A complete captain's performance from Travis Head, fresh from being released by Australia, swept Adelaide Strikers into the BBL final

Australia v England, 4th ODI, Adelaide

'We're not as far off as the results say' - Lehmann

Jan 25, 2018: Glenn Maxwell is back in Australia's ODI squad for the first time since last year's India tour but it is perception, not personnel or tactics, that is dragging down the team's limited-overs set-up, according to coach Darren Lehmann

Australia v England, 4th ODI, Adelaide, January 26, 2018

Frazzled Australia look to halt English rampage

Jan 25, 2018: England are on a roll but Australia have never been whitewashed at home in an ODI bilateral series. Australia will lack in-form Aaron Finch and Liam Plunkett is an England absentee

Renegades v Strikers, BBL 2017-18, Docklands Stadium

Ingram blasts Strikers into home semi-final

Jan 22, 2018: The South African batsman smashed 68 off 36 balls to launch the Strikers to a strong total after a slow start, and their bowlers gave the Renegades barely a sniff in their chase

Australia v England, 1st ODI, Melbourne

Ashes end, World Cup road begins

Jan 13, 2018: Australia had a poor 2017 in the one-day game while England continued to impress although did stumble at the Champions Trophy

Adelaide Strikers v Melbourne Stars, BBL 2017-18, Adelaide

Head, Carey fifties carry Strikers to top of BBL table

Jan 9, 2018: Adelaide Strikers dismantled a listless Melbourne Stars with eight wickets and eight balls to spare

Queensland v South Australia, Sheffield Shield 2017-18, Cairns, 1st day

South Australia rise with Travis Head's 132

Dec 3, 2017: The captain made his sixth first-class century - an aggressive one - to make Queensland fret in the first Sheffield Shield match at Cazaly's Stadium in Cairns

Victoria v South Australia, Sheffield Shield 2017-18, 1st day, Melbourne

Lehmann, Head lead South Australia to recovery

Nov 4, 2017: The pair added 164 for the fourth wicket as South Australia recovered from 3 for 18 to post 6 for 291 on the opening day in Melbourne

Australia news

Case for hare and tortoise as Australia's Nos. 6 and 7

Nov 4, 2017: Australia need complementary styles to occupy the two batting positions, and a few contenders, including Jake Lehmann and Travis Head, showed their own abilities to do so in the ongoing Shield matches

Australia v Bangladesh, Champions Trophy, Group A

Undercooked and underwhelmed, Australia head home to check the footy scores

Jun 10, 2017: A distracted and angry team played without passion or practice, in a tournament that is off the radar for Australia's sporting public

County news

Head pulls out of Yorkshire deal

May 19, 2017: Travis Head will no longer be representing Yorkshire in this summer's NatWest T20 Blast competition due to international commitments

Victoria v SA, Sheffield Shield final, Alice Springs, 5th day

Victoria claim third straight Shield title

Mar 30, 2017: ESPNcricinfo's wrap of the fifth day of the Sheffield Shield final between Victoria and South Australia in Alice Springs

County news

Head returns to Yorkshire for T20 Blast

Mar 18, 2017: Travis Head, the Australia limited-overs batsman, will return to Headingley this summer as Yorkshire's overseas player for the NatWest T20 Blast

Australia v Sri Lanka, 3rd T20I, Adelaide

Dead rubber the last shot for makeshift home XI

Feb 21, 2017: Australia's makeshift XI are seeking a win in the Adelaide dead rubber, while Sri Lanka are hoping to remain unbeaten over the hosts in T20s down under

Australia v Pakistan, 5th ODI, Adelaide

'Would like to bat as high as possible' - Travis Head

Jan 26, 2017: Following his record-breaking opening stand with David Warner, Travis Head is hoping to get more chances up the order