County news

Zampa joins the legspin influx

Feb 5, 2018: Essex have secured Adam Zampa for the entire T20 Blast season - their second Australian signing this week

India v Australia, 4th ODI, Bengaluru

Zampa wins the latest battle against Pandya

Sep 28, 2017: The Australian legspinner successfully figured out how to counter the Indian big-hitter after he had smashed him around earlier in the series

Australia in India, 2017

Bad ball a useful ploy when under attack - Zampa

Sep 19, 2017: The legspinner, who was bashed for three consecutive sixes by Hardik Pandya in the first ODI, feels bowling bad balls willfully could sometimes buck the pressure off bowlers

Champions Trophy 2017

'We're looking at England game as a quarter-final' - Zampa

Jun 6, 2017: Following their two washouts, Australia are viewing their game against England as a quarter-final according to Adam Zampa

Australia v Bangladesh, Champions Trophy, Group A

Practice doesn't quite make perfect as Australia rub off the rust

Jun 5, 2017: Australia have two points from two rained-off fixtures, exactly the tally they'd have had in dry conditions. But they were never stretched in this latest washout

South Australia v Queensland, Adelaide, 3rd day

South Australia need 121 on final day, Queensland need six wickets

Feb 27, 2017: Tom Cooper and Jake Lehmann steadied South Australia's chase after a wobbly start to end the third day 121 runs behind Queensland's target

South Australia v Queensland, Adelaide, 1st Day

Zampa six-for scythes through Queensland

Feb 25, 2017: A wrap of the first day's play of the 8th round match between South Australia and Queensland

Australia v Sri Lanka, 3rd T20I, Adelaide

Zampa secures consolation win for Australia

Feb 22, 2017: Adam Zampa's dismantling of Sri Lanka arrived too late to salvage the series for Australia, and also too late for his skiddy, accurate wrist spin to be considered for the Test team to face India in Pune from Thursday

Melbourne Renegades v Melbourne Stars, BBL 2016-17, Melbourne

Pietersen, spinners trample Renegades

Jan 7, 2017: Kevin Pietersen's punishing fifty and three-wicket hauls from Adam Zampa and Michael Beer headlined Melbourne Stars' win over the Renegades at Docklands Stadium

Why doesn't cricket have proper metrics for fielding?

Jan 5, 2017: We now have a rudimentary fielding average in the BBL, but it's a crying shame there aren't any other, more meaningful, measures

South Africa v Australia, 1st ODI, Centurion

Bat-breaking work from South Africa's openers

Sep 30, 2016: The Plays of the Day from the first ODI between South Africa and Australia at Centurion

Australia v Ireland, only ODI, Benoni

Bowlers, Khawaja lead rout of Ireland

Sep 27, 2016: Ireland's highest score in five meetings against Australia was not enough to even mildly challenge the top-ranked ODI side, who eased to victory with 19.5 overs to spare in a chase of 199

Why Australia are No. 1 and Pakistan are No. 9

Sep 9, 2016: The quality of their bowling attacks is a big reason why one team is the top-ranked ODI side, while the other is struggling to qualify directly for the 2019 World Cup

Sri Lanka v Australia, 3rd ODI, Dambulla

Australia seal nervy chase after Chandimal ton

Aug 28, 2016: Australia sealed a nervy chase to beat Sri Lanka by two wickets in the third ODI in Dambulla, where they took a 2-1 series lead with two to play

Sri Lanka v Australia, 2nd ODI, Colombo

The first ODI hat-trick of 2016, and the sitter that sat

Aug 24, 2016: Plays of the day from the second ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia in Colombo

Australia news

Zampa hoping to improve red-ball credentials

Aug 12, 2016: Adam Zampa might be Australia's specialist white-ball spinner at the moment, but he hopes to use the upcoming summer to prove that his skills can be transferred to the longer form of the game

Guyana Amazon Warriors v St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, CPL 2016, Providence

Warriors cruise past Patriots with fourth win

Jul 9, 2016: Guyana Amazon Warriors seized home advantage with a packed spin bowling line-up to restrict St Kitts & Nevis Patriots to 108 for 8, before chasing it down comfortably for a four-wicket win

West Indies tri-series 2016

SA's new-look attack, and Zampa's promise

Jun 17, 2016: As the tri-series moves on from Guyana and St Kitts to its final destination of Barbados, ESPNcricinfo looks at five things we have learnt from the series so far

Rising Pune Supergiants v Delhi Daredevils, IPL 2016, Vishakapatnam

A legspinning WG graces Pune attack

May 17, 2016: If Adam Zampa were a superhero, he would be called The Wicket Gobbler

40th match, Visakhapatnam

Hyderabad beat Pune despite Zampa's heroics

May 11, 2016: Despite Pune's legspinner, Adam Zampa, producing figures of 6 for 19 - the second best in the history of the Indian Twenty20 competition - Pune fell four runs short of beating an in form Hyderabad in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.