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Kuldeep Yadav makes a surprising confession
ESPNcricinfo staff
10-Dec-2025 • 1 hr ago
And now finally, after years of coaxing his captains into reviewing his appeals, mostly to lose them, it seems he is ready to admit that himself.
After finishing as the top wicket-taker in the ODI series against South Afric, Kuldeep seems in a generous enough mood and, coaxed by Rishabh Pant and Harshit Rana, he says: "Clearly, what I want to say is: I'm very bad at DRS calls and that I tend to think one out of the two reviews [per team] ought to be reserved for me."
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Alyssa Healy gets boozy applause at the Gabba
ESPNcricinfo staff
10-Dec-2025 • 6 hrs ago
What got Alyssa Healy the biggest standing ovation of her career? A huge hundred? A fantastic catch or clever stumping? Winning yet another trophy for Australia? Nope. It was for her ability to balance beers!
Healy, the wife of Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc, was attending the men's Ashes Test in Brisbane and walked through the stands with a few cold ones, much to the delight of the other spectators.
"I got one of my biggest standing ovations at the Gabba," she told Adam Peacock on the Willow Talk podcast. "Because you're a Queenslander," Peacock asked.
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Alex Carey and Marnus Labuschagne relive dramatic catch at the Gabba Ashes Test
Australia pulled off some very good catches in their eight-wicket win in the day-night Ashes Test in Brisbane, but the most dramatic one had to be the one where wicketkeeper Alex Carey made a diving effort while nearly colliding with Marnus Labuschagne.
England were 264 for 7 in their first innings when Gus Atkinson top-edged a pull off Mitchell Starc. Both Carey and Labuschagne ran backwards for it and, at one point, they were shoulder to shoulder, but somehow Carey held on to the ball even as he fell.
After the victory, the two players sat down to chat about the catch.
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Grace Harris works hard, plays harder
Whooo-ee, Grace Harris! You know her as the collector of funky socks, giver of fun interviews, patron saint of "just whack it and see what happens." But she's also built of absolute granite when it calls for it. Case in point, the Brisbane Heat vs Adelaide Strikers game in which she split the webbing of her hand and tried to convince everyone else not to send her off the field to fix it so she could continue bowling. And she was mic-ed up for all of it so here's what happened in real-time.
Harris split the webbing of her non-bowling hand, which would have set the rest of us mortals howling, but she very nonchalantly called for the physio to tape it up, instead of going off to get stitches on it, so she could finish her over. And finish she did, taking the wicket of Madeline Penna caught and bowled the very next ball.
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How to bat with an A4 sheet - a Ricky Ponting masterclass
Ricky Ponting scored more that 27,000 runs and 71 hundreds in international cricket and, it turns out, the secret to that was just a sheet of paper. Master this technique and maybe you can become a champion batter yourself, eh?
You need to start with an A4 sheet. Here's how Ponting did it:
"I'd take my guard, I'd look down at the wicket and basically say, okay, if [the bowler] can land that ball inside that A4 piece of paper there, I know I can't play a shot to that ball, " he explains.
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