David Warner became Australia's first player from the nation to make 100 appearances in all formats of cricket
The three-match ODI series between Australia and West Indies will start from February 2 till February 6 in Brisbane, Sydney, and Canberra respectively.
As the auction approaches, here are the 10 wicketkeeper-batters who are poised to attract significant attention making them among the most sought-after players for IPL 2025.
The two teams last met in the ODI World Cup in 2023. It was in Mumbai where Glenn Maxwell had played a once-in-a-generation knock to notch up a sensational double hundred while battling cramps all over his body, with Pat Cummins in tow who provided sturdy support from the other end.
The complete list of players sold in the IPL 2025 Auction in Jeddah.
2021 World T20 champions Australia will be mindful of the dangers of taking Bangladesh lightly.
Almost half of the Australian team currently playing in the T20 International series in India will return home after the third match in Guwahati.
Australia will aim to secure a Super Eight berth when they face lower-ranked Namibia
Johnson sidelined for Aus tour of UK
Smith carried his bat with an unbeaten 91 in a losing cause in Brisbane.
Images from India's first T20I against Australia in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
A washout in England-Namibia game in the same group will see Scotland go through.
Australia take on West Indies in a three-match T20 series starting in Hobart on Friday as part of their preparations for the June 1-29 World Cup in the Caribbean and United States.
Young leg-spinner Tanveer Sangha has been cut along with fast bowler Nathan Ellis and rookie all-rounder Aaron Hardie.
A victory for India will be sweet revenge for their heartbreaking losses in the finals of the ODI World Cup and the World Test Championship last year.
Stand-in skipper Matthew Wade has lauded the depth of Australia's T20 team and says selectors will have a headache picking a World Cup squad following the whitewash in New Zealand.
England will be looking to bounce back from a rain-affected opening match and solidify their T20 World Cup campaign
Glenn Maxwell's breathtaking knock helped Australia clinch the three-match T20I series with a second consecutive win on Sunday
Glenn Maxwell turned the match on its head with his astonishing shotmaking, hitting eight sixes and as many fours.
The five-match series will begin on November 23 in Visakhapatnam and will conclude in Hyderabad on December 3.
India's young bowling unit will have to push behind the timid show in the series opener and find its flow against a forceful Australian batting line-up in the second T20 in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
Matthew Short has also been called up as an extra batter while Travis Head recovers from a fracture to his left hand.
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He will be back-up for Australia's regular wicketkeeper Alex Carey until Inglis returns to the squad for the rest of the five-Test series against England.
Images from the ICC Men's ODI World Cup match between Sri Lanka and Australia at the Ekana Sports City Stadium in Lucknow.
Smith and Green played vigilantly and stitched up a massive partnership to see off a comfortable victory in the three-match ODI series.
Marnus Labuschagne broke into Australia's 15-member squad for the 50-over World Cup in India at the last possible moment on Thursday on the back of his strong recent form while injured opener Travis Head was also included.
Australia's cricketing DNA is constructed by meticulousness and Pakistan's by explosiveness.
David Warner has been under pressure after a poor run of form with the bat but returned after injury to the 17-man squad for the June 7 WTC final against India at The Oval and the first two Ashes Tests.
"Fearless" is how middle-order batter Suryakumar Yadav described his hurricane knock in the first T20I against Australia in Visakhapatnam and said he felt "proud" to lead the country to victory on his captaincy debut.
At the receiving end of his onslaught was leg-spinner Tanveer Sangha, off whom Kishan collected 30 runs off only 10 deliveries.
Australia will look for another dominating show but need to be cautious when they face a tenacious Netherlands in the World Cup 2023 match in New Delhi.
David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne led Australia to a crushing 123-run win over South Africa
IMAGES from the World Cup match between Australia and England played in Ahmedabad on Saturday
Australia win sixth World Cup title after Head hundred sinks India
Apart from Renshaw's inclusion in place of Warner, there are no changes to the squad which beat Pakistan by eight wickets in the third and final test to sweep the series 3-0 last week.
Warner described local fans as "derogatory and pretty vulgar" after the Australians were targeted for abuse during a test and ODI tour of New Zealand in 2016.
Hazlewood makes the cut as Australia confirm WTC final squad
In the IPL 2024 auction, some notable players went unsold, facing unexpected outcomes despite their credentials.
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