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News.com.au
7 days ago
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Australia vs West Indies Second T20I live updates
Aussie rising star Jake Fraser-McGurk has been dropped for the second T20I against the West Indies on Wednesday. The opening batsman was the biggest selection call made as the Tourists shook things up following their impressive victory in the series opener in Kingston on Monday where debutant Mitch Owen stole the show. West Indies vs. Australia Test & T20I Series | Watch every ball LIVE with ESPN, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1. The West Indies are still looking to gain some respect after also being blown away 3-0 in the earlier Test series. The hosts reached 2/72 from their first 10 overs after Aussie captain Mitch Marsh won the toss and sent the home side in to bat. Aussies hit back with wickets The West Indies appeared to be flying at 0/63 in the eighth over, but two quick wickets took the wind out of their sails. Adam Zampa picked up his fist wicket of the series when he enticed Brandon King to swing at a good-length ball that took a thick edge that landed safely in the hands of Cam Green. Glenn Maxwell then dismissed opener Shai Hope with the next ball. Selectors make big calls Aussie selectors have dropped the axe on Jake Fraser-McGurk after a poor run of form. It was just one of several big calls at Matthw Kuhnemann was handed his T20I debut and keeper Josh Inglis was promoted to the top of the batting order. Slogger Tim David has been called in to replace Fraser-McGurk while Kuhnemann replaced Sean Abbott as a result of a spin-friendly wicket. Debutant Mitch Owen's international T20 career started in fairytale fashion on Monday as he smacked a half century and took a wicket in a man-of-the-match performance. Owen and Cameron Green tore the hosts apart in a devastating 80-run partnership that helped Australia reach the required total of 190 runs with seven deliveries remaining at Sabina Park in Kingston. The home side suffered a late collapse as they reached 8/189. Australia's bowlers had been blasted all over the park for most of the innings, but the hosts were decimated in the final five overs where they lost 6/35.
Yahoo
20-07-2025
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- Yahoo
Fraser-McGurk earns opening reprieve with Short out
Jake Fraser-McGurk will be given the chance to open the batting for Australia again, with Matt Short ruled out of the Twenty20 series against West Indies with a side strain. Australian officials have confirmed that Fraser-McGurk will open alongside Mitch Marsh in the first T20 on Sunday (Monday AEST), while Mitch Owen will debut. Fraser-McGurk had initially been left out of the squad for the five-match T20 series after a run of low scores for Australia, before earning a reprieve with a late call up last week. Short had been expected to open, but officials have opted to play it safe and send him home with the allrounder battling a side injury. The Victorian is expected to be fit to play South Africa in a series of top-end white-ball games next month. Owen is expected to bat at No.6 for the tourists, with Tim David out of the series opener with a minor hamstring niggle. Owen opened for Hobart when he was leading run-scorer in last summer's BBL, but selectors are understood to view him as a power-hitting finisher. "He is a really exciting prospect for Australia," Marsh said. "A young imposing figure and appears to be a really nice young man. We just want him to enjoy debuting for Australia and hopefully he can win a few games." This series marks the start of Australia's lead up to next February's T20 World Cup in the sub-continent, with 17 matches between now and then. Nathan Ellis will lead the tourists' bowling attack with the big-three quicks all sent home early, while Marsh will not be used with the ball. That will leave an attack of Ellis, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshius and Adam Zampa, with Glenn Maxwell and Cooper Connolly's spinners likely to come in handy. "We don't want anyone to come in here and feel like they have to prove themselves," Marsh said. "This series they come together as our attack and our unit. We have spoken about being really connected, and they'll lead the team." AUSTRALIA TEAM FOR FIRST T20: Mitch Marsh (capt), Jake Fraser-McGurk, Josh Inglis, Cameron Green, Glenn Maxwell, Mitch Owen, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshius, Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa.
News.com.au
16-06-2025
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- News.com.au
11-six innings in California a one-off return to form for Jake Fraser-McGurk who is battling to be the man Australian cricket hoped
A reconfigured baseball stadium in California provided the launch pad for one-time boom batter Jake Fraser McGurk to refind his mojo. After a horror IPL, which came on the back of a run of single figure scores in a surprise return for Australia after a poor Big Bash, Fraser-McGurk blasted 11 sixes in a single MLC innings to serve a reminder of what he's capable of. It's been carnage for bowlers in Oakland, and Fraser-McGurk joined in the fun. But it proved a fleeting performance, and just two days later he was out for single figures again, for the 10th time in 12 T20 innings around the globe, as boom again turned to bust for a batter who had been a great white-ball hope. Hang these shots in the Louvre 🖼 Jake was doing damage today at The Coliseum ðŸ�Ÿ #GoCorns — San Francisco Unicorns (@SFOUnicorns) June 15, 2025 Fraser-McGurk, 23, and already with 14 internationals for Australia under his belt, started his tenure with the San Francisco Unicorns like he ended his time with the Delhi Capitals. Six innings in the IPL in India, where he was earning $1.6m after a blockbuster 2024 season where he kept David Warner out of the side, yielded just 55 runs, and 38 of those came in one innings. That score of 38 came after he made 11 in two ODIs for Australia in Sri Lanka, and was followed by another four more IPL single-figure scores before Fraser-McGurk lost his spot. Moving to the US, where games are being played at the Oakland baseball stadium, where Kiwi Fin Allen has blasted 25 sixes in just three innings, Fraser-McGurk opened with a nine-ball innings of just six runs. The all-or-nothing approach he's taken to T20 batting came off enough times in the past for even the likes of Glenn Maxwell to declare Fraser-McGurk had 'so much talent' that he could become a weapon for Australia. But there were more misses than hits until finally Fraser-McGurk was able to launch into a bowling attack that included Andre Russell and fellow Aussie Tanveer Sangha. Fraser-McGurk went on a rampage, swatting 11 sixes and two fours in a 38-ball innings of 88 that propelled the Unicorns to a victory. 'It's been a while since I have got runs in this format, it's about contributing to the side and I'm happy,' he said after finally netting some runs, thanking coach Shane Watson, a man who has also mentored another teen tyro, Sam Konstas. 'They have been working hard, I'm lucky the ground is not that big, conditions suit batters.' The boom, however, lasted less than 48 hours, and on Monday Fraser-McGurk was out for one, Kiwi veteran Trent Boult securing another early dismissal. Take the 88 and 38 out of Fraser-McGurk's last 10 innings at the top level, and he has 35 runs, with two ducks. He only averaged 18 in the BBL last summer, boosted by a late innings of 95, and the jury remains out on whether he'll be the player so many hoped he would.
BBC News
15-06-2025
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- BBC News
Fraser-McGurk stars as Unicorns stay unbeaten
Jake Fraser-McGurk returned to form with a 38-ball 88 as San Francisco Unicorns beat Los Angeles Knight Riders by 32 runs to maintain their winning start to the 2025 Major League Cricket Australia international headed into the match on a run of five consecutive single-figure scores but smashed 11 sixes and two fours to propel his side to Allen, whose 151 in the season opener against Washington Freedom broke the record for the highest score in MLC history, also scored a half-century, posting 52 off 27, and the pair put on 121 runs off just 55 balls for the second Angeles Knight Riders lost opener Alex Hales for six in the second over and while Unmukt Chand (53 off 32), Matthew Tromp (41 off 31) and captain Sunil Narine (27 off 13) made contributions with the bat, they fell well short of their 220-run Bartlett and Haris Rauf picked up four wickets apiece but former England international Liam Plunkett's wicketless four overs cost 45 Freedom bounced back from their 123-run defeat against the Unicorns with a comfortable five-wicket win over Seattle whose bowlers were hit for 269 runs on Thursday, restricted Seattle Orcas to 145-9. Openers David Warner (31) and Kyle Mayers (27) were the only players to pass 20 while Ian Holland picked up 4-19 as the batting side lost seven wickets for 50 runs in the second half of their innings.A 49-run opening stand off just 18 deliveries between Rachin Ravindra (44 off 18) and Mitch Owen (25 off 11) broke the back of Freedom's chase before captain Glenn Maxwell's unbeaten 38 (20) saw the defending champions home with 39 balls to spare.
CNA
06-06-2025
- Sport
- CNA
Australia's Starc comfortable with IPL pullout regardless of repercussion
MELBOURNE :Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc is comfortable with his decision to leave the Indian Premier League (IPL) following the India-Pakistan clashes last month regardless of any repercussions, the 35-year-old said. The IPL was suspended on May 9 in the wake of hostilities between the two. It resumed on May 17 after the nuclear-armed neighbours agreed to a ceasefire. While most IPL foreign recruits returned to complete their franchise commitment, the Delhi Capitals duo of Starc and fellow Australian Jake Fraser-McGurk took no further part in the 10-team league. "I'm comfortable with my decision and how I felt about the whole situation and how it was handled," Starc told the Sydney Morning Herald on Friday. "Time will tell with repercussions or how it looks with guys that didn't return. But I've had my questions and concerns leading into that game, and obviously we saw what happened, which played a part in my decision." Starc was in Dharamsala, near the Pakistan border, for Delhi's May 9 match against the Punjab Kings. The contest was abandoned midway through, although league organisers blamed it on a floodlights failure. "Jake and I chose not to (return). So it was a very individual decision, and I'm happy to live with whatever comes of that," Starc said. He opted out of the Champions Trophy in Pakistan earlier this year citing personal reasons and has skipped the IPL more than once to preserve himself for international cricket. The left-arm quick said he withdrew from the remainder of the IPL because of the extraordinary circumstances. "I'm still heavily committed to the Delhi group, and I'm not someone that's gone into tournaments and pulled out after being picked up in an auction or whatever that looks like," Starc said. "These are different circumstances ... I had a discussion back home then came to a decision, and whatever comes from that I'm comfortable with that and we move forward."
