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Ticket sales for The West Test have reached unprecedented heights and thousands of tourists are coming for it.

CRICKET VideoCommentsPremiumAshes mania: Why Test cricket is the hottest ticket in town

It’s the hottest ticket in town. So hot that if you don’t get in quick, you won’t get in the door. Ticket sales for The West Test have reached unprecedented heights and thousands of tourists are coming for it.

Jackson Barrett

Australia's Cameron Green walks off the field after losing his wicket during the World Test Championship final between South Africa and Australia at Lord's cricket ground in London, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Inside the nervous start to Cam Green’s Test return

Cam Green’s eyes were bigger than his stomach in a nervous return to Australia’s Test team and it leaves selectors with some questions to answer, regardless of how this final plays out, writes Jackson Barrett.

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The opening day of The West Test is on the verge of becoming a sell-out amid unprecedented interest in the blockbuster Ashes series. Pictured: Australian skipper Pat Cummins.

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The West Test on track for sell-out and crowd record blitz

The opening day of The West Test is on the verge of becoming a sell-out — even before general public tickets go on sale — amid unprecedented interest in the blockbuster Ashes series. 

Jackson Barrett

The World Test Championship final is all set up for Australia’s fourth-innings mastermind Nathan Lyon.

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The showpiece Test is all poised for Australia’s Lyon king

The World Test Championship final is all set up for another fourth-innings masterclass from Australia’s spin-bowling mastermind. That’s the risk South Africa chose to take, writes Jackson Barrett.

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Marnus Labuschagne scored 17 in the first innings of the World Test Championship final.

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Konstas’ rise means Marnus will bat to save Test career

Marnus Labuschagne has one final chance in the second innings of this match to save his Test career. Now that he is opening, there is no room for failure with Sam Konstas watching on, writes Jackson Barrett.

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Australia's Cameron Green walks off the field after losing his wicket.

CRICKETCommentsGreen’s Test return short-lived as Aussie wickets fall

Cam Green’s return Test innings was short-lived as the West Australian fell in the early stages of the World Test Championship final on Wednesday night.

Jackson Barrett

Marnus Labuschagne’s credentials as an opener will receive an instant examination, with Australia set to bat first in the World Test Championship final. 

CRICKET Australia sent into bat on opening day of World Test final

Marnus Labuschagne’s credentials as an opener will receive an instant examination, with Australia set to bat first in the World Test Championship final. 

Jackson Barrett

Cam Green is set for his Test return next week.

CRICKET CommentsWhy Green is now Australia’s trump card for WTC final

Steve Smith has been confirmed as Australia’s No.4 for next week’s World Test Championship final, leaving Cam Green to shape the rest of the order. Here’s how they could line up in London.

Jackson Barrett

Stuart Broad is working with SOuth Africa ahead of the WTC Final.

CricketCommentsFormer Ashes rival Broad out to haunt Aussies in WTC Final

Bitter Ashes enemy Stuart Broad hopes to crash one last Australian party as South Africa leans on the retired English seamer to give them an edge in next week’s World Test Championship Final.

Aaron Kirby

Mitchell Marsh scored his maiden IPL 100.

CRICKETCommentsPremiumBison 3.0: How Marsh has turned his career around... again

West Australian cricket megastar Mitch Marsh has recaptured his love for cricket after a testing summer and has left Perth Scorchers bosses licking their lips at what he could offer next season. 

Jackson Barrett

Marnus Labuschagne has failed again.

CricketCommentsMarnus out cheaply again as World Test final looms

Marnus Labuschagne's hopes of a World Test final place have taken a hit in Cardiff on a day another Aussie, Caleb Jewell, cracked a glorious first county ton.

Ian Chadband

Marnus Labuschagne needs to make way for Sam Konstas at the top of the order.

Australian Cricket TeamWhy Labuschagne should be dropped for the World Test final

MITCHELL JOHNSON: The struggling Queenslander is the Australian team’s weakest link and should make way for a new-look top order against South Africa next month.

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Cam Green celebrates his second County century for Gloucestershire against Kent.

CricketCommentsGreen all but seals Test return with second County century

WA’s Cam Green has revealed vocal home support spurred him to his second County century in a knock that all but seals his place in Australia’s World Test Championship final XI.

Aaron Kirby

Josh Inglis is still yet to decide if he will return to the Indian Premier League.

CRICKET CommentsPremiumInglis still weighing up IPL call as Aussie star pulls out

Josh Inglis is still yet to decide whether or not he will return to India for the hasty resumption of the IPL, just two days out from his team’s next match, but another Australian star has pulled out.

Jackson Barrett

Cameron Green hit a comeback century.

CRICKET CommentsPremiumGreen’s latest chance to seal place in Test final team

Cam Green can turn a lean run of batting form and leap above Australia’s top-order logjam in Gloucestershire’s four-day clash with Kent. 

Jackson Barrett

Cam Green is back in Australia’s Test squad.

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Green named in squad as Marnus, Konstas to battle for spot

West Australian all-rounder Cam Green has been named in Australia’s squad for the World Test Championship final and is set to play five-day cricket for the first time in 16 months. 

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Australia are poised to make a major reshuffle to fit West Aussie all-rounder Cam Green in its team for next month’s World Test Championship final.

CRICKET CommentsPremiumThe lever Aussie selectors will pull to get Green back in

Australia are poised to make a major reshuffle to fit West Aussie all-rounder Cam Green in its team for next month’s World Test Championship final. 

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Cam Green is playing County cricket in England.

CricketCommentsPremiumGreen on verge of pencilling name into Test final XI

West Australian all-rounder Cam Green is on the verge of pencilling his name into Australia’s XI for June’s World Test Championship final as Gloucestershire faces Leicestershire in Bristol.

Aaron Kirby

Lucknow Super Giants' Mitchell Marsh (R) celebrates after scoring a half-century (50 runs) during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on April 8, 2025. (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP) / -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE --

CRICKET CommentsPremiumThe Mitch is back: How the Bison turned his form around

Mitch Marsh has cast aside a season plagued by injury and poor form to launch into the Indian Premier League. 

Jackson Barrett

Mahli Beardman is set for big things.

CRICKET PremiumMahli ‘mentally ready’ to ramp up red-ball career

Teenage pace sensation Mahli Beardman has opened up about getting his body up to scratch physically to take the rigours of long-form cricket, declaring he is ‘mentally ready’ to play red-ball cricket.

Samantha Rogers

Cam Green is working his way back from a spinal fusion.

CricketVideoCommentsPremiumGreen confident he’ll be ‘success story’ after back surgery

West Australian all-rounder Cam Green is confident his back issues are behind him after his spinal fusion surgery.

Jackson Barrett

Beau Webster and Cam Green have overtaken Mitch Marsh as Australia’s top all-rounders but the West Aussie may still be chance to play in the Ashes.

Australian Cricket TeamVideoCommentsNew twist in Australia’s Ashes plans

MITCHELL JOHNSON: Cricket Australia’s contract list has renewed speculation on who they are favouring to anchor the middle order against England next summer.

Mitchell Johnson

Mitch Marsh’s Test career is not over but will likely have to work his way back in solely on batting.

CricketCommentsMarsh still in Ashes frame but bowling future in doubt

Australian selectors have not ruled out Mitch Marsh playing a role in next summer’s blockbuster home Ashes series, but his future as a genuine all-rounder hangs in the balance.

Jackson Barrett

Marnus Labuschagne leaves the ground after getting out to Nathan McAndrew.

CricketPremium‘Loves it’: Support for under-fire Test star

Nathan Lyon believes a stint in English county cricket will help Marnus Labuschagne start scoring runs regularly again.

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