News about Meg Lanning

Australian cricketer Meg Lanning (pictured left and right) is an all-time great of the sport who achieved just about everything the game has to offer during a glittering 13-year career for her country - but she was hiding a problem that cost her dearly.

After the 37-year-old (pictured playing for Australia, left, and with wife Candice, right) suffered a significant roadblock after being barred from Tests and one-day internationals earlier this year, David Warner's new life as a global gun for hire has been thrown into question.

According to South African captain Marizanne Kapp (pictured left), the Aussie women's cricket team (right) isn't as strong as they once were after skipper Meg Lanning's departure. The Proteas hammered the hosts by 84 runs on Wednesday in Sydney, putting the ODI series at 1-1 going into game three.

Lauren Filer, England's latest speed bowling find, believes that the days of breaking the 80mph barrier in women's cricket are not far away. Shabnim Ismail of South Africa became the first woman to record a delivery of exactly that speed earlier this year, but no one has yet gone beyond it. According to England coach Jon Lewis, England cricket has no one faster than the uncapped Filer, and the 22-year-old from Western Storm has a point of difference for the Ashes, which begin with a Test match at Trent Bridge on Thursday.

Meg Lanning, Australia's captain, has been barred from the women's Ashes due to medical conditions, putting the team's defense of the urn in jeopardy. Following a four-month mental illness break, Lanning returned to cricket in January, but Australia defeated Australia in the women's Twenty20 World Cup in February. The 31-year-old played in India's inaugural Women's Premier League, but will be unable to attend the UK tour.

Before heading to England for the Ashes this winter, Pat Cummins and Meg Lanning will receive a comprehensive report from Cricket Australia on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Cricket Australia intends to announce its position on the Voice over the coming weeks, according to News Corp. Executives, on the other hand, are acutely aware of the subject's complexities and want to consult with the players before publicly speaking out.

It was the third time Jess Jonassen, a former cricketer who married long-term partner Sarah Wearn in a spectacular Hawaii wedding ceremony, was forced to call it off twice due to the Covid pandemic. Wearn was married on the Hawaiian island of Waikiki by the six-time World Cup champion and Commonwealth Games gold medalist who has represented Australia an astonishing 192 times. The pair have been together for just under 11 years, and they became engaged in 2018 after Jonassen fell on one knee next to the Brisbane River, but the global pandemic has delayed marriage plans.

Fans have slammed Waleed Aly for a 'cringe' interview comparing the T20 World Cup to under 12's cricket and mistaking superstar skipper Meg Lanning for another player. Fans were quick to point out their indignation over Aly's attempt to film a sports interview on Channel 10's The Project's The Project's lack of data compared to an eight-year-old, and his remarks were described as "disrespectful." One fan expressed 'F**k that was cringe,' while another critic slammed Aly's lack of professionalism: 'Don't make throwaway remarks about the opposition's quality when the quality of your own study isn't even at an under 8's.'

Australia won their sixth Women's T20 World Cup title with a 19-run victory over South Africa in Cape Town on Sunday with Beth Mooney's match-winning unbeaten 74. Australia won the toss and elected to bat, but South Africa prefers to set a total of six for six in their 20 overs. The home team struggled to keep up with the pace from the start and was limited to 137 for six in response. Laura Wolvaardt scored a superb 61 for South Africa, but there was just too little funding for her, and Australia's clever use of pace and length strangled the scoring rate for major portions of the innings.

The champions fought their nerves in the death versus India on Thursday after Beth Mooney's 54 and Meg Lanning's unbeaten 49 gave them a thrilling 173 chase at Newlands. But fine bowling in the final two over spinners Jess Jonassen and Ashleigh Gardner, who required 20 to win, enabled Australia to win the final against South Africa on Sunday.

After losing a rare match in South Africa to unfancied Ireland, Australia's all-conquering cricket women were reminded of the complexities of their T20 World Cup challenge. It may have only been an official match and the Australians were content to ban key batters as practice, but a team that was not used to losing would unquestionably be more irritated to succumb to despair in an unexpected fashion to the Irish at Stellenbosch University on Wednesday.

After men's skipper Pat Cummins made a shambolic opening as MC for the presentations, the Australian Cricket Awards were doomed from the start. The award night, which was previously known as the Allan Border Medal night until 2018, has been widely criticized for its amateur performance and corny speeches.

On Monday night, Beth Mooney scooped up two of the key gongs at the Australian Cricket Awards, but it was the Australia star's acceptance address that stole the show. At the awards ceremony at Randiwck Racecourse in Sydney, the 29-year-old was named Australia's best female cricketer and was named Women's ODI Player Of The Year. After openly admitting to not winning the second of the two awards, Mooney left the audience in stiches.

The sprinklers exploded minutes before the hosts were supposed to face the opposition in their second game of their T20 series, sparking insecurity among the players and fans alike. The situation was quickly dealt with, but the farcical scenes enraged onlookers, with Anna Lanning describing it as "completely disgraceful." On Twitter, she wrote, 'WOULD NOT participate at a male international game.'

Bailey Smith (pictured left), an AFL player, has requested that the date of Australia Day be changed, instead of referring to the public holiday Invasion Day. On Wednesday, he shared his opinion to his Instagram followers. Ash Gardner, Jason Gillespie, and Dan Christian, three cricketers who have common roots, expressed similar views earlier this week.

Dan Christian, the Indigenous Big Bash cricketer, has joined the growing chorus of cricketers chastising Australia Day. Ashleigh Gardner, a Sydney Sixers all-rounder, praised Australia for using her position as a "Australian cricketer and proud Aboriginal woman" to promote discussion over the meaning of the national holiday. Christian called on MPs to "increase meaningful changes to the systemic and cyclical conditions affecting our people" and encouraged them to start by 'changing the date.'

An aboriginal chief (left) has asked that professional sports not be played on the Australia Day public holiday out of respect for First Nations people. This week, Michael Mansell of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania said: "Sporting bodies have a right to lead." They shouldn't be playing on January 26, or some other sport, they should avoid the day'. His remarks came after Australian cricketer and Mururari woman Ashleigh Gardner (inset) raised questions about playing a Twenty20 match against Pakistan in Hobart on Australia Day.

Despite criticism from celebrity all-rounder Ash Gardner (main photos) who said it did not sit well with her, a member of Cricket Australia's Indigenous advisory committee maintains that a match should be played on Australia Day. Indigenous advocate Justin Mohamed (inset) has spoken out as the Australian women's side prepares to participate in another bitter debate about whether January 26 should be commemorated. Since he does not want to'lose the meaning of what the 26th is, the Gooreng Gooreng man believes that cricket should schedule matches on the tense holiday.'

The Australian cricketers are united in their support for teammate Ashleigh Gardner, who called Australia Day 'the beginning of genocide.' On Friday, Australia defeated Pakistan in the second of its three T20 series in Hobart, and Gardner said on Sunday that playing on January 26 did not sit well with her. When she takes the field, the Indigenous star, whose mother and ancestors came from north-western New South Wales, said she'll be reflecting on what the day means to her ancestors.

As she prepares to celebrate on the controversial holiday, indigenous cricket star Ash Gardner has slammed Australia Day as recognizing 'the beginning of genocide.' On Sunday morning, the 25-year-old Muruwari woman, whose mother and ancestors hail from north-western NSW, took to social media to inform Aussies that the national holiday is important to Indigenous peoples.

Meg Lanning confessed to rediscovered her love of cricket by working in a cafe as she took time away from the game. After Australia won gold at the Commonwealth Games in August in an attempt to'switch off cricket' and plan the next stage in her career, the 30-year-old decided to take a sabbatical. Lanning discovered herself serving coffees and washing dishes rather than setting the field and batting.

Pucovski had decided to postpone upcoming matches, effectively leaving him out of Sheffield Shield cricket ahead of the Test season, according to Cricket Victoria. It's the latest in a 24-year-old's career that has been chronicled by a series of concussions and injuries. Pucovski was only recovering at the start of this season after suffering from the 11th concussion of his short career.

Due to personal circumstances, Meg Lanning will be out indefinitely from the Australian women's cricket team. The national team captain, 30, competed for her country just last week after assisting her team to defeat India by nine runs at Edgbaston.

Despite a positive result, Tahlia McGrath was allowed to play at Edgbaston in Birmingham yesterday. She bowled and batted in the match, as the Southern Stars captured gold, as she took the catch that disqualified India's star opener Shafali Verma. She batted at No. 4 without a mask until she was dismissed after hitting just two runs off four balls. McGrath bowled two overs for 24 runs and also took a catch as she stood up her hands to warn her fellow players not to come and celebrate with her. McGrath hopped into the huddle and hugged her colleagues as they won the game (main photograph). 'If we get Covid,' the Australian bowler Megan Schutt said afterwards: 'If we get Covid, we should be proud of it.' McGrath would have been forced to quarantine for seven days if the match had been played in Australia. Ms McGrath could play in the United Kingdom, where self-isolation laws are only advisory. McGrath did not line up with her colleagues at the pre-match national anthems and did not join them in the dugout while batting, instead sitting in the stands wearing a mask. Tahlia wore a mask at the medal ceremony (right) and celebrated gold with her colleagues on the podium, where she had her arms around Beth Mooney and Alana King after being involved in the game. She may not have been allowed to play, according to critics. Many Indian supporters regarded the decision as 'racist,' and that India would have been barred from the final if the shoe were on the other foot. Since testing positive for Covid-19, there was also outrage. Aneesh Kumar Pillai, an Indian para discus athlete, was banned from the Commonwealth final in Birmingham. The Australians had also accused hypocrisy for being adamant in their very tough line on lockdowns and vaccination to slow the spread. Novak Djokovic was banned from the Australian Open Tennis and deported due to his rigor, despite him not having Covid-19.