The Sydney Thunder defeated the Melbourne Stars by three wickets to win their first Big Bash League title in front of 47,672 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Australia will take advantage of the swift WACA pitch in Perth to blood two new quicks, Joel Paris (pictured) and Scott Boland, in today’s opening ODI against India.
The international Court of Arbitration for Sport has this morning upheld a World Anti-Doping Agency ban on 34 Essendon players caught up in the 2012 supplement doping scandal.