Almost 150 years of cricket’s fiercest rivalry, the Ashes, has been put on hold. All it took was for one of England’s greatest players, Lord Ian Botham, to find himself in mortal danger in ...

DORSET Cricket is set to welcome one of world cricket's most iconic personalities this summer as Australian fast bowling legend Merv ...

Hughes says while AFL players are given a warm-up competition to prepare them for the season ahead, Australia’s cricketers were faced with a one-day series in South Africa followed by one Sheffield ...

Former fast bowler Merv Hughes has been inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, the country's cricket board said on Tuesday. Feb 2 (Reuters) - Former fast bowler Merv Hughes has been ...

The most famous moustache in Australian sport is now a member of the Australian cricket Hall of Fame. Fast bowling great Merv Hughes became the 56th inductee on Tuesday after a career that spanned 53 ...

Merv Hughes's reign as a national selector is over after he was dumped by the Cricket Australia board at a meeting in Melbourne today. Hughes was left out of a new four-man selection panel, which now ...

While most blokes are ­pretty good at convincing themselves that being overweight is no big deal, Merv knows otherwise. “I’ve always yo-yoed with my weight and tried every diet under the sun but I am ...

Merv Hughes retired from Test cricket long ago but you can't keep a good big man down. When Australia's opening batsman David Warner hit a six at Hyderabad in the second Test against India on Monday, ...

MERV Hughes believes cricket has made the right call to hold its nerve on bouncer laws in the wake of the Phillip Hughes tragedy. International Cricket Council chief executive David Richardson claimed ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former Australia fast bowler Merv Hughes has called for pacemen to send down an early bouncer in Australia's first test against India to "clear the air" in the wake of Phillip ...