Usman Khawaja

Former Australia captain Michael Clarke hopes opener Usman Khawaja can quit after this Test in Sydney.  The 38-year-old southpaw has looked terrible this season. He has one fifty plus innings thrown.  "This is Uzzie’s home Test match, the SCG," Clarke told Beyond 23 podcast.  "He has been a phenomenal player, phenomenal. Go back in, score runs overseas, score runs here in Australia. He is 38 years old so I think this could be a really good game for Uzzie to say he is

Usman Khawaja, the Australian cricketer, has received initial clearance from concussion and a fractured jaw after being struck by a bouncer from Shamar Joseph during Australia's 10-wicket victory over West Indies in Adelaide. Khawaja lost sight of the short ball, which hit the right side of his jaw as he attempted to turn his head away. After an on-field assessment by the doctor, he retired hurt. Cricket Australia confirmed that Khawaja passed an initial concussion test in the dressing room and underwent a

Usman Khawaja and Marcus Stoinis have lost their Cricket Australia contracts after falling out of favour with the national selectors over the past 12 months, leaving both with a particularly steep battle to return to international cricket whenever it resumes after the coronavirus pandemic. Alongside Nathan Coulter-Nile, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Harris, Shaun Marsh, Ashton Turner and the retired Peter Siddle, Stoinis and Khawaja were broadly expected to be missing when the list was announced on Thursday, but their absence for the first time in some years

Its time for the penultimate game in the Big Bash League season 9 with the Melbourne Stars set to take on Sydney Thunder in the BBL09 Challenger. The winner of this game will play Sydney Sixers who are already in the finals courtesy their win in the second Qualifier against the Stars. If the Stars win the Challenger, it will be a rematch between both Sydney Sixers and Melbourne Stars again in the final. The BBL fans and the cricket fans, in general,