Steve Smith will stay on as acting captain of the ODI side after Pat Cummins made the decision to remain with his family. Cummins returned home half way through the Border Gavaskar Trophy to be by the side of his mother Maria who died on the eve of the fourth match. The side wore black arm bands for their respected ...

Wade Graham says the bar has now been set for reckless high tackles as the Sharks veteran prepares to spend the next four weeks altering his technique after he was suspended for four matches at the NRL judiciary on Tuesday night. Graham was hit with a grade one reckless charge for a high shot on South Sydney’s Davvy Moale but ...

It’s now emerged friendly fire involving two of the Bulldogs’ most feared and toughest legends Mark O’Meley and Willie Mason was responsible for Luke Thompson’s likely season-ending injury. The two former premiership winning enforcers were on the field at training on Tuesday holding bump pads when the Englishman ran at them before falling to the turf like a sack of ...

The Broncos are weighing up a dramatic eleventh-hour bid for Gold Coast star David Fifita after Herbie Farnworth and Tom Flegler’s Dolphins defections cleared $1.5 million in Brisbane’s salary cap. News Corp can reveal the Broncos have emerged as a late contender for Fifita’s signature as they consider getting one back on their south east Queensland rivals the Titans by ...

Recently departed Venues NSW boss Tony Shepherd has declared he is leaving his post with the Sydney Test safely locked away. South Australian cricket had made an audacious bid to try and steal the New Year’s Test for Adelaide, but News Corp understands Cricket Australia has made it clear to NSW powerbrokers that this won’t be happening. Shepherd last week ...

Manly has been whacked on the eve of this season through an injury to rising five-eighth Josh Schuster. It just could signal the elevation of Cooper Johns, son of former Test player, Matthew Johns, and nephew of Immortal, Andrew. The injury to Schuster comes when just everything seemed to be rolling along nicely at Brookvale. Schuster, the five-eighth who will ...

Brisbane Bullets big man Harry Froling says he’ll continue to call out online abuse from “cowards” after he exchanged words with an aggrieved fan. The majority of players ignore or block trolls, but Froling refused to cop the unwarranted attacks from an unidentified account on Monday. He also dared the faceless troll to attend a game in person and repeat ...

Eddie Jones has three NRL targets in mind to sign to the Wallabies. He hasn’t identified the three, but well placed sources indicate that some high-profile league stars who are all off contract this year are on a list of interest at Rugby Australia. Rising Roosters gun Joseph Sua’ali’i is the obvious No.1 target for rugby. But alongside him, Parramatta ...

The wait has been prolonged but well worth it. After months of patient yet productive negotiations, South Sydney will finally announce the retention of star players Latrell Mitchell and Cody Walker. The Daily Telegraph has been told Mitchell and Walker’s much-hyped retention will be made public at 11am on Wednesday. It comes six days after Souths officially nailed down hooker ...

Wests Tigers will head into the Christmas break with huge uncertainty surrounding three of the club’s biggest names. While the recent focus has centred on Parramatta’s fight to keep off-contract halves Mitchell Moses and the freshly re-signed Dylan Brown, the Tigers’ chase for the Eels halfback has also left them vulnerable, and if they miss out on the No.7, it ...