If those organising this year’s Lions tour to Australia had sat down and sketched out their dream second Test, it would not have been too far off what we saw at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.

The British and Irish Lions have secured the series with a game to spare, but the second Test ended in controversy. Julian Linden joins Simon Lewis to assess it all.

Jeremy Zucker is heading back Down Under. The multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and producer has announced his 2025 Welcome to the Garden State Australian tour, set to kick off this November.

Kacey Musgraves will play four shows in Australia this November. She has stops in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. These will be her first concerts in the country since her viral 2019 appearance, when she famously performed a "shoey" on stage in Melbourne using a glass slipper.

Stringer’s freshly announced ‘To Survive’ Tour will see her play 17 shows across the country this October, November and December, in support of her seventh (yep, seventh) studio album. But this isn’t just any national run. The tour also doubles as a nationwide fundraising campaign to help tackle the housing crisis.

Jansen misses out as he is recovering from surgery to his left thumb while Miller is playing in the Hundred | ESPN.com

Batters Dewald Brevis and Lhuan-dre Pretorius have been included in South Africa’s Twenty20 and One Day International squads for their white ball tour of Australia next month, as off-spinner Prenelan Subrayen earns a maiden limited overs call-up.

Due to injury concerns, Shreyanka Patil and Priya Mishra are out of India Women 'A' team's tour of Australia. Replacements Dhara Gujjar and Prema Rawat join across all formats, with Yastika Bhatia added to the one-day squad.