Australian cricket legend Brett Lee called Dubai "one of the safest places in the world" for women and children after moving his family there, weeks before Iranian missile and drone strikes hit the city.

RICHARD GIBSON: During his international career, Will Jacks has been a frontline batsman and first-choice spinner yet it is only since mastering the art of being neither that he has truly excelled

Jonny Bairstow has appealed for help from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer after becoming stuck in the Middle East while on holiday during the ongoing attack in the region.

Summer Warne has revealed she was involved in a heated altercation with a fellow concertgoer after having water poured down her clothing during an emotional Ed Sheeran performance in Melbourne

NZ players were left confused and struggling to keep their composure after a major technical error saw their national anthem played at the wrong speed before a crucial T20 World Cup match in Colombo

RICHARD GIBSON: This astonishing late heist against New Zealand kept up their 100 per cent record in the Super Eight stage, meaning they will likely be heading for the second semi-final.

Earlier this week at the Twenty20 World Cup, Harry Brook sauntered into a press conference, clocked the facial expressions of those present and suggested a smile wouldn't go amiss.

Brook has spent several weeks vowing to take responsibility for his off-field actions that to within a whisker of being stripped of the white-ball captaincy. Now, here he was taking it on the field.

Henry Brayshaw, the son of Channel 7 cricket broadcaster James Brayshaw, has lifted the lid on how he once found himself owing arund $180,000 in gambling debts.

RICHARD GIBSON IN PALLEKELE: Promoting himself to No3 after a chat with Brendon McCullum, he almost single-handedly accounted for the win over Pakistan a couple of days after his 27th birthday.

At 6ft 4in tall with a hachimaki pushing back his mop of hair, Usman Tariq could be mistaken for a martial artist. However, far from being power and speed, the blows he lands are painfully slow.