In regional towns across Australia sport is an important thread binding communities together, but for veterans living with injuries and PTSD, being on a team is even more important. That connection can be a lifeline.

AUSTRALIA and India shared the honours and luck on the crucial final morning of the First Test in Adelaide.

AUSTRALIA have won two Tests but looks set to make two changes for Boxing Day, with Mitchell Marsh unlikely to be fit and Ryan Harris confident.

CRICKET is stopping all the time: no game has such an action-to-waiting quotient.

PHILLIP Hughes’ older brother Jason has made an emotional return to grade cricket and scored 63 _ the score his sibling was on when his life effectively finished.