Cricket
Neck on the line: Arthur
Chris Barrett Australian head coach admits taking a risk with standing down four players.
Cricket
CA stands by team leaders
Chris Barrett Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland says national team management retains board's full support.
CA backs staff despite 'issues' with whitewash
Chris Barrett Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland says national team management, including Mickey Arthur, John Inverarity and Pat Howard, retain the board's full support but agrees the 4-0 loss in India was...
Cricket
Henriques putting his name in lights
Chris Barrett On the Wikipedia entry for Funchal, the capital of Portugal's autonomous region of Madeira, there are 11 names listed under the sub-heading 'Notable Citizens'.
Madeira raises a glass to Ronaldo, and can toast Henriques, too
Chris Barrett ON the Wikipedia entry for the Madeiran city of Funchal, there are 11 names listed under the heading ''Notable Citizens''.
Cricket
CA shoots down talk of Clarke, Hussey row
CHRIS BARRETT, ANDREW WU Mike Hussey is at the centre of a rumour doing the rounds by email, and published in of all places a financial gossip column on Thursday, that he and Michael Clarke had a spectacular falling out...
Chris Barrett
Bowling up an Olympic dream
Chris Barrett Just about every major professional international sport is now on board with the Olympics, except cricket.
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Warner primed for top job
Chris Barrett DAVID WARNER could be a surprise choice as stand-in Test captain in Sydney next week in the event Michael Clarke fails to overcome the hamstring complaint that dogged him in the lead-up to the Boxing...
Humble Hussey always felt at home in the shadows
Chris Barrett THE ultimate cricket utilitarian, Michael Hussey wants to be remembered as a ''team man'', and says he revelled in, rather than resented, so often having his achievements overshadowed by those of his...
Hussey's last knock proves right tonic
Chris Barrett AS THE audience of 10,505 found their voice in the afternoon, chanting ''Hussey, Hussey'', the focus of their adulation sat uncomfortably on the Australian team balcony in the SCG Members Pavilion.
Mr Cricket pads up for a fond farewell
Chris Barrett Michael Hussey remains a team man to the end, willing to have the spotlight on others.
Cricket
Star omissions could put Nine ratings hopes to rest
Chris Barrett CHANNEL NINE has reacted with bemusement to the omission of Michael Hussey and David Warner from the one-day squad, concerned it dilutes the appeal of the series against Sri Lanka.
Nine fears an ODI ratings blow
Chris Barrett Channel Nine concerned absence of David Warner and Mike Hussey from ODI series will dilute series appeal.
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End of days: it's over, says Gilchrist
Chris Barrett Adam Gilchrist makes staggering prediction that one-day cricket will be ''history'' within three years.
Cricket
McDermott sets hot pace
Chris Barrett Craig McDermott cuts formal ties with Cricket Australia and opens his own travelling fast-bowling school.
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Danger duo out to halt Australia's resurgence
Chris Barrett, Andrew Wu IT WAS almost as if they scripted it. More than half the South African touring party had come through the arrivals section at Sydney International Airport in dribs and drabs, making their way past...
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Cummins halted by sore back
Chris Barrett, Daniel Lane Patrick Cummins admitted on Wednesday night that his immediate playing future was ''up in the air'' after he was sent to have scans on a possible back injury that may threaten to, yet again, sideline...
Injury curse strikes Cummins again
Chris Barrett and Daniel Lane Young paceman admits his immediate playing future is ''up in the air''.
Clarke, Johnson the big winners in cricket's contract list
Chris Barrett Cricket Australia has released its list of contracted players for the next year, formally cutting the number from 25 to 17 but handing a lifeline to paceman Mitchell Johnson.
Tour over for injured Cummins
Chris Barrett, London Australian pace sensation Patrick Cummins has been struck down by injury again and will be sent home from the one-day international tour of England tomorrow.
