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Sheffield Shield: Bulls v Redbacks

Chris Hartley

Phil Lutton We're live at the Gabba as the Bulls open their Shield defence against the Redbacks.

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Sheffield Shield: Bulls v Redbacks

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Live: Bulls v Redbacks

Sheffield Shield back, Twenty20 boosted

Daniel Brettig As they restore the Sheffield Shield as the centrepiece of Australia's oldest domestic cricket competition, CA are stoking the fires of its newest.

Sheffield Shield makes return to cricket

The Sheffield Shield will return to Australian domestic cricket, nine years after it was replaced by the Pura Cup.

Vics eyeing Sheffield Shield finals spot

Adam Cooper Victoria are eyeing off a place in the Sheffield Shield final after thrashing Western Australia by eight wickets in two-and-a-half days at the MCG.

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Bailey out to build on base laid in adversity

George Bailey.

Jesse Hogan One of Australia's worst results over the past year, a clean sweep by England in a one-day series, passed almost unnoticed because it was played at unfriendly hours and was trumped for attention by...

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Place in BBL as expansion team may be the big hope

Mike McKenna.

Chloe Saltau Renegades could not be moved to Geelong for fear of devaluing new media rights deal.

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MCG access still on agenda

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Chloe Saltau Solution to long-running dispute between cricket and football over access to MCG no closer.

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CA ponders one-day carnival

Geroge Bailey.

Chloe Saltau A plan to reinvent the domestic one-day competition as a stand-alone carnival in October, which would have implications for Australia's Ashes preparation, is being considered by Cricket Australia.

Packer may buy cricket, again

Cricket ball breaking stumps.

Mark Hawthorne and Chris Vedelago The 36-year relationship between Australian cricket and Nine is in danger after the sport's ruling body launched legal action against the network.

Domestic dispute puts CA and Nine on brink of split

James Packer and Michael Clarke.

Mark Hawthorne, Chris Vedelago The 36-year relationship between Australian cricket and Nine is in danger of splitting after the sport's ruling body launched legal action against the network.

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Sydney-born but Blighty holds sway

Talented: Sam Robson celebrates a century for Middlesex against Warwickshire this week.

Chloe Saltau Sam Robson is earning plaudits and maybe a Test chance in England.

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Perfect Ashes opener, but Robson's happy playing in England

Sam Robson

Chloe Saltau Sam Robson's boyhood hero was Michael Slater, who played grade cricket in Sydney with his father, Jim, and made an exhilarating entrance to Test cricket on the Ashes tour 20 years ago.

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Cummins ready to come out swinging

Pat Cummins

Chloe Saltau Pat Cummins will take another step along the painstaking path back to international cricket when he joins the Australia A squad in Britain this winter.

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Cummins to change action on road back

Pat Cummins

Chloe Saltau Pat Cummins will join the Australia A squad in the UK this winter.

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Nathan Lyon, Dan Christian quit SA cricket

Adelaide Test spinner Nathan Lyon and allrounder Dan Christian have quit South Australian cricket in defections which disappointed Redbacks coach Darren Berry.

Live coverage: 2013 Ashes squad announcement

Ashes squad announcement.

Will Brodie Australia's 2013 Ashes squad: Michael Clarke (C), Brad Haddin (VC), Jackson Bird, Ed Cowan, James Faulkner, Ryan Harris, Phil Hughes, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, James Pattinson, Chris Rogers, Peter...

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Bowling them over

Peter Siddle

Will Brodie Tough times call for some lateral thinking. Make that radical thinking. There's nothing tougher than the prospect of back-to-back Ashes embarrassments.

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Winter into Redbacks as Lyon packs his bag

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ACT Cricketer Nathan Lyon at a cricket clinic for asylum seekers next to Manuka oval ahead of the PM's XI tomorrow.
28 Jan 2013.
Photo: Rohan Thomson. The Canberra Times.

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Lee Gaskin ACT Comets young gun Nick Winter will be among several familiar faces at the South Australian Redbacks.