Selectors

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Hughes backs selectors on Haddin, Rogers

Jesse Hogan and David Sygall Brad Haddin's recall as Test wicketkeeper and installation as vice-captain for the Ashes has earned Australia's selectors praise from former captain Kim Hughes.

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Clarke could climb as high as No.3 as selectors aim for batting shake-up

Chris Barrett Michael Clarke's pending move up the batting order will stabilise Australia's fragile top four, according to opener David Warner.

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Blame game commences as selectors fail to find right spin

Chris Barrett Nathan Lyon stood by the rope at a wide third man on Monday morning, chatting to Xavier Doherty. M.S.

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Selectors on right path in overhaul despite bumps in the road, says Argus

Chloe Saltau Don Argus, whose review of Australian cricket charted a course back to world domination, says there is no quick fix for the problems laid bare in India, and implored selectors and administrators to...

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Much-maligned selectors need more support

Dean Jones Everybody has an opinion on how the Australian team is travelling. Most of it not complimentary.

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Short shrift: Selectors dump Husseys from Twenty20s

Andrew Wu For the first time in more than five years Australia's Twenty20 team will take to the field on Saturday without a member of the Hussey family.

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Watson set for rest as selectors play it safe

Andrew Wu SHANE WATSON is set to miss this week's Sheffield Shield match for NSW as Cricket Australia takes a conservative approach to the comeback of the Test vice-captain.

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Henriques' effort goes unrewarded by selectors failing to show up

Andrew Wu MOISES HENRIQUES deemed NSW's Sheffield Shield match important enough to warrant catching an 11th-hour flight - but not so national selectors, none of whom were present to witness the final audition...

Selectors stand by one-dayer decisions

Chloe Saltau Cricket Australia will make no apologies for weakening the one-day team to give some of its less experienced Test players more time to prepare for the demanding Test series in India.

Who? Selectors have option of unknown spin duo

Andrew Wu FORMER chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns has urged Australia to take a punt on unheralded leg-spinners Adam Zampa and Cameron Boyce for the Test tour of India with a view to developing them for the...

Selectors worried by low stocks

Chris Barrett National selector John Inverarity admits concern at the depth of spin bowling stocks before Australia's testing tour of India next month.

One better than none: selectors

Jesse Hogan Usman Khawaja shunted from the one-day team and then the squad too.

Expensive Starc tests faith of selectors

Jesse Hogan MITCHELL STARC must regain his accuracy in time for Sri Lanka's fourth-innings chase in the Hobart Test after he finished as Australia's most expensive Test bowler for the second consecutive innings.

Chances dim for Clarke as selectors play it safe

Chloe Saltau MICHAEL CLARKE's hopes of playing in the Boxing Day Test have faded as Australia take a conservative approach with their inspirational captain, while Shane Watson says stepping into his shoes would...

Wright hits selectors' table with a big bash

Jesse Hogan ANYONE who doubts the long-term significance of performances in domestic Twenty20 matches need only look at Luke Wright for an emphatic rebuttal.

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Selectors punt on Hughes

Chris Barrett, Chloe Saltau AFTER a year in the international wilderness, Phillip Hughes is set to be given the opportunity to forge a long-term Test career with a recall for Australia's series opener against Sri Lanka next...

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Khawaja misses chance to prove selectors wrong

Lee Gaskin Usman Khawaja and Alex Doolan missed golden opportunities to feast on a modest Sri Lanka bowling attack on the opening day of the tour match in Canberra.

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You don't have to be Einstein to see selectors are testing the laws of relativity in Johnson call-up

Richard Hinds Einstein strikes me as more of a chess man. But had the great physicist studied the Australian squad for the Perth Test, would he have considered Mitchell Johnson's inclusion a compelling example of...

Siddle riddle: selectors muse over paceman

Chloe Saltau, Chris Barrett AUSTRALIA'S selectors have been told Peter Siddle is at much greater risk of injury than when he broke down in the West Indies earlier this year, but they are tempted to pick him for what is being...