Chloe Saltau

Chloe Saltau

Chloe Saltau is the chief cricket writer at The Age, regularly covering international cricket and providing news, comment and analysis on international cricket. She joined The Age as a trainee in 1998 and spent several years writing for general news (chiefly as a social policy reporter covering welfare and family issues) before moving to sport.

CA wants umpires to think of the fans

Chloe Saltau THE embarrassment of last month's abandoned one-dayer at the SCG has prompted Cricket Australia to implore the ICC to relax its standards for getting teams back on the field after rain.

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Young Bull reported for suspect bowling action

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Chloe Saltau Young Queensland seamer Cameron Gannon has been reported for a suspect bowling action and will undergo bio-mechanical testing.

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CA push to limit rain delays

SCG washout

Chloe Saltau Cricket Australia implored the ICC to relax its standards for resuming play after rain.

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CA takes stick to suspect bowling action

Marlon Samuels.

Chloe Saltau Cricket Australia set to introduce tougher regime for dealing with illegal bowling actions in domestic cricket.

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Bowler probe throws up tricky issue

Aaron Bird.

Chloe Saltau Match officials are so reluctant to report flawed bowling actions that in-game testing represents cricket's last hope to confront the politically charged throwing issue.

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Chucked out

Chloe Saltau

Chloe Saltau The last Australian player to be suspended for throwing accepts the decision, but says overseas players are treated differently to domestic players.

Warne faces action over BBL tantrum

Warne

Chloe Saltau Shane Warne faces severe disciplinary action over his eruption towards Marlon Samuels.

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Stars clash in Renegades win

Marlon Samuels

Chloe Saltau Shane Warne almost comes to blows with Melbourne Renegades' import, Marlon Samuels.

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Quiney's good grace over Test selections

Rob Quiney.

Chloe Saltau Rob Quiney has reacted with good grace to the revelation that he was selected, in part, as a human shield for Phillip Hughes against South Africa.

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Finger-picking good: Lawson wants ball tampering legalised

Geoff Lawson

Chloe Saltau, Chris Barrett BALL-TAMPERING laws should be relaxed to permit bowlers to pick the seam and redress the growing imbalance between bat and ball, former Test paceman Geoff Lawson believes.

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Lehmann steps into chucking row

Darren Lehmann.

Chloe Saltau Heat coach questions Marlon Samuels' bowling action.

The day a throw changed the game

Muttiah Muralidharan's action is watched by umpire Darrell Hair

Chloe Saltau, Andrew Wu Soon after lunch on Boxing Day of 1995, Chandika Hathurusinghe was fielding at square leg at the MCG when New Zealand umpire Steve Dunne posed him a question.

Throwaway line with a dire result

No ball: Umpire Darrell Hair calls Muthiah Muralidaran for throwing at the MCG in 1995.

Chloe Saltau and Andrew Wu When Darrell Hair called Muthiah Muralidaran for throwing, the cricket world changed.

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Unflappable Amla laughs off barrage of bad blood

Amla

Chloe Saltau HASHIM AMLA'S amused reaction to the invective hurled at him in Brisbane suggests the Australians should direct their sledges elsewhere when the three-Test series resumes in Adelaide.

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Amla: well that was fun, now what's next?

Hashim Amla

Chloe Saltau South African star amused by the invective hurled at him in Brisbane.

Declaration query after draw

Australian captain Michael Clarke

Chloe Saltau Timing of Michael Clarke's declaration questioned after the first Test ambles to a draw.

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Australia eases past Ireland in World Twenty20 opener

Shane Watson

Chloe Saltau, Colombo Australia was tiring of the Irish jokes and it showed in the deadly serious manner in which Shane Watson muscled his team past Ireland in its opening match of the World Twenty20.

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Australia avoid being punchline to Irish joke

Trent Johnston

Chloe Saltau Australia were tiring of the Irish jokes, and it showed in the deadly serious manner in which Shane Watson muscled his team past Ireland in its opening match of the World Twenty20.

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'Mongrel' shows against the Irish

Fired up: Irish bowler Kevin O'Brien gets Michael Hussey lbw for 10 runs in Colombo.

Chloe Saltau, Colombo When Shane Watson talked about making a statement, he wasn't just alluding to his short ball to dismiss the Ireland captain with the opening salvo of Wednesday's match.

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'Chucking' prototype gets put to test at AIS

Chloe Saltau Six years after Shane Warne called on the International Cricket Council to test the legality of bowling actions in match conditions instead of laboratories, Australian scientists have developed a...