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No muzzle on Clarke's men for Ashes
Chloe Saltau, Chris Barrett There is no danger Australia will follow England's lead and ban players from talking about the Ashes, after James Pattinson revealed the bowlers' plan to ''open up'' England by targeting their...
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Clarke happy to talk up Ashes
Chloe Saltau and Chris Barrett There is absolutely no danger that Australia will follow England's lead and ban its players from talking about the Ashes.
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...
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Replacements needed but the cupboard is bare
Chris Barrett HYDERABAD: Humiliating. That is the only word for it. Australia's abject campaign in India was already a throwback to the dark ages of the 1980s, when Allan Border's men were lucky to beat a backyard...
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Third strike could spell doom for Hughes
Chris Barrett Phillip Hughes is on the verge of being dropped for a third time in his young Test career.
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Spin defects turn focus to future
Chris Barrett Australia will reconsider how best to mentor its spin bowlers after the series in India.
Coach role set for review unless bowlers spin things around under Rixon
Chris Barrett Australia will reconsider how to coach their spin bowlers after the series in India, unless their performances improve in the remaining two Tests.
Clarke's rise to stabilise bats: Warner
Chris Barrett Captain has considered promoting himself as high as No. 3 for Thursday's third Test.
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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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Nothing that a little wine and song wouldn't help: Warne
Chris Barrett Locking everyone in a room with some music and alcohol would have been better than axing players, according to Shane Warne.
Dusty corner of Chennai turns tyros into globe's best quicks
Chris Barrett Children in uniforms kick footballs and play cricket on fields of dust and red soil as the heat gradually eases out of a steamy south Indian afternoon.
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Swingers, not spinners, needed in India: Buchanan
Chris Barrett The architect of Australia's era-defining win in 2004 cautions against an abundance of spin on the sub-continent.
Clarke likely for IPL, but Starc says no
Chris Barrett Australian skipper poised to accept lucrative pay day in this year's Indian Premier League.
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Clarke set for IPL gig in lead-up to Ashes
Chris Barrett MICHAEL CLARKE is poised to accept a lucrative pay day in this year's Indian Premier League only weeks before Australia's Ashes campaign begins in England.
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Leap from seventh to a whisker from the top not impossible
Chris Barrett, Andrew Wu REMARKABLY, underachieving Australia could vault from a world ranking of seventh to within a fraction of top spot in the next three weeks and George Bailey, the captain in the shortest format, admits...
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Bailey 'irked' by lack of success
Andrew Wu and Chris Barrett Underachieving Australia could remarkably vault from seventh to within a fraction of top spot.
'Worst' pace attack won't test batsmen, says Hogg
Chris Barrett, Andrew Wu SRI LANKA'S fast bowling attack is the worst to come to Australia and will not give the home team any clarity about its top order by the summer's end, says former Test paceman Rodney Hogg.
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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.
Watson ready to pick up the slack in attack
Chris Barrett Days after being unfit to roll his arm over at all, Shane Watson is readying himself to contribute even more with the ball than he usually would.
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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...
