Allan Border Medal 2012

Quiney and Warner win awards

Feb 27, 2012: The Victoria batsman Rob Quiney has been rewarded for two strong seasons by being named Australia's Domestic Player of the Year at the Allan Border Medal night in Melbourne. And Australia's occasional vice-captain David Warner has taken home the Bradman Y

Australian women's news

Nitschke bows out at peak of her game

Jul 7, 2011: The world's No.1 allrounder and bowler, Australia's Shelley Nitschke, has announced her retirement from international cricket

Natwest Women's Quadrangular Series

Australia snap England's winning run

Jul 5, 2011: England's run of six successive victories came to an end as they were blown away by Australia, who coasted to victory with seven wickets and 90 balls to spare after bundling England out for 168 at Lord's

Natwest Women's Quadrangular Series

Nitschke, Coyte help Australia to tight victory

Jul 2, 2011: Australia edged home off the last ball to complete a nail-biting three-wicket win against India in Chesterfield

NatWest Women's Quadrangular Series

New Zealand fall short despite McGlashan fifty

Jun 30, 2011: A boundary-laden 79 from Jess Cameron and three wickets apiece for Sarah Coyte and Shelley Nitschke helped Australia to a 29-run win over New Zealand in their opening match of the Natwest Women's Quadrangular in Chesterfield

Australia Women v New Zealand Women, 3rd ODI, Brisbane

Blackwell, Nitschke star in Australia win

Jun 16, 2011: An all-round show from Australia helped them win the third and final ODI in Brisbane by 19 runs and seal the Rose Bowl series 4-2

Australia Women v New Zealand Women, 2nd ODI, Brisbane

Smith, Poulton ease Australia to win

Jun 14, 2011: Australia Women eased to a six-wicket win against New Zealand Women with 18.3 overs to spare in the second encounter of the reconvened Rose Bowl series in Brisbane

Australia Women v New Zealand Women

Rose Bowl resumes after earthquake

Jun 10, 2011: Australia and New Zealand's Rose Bowl Series recommences on Sunday, four months after it was dramatically halted when the sides were caught up in the fatal Christchurch earthquake

Allan Border Medal 2010-11

Khawaja and Copeland win state awards

Feb 7, 2011: Usman Khawaja has capped off a summer in which he made his Test debut by being named the State Player of the Year at the Allan Border Medal night in Melbourne

Australia Women v England Women, 5th T20, Canberra

Nitschke helps Australia to consolation win

Jan 18, 2011: A fine all-round performance from Shelly Nitschke helped Australia score a consolation win in the 5th Twenty20 against England at Canberra's Manuka Oval

Australia Women v England Women, 4th T20, Canberra

Marsh sets up another England victory

Jan 17, 2011: Laura Marsh continued her strong form as England swept aside Australia again to take a 4-0 lead with a match to play in the Twenty20 series

ICC Awards 2010

Nitschke named Women's Cricketer of the Year

Oct 6, 2010: Shelley Nitschke, the Australia allrounder, has been named the Women's Cricketer of the Year at the ICC Awards in Bangalore

New Zealand v Australia, Women's World Twenty20 final, Barbados

Australia shut down NZ for thrilling trophy win

May 16, 2010: Australia's women staged a dramatic comeback to go one better than the men after holding their nerve in a low-scoring final

New Zealand v Australia, Women's World Twenty20 final, Barbados

Teams battle for their first Twenty20 trophy

May 15, 2010: The men's World Twenty20 final is a match-up of long-standing adversaries and so is the women's

Aus v SA, Women's World T20, St Kitts

All-round Nitschke boosts Australia

May 7, 2010: Shelley Nitschke top scored for Australia with 44 and grabbed two wickets to seal their second consecutive win, as they beat South Africa by 24 runs in St Kitts

New Zealand v Australia, 2nd women's ODI, Invercargill

Nitschke hundred keeps series alive

Mar 6, 2010: Shelley Nitschke's maiden one-day century stormed Australia to a six-wicket win that levelled the Rose Bowl Series in New Zealand

New Zealand v Australia, 1st women's ODI, Queenstown

Australia steal thrilling win in 1st ODI

Mar 3, 2010: Half-centuries to Jess Cameron and Shelley Nitschke kept Australia in the series as they snatched a two-wicket win from the final ball of the first ODI

New Zealand v Australia, 2nd women's T20, Christchurch

New Zealand knock over Australia again

Feb 28, 2010: New Zealand took their winning streak over Australia to five with a 17-run success in the second Twenty20 in Christchurch

Australia v New Zealand Women, 3rd T20, Hobart

New Zealand make it three in a row

Feb 23, 2010: New Zealand achieved a clean sweep of the Twenty20s against Australia with a seven-run victory in the third match in Hobart

Australia v New Zealand, 1st women's Twenty20, Hobart

Devine intervention gets New Zealand home

Feb 21, 2010: A stunning one-handed catch from the wicketkeeper Rachel Priest delivered New Zealand's first win of the tour in a tense finish to the first Twenty20