Australia news

Strong post-Argus plans poorly explained to public

Feb 4, 2013: A resounding CA board endorsement for the direction taken by the national team is accompanied by the admission that plans have been poorly articulated in public

MCC news

Charlotte Edwards joins MCC cricket committee

May 17, 2012: Charlotte Edwards, captain of England Women, is to become the first woman to sit on the MCC World Cricket committee

Rod Marsh's long road to Dominica

Apr 22, 2012: The Australian selector recalls a World Series Cricket match he played in Roseau 33 years ago

Australia in West Indies, 2012

Haddin shades Wade for Test gloves

Mar 14, 2012: Brad Haddin has the endorsement of the national selectors to keep wicket for Australia in the first Test against the West Indies in Barbados - but will have to perform immediately

With jaw broken but head unbowed

Jan 9, 2012: The sight of Rick McCosker batting with his shattered jaw held together by bandages has become synonymous with bravery in cricket. To the man himself, he was doing no more than his job

Australia news

Rod Marsh to coach the coaches

Dec 22, 2011: Rod Marsh, the Australia selector, will "coach the coaches" in a newly created Cricket Australia role designed to ensure a unified approach to mentoring players across the states

Greatest Partnerships

Deadly duos

Dec 15, 2011: Cricket is a game of partnerships. Here are five that can go down in history

Australia news

Rod Marsh and Andy Bichel to join selection panel

Nov 10, 2011: Rod Marsh and Andy Bichel have been chosen as the two part-time members of the reconfigured Cricket Australia national selection panel

Summer of 242

Sep 8, 2011: The Headingley defeat rankled the Australians as they went to The Oval for the final Test in 1972. They had to win to square the series

Australia news

Rod Marsh courts selection role

Jul 6, 2011: Rod Marsh has taken an interest in helping to lift Australian cricket out of its present rut, approaching administrators to discuss the possibility of joining the national selection panel.

The Ashes 2010-11

Paine doesn't keep Haddin up at night

Oct 23, 2010: Brad Haddin is not worried about his international place despite the impressive claims made by Tim Paine during the incumbent's absence

Rod Marsh

'You never forget things you've worked out yourself'

May 3, 2010: Rod Marsh on keeping wicket, helping young talent grow, and in-flight drinking

Trevor Chappell

Cheer up, mate

Jul 3, 2009: An Englishman becomes part of the Aussie entourage... with a little encouragement

ICC news

Dayle Hadlee and Nazar to coach in Dubai

Oct 13, 2008: Dayle Hadlee and Mudassar Nazar have been recruited by the ICC to coach at the Global Cricket Academy

The Wisden Cricketer - March 2008

Still red in tooth and claw

Feb 24, 2008: Never mind the retirements, reports of Australia's decline are exaggerated

Boycott's Headingley heaven

Aug 25, 2007: In Yorkshire in August 1977 news of Elvis Presley's death and England regaining the Ashes paled into insignificance as Geoff Boycott scored his hundredth hundred

1984

Three legends bow out at the SCG

Jan 6, 2007: As was the case in 2007, in 1984 Australia bade farewell to three legends at the end of the Sydney Test

'Marsh's comments were a shame'

Parsons defends England's performance

Dec 14, 2006: David Parsons, the acting director of the ECB academy, has expressed his disappointment at Rod Marsh's comments that England have gone backwards since winning the Ashes last year

England board under fire

Marsh slams ECB decision to let Cooley go

Dec 12, 2006: Rod Marsh, the former Australia wicketkeeper who headed the ECB's Academy from 2001 to 2005, has slammed the England board, accusing it of virtually losing the Ashes when it decided to allow Troy Cooley to return to Australia

Rod Marsh on a near miss in his debut series

'I got 92 and Lawry declared on me'

Nov 14, 2006: Rod Marsh tells Peter English how he started in 1970-71 with some dropped catches, played the first one-day international and ended the series still chasing a maiden century