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Botha handed one-match suspension

Mar 7, 2014: Johan Botha, the South Australia captain, has been handed one-match suspension for breaching Cricket Australia's code of behaviour in two separate incidents during the Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales

Australia in South Africa 2013-14

Johnson rested from T20s

Mar 6, 2014: Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has been rested from the Twenty20 series in South Africa and will return home before joining the squad in Bangladesh for the World Twenty20

Victoria v Tasmania, Sheffield Shield, Melbourne, 4th day

Butterworth leads Tasmania to draw

Mar 6, 2014: Victoria's press for a second win in the tournament was shut out by Luke Butterworth's third first-class century as Tasmania salvaged a draw in Melbourne

South Australia v NSW, Sheffield Shield, Adelaide, 4th day

Carters 84 helps NSW to tense draw

Mar 6, 2014: Ryan Carters led a determined New South Wales stonewalling in Adelaide to claim two points in a draw with South Australia

Australia in South Africa 2013-14

Harris, Haddin, Rogers to push on

Mar 6, 2014: Darren Lehmann has said that Brad Haddin, Chris Rogers and Ryan Harris will all have a place in the 2015 Ashes tour provided they keep up their current performances

Queensland v Western Australia, Sheffield Shield, Brisbane, 4th day

Feldman helps Queensland to big win

Mar 6, 2014: Queensland kept themselves alive in the Sheffield Shield with a 250-run win over Western Australia in Brisbane, where Luke Feldman and Michael Neser helped the Bulls skittle the Warriors for 144

South Africa v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 5th day

Ryan Harris vows to return

Mar 5, 2014: Ryan Harris has vowed to return from extensive knee surgery, expressing his desire to again experience the elation that washed over him after helping Australia to a thrilling win in Cape Town

South Africa v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 5th day

Australia's longest day

Mar 5, 2014: It wasn't easy, and it certainly wasn't without its fair share of twists, but Australia held their own to pull off one of their most impressive wins in recent itmes

South Africa v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 5th day

Clarke sorry for Steyn anger

Mar 5, 2014: Michael Clarke has apologised for his fiery confrontation with Dale Steyn, admitting that he had overstepped the mark

SA v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 5th day

Australia end international away-series win drought

Mar 5, 2014: Stats highlights from Australia's series-clinching win in Cape Town

Queensland v Western Australia, Sheffield Shield, Brisbane, 3rd day

Seamers rattle Western Australia

Mar 5, 2014: Queensland's pacers Luke Feldman and James Hopes did the damage for the team, leaving Western Australia in disarray chasing 395 as Queensland closed in on a big win

South Africa v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 5th day

Harris bowls Australia to last-gasp win

Mar 5, 2014: Ryan Harris goes under the knife for knee surgery after this series - he does not know what the future holds. He may play Test cricket again, but at 34 there are no guarantees. Whatever happens, he has delivered one of the great triumphs in Australia's re

SA v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 4th day

Warner thrives on sledges

Mar 4, 2014: David Warner has said that he likes getting involved in a sledge to spur him on at the crease, and sometimes he starts the banter to get himself going

SA v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 4th day

Warner, Johnson at peak of powers

Mar 4, 2014: Australia's success against England and South Africa is down to the arresting form of their most talented players - David Warner and Mitchell Johnson

South Africa v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 4th day

Australia's fastest century opening stand

Mar 4, 2014: Stats highlights from the fourth day in Cape Town, which was dominated by David Warner and Australia's fast bowlers

Queensland v WA, Sheffield Shield, Brisbane, 2nd day

Forrest ton puts Queensland in charge

Mar 4, 2014: A Peter Forrest century and impressive spells from James Hopes and Michael Neser put Queensland on the path towards first-innings points on the second day in Brisbane

South Australia v NSW, Sheffield Shield, Adelaide, 2nd day

O'Keefe takes five with pink ball

Mar 4, 2014: New South Wales spinner Steve O'Keefe believes a change of ball after the pink ball became too worn during South Australia's innings hurt his team in their match at Adelaide Oval

Victoria v Tasmania, Sheffield Shield, Melbourne, 2nd day

Stoinis hundred puts Victoria on top

Mar 4, 2014: Marcus Stoinis scored his maiden first-class century as Victoria took control on the second day of their Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania at the MCG

South Africa v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 4th day

South Africa stonewall but Australia eye victory

Mar 4, 2014: South Africa had lost four wickets by stumps on day four but they held out hope of preventing an Australian victory

South Africa v Australia, 3rd Test, Cape Town, 3rd day

Harris revives memories of Merv

Mar 3, 2014: Ryan Harris' willingness to exert himself on this tour to South Africa, despite his badly deteriorating knee, and his effectiveness through the pain on day three in Cape Town, take one back to Merv Hughes and the 1993 Ashes