Ashes

JULY 26, 2013

Bring the angst

For Australia, it's a time of bitter introspection about what has gone wrong

England good? Now there's a bone that'll stick in an Aussie throat © Getty Images

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JULY 12, 2013

For the love of Vicious

He doesn't do enough in the air or off the pitch - except for when he does

MAY 10, 2013

When AB and Thommo nearly pulled off a Melbourne heist

One December afternoon in 1982, Allan Border found an ally in the form of No. 11 Jeff Thomson and they almost pulled off the greatest last-wicket chase in history

APRIL 25, 2013

My Australian XI for the Ashes

The squad that has been selected isn't bad at all. The quicks could trouble batsmen, and someone like Usman Khawaja needs just one good score to start a chain of them

MARCH 28, 2013

One big muddle, 23 million solutions

Once upon a time, selecting the Australia Test XI was a straightforward business but, nowadays, you could ask everyone in the country and get an entirely different team from each of the them. Here's mine

MARCH 08, 2013

The worst Australians since the last lot

Australia need to make changes to the team of lumberjacks that have chopped themselves down in India - but those yukking it up in England should know that we've seen worse and haven't given up on the Ashes yet