The Ashes 2013

Clarke's Ashes warning for batsmen

May 15, 2013: As he delivered a series of reassurances that a degenerative back condition would not hobble his forthcoming Ashes campaign, Australia's captain Michael Clarke issued a stern reminder that the tourists' promising pace battery would be rendered useless wit

Australia news

Sutherland breaks silence on homework fiasco

May 15, 2013: James Sutherland, the Cricket Australia chief executive, has spoken for the first time about the "homework" fiasco that enveloped the national team on a horrid tour of India, stating his displeasure at how the squad's discipline broke down to the point th

Australia news

Keith Bradshaw faces another cancer fight

May 8, 2013: Keith Bradshaw, the South Australian Cricket Association chief executive, has suffered a recurrence of the cancer he battled during his former role as CEO of the MCC in London

Australia news

Channel Ten makes bold play for TV rights

May 8, 2013: Channel Nine may be closer to losing the television rights to international cricket in Australia than at any time in the past 33 years, after their rival Ten made a bold combined bid for both international and BBL matches

ICC news

FICA call for ethics enquiry into May's ICC exit

May 7, 2013: Tim May's removal from the ICC's cricket committee following allegations of pressure by the BCCI should be the subject of an ethics committee enquiry, according to FICA

Silencing the voices of truth

May 7, 2013: Tim May's removal from the ICC cricket committee maintains the eclipse of the outspoken at the governance table

Australia news

BBL tightened for next summer

May 3, 2013: Australia's domestic Twenty20 Big Bash League will become a "tighter" competition for the next five years, starting later in December and concluding earlier in the new year

Australia news

Marsh declares Test match ambition

May 3, 2013: Mitchell Marsh, the Australia allrounder, is adamant he has learned from his disciplinary troubles at the Centre of Excellence and the Champions League in South Africa last year

Australia's quest for a leader

May 1, 2013: The most significant leadership appointment of their winter tours to England may not have been for the Ashes

Champions Trophy 2013

Mitchell Marsh recalled for Champions Trophy

May 1, 2013: Mitchell Marsh will return to Australian duty for the first time in more than a year after being named in the squad for the Champions Trophy ODI tournament that precedes the Ashes in England

Australia news

Inverarity wrestles with Australia's batting woes

Apr 30, 2013: Australia's national selector John Inverarity has spoken frankly of his panel's struggles to find batsmen capable of thriving in a Test match following the retirements of Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey

'Players can become jaded playing all forms of the game'

Apr 30, 2013: John Inverarity talks about the challenges of selection, the future of Australian cricket, and the forthcoming tour to England

The Ashes 2013

Harris confident of fitness ahead of Ashes

Apr 26, 2013: Ryan Harris is confident he will be fit ahead of the Ashes after receiving encouraging results from scans on his injured Achilles tendon

The Ashes 2013

T20 cash hits Australian batting - Mark Taylor

Apr 25, 2013: Former Australia captain Mark Taylor believes Twenty20's easy money has contributed to the national side's poverty of Test match batting options

The Ashes 2013

'Not going to win this by ourselves' - Haddin

Apr 24, 2013: Brad Haddin played down the importance of his elevation to the Australia Test vice-captaincy for the Ashes and struck a team-orientated note

The Ashes 2013

Worth the wait for Chris Rogers

Apr 24, 2013: The opener was on verge of Victoria axe in 2012 but a phonecall from John Inverarity gave him hope and now he is on an Ashes tour

Australia news

Nathan Lyon to join New South Wales

Apr 24, 2013: Australia's No. 1 spin bowler Nathan Lyon consulted his former Test teammate Michael Hussey before deciding to leave South Australia and return to New South Wales

The Ashes 2013

Rogers and Faulkner in Ashes squad

Apr 24, 2013: Brad Haddin and Chris Rogers are the hardened campaigners identified to unify Australia's Ashes tourists, while the young allrounder James Faulkner's inclusion has intensified pressure on Shane Watson

The Ashes 2013

Haddin back as Clarke's lieutenant

Apr 23, 2013: Australia's selectors are expected to name Brad Haddin as Michael Clarke's vice-captain and No. 1 gloveman for the tour of England, reverting to the leadership duo that delivered a 4-0 hiding of India on home soil two summers ago

The Ashes 2013

The case for short-termism

Apr 22, 2013: Brad Haddin, Chris Rogers and Ryan Harris might all be ready to retire by this time next year. But they can all be key men in Australia's Ashes campaign

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