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.

Australia in Sri Lanka 2011

Clarke clears the air following Katich's axing

Jul 6, 2011: An open meeting of the Australian team has cleared air that might easily have turned poisonous following the ructions caused by Simon Katich's removal

Australia in Sri Lanka 2011

Cameron White dropped from ODI squad

Jul 6, 2011: Cameron White has been dropped from Australia's ODI squad but remains captain of the Twenty20 side for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka

Views from the Blues' big smoke

Jun 27, 2011: You never know your luck in the big city that is New South Wales cricket, Nathan Hauritz says, but then you never know when you might disappear, either

BBL or the bush

Jun 24, 2011: If traditionalists are alarmed at Cricket Australia's new thrust on Twenty20, they'll need to get used to it. Swayed by public research findings, the board has decided to go all out to pursue new audiences

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States 'created' BBL cash splurge

Jun 22, 2011: Paul Marsh, the Australian players union chief executive, has defended the weighting of state and Big Bash League contracts for next summer.

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Warriors aim to be clever with Cameron

Jun 21, 2011: Western Australia have launched an off-season raid on the eastern states, having added Nathan Rimmington, Travis Birt and Mark Cameron to their squad for 2011-12

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Australian contract priorities wrong - Arthur

Jun 21, 2011: Mickey Arthur says Australia has its priorities "the wrong way round" by squeezing state contracts to fund the Big Bash League.

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Player selector relations can improve - Chappell

Jun 17, 2011: Australia's selectors agree that communications between the national panel and the players it chooses, for national contracts and teams, are not what they should be.

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Katich: the contrarian argument

Jun 16, 2011: Amid all the noise about Simon Katich's removal from the Cricket Australia contracts list, the national selectors have found some support from seasoned voices

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Big Bash League window too narrow for some

Jun 16, 2011: Stuart Clark, the Sydney Sixers general manager, has said it will be difficult for some Test players to take part in the expanded Twenty20 Big Bash League

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McGain in Kat's corner

Jun 15, 2011: Bryce McGain, the former Australian Test legspinner, uses a column in The Drum to explain why he thinks the removal of Simon Katich from the list of Cricket Australia contracts was "unfathomable".

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Australian players' Big Bash League headache

Jun 15, 2011: Australian cricket's playing and marketing imperatives are colliding over the matter of Test players taking part in the early rounds of the expanded Big Bash League.

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'There's been an artificial push towards youth in Australia'

Jun 14, 2011: Australian cricket is undergoing a major review of its structure, and Paul Marsh, the players' association chief, talks about its outcomes, the academy's identity crisis, his hopes for the new Big Bash League, and more

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Lonely at the top for Michael Clarke

Jun 11, 2011: Michael Clarke, the Australian captain, talks to Malcolm Conn in the Daily Telegraph about leadership, his pre-season training regimen, and the sins of the 2008 Sydney Test match against India.

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Major overhaul for Futures League

Jun 11, 2011: One of the chief contributors to Australian cricket's sharply declining fortunes over the past few summers, the Futures League, will be drastically overhauled.

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Action against Katich unlikely - Sutherland

Jun 10, 2011: James Sutherland, the Cricket Australia chief executive, doubts any action will be taken against Simon Katich.

Simon Katich's axing from the Australia squad

Sound and fury signifying much

Jun 10, 2011: International opponents have known for years how feisty Simon Katich can be as an adversary, and now Cricket Australia has been similarly enlightened

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Katich shakes Australian cricket

Jun 10, 2011: Simon Katich has announced that he will play on for New South Wales after being axed from Cricket Australia's contract list on Tuesday, a decision he slammed as "ridiculous"

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Australian cricket can't afford to lose Katich - Marsh

Jun 8, 2011: Australian cricket cannot afford to lose Simon Katich from Sheffield Shield ranks already thin on experience, the players union chief Paul Marsh has said.

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