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Bright eyes Australia selection role

Oct 7, 2011: Ray Bright, the former Test spinner, has expressed his interest in joining Australia's selection panel

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

'Play off the back foot at your peril' - Jenner

Warne rediscovers his flipper

Nov 1, 2006: Two former Australia spinners who saw Shane Warne bowl earlier this week said his flippers looked dangerous in the lead-up to the Ashes series

Smith and Bright join Rixon in selection queue

Candidates line up to replace Border

Oct 12, 2006: Cricket Australia already has three former Test players to consider for Allan Border's spot on the national selection panel when the board meets on Friday

A history of Pakistan's struggles against left-arm spinners

Trouble in the left-arm front

Jul 30, 2006: Pakistan's Old Trafford shellacking was, a Pakistani paper sagely observed, one of their worst ever under Bob Woolmer and Inzamam-ul-Haq

The hunt for Australia's new selector

Marsh rules himself out of selector's job

Apr 6, 2006: Rod Marsh has ruled himself out of contention for the Australian selector's job which is soon to be vacated by Trevor Hohns

Outspoken fast man joins four-man panel

Hogg picked as Victoria selector

Jun 7, 2005: Rodney Hogg, one of Australia's most outspoken former players, has won a spot on the Victoria selection panel for 2005-06

'Big Merv' in contention for selection vacancy

Hughes interviewed as Border's replacement

May 26, 2005: Merv Hughes has been interviewed for the Austalian selection panel's fourth spot following the resignation of Allan Border last month

First candidate arrives to fill national selector vacancy

Western Australia pick Hogan to replace Border

Apr 15, 2005: Western Australia have nominated Tom Hogan, the former left-arm spinner, for the national selection panel following Allan Border's departure

Bright to conduct training sessions for Tasmanian spinners

Jul 31, 2003: Ray Bright, the former Australian left-arm spinner, will conduct a three-day training programme with some of Tasmania's young slow bowlers

India's second-greatest triumph

Jul 13, 2003: 2002 Nineteen years on from their greatest triumph - the humbling of West Indies in the 1983 World Cup final - India returned to Lord's for another, no less astonishing, victory

State selection panel re-elected

Apr 15, 2003: Cricket Victoria is pleased to announce the 2002/03 State Selection Panel was re-elected last night for two years, until the completion of the 2004/05 season.

Bright to join new VCA selection panel

Apr 9, 2002: The Victorian Cricket Association last night elected former Victorian captain Ray Bright to its state selection panel for the 2002/03 cricket season