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Starc news can warm Yorkshire

Apr 30, 2012: Andrew Gale, Yorkshire captain, has earmarked his county's match against Gloucestershire at Bristol on May 9 as Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc's debut for the county.

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Clarke reckons Wade's a Test batsman

Apr 27, 2012: Australia's captain Michael Clarke has signed off from the West Indies by opening up the possibility of Matthew Wade retaining his Test place as a batsman should Brad Haddin return as the Test gloveman next summer

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English seam on Sammy's mind

Apr 27, 2012: West Indies captain Darren Sammy has insisted his team can go on to success in England after again surrendering the Frank Worrell Trophy to Australia, a trophy the hosts have not held since 1995

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A year in the life

Apr 27, 2012: The upward curve of the Australian team over the period of Michael Clarke's captaincy has been by no means an accidental occurrence

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Clarke takes five in 75-run victory

Apr 27, 2012: Michael Clarke's second five-wicket haul in Tests helped the Australians wrap up a 75-run victory and they took the series 2-0, despite some powerful striking from the West Indies captain Darren Sammy

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Learning from Chanderpaul a priority - Darren Bravo

Apr 26, 2012: Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Test cricket's latest 10,000-run man, is providing incalculable value to a young West Indies team by the example he sets in training and at the batting crease, Darren Bravo has said

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Shillingford is West Indies' bright spot

Apr 26, 2012: ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the fourth day of the third Test in Dominica

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Chanderpaul joins 10,000 club

Apr 26, 2012: Shivnarine Chanderpaul has become the 10th batsman and the second West Indian to pass 10,000 runs in Test matches, reaching the mark on the fourth day of the third Test against Australia at Windsor Park in Dominica

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Bravo's getting of wisdom

Apr 26, 2012: Darren Bravo will finish the series with memories more painful than pleasurable. But they could be the making of him

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Chanderpaul wicket puts Australia on target

Apr 26, 2012: West Indies fought hard on the fourth day in Dominica but the loss of Shivnarine Chanderpaul in the last over left Australia five wickets from victory

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Cowan urges critics to look beyond scoreboard

Apr 25, 2012: Ed Cowan has argued that critics of his and Ricky Ponting's contributions to Australia's Test series in the West Indies are not looking far enough beyond the skeletal facts of the scoreboard

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Ponting performs on poignant day

Apr 25, 2012: ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the third day of the third Test in Dominica

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Two exceptions prove the rule

Apr 25, 2012: If any two of Australia's squad could be said to have offered the least to the team's progress in the Caribbean, it was Ed Cowan and Ricky Ponting. Until the third day in Dominica

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Cowan and Ponting steer Australia to 300-plus lead

Apr 25, 2012: West Indies will need to complete their highest successful chase since they rewrote the record books in Antigua nine years ago if they are to level the series against Australia

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Wade untroubled by Clarke's backing of Haddin

Apr 25, 2012: Matthew Wade has refused to lobby for the No. 1 Australia wicketkeeper's spot, even after his match-turning century against West Indies in Dominica made a compelling case for his retention at the start of the next home summer

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Radford shores up West Indies' battered confidence

Apr 25, 2012: Toby Radford, the West Indies assistant coach, has denied that the confidence levels of the hosts' young batsmen are taking a battering ahead of a tour of England, in the wake of the top order struggling once again on day two in Dominica

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Wade forces the issue

Apr 25, 2012: Matthew Wade's startlingly poised and powerful century on the second morning of the Dominica Test means he is no longer just keeping Brad Haddin's seat warm in the Caribbean

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Starc blunders after vital knock

Apr 24, 2012: ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the second day of the third Test in Dominica

West Indies v Australia, 3rd Test, Roseau, 2nd day

Wade ton puts Australia in control

Apr 24, 2012: Matthew Wade tightened both his grip on the Test wicketkeeping spot and Australia's grasp on the Test with a century that frustrated and demoralised West Indies on the second day in Dominica

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Highwayman Warner takes the slow lane

Apr 23, 2012: Like a highway traveller learning to negotiate Sydney's notorious Parramatta Rd, David Warner is finding out how to drive in heavier traffic