Australia in South Africa 2011-12

Sunset for Hilditch, sunrise for Australia

Oct 17, 2011: For all the dramas and disasters of Hilditch's five-year tenure as the part-time chairman of selectors, culminating in the loss of the Ashes, the wheel may be starting to turn

Australia news

Hilditch gone as chairman of selectors

Aug 19, 2011: Andrew Hilditch's time as Australia's chairman of selectors is over after the Cricket Australia board decided to appoint a full-time chairman of selectors

Australia news

Ashes autopsy report close at hand

Aug 17, 2011: Australian cricket's reckoning for a disastrous Ashes series, and the decline from greatness to mediocrity that preceded it, is belatedly at hand

Australia news

Hilditch regards job like he did the batting crease

Jun 7, 2011: Australia's chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch is hanging onto his job as stubbornly as he once did the batting crease.

Australian board news

Hilditch to stay on as chairman of selectors

Mar 10, 2011: Andrew Hilditch will remain Australia's chairman of selectors until at least August, when Cricket Australia will have the findings of a review headed by the former BHP chairman Don Argus

After the debacle

Jan 19, 2011: To repair its reputation and standard of cricketing excellence, Australia must restore the strength of its domestic cricket and introduce balance in its corridors of power

World Cup 2011

Australia gamble on fear factor

Jan 18, 2011: The selectors have taken some risks with the make-up of their 15-man World Cup squad

Cricket Australia, look at yourself

Jan 18, 2011: Australians used to pride themselves on having the best cricket governance. Not anymore, now that the board seems bent on casting itself as a marketing organisation that dabbles in the game on the side

Australia v England 2010-11

Hilditch won't quit as chairman of selectors

Jan 11, 2011: Andrew Hilditch has confirmed he won't quit as Australia's chairman of selectors, and the only way he will leave the job is if he is sacked by Cricket Australia

The Ashes 2010-11

An embarrassing dress rehearsal

Nov 15, 2010: The selectors' job is to make decisions but Australia's keep on delaying them

The Ashes 2010-11

Injuries the main threat for settled Australia

Nov 9, 2010: For all the talk of Ashes change, injuries are the only things that can turn the Australian selectors from their preferred line-up for the opening Test

The Ashes 2010-11

Young batsmen still a chance for Ashes

Nov 9, 2010: Andrew Hilditch says Australia's first Test squad is almost finalised, but some of the country's young batsmen remain "in the mix" to face England

Australian news

Cricket Australia prepares to axe a selector

Oct 27, 2010: Cricket Australia will decide which of Merv Hughes, Jamie Cox or David Boon will be axed as a national selector at a board meeting on Friday

Australian news

North handed more breathing space

Aug 6, 2010: Andrew Hilditch, the chairman of selectors, is not plotting any changes to the batting line-up for the two Tests in India in October

Australia news

Cricket Australia search for full-time selector

Jun 17, 2010: Cricket Australia are set to appoint their first full-time national selector in a move to professionalise the four-man panel

World Twenty20 2010

Lee called for international return

Mar 30, 2010: Brett Lee will be back in Australian colours at the World Twenty20 after being chosen for the first time since undergoing elbow surgery last year

Pakistan in Australia 2009-10

Selectors sympathetic to state T20 ambitions

Jan 14, 2010: Australia's selectors have made the rare decision to consider the state's prospects in the Big Bash for the opening one-day internationals against Pakistan

Australia v West Indies, 3rd Test, Perth

Smith enters revolving spin door

Dec 15, 2009: Andrew Hilditch raised more than a few eyebrows when he boldly declared Australia's spin bowling stocks were "in a pretty good spot at the moment"

West Indies in Australia 2009-10

Watson waits on perfect position

Nov 12, 2009: Shane Watson would like to stay at the top of Australia's Test order

West Indies in Australia 2009-10

Lee faces uphill battle for Test spot

Nov 12, 2009: The push of Brett Lee and Stuart Clark to regain their Test spots at the Gabba could be in vain