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The fifth day Hobart pitch was a tough Test for Sri Lankan batsmen, says coach Graham Ford

Michael Clarke's prolific batting and captaincy has been critical to the development of the team but so too has Peter Siddle's bowling old-fashioned aggressive bowling

Mahela Jayawardene has said it was the broadcaster's choice of close-up replays that led Sri Lanka to raise concerns with the match referee that Australia's players were allegedly tampering with the ball

At last, Michael Clarke must have thought. At last the Australians have tasted victory this summer. It took until the fourth Test of their home campaign, and into the final hour at that, but Mitchell Starc and Peter Siddle delivered a 137-run win for Clar

ICC match referee Chris Broad has said there was no evidence to suggest that the condition of the ball had been changed by Australia during the Hobart Test

Spinner Rangana Herath, who took five wickets in Australia's second innings, believes the final day track will help Australian offspinner Nathan Lyon

Shane Watson's Test captaincy debut is now a "distinct possibility" following Michael Clarke's suffering of a hamstring strain in the first Test against Sri Lanka

Australian cricket's unanswerable question - that of who will succeed Michael Clarke - has suddenly become one the national selectors must ponder ahead of the Boxing Day Test after the captain was forced to retire hurt with a hamstring injury on day four

Australia have been here before. One day to play, one bowler short, and an opposition whose top order has already been rattled. But Sri Lanka will need even greater powers of concentration to match the remarkable feats of Faf du Plessis and his South Afri

Sri Lanka have made poor use of the review system in the Hobart test, failing to overturn any decisions with their three reviews

Tasmanian cricket's chairman Tony Harrison has scoffed at the suggestion that Hobart might be in any danger of losing its share of Australia's home Test matches

Sri Lanka's erstwhile captain Tillakaratne Dilshan and their likely next leader Angelo Mathews did their best to drag their team back into the Test on the third day at Bellerive Oval, but a relentless Peter Siddle ensured Australia remained well on top

Australia face the grim prospect of trying to win a Test with only three specialist bowlers for the second time in three matches after Ben Hilfenhaus shuffled off Bellerive Oval with a suspected left side strain

Sri Lanka's batsmen may have been scuppered by cluttered minds on day two of the first Test in Hobart, deems Sri Lanka's coach Graham Ford, as they slumped to 87 for 4 by stumps

On a rainy day in Hobart, Australia tightened their grip on the first Test considerably thanks to Michael Hussey's third century of the summer, a bold declaration from Michael Clarke, and a quartet of top-order wickets, including Sri Lanka's two best bats

Believe it or not, Ricky Ponting appears already to have mellowed. Little more than a week into his retirement from international duty, Ponting admitted he quite enjoyed getting to a Test match right on the appointed 10.30am start time rather than two hou

Phillip Hughes and David Warner, then Michael Clarke and Michael Hussey steered the Australians through the day safely to reach stumps at 4 for 299

Australia's final home series before the twin peaks of India and England are to be scaled in 2013 has the Test team leaning towards the developmental

On the eve of the first Test in Hobart, Mahela Jayawardene backed his bowlers in the face of staunch criticism, but maintained it was his batsmen who would need to deliver a maiden win on Australian soil

David Warner can take a lesson from Michael Slater as he aims to find the balance between aggression and care at the top of the order