Daniel Brettig

SA's Davids take on the Blues' Goliaths

A win for New South Wales would confirm the primacy of a team that embodies Australian cricket's present. An upset by South Australia would make a similarly compelling statement about the nation's future

24-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Pink ball 'didn't hold up well at all' - Voges

Australia batsman Adam Voges has expressed severe doubt about the ability of the pink ball to hold up to 80 overs of battering in the upcoming day-night Adelaide Test

23-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Latham ton sets up win for New Zealanders

The well-drilled New Zealanders exposed familiar flaws in Australia's young batsmen on their way to a dominant opening performance, trouncing the Prime Minister's XI by 102 runs at Manuka Oval, despite the absence of their resting captain Brendon McCullum

23-Oct-2015•The Report by Daniel Brettig at Manuka Oval

Pivotal summer for Khawaja

This summer looms as a test of Khawaja's abilities, for he seems set to be pitched back into the Test team as a top-order batsman

23-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

New Zealand will take attack to Australia

In taking on Australia at home over the next month, New Zealand's cricketers wish to overturn one element of history while also paying homage to another

22-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig in Canberra

McCullum goes from court to cricket

New Zealand's captain Brendon McCullum is unsure how much the ongoing perjury trial of Chris Cairns will distract him as he sets about leading his country in what shapes as their best chance to unseat Australia at home in 30 years

22-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig in Canberra

Ponting voices opposition to day-night Tests

Ricky Ponting has spoken out strongly against the looming day-night Test match to be played in Adelaide between Australia and New Zealand

21-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Stoinis, Handscomb seal Victoria's eliminator berth

Marcus Stoinis and Peter Handscomb helped Victoria qualify for Sunday's elimination final of the Matador Cup

20-Oct-2015•The Report by Daniel Brettig

Maxwell suspended by Victoria for disciplinary reasons

Glenn Maxwell has been suspended for disciplinary reasons for the second time in a year after Victoria sanctioned him for failing to appear at a recovery session following the Bushrangers' victory against New South Wales on Sunday

19-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Older, wiser Siddons chases South Australia's elusive Shield

Jamie Siddons, the last Shield-winning captain for South Australia, returns as coach to help win that title again

19-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Bancroft, Burns, Khawaja included in PM's XI

Youth will mingle with experience as Test hopefuls Cameron Bancroft, Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja join Adam Voges and Peter Siddle in a strong Prime Minister's XI to face the New Zealanders in Canberra on Friday

19-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Smith, Lyon bulldoze Queensland

New South Wales trumped Queensland in their Matador Cup match at Drummoyne Oval, led by a century from Steven Smith and four wickets from Nathan Lyon

16-Oct-2015•The Report by Daniel Brettig

Peter Siddle in PM's XI for New Zealand

Peter Siddle's lack of cricket has compelled the selectors to give the New Zealand tourists an unexpected sighter of one of their likely Test opponents in two warm-up matches

16-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Hazlewood's Ashes reality check

Josh Hazlewood fell markedly short of expectations during the Ashes and was withdrawn from the final Test but now returns, fitter and stronger

15-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Johnson pondered post-Ashes retirement

Mitchell Johnson has admitted to contemplating retirement after watching several of his mates shuffle out of the dressing room

14-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Lehmann rebukes Saker over bowlers

Australia coach Darren Lehman has delivered David Saker a blunt lesson in states' rights, rebuking the new Victoria coach for his sugestion that the Australian selectors would be "mad" to choose James Pattinson for the Test team before Christmas

13-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Warner's thumb still broken

David Warner's thumb is still broken, leaving Australia's vice-captain to fight an increasingly fraught battle to be fit in time for the first Test of the sumer against New Zealand in Brisbane

13-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Maddinson hundred gets NSW home

Nic Maddinson's second century of the competition helped New South Wales achieve their fourth consecutive victory, by eight wickets over Tasmania, even as rain made marginal reductions to the target under the D/L method

12-Oct-2015•The Report by Daniel Brettig in Sydney

Fit-again Australia players assemble for red-ball camp

David Warner, Mitchell Johnson, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Coulter-Nile will return to the Australian team fold at a Test team training camp in Hurstville after being absent from the squad for the postponed trip to Bangladesh

12-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

Starc and Smith steer NSW to another big win

New South Wales defeated South Australia by 156 runs in their Matador Cup match at North Sydney Oval. Steven Smith top scored with 72 and Mitchell Starc collected four wickets

08-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig at North Sydney Oval

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