Daniel Brettig

Starc's ankle clouds Lord's chances

Peter Siddle appears a likely Australian inclusion for the Lord's Test after Mitchell Starc bowled in obvious pain on a difficult day three in Cardiff, leaving Nathan Lyon to admit the heavily favoured tourists needed to "compose themselves" following num

10-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Cardiff

Aggression lets Australia down

Australia's top order's eagerness to attack saw them gift England wickets, with Moeen Ali especially profiting from a blind spot against spin

09-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Cardiff

Australia caught cold by Haddin's drop

Josh Hazlewood has admitted Australia's bowlers did not respond well to the unexpected sight of Brad Haddin dropping Joe Root on the first day of the Investec Ashes series

08-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig

Australia confront the Harris gap

Seven wickets on the first day, having lost the toss, was far from awful for Australia but they will know their bowling attack did not work as a unit which showed the value of one missing man

08-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Cardiff

Pain of '09 near-miss spurs on Australia

Five members of the current Australia squad were present when James Anderson and Monty Panesar defied them six years ago and it was an outcome that set the tone for more than just one series

07-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Cardiff

Bayliss and Boof, the Aussie Ashes

Trevor Bayliss' enlightened knowledge of the game coupled with his ability to make the players feel comfortable could take England out of the mire they have got themselves into

07-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Cardiff

Clarke promises 'tough cricket' to win Ashes

Michael Clarke underlined his side must stick to the methods that have reaped benefits in the past, which includes an aggressive, occasionally unsociable manner on the field

07-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Cardiff

Watson to help fill Harris gulf

Shane Watson's greater experience of England and his capacity to bowl some of the kinds of spells Ryan Harris might have delivered for Australia appears set to squeeze him into the first Test team ahead of Mitchell Marsh

06-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Cardiff

Voges' dashed World Cup dream led to Ashes berth

Adam Voges reflects on how the frankness with Australia coach Darren Lehmann told him he was out of the World Cup squad allowed him to focus on securing a Test spot

06-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig

Harris loses final battle of wounded knee

Ryan Harris revealed that scans showed he had a cracked right tibia as a result of the knee injury that has forced him into retirement

04-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Chelmsford

Starc and Hazlewood polish off Essex

Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood shared seven wickets between them as the Australians won by 169 runs on the fourth afternoon in Chelmsford

04-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Chelmsford

Ryan Harris: Five of his best

After Ryan Harris was forced to retire we look back at some of his standout Test performances for Australia

04-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig

Injury forces Ryan Harris to retire

Ryan Harris battered right knee has finally given out on him, ending his days in the baggy green less than a week before the first Test of the Ashes series

04-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Chelmsford

Smith aims to silence England doubters

Steven Smith has named Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen as two of his chief verbal tormentors on Australia's last Ashes tour to England, and is determined to silence any remaining doubters with a pile of runs from No. 3 this summer.

04-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig

Clarke unconcerned by spinners' struggles

Australia's captain Michael Clarke has defended his spin bowlers Nathan Lyon and Fawad Ahmed after both were subjected to considerable punishment in the tourists' opening two tour matches

03-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Chelmsford

Starc, Clarke provide bright spots

Mitchell Starc and Michael Clarke impressed for the Australians although it was another uneven display against Essex

03-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Chelmsford

Faulkner to face drink-driving charge

James Faulkner, the World Cup-winning Australia allrounder, may be left out of the ODI squad for the series following the Ashes after he spent Thursday night in a prison cell in Manchester on a drink driving charge

03-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig

History repeats itself as Westley makes Australians toil

A decade after a young Alastair Cook smote the Australians to all parts of Chelmsford, another youthful Essex opener in Tom Westley did much the same

02-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig in Chelmsford

Haddin has coaching potential - Bayliss

Brad Haddin should be fast tracked into a coaching role after his playing days are over, according to England's new Australian coach Trevor Bayliss

02-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig

Red-hot Marsh turns up heat on Watson

On the hottest July day in England since records began, it was hard to know what was at a higher temperature - a sweltering Chelmsford crowd or the scything blade of Mitchell Marsh

01-Jul-2015•Daniel Brettig at Chelmsford

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