Daniel Brettig

Michael Clarke closing the gap in fitness race

Australia's captain Michael Clarke is closing the gap between his current level of physical output and the peak of fitness that he expects of himself during the World Cup

06-Feb-2015•Daniel Brettig

Clarke bowls, fields and bats

Michael Clarke bowled, fielded and then batted at Allan Border Field on Thursday to take a major step towards being passed fit to captain Australia in their second World Cup match against Bangladesh

05-Feb-2015•Daniel Brettig

Lehmann 'sick of' Clarke's fitness speculation

Australia's coach Darren Lehmann has declared he is "sick of" speculation around the fitness and leadership of Michael Clarke and insists he wants the Test and ODI captain in harness for the World Cup, the tour of the West Indies and the Ashes in England

03-Feb-2015•Daniel Brettig

Johnson not coveting new ball

Mitchell Johnson is open to bowling first change for Australia during the World Cup as the best way to balance his speed and menace with the new-ball swing of Mitchell Starc

02-Feb-2015•Daniel Brettig

Clarke finds time in the middle

Michael Clarke's return to cricket after hamstring surgery was not quite fluent, but he played a helpful sheet-anchor role at No. 3 for Western Suburbs against Gordon at Chatswood Oval in Sydney

31-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Don't discard Clarke in haste

While he is not by any means untouchable anymore, Michael Clarke is still an aggressive, adaptable batsman, Australia's best slip fielder, and crucially, their most proactive leader

30-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Lyon out of Cup before Test series

Nathan Lyon has revealed the extent of his typecasting by the national selectors, who told him he would not figure in Australia's World Cup plans even before the Border-Gavaskar Test series in which he was the leading wicket-taker on either side

27-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Smith dominates Border Medal night

Steven Smith dominated the Allan Border Medal night, taking Australian cricket's most prestigious award by an enormous margin

27-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Abbott named Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year

Sean Abbott, the New South Wales allrounder, was anointed the Bradman Young Cricketer of the year at the Allan Border Medal night in Sydney

27-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Adelaide conspicuous by Australia Day absence

Amid indignation in South Australia over the moving of the Australia Day fixture to Sydney, Cricket Australia's hopes of gaining a financial windfall in the biggest market in the country were washed away

26-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig at the SCG

Australia's transient ODI captaincy

The revolving-door nature of Australia's ODI captaincy had not impacted the team too much, according to George Bailey, due to a collaborative approach

25-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Johnson searches for pace

Mitchell Johnson sought to regain the pace he has been missing for much of this summer in a private bowling session at the SCG nets on Saturday evening, to help Australia's coaches gauge his readiness for an immediate return to the team in Monday's ODI ag

24-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Allister de Winter leaves Cricket Australia role

One of the few remaining vestiges of the Mickey Arthur era has departed Cricket Australia, with bowling coach Ali De Winter going his separate ways from the team

24-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

Blackmail saga had no impact - Morgan

England captain Eoin Morgan denied he was distracted by the blackmail attempt against him in the lead-up to his side's comfortable defeat in the triangular series match in Hobart.

23-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

England Lions wrong-footed by Australia

There will be no Lions cricket in England this year for the first time since 2006 after Cricket Australia revealed they had no plans for an 'A' tour of the UK during the Ashes

23-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig and George Dobell

Silk's late blitz hauls Sixers home

They came to farewell Brett Lee, they paused to applaud Michael Hussey and they went home enraptured by a scarcely believable escape from the Sydney Sixers

22-Jan-2015•The Report by Daniel Brettig at the SCG

ICC plans World Cup clampdown

Cricket authorities are wondering whether it is time for a tougher approach to on-field confrontations in the forthcoming World Cup after antics between Australia and India

20-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

A question of confidence for visitors

Having both been beaten with some comfort by Australia, England and India will seek to regroup at the Gabba

19-Jan-2015•The Preview by Daniel Brettig

ODI giants resume battle ahead of World Cup

There is much that is momentous about any 50-over meeting between Australia and India, especially so close to the start of another World Cup

17-Jan-2015•The Preview by Daniel Brettig

Australia re-open English scars

Australia hope they have re-opened the scars of last summer's English misery down under with a comfortable opening triangular series victory at the SCG, and the tourists' new captain Eoin Morgan certainly sounded disconsolate after his century served only

16-Jan-2015•Daniel Brettig

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