Daniel Brettig

Australia's Ashes turning point

How a team meeting in Taunton, and an unsuccessful tour of England, set Australia on the path to their 5-0 sweep at home

07-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig

Attack is the world's best - Siddle

Peter Siddle declared Australia's bowling attack the world's best no fewer than three times

07-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig

Mitchell Johnson's reign of terror

ESPNcricinfo evaluates the performances of Australia's players after their 5-0 Ashes whitewash

06-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig

Lehmann made playing for Australia fun again - Watson

Shane Watson, a vocal critic of Mickey Arthur's 'high-performance' dressing-room culture, feels vindicated by Australia's success under Darren Lehmann's relaxed stewardship

06-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig

Australia's attack proves fitter, faster and deeper

Australia's triumph was achieved on the back of an attack who proved themselves the fittest, fastest and perhaps even the best of any Ashes bowling ensemble

05-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig in Sydney

Clarke rates Johnson among greats

Mitchell Johnson has joined the ranks of Australia's greatest bowlers by terrifying England's batsmen in a way not seen for many a year, Michael Clarke has said

05-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig in Sydney

Australia's excellence shared and sustained

The sustained excellence of Australia's bowling attack - never bettered according to a past great, Glenn McGrath, has brought deep satisfaction to their mentor Craig McDermott

04-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig

Fearless Haddin is Ashes star turn

Australia's wicketkeeper has repeatedly been the man of the hour and arguably the man of the series

03-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig at the SCG

SCG steadfast against drop-in pitches

CG curator Tom Parker is adamant that concessions to the demands of multi-sport stadiums will not go so far as to force Sydney to resort to the drop-in pitches now used in Melbourne and Adelaide

02-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig in Sydney

Clarke has more mountains to scale

Michael Clarke's reputation may have been enhanced in the eyes of the Australian public, but he himself admits that success away from home is the ultimate goal

02-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig

'Unchangeables' chase Ashes sweep

Australia's cricketers want nothing more than to complete a 5-0 Ashes sweep of England with the same XI who walked out onto the Gabba for the first day of a series that has surpassed all their expectations

01-Jan-2014•Daniel Brettig

Swann retirement helped Rogers

Chris Rogers was happy to admit that he was the beneficiary of Graeme Swann's sudden exit from Test cricket, after his match-defining innings at the MCG

31-Dec-2013•Daniel Brettig

McDermott preaches bowlers' durability

Craig McDermott expect Ryan Harris to be fit for the final Ashes Test and is equally adamant a rich next generation of pace bowlers must be raised with the expectation to play long Test series

30-Dec-2013•Daniel Brettig

Workaday Rogers sets battling example

Australia's batting coach Michael Di Venuto wants his charges to adopt the persistent attitude shown by Chris Rogers in the Ashes to find the consistency of the great batsmen

30-Dec-2013•Daniel Brettig

Clarke wards off Edgbaston ghosts

Ricky Ponting never bowl first in a Test again after Edgbaston 2005 and Michael Clarke knew it was a gamble when he did it Melbourne, but was able to relax after Australia's big victory

29-Dec-2013•Daniel Brettig at the MCG

Rogers and Watson bury hapless England

This time last year, the thought of Australia's cricketers reaching Sydney with a 4-0 Ashes margin in their pockets seemed about as likely as that of the long discarded Chris Rogers making a century in the Boxing Day Test

29-Dec-2013•The Report by Daniel Brettig at the MCG

Australia gifted a reprieve by broken England

Nathan Lyon took 5 for 50, including his 100th Test wicket, as he and Mitchell Johnson inspired another England collapse to set up a chase of 231 for a 4-0 series lead

28-Dec-2013•The Report by Daniel Brettig

England bloody Australia at last

Australia's batsmen demonstrated familiar frailty as they batted second for the first time in the series and lurched to 9 for 164, still 91 behind

27-Dec-2013•The Report by Daniel Brettig

Pietersen fights but Australia on top

A world record crowd of 91,092 at the MCG sat with admirable patience as a tentative England nudged and scraped against Australia's unrelenting bowlers on Boxing Day

25-Dec-2013•The Report by Daniel Brettig at the MCG

Boxing Day passions still running high

ESPNcricinfo's preview of the fourth Ashes Test between Australia and England at the MCG

25-Dec-2013•Daniel Brettig

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