Mitchell Starc splintered West Indies batting with a spell of 4 for 1 as the touring captain Darren Sammy paid a heavy price for choosing to bat first

Michael Di Venuto has a wealth of relevant experience to pass on to Australia's batsmen about England after he was named the national team's fulltime batting coach

Michael Clarke performed a feat of rare diplomacy on the eve of his side's ODI series against the West Indies as he managed to balance his friendship with Shane Warne, and his fealty to Cricket Australia's high performance chief Pat Howard

The preview of the first ODI between Australia and West Indies in Perth

Australia's selectors are desperately hoping their squad will evolve into a team far greater than the current sum of its 17 parts

Shane Watson's return to state combat was unhappy in the extreme as a low score set New South Wales on the path to a 111-run hiding

In the present absence of quality, Australia's selectors are expected to opt for quantity when they name the squad for the Test tour of India on Thursday

Shane Warne has proposed an alternate reality for Australian cricket. It is one in which Mark Taylor is the generalissimo, Stephen Fleming the coach, and Ian Chappell the Godfatherly consultant for all players to lean on

David Warner's place on Australia's Test tour of India is open to serious fitness questions after it was confirmed he suffered a fractured thumb in training

James Faulkner's composure with the ball followed up an attractive batting collective to deliver victory for the Prime Minister's XI by 23 runs over the West Indians

Electric was the right word to describe Sri Lanka's fielding in their opening Twenty20 victory, and the articulate Angelo Mathews found it

Sri Lanka's collective was enough to overcome an Australian team that left far too much up to David Warner on their national day

Shane Watson has declared himself ready to tour India as a non-bowling batsman after a single innings of 30 in Sydney grade cricket, but Moises Henriques' immediate international prospects have clouded over due to a badly infected right index finger

Gideon Haigh trains his masterly eye on one of the most compelling cricketers of all time

Xavier Doherty's place as Australia's lead limited-overs spin bowler may soon be augmented by a place on the looming Test tour to India

Aaron Finch has resolved to shed the tentative ways of his first two ODI appearances for Australia

Erin Burns' aggressive, hard-hitting attitude is ideally suited to the hubbub of Twenty20

The number of Australian players in line to play in the IPL suggests only few have elected longer-term international goals over the upfront riches

Michael Hussey will work at a quartet of limited overs matches as a television commentator

Cricket Australia met with Channel Nine ahead of the ODI team's announcement to explain why Michael Clarke and David Warner were to be rested and Michael Hussey dropped