Tasmanian cricket's chairman Tony Harrison has scoffed at the suggestion that Hobart might be in any danger of losing its share of Australia's home Test matches

A handled-the-ball dismissal should count towards a bowler's wicket tally

Australia face the grim prospect of trying to win a Test with only three specialist bowlers for the second time in three matches after Ben Hilfenhaus shuffled off Bellerive Oval with a suspected left side strain

Michael Hussey's latest century was another example of the hardworking, fluent and busy innings that have typified his style of play over his career

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the second day of the Hobart Test

Australia ended the first day in Hobart on 299 for 4, and much of that progress was because of the recalled Phillip Hughes

Believe it or not, Ricky Ponting appears already to have mellowed. Little more than a week into his retirement from international duty, Ponting admitted he quite enjoyed getting to a Test match right on the appointed 10.30am start time rather than two hou

Australia's final home series before the twin peaks of India and England are to be scaled in 2013 has the Test team leaning towards the developmental

David Warner can take a lesson from Michael Slater as he aims to find the balance between aggression and care at the top of the order

On the eve of another home Test series played in a first-class cricket vacuum, Australia's team performance manager Pat Howard has admitted it will take years for international sides to find a way of coping adequately with the mounting tension between Twe

Peter Siddle has chewed up and spat out the suggestion that the absence of meat from his diet was the reason he was unable to recover from his Adelaide exertions

Australia's wicketkeeper Matthew Wade is acutely aware of his tenuous place at the top of what is by far the national team's most competitive market

Shuffled almost as often as a deck of cards in a poker den, Shane Watson's itinerant Test match batting career may finally have found a permanent home at No. 4

In defending team-mates Nathan Lyon and Ben Hilfenhaus from perceived criticism, Mitchell Starc showed his heart is in the right place

Kumar Sangakkara is hopeful of a lively surface when the tourists meet Australia in the first Test at Bellerive Oval on Friday

Even as he showed near monastic zeal to remodel the game that slid him into horrendous batting trouble against New Zealand last summer, Phillip Hughes did not expect to be back in the Australian Test team in the space of a year

Australia's Test team convened without Ricky Ponting in Hobart on Monday evening

Ryan Harris' recovery from shoulder surgery has consumed his BBL campaign, as the highly regarded fast bowler strives to be considered for Australia's 2013 Test tours

Reigning Champions League and Big Bash League title holders the Sydney Sixers' polish could not be questioned as they vanquished their motley local rivals Sydney Thunder by seven wickets at the SCG