Sri Lanka excelled with the ball and in the field to cut down Australia's batting early at the SCG

Brad Haddin knows precisely where he stands with the Australian team and its selectors, even though a thorough explanation has not been outlined for public consumption

Ricky Ponting needed to have his concerns assuaged by the national selector John Inverarity before he accepted the stand-in captaincy for Friday's triangular series match against Sri Lanka in Sydney

David Warner has admitted he is still a novice in ODI cricket and understands why he was passed over for the stand-in captaincy of the Australian team for Friday's CB series match against Sri Lanka in Sydney

Shane Watson has bluntly stated his intention to win back his Test match opening spot, irrespective of the promising union formed by David Warner and Ed Cowan in the Australian vice-captain's absence from the XI

His scores may not quite bear it out but Usman Khawaja's game has stagnated, and he may miss the West Indies tour

Steve Waugh, the former Australia captain, has questioned the selection circumstances around Ricky Ponting's appointment as stand-in for Michael Clarke

Australia's selectors have turned to the former captain Ricky Ponting as the short-term leadership solution to Michael Clarke's hamstring problem

Peter Forrest is reaping the benefits of a new state for himself and a new broom for Australian cricket

Australia's captain Michael Clarke has confirmed a hamstring complaint will keep him out of Friday's triangular series match against Sri Lanka in Sydney

A supremely calm MS Dhoni guided India to victory, with two balls to spare, over a sluggish Australia in the ODI at Adelaide Oval

Australia's captain Michael Clarke believes his former state team-mate Peter Forrest can go on to become a top order Test batsman

An Australian side in the pinkest of form meet Sri Lankan opponents with plenty of improve upon following a first-up loss to India in a mediocre match that was also at the WACA ground

Fielding up close to the bat isn't just about pulling off blinding catches and taking blows to the body

Mitchell Starc's presently irresistible blend of swing, speed and direction is all in the wrist - the result of a fiendishly simple piece of advice from Wasim Akram

Ben Hilfenhaus, the leading wicket-taker in Australia's Test series victory over India, has been recalled to the national ODI squad to replace the injured Brett Lee

ESPNcricinfo looks at six of the more fascinating individual subplots ahead of the CB triangular series

ESPNcricinfo previews the first CB series ODI between Australia and India in Melbourne

The ICC has been asked to abolish its "subscription" model of funding and its revenue distribution method by the Woolf report