Daniel Brettig

A lot nicer to bowl on than Sri Lanka - Starc

Mitchell Starc was delighted with the WACA pitch, where all of Australia's players felt at home, and said that one couldn't have asked for more on the opening day of the summer

03-Nov-2016•Daniel Brettig in Perth

Australia relish blood-and-thunder day

A lively WACA surface made for an intriguing contest, with Australia setting the tone for the summer with an overpowering first-up performance

03-Nov-2016•Daniel Brettig in Perth

'I haven't been as open as I could have been'

Michael Clarke opens up about keeping it all in, living in the public eye, and making tough calls that lost him friends

03-Nov-2016•Interview by Daniel Brettig

Shaun Marsh's special snare at short leg

Australia had lost their first choice for short leg with the dropping of Joe Burns, meaning Marsh went in there for the spinners while Usman Khawaja went "under the lid" for the pacers

03-Nov-2016•Daniel Brettig in Perth

South Africa have history, Australia have Starc

This series will be Steven Smith's first major captaincy challenge at home, while Faf du Plessis leads a group that has no experience of losing a series in Australia.

02-Nov-2016•Daniel Brettig in Perth

WACA curator's uphill battle for pace, bounce

A colder spring and an earlier start to the Perth Test season has provided challenges to Matt Page and his crew

02-Nov-2016•Daniel Brettig in Perth

Warner ducks under Steyn barbs

The Australia vice-captain brushed off Dale Steyn's comments of "cutting off the head of the snake" as "fast-bowler talk"

01-Nov-2016•Daniel Brettig

Who is Joe Mennie?

A few facts about and thoughts from fast bowler Joe Mennie, who is in with a chance of a debut in the Perth Test at the WACA against South Africa beginning on Thursday

01-Nov-2016•Daniel Brettig

Australia at home with the homogenous

The home-ground advantage seems only to be increasing in most parts of the Test world. For a variety of reasons - from drop-in pitches to the desire for five-day Tests - Australia is becoming the exception.

31-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig in Perth

Starc admits to being underdone for Perth Test

Mitchell Starc has admitted that he is probably a week-and-a-half behind where he would like to be in terms of fitness and preparations for the upcoming Perth Test against South Africa but is confident of performing any role needed by the team

31-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Hazlewood pushes for Siddle inclusion for WACA Test

Josh Hazlewood believes Peter Siddle's experience and record, individually and as a support bowler in the Test team, will be invaluable to Australia in the home Tests against South Africa which start from November 3

30-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Nevill open to batting promotion

Australia will look closely at the batting positions of Mitchell Marsh and Peter Nevill in a bid to plug the weakness in their lower order against South Africa's pace attack

30-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Bird's wings clipped for batting failures

Australia have named a 12-man squad for the first Test against South Africa at the WACA

28-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Projected $68m loss for CA makes TV deals crucial

Cricket Australia gained a significant surplus in the previous two financial years, but the projections for the current year aren't too positive, with the board standing to suffer big losses for the home series against South Africa and Pakistan

27-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

New structures to reduce international volume

Cricket Australia's CEO James Sutherland has outlined plans for league structures in ODIs and T20 internationals, which would reduce the amount of cricket played by major nations

27-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Frugal Lyon delivers Matador Cup title to NSW

With the Australia team for the Perth Test against South Africa set to be announced within a week, Nathan Lyon reasserted his place as the side's most accomplished spinner with a miserly 4 for 10 against Queensland

23-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Test or T20? The choice that changes cricket

Australia's clash of Twenty20 and Test fixtures, with players forced to choose between them, will come to be seen as a tipping point for the international game

22-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Baseball-style conference structure proposed for Tests

After concerns about the non-equity of two-tier cricket at the last meeting, the ICC is considering a conference system

20-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Australia need new Test team sponsor

Test matches in Australia will be in need of a new naming rights sponsor from mid-2017 after it was revealed that Commonwealth Bank's new $15 million deal to support diversity in the game over the next three years is in fact a reduction of the bank's inve

18-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Candid Clarke's revelations and reckonings

Talking points from Michael Clarke's new autobiography

18-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

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