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England could soon be looking for a new bowling coach if David Saker's ambitions to further his coaching ambitions are answered by one of a rush of vacancies in his native Australia

James Faulkner's participation in the World Cup has come under a cloud after he walked off midway in his third over with what seemed like a side strain

Australia served one final ominous warning before the World Cup with a demolition of England's challenge in the final of the triangular series

A confident and settled Australia have set themselves a target of 12 straight wins starting from the Hobart ODI against England, and are waiting to unleash Mitchell Johnson on the same opponents in the triangular series final

ESPNcricinfo's preview of the Carlton Mid Tri-Series final between Australia and England at the WACA

MS Dhoni has dropped strong hints that in order to strengthen their batting India might play with just the four frontline bowlers in the World Cup, with Stuart Binny having to fill in as the third seam bowler

After a long, winless tour of Australia, India have big fitness issues facing them

Mitchell Johnson is ready for his first match in more than a month after a much-needed rest period over January

England made heavy weather of a small target on a WACA pitch of yore, making their way to the final against Australia on Sunday and keeping India winless on their tour of Australia

Australia are spoilt for choice in the fast-bowling department when it comes to the World Cup, and Josh Hazlewood's return just before the tournament has added to the happy headache

ESPNcricinfo's preview of the Carlton Mid Tri-Series match between England and India at the WACA

Stuart Broad is coming off a long break from one-day internationals in Australia and is so far wicketless in three matches but is not concerned and believes England have a strong attack forming

Rohit Sharma, who has been out with soreness in his hamstring, underwent a fitness test in the Perth heat, which means India are desperate to get him back on the park as soon as possible without risking his World Cup prospects

England have beaten India once in this triangular series on a pitch that had some extra bounce. They saw the BBL semi-final played at the WACA and the bounce they saw here has excited them

India got from the game the two points they needed to keep their chances of making the final alive after persistent rain ensured only 16 overs were bowled

The revolving-door nature of Australia's ODI captaincy had not impacted the team too much, according to George Bailey, due to a collaborative approach

If India don't win or tie or get a no-result against Australia, they will leave themselves with an unenviable task of needing to beat England with a bonus point and also making up a pretty significant difference between their and England's net run-rate

Mitchell Johnson sought to regain the pace he has been missing for much of this summer in a private bowling session at the SCG nets on Saturday evening, to help Australia's coaches gauge his readiness for an immediate return to the team in Monday's ODI ag

England captain Eoin Morgan denied he was distracted by the blackmail attempt against him in the lead-up to his side's comfortable defeat in the triangular series match in Hobart.

MS Dhoni has his own issues to sort out here in Australia. The big ones right now are the fitness of Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja