Matt Renshaw's excellent adventure

Mark Nicholas: You only needed to watch Australia's youngest debutant in Adelaide to know that playing cricket brings joy

Spit happens

Diary: Firdose Moonda loses her beauty sleep covering the ball-tampering saga but squeezes in a Melbourne walk and a Hobart museum

Allow players to use one method to aid swing

Ian Chappell: It will be easier to police tampering if bowlers are given an incentive to obey the law

How the pink ball is made

Melinda Farrell visits the Kookaburra factory in Melbourne to see how the star of the day-night Test is born

Is Hashim Amla past his best?

Numbers Game: A batting average of 34.81 in his last 15 Tests means his career average is in danger of dipping below 50 for the first time since the Adelaide Test of 2012

Du Plessis returns to where it all started

Batting aside, Faf du Plessis has stood out on all other fronts as a leader. Plus, Adelaide happens to be his hunting ground, where he will be looking to make history

This is Steve Smith's team

Brad Haddin: The three newcomers and Matthew Wade will inject freshness and fight into the Australian side looking to save face in Adelaide

The chaotic contrasts of two captains

The dead rubber in Adelaide takes on great significance as South Africa and Faf du Plessis contest a ball-tampering charge and Steven Smith deals with systemic failure

South Africa face sweet victory's bitter aftertaste

Firdose Moonda:The team might feel like it is being unfairly targeted, but merely arguing that it is the victim of a media war is not going to work

How the failure of Warner-Burns and Smith-Voges has hurt Australia

Numbers Game: The two prolific partnerships have had steep falls this year

South Africa embrace culture of communication

Firdose Moonda: They rediscovered their way of doing things by embracing openness and relationship-building

Australia can find a way out of the darkness

Mark Nicholas: The key is for them to see an opportunity in the chaos that engulfs them

Who could get the sack in Australia?

Daniel Brettig looks at the men under most pressure after Australia's series defeat to South Africa in Hobart

Across the pond the long way

Firdose Moonda journeys across the Indian Ocean to follow her team, who start the series down under with a bang

Australia's system is broken

Ian Chappell: Injured fast bowlers, a dearth of good young batsmen, and a captain impeded by the management - all this while the team faces three big series

Pitfalls of Australia's natural batting game

Daniel Brettig: The increasingly homogenised method of Australian batting across all formats is a growing concern

Time for Smith and Warner to step up

Brad Haddin: The true test of where the Australians are at as a cricket team will be how they respond at Bellerive Oval this week

Do you watch sport for drama or excellence?

The Perth and Mirpur Tests brought the old question to the fore once more for Rob Steen

The performances that sealed the Perth win

A look at the men who made the difference for South Africa in the first Test

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Keshav Maharaj lives his father's dream

This son of an apartheid-era wicketkeeper is the sort of spinner South Africa have been looking for for a long time

Rilee Rossouw comes in from the cold

A thoughtless remark nearly derailed his career before it began. Now he has an Australian summer to look forward to