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Cricket Australia's James Sutherland had declared the testing phase with the pink ball is already over, in reply to player criticisms of it

Australia's new-look batting group will be unveiled on Friday when the squad for the first Test against New Zealand is named

New Zealand failed to take a single wicket on day one against the Cricket Australia XI as Aaron Finch and Ryan Carters demoralised the bowlers by batting throughout the day

New Zealand's cricketers believe it is they rather than the hosts Australia who have the superior preparation leading into next month's Test series

Cameron White and Aaron Finch will boost the Cricket Australia XI against New Zealand in the three-day tour match starting on Thursday in Sydney

Extra grass may be left on the Adelaide Oval pitch in an attempt to help preserve the condition of the pink ball in this week's Sheffield Shield "rehearsal" between South Australia and New South Wales

Concerns raised during the Prime Minister's XI match about the experimental pink ball have been dismissed by Cricket Australia, as a host of cricket and broadcasting figures prepare to descend on Adelaide for a day/night Sheffield Shield fixture that will

Fast bowler Gurinder Sandhu and wicketkeeper-batsman Ryan Carters will be part of the Cricket Australia XI to take on New Zealand in a tour match in Sydney starting this Thursday

Brendon McCullum showed no lack of touch in his first match of New Zealand's tour of Australia, scoring a brisk 58 on the second and final day of their game against the Cricket Australia XI in Canberra

Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja did their chances of a Test call-up no harm with unbeaten centuries on the first day of a non-first-class two-day fixture against the touring New Zealanders in Canberra

Australia batsman Adam Voges has expressed severe doubt about the ability of the pink ball to hold up to 80 overs of battering in the upcoming day-night Adelaide Test

The well-drilled New Zealanders exposed familiar flaws in Australia's young batsmen on their way to a dominant opening performance, trouncing the Prime Minister's XI by 102 runs at Manuka Oval, despite the absence of their resting captain Brendon McCullum

In taking on Australia at home over the next month, New Zealand's cricketers wish to overturn one element of history while also paying homage to another

New Zealand's captain Brendon McCullum is unsure how much the ongoing perjury trial of Chris Cairns will distract him as he sets about leading his country in what shapes as their best chance to unseat Australia at home in 30 years

Ricky Ponting has spoken out strongly against the looming day-night Test match to be played in Adelaide between Australia and New Zealand

Fast bowler Tim Southee will lead New Zealand against the Prime Minister's XI in Canberra on Friday with Brendon McCullum set to rest from the game

Shaun Marsh and Mitchell Marsh will join a group of fellow Test contenders to play for a Cricket Australia XI against New Zealand in a two-day tour match this weekend

Youth will mingle with experience as Test hopefuls Cameron Bancroft, Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja join Adam Voges and Peter Siddle in a strong Prime Minister's XI to face the New Zealanders in Canberra on Friday

Peter Siddle's lack of cricket has compelled the selectors to give the New Zealand tourists an unexpected sighter of one of their likely Test opponents in two warm-up matches

David Warner's thumb is still broken, leaving Australia's vice-captain to fight an increasingly fraught battle to be fit in time for the first Test of the sumer against New Zealand in Brisbane