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Ashes 2013

George Bailey equals world record with 28 runs off James Anderson over

ENGLAND paceman James Anderson has equalled the record for the most expensive over in Test history after being taken to task by Australia's George Bailey.

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SPORT OPINION

Gideon Haigh

'The Australian smiting this summer has had qualities both strategic and symbolic'

SIXES have become so profuse in the modern game that it is tempting to regard them as a kind of everyday natural phenomenon.

Gideon Haigh

'Warner’s fireplug figure has become about as box office as the five-day game gets'

THE Australian opener has given the Poms a lesson in batting.

Patrick Smith

'Hird will prove the biggest moral loser even if he has been allowed to pocket a million for mucking up.'

THIS is humiliating for Andrew Demetriou and utterly embarrassing for the AFL commission.

Gideon Haigh

'Smith is so relaxed he might almost be humming a tune, and he has been stumped only once in 29 Test innings.'

SO deep are we in the Ashes present, that the Ashes future is hard to contemplate.

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IN SPORT

Five wickets away from Ashes miracle

Alastair Cook

ENGLAND'S Ashes misery continues. Its best bowler was humiliated and its captain castled for a first-ball duck yesterday.

Watson in textbook display

Shane Watson

SHANE Watson demonstrated yet again yesterday why Australians shake their heads -- in equal measures of delight and despair -- at the mere mention of his name.

Imploding tourists in deep black hole

Australia celebrates

EVEN Australia's cricketing bosses have been astonished by England's dark and ugly implosion.

Glory owner moves on club in crisis

Alastair Edwards

PERTH Glory owner Tony Sage has insisted coach Alistair Edwards, captain Jacob Burns and a number of staff and players be sanctioned.

Discarded dozen played key role

Hughes in the runs

THEY are the men that yielded for the greater good; an entire cricket team of players who have come and gone since the start of the Indian misadventure in February.

Features

On the edge in Oruzgan

On the edge in Oruzgan

LOCALS are nervous about what may lie in wait following the Australian pullout.

Deals, dirt and dollars

Steve Purvinas

THE slush fund probe is attracting unlikely backers.

Why did we listen in on SBY's wife?

SBY and Kristiani Herawati

HER political role made Indonesia's first lady a legitimate target for our spies.

Doing it tough

Doing it tough

THERE'S freezing water, barbed wire, electric shocks, screaming - and mud. What's with this latest corporate obsession?

The thin brown line

The thin brown line

IN the Blue Mountains, Armageddon is approaching. There's a radical plan, but can a crack team of remote-area firefighters pull it off?

Vow to bring down NBN bill

Vow to bring down NBN bill

NBN Co executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski has vowed to rein in the $41bn cost of the Coalition's version of the National Broadband Network.

Wesfarmers taps $1.85bn payday

Wesfarmers

WESFARMERS has struck a $1.85 billion deal -- the biggest in its history -- to sell its insurance underwriting business to IAG.

Bach has Christmas wrapped

Bach has Christmas wrapped

JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Choir of London. Llewellyn Hall, Canberra, December 15.

Five wickets away from Ashes miracle

Alastair Cook

ENGLAND'S Ashes misery continues. Its best bowler was humiliated and its captain castled for a first-ball duck yesterday.

Bentley boys are back

Bentley boys are back

JUST when you thought all the openings and closing for the year were done ... the Bentley Boys strike again.

Vow to bring down NBN bill

Vow to bring down NBN bill

NBN Co executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski has vowed to rein in the $41bn cost of the Coalition's version of the National Broadband Network.

Vow to bring down NBN bill

Vow to bring down NBN bill

NBN Co executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski has vowed to rein in the $41bn cost of the Coalition's version of the National Broadband Network.

Rest insured

Rest insured

DON'T let the hidden pitfalls of holiday cover leave you high and dry.