Chris Barrett is a Sports Writer with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Inducted as a Bradman honoree at the SCG on Wednesday night Graeme Smith believes there are concerning signs about this Australian team that are unrecognisable from what he has seen in the past.
Shane Warne has asked Cricket Australia about coaching possibilities with the Australian team and expressed interest in linking with the national side for February's Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka.
Umpires rather than television operators should be making crucial lbw calls like the ones that dismissed Steve Smith and Mitch Marsh in Perth, argues Animation Research CEO Ian Taylor.
The Australian team paid a heavy price for the shifting of the first Test from the Gabba to the WACA this season.
Can the Aussies hold on? Or will South Africa put a quick end to home resistance and claim the first Test in Perth?
Darren Lehmann would have left Brad Haddin and Shane Watson out of the Australian squad to England last year if he had his time again, revealing he allowed himself to be "blinded a little through sentiment" by sticking with the pair for the Ashes.
In the latest bizarre selection decision Jackson Bird was tipped of the Australian side for next week's first Test against South Africa because of his batting.
South Australia's Joe Mennie is a shock inclusion in the first Test squad for Australia against South Africa next week after being preferred to Jackson Bird.
Hot on the heels of Rod Marsh's pending exit as full-time national selector there could be an even more significant change coming to the Australian team hierarchy.
Steve Smith personally intervened to ensure most of the Australian team began their season with a day-night match in Brisbane this week to ready themselves for the second pink ball Test of the summer against Pakistan at the Gabba in December.
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