Sutherland not blameless for Australian team's preparation
The placing of one-day series against New Zealand at either end of the summer, as part of the deal for last year's first day-night Test, threw a spanner into Australia's ...
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Australia vs South Africa: Second Test, day three
After play was abandoned on day two due to rain, we'll have all the action live from Blundstone Arena as the Australian team try to rescue the series.
Scorchers fined for BBL salary cap breach
Perth Scorchers have been fined after they reported a breach of last season's Big Bash League salary cap.
While Australia destroy themselves, England destroy the game
The choice between watching grass growing in Hobart and Alastair Cook batting in India would normally be a no-brainer. But, given its relevance to the future of cricket, this ...
Steyn out for six months after shoulder surgery
South African fast bowler ruled out of Australia summer series after breaking a bone in his shoulder in the first test.
Chappell laments Australian cricket's 'broken system'
It's the black hole in Australian cricket that goes a long way to explaining the predicament the national team now finds itself in.
Lehmann must reinvent himself, says Howard
The high performance chief has also indicated that selectors Mark Waugh and Trevor Hohns could follow the panel's chairman Rod Marsh out the door.
Spectator banned for racist graffiti about South African cricketer
A man has been banned from going to the cricket in Australia for three years after he allegedly wrote racist graffiti aimed at a South African player at Blundstone Arena ...
Lara in Sydney, with Sydney
It must be that time of the year because Brian Lara, just about an honorary resident in these parts in the summer, is back in town this week.
As in olden days, it's young talent time
Since Australian cricket doesn't know whether it is Arthur or Martha, then at least let the choice between young Artie and little Mattie.
Sutherland defends preparation of Australian team
There is intense pressure building not just on the batsmen responsible for the failures of Perth and Hobart but on those pulling the strings at CA, all the way up to long-time ...
Ashes omens bright for England
It is 12 months until the next Ashes series and England are in far better shape than Australia, who have not moved on one iota from when they were bowled out at Trent Bridge ...
Australia vs South Africa: Second Test, day two
Follow all the action live from Blundstone Arena as the Australian team try to rescue the series after a calamitous first innings.
Lehmann admits batting in crisis after collapse for 85
In the inglorious tradition of Cape Town and Trent Bridge Australia folded ineptly with the bat on the first day of the second Test in Hobart.
Where to now for Australia's batsmen?
Australia's latest embarrassing collapse has given selectors more reason to sharpen the blade but there is no standout waiting in the wings to save them.
Canberra has to wait for a Test match but interstate crowds make you wonder why
If Australia slumps to 6/31 on day one of a Test match and no one is there to see it, did it really happen?
Lehmann not blaming Warner for capitulation
Australia coach Darren Lehmann refused to single out David Warner for the "terrible" shot which sparked the collapse that has the hosts in dire straits in the second Test.
Team on back foot as selectors' delivery goes awry
Mitchell Marsh was promised two Tests by Rod Marsh's selection panel and the fact he is not playing in Hobart will not be doing much for the relationship between players and ...
Australia vs South Africa Cricket Live: Second Test, day 1 from Hobart, Tasmania
Follow all the action live from the second Test, day 1 from Hobart, Tasmania.
85 all out: South Africa make Australia grate again
Like a certain superpower, it is time to recognise what is really happening in Australian cricket, not what we might have misled ourselves to think was happening. You might ...
South Africa expose the full scale of ineptitude
Cape Town, Birmingham, Nottingham, Galle, and now Hobart. Like falling cities in a losing war, the scenes of Australia's cricket disasters have come to our doorstep.
Does Test cricket have to die in order to be reborn?
One of the many endearing qualities of Test match cricket is the way it graciously hosts a conversation about its own mortality, and has done for as long as anyone cares to ...
A crisis of culture? Don't make me laugh
You have to chuckle when you read criticism about the Australian cricket team when it comes from members of the opposition, past or present.
Australia bowled out for 85 in second Test
Five years to the day since Australia were infamously bowled out for 47 in Cape Town Steve Smith's side has suffered another jaw-dropping collapse.
Marsh dropped as Ferguson and Mennie make Australian Test debuts
Australia have abandoned their all-rounder policy with wet weather forecast for the second Test against South Africa in Hobart, with Mitch Marsh dropped and South Australia's ...
Why grassroots cricket is both healthy and sick
The best players are well cared for, but in Australia, once maturing cricketers understand that they are not going to play for their country, they find it harder and harder to ...
Culture war: Smith hits back
Steve Smith accepts that criticism of his team is warranted after four successive Test defeats but rejects the assertion that Australian cricket is in turmoil.
Voges passed fit for second Test, as selectors eye radar
Adam Voges has been passed fit to play, but selectors are yet to decide on Mitchell Marsh's fate for the second Test in Hobart.
Is Smith too vanilla to captain Australia?
The question is being posed with a little more force in the wake of the team losing the last four Test matches in a row.
Cricket's art that dare not speak its name
Let's see if we can get this straight: whatever the South Africans were not doing in Perth, they were doing it really well. The Australians thought so.