Chris Barrett is a Sports Writer with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Cricket Australia team performance manager Pat Howard is expected to be quizzed by CA directors on the shortcomings of the Australian Test team this summer at a board meeting in Melbourne on Thursday.
The all-rounder was left out for the first one-day international against New Zealand at the SCG following his team-enforced fine for comments about teammate Matthew Wade.
Shane Warne wants the job but Mike Hussey has emerged as the hot favourite to mentor Australia's Twenty20 team for the series against Sri Lanka in February that clashes with the Test squad's tour of India.
There is a day coming soon enough, Australia hopes, when they can field a grand slam of the generation's best fast bowlers.
Glenn Maxwell's pre-match comments have created tension in the Australian camp in Sydney ahead of Sunday's first one-day international against New Zealand.
Australia's players union chief has called for the views of players to be canvassed more heavily by Cricket Australia in its scheduling of the lead-up to next year's Ashes series, which will feature a day-night Test match between Australia and England for the first time.
Glenn Maxwell says it has been "painful" to be batting further down the order than wicketkeeper and captain Matthew Wade at state level, believing the decision may have hurt his chances of a Test recall this summer despite an imposing first-class record.
Cricket Australia is soon to announce a 2017-18 home Test schedule that is set to again begin at the Gabba after this year's ill-fated switch to Perth.
Cricket Australia medicos are confident the vice-captain does not need surgery and will not be forced to miss any cricket in the immediate future.
An agitated head coach appears to have not taken kindly to the suggestion by Cricket Australia's high-performance manager Pat Howard that he reinvent himself.
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