Warner retires hurt after being hit in neck by bouncer
Test vice-captain David Warner has sent a scare through the Australian camp after being felled by a bouncer in an intra-squad match in Darwin on Tuesday.
Andrew Wu writes on cricket and AFL for The Sydney Morning Herald
Test vice-captain David Warner has sent a scare through the Australian camp after being felled by a bouncer in an intra-squad match in Darwin on Tuesday.
The industrial war that has paralysed Australian cricket is all but over with the game's warring parties set to strike a new pay deal that would lift the game out of crisis.
The traits that made Nicholson such a valued and respected member of the Melbourne's teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s are now proving a major thorn in Cricket Australia's side.
Australia's cricketers have been blindsided by an extraordinary proposal from Cricket Australia which could see players re-employed next week and save the Ashes and the upcoming tour of Bangladesh.
Fears relations between players and Cricket Australia have plunged to lowest point since World Series Cricket.
Australia's players have hit back at Cricket Australia chairman David Peever's angry comments as the game's warring parties start the long road to resolving the ugly pay dispute.
Cricket Australia director Mark Taylor has called on both sides in the bitter pay war to reach a compromise as a former Test great declared the ongoing dispute as a "plague on both their houses".
Australian captain Steve Smith has warned Cricket Australia the health of the country's domestic cricket is at risk if the revenue share model is abandoned.
Fears are mounting of a disastrous Ashes boycott after players took the extraordinary step of cancelling a tour as Australian cricket's bitter pay dispute intensified on Thursday.
The bitter pay dispute in Australian cricket has escalated further with the Australia A tour of South Africa officially cancelled on Thursday morning.
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