Australia v New Zealand cricket second Test: Pakistan considers being...
While it remains to be seen how the pink ball fares in this month's historic day-night Test against New Zealand in Adelaide, plans are already progressing for a repeat fixture next season. As we...
View ArticleJames Pattinson aims for Test cricket return
Victorian cricket coach David Saker wants paceman James Pattinson to show in the next month that he warrants a fairytale Boxing Day Test recall. As Pattinson admitted to frustration about his managed...
View ArticleCricket: Jason Behrendorff could give Mitchell Starc rest in Australia's...
Former Test paceman Rodney Hogg says Canberra product Jason Behrendorff could come into the Australian one-day international or Twenty20 team this summer to help manage the workload of fast bowling...
View ArticleJames Pattinson back, but doubts remain over pace ace's durability
James Pattinson's state coach has cast reservations over his readiness to return to the Test scene after the injury-prone quick was recalled to replace Mitchell Johnson. Victorian Bushrangers coach...
View ArticleAustralia v West Indies: David Saker pushes case for three Victorians in...
Bushrangers coach David Saker has cheekily suggested that Australian selectors might have to consider playing three Victorian fast bowlers in this year's Boxing Day Test against the West Indies in...
View ArticleVictoria tells coach David Saker to quit criticising Australian cricket team...
The maverick Victorian coach David Saker will be told to button his lip on matters concerning the Australian team and its selection, after angering some in the national set-up in the past month. The...
View ArticlePattinson's Ashes prospects strong despite hamstring injury
James Pattinson will remain a key contender to tour the West Indies and England in the middle of the year even if his hamstring injury sidelines him from the rest of the Sheffield Shield season. As...
View ArticleVictoria recalls James Pattinson and Cameron White to Shield final squad
Recalled: James Pattinson. Photo: Getty Images James Pattinson will make his final audition for the winter Test tours of the West Indies and England in the Sheffield Shield final after he and Cameron...
View ArticleAxed Cameron White set to return for Shield opener
Cameron White is set to have the chance to reinvigorate his career with Victoria when the Bushrangers step out for their opening Sheffield Shield clash at the MCG on Wednesday. White was dropped from...
View ArticleJames Pattinson's season in doubt after hamstring injury
James Pattinson may not get another chance this season to cement his West Indies and Ashes selection claims after suffering a minor hamstring injury. The left-hamstring soreness that Pattinson suffered...
View ArticleAustralian fast bowler James Pattinson hopes new bowling action will stop...
Australian paceman James Pattinson believes he has entered the biomechanical 'safe zone' when bowling and hopes that will help him stay injury-free in the long term. The 24-year-old's promising...
View ArticleJames Pattinson content to bide time in Shield before Test return
James Pattinson is content at being passed over for at least the opening two Tests of the summer, believing an unbroken playing streak at state level will make him better prepared for his international...
View ArticleDarren Lehmann attacks Victoria in Peter Siddle, James Pattinson selection row
As the national selectors debate their best attack, Australian coach Darren Lehmann has taken aim at Victoria's decision to overlook Peter Siddle through the one-day domestic series and their call for...
View ArticleMCG Sheffield Shield match a Test audition for Peter Siddle, James Pattinson,...
Peter Siddle and James Pattinson have one match to prove they have overcome injury and are ready to travel to New Zealand for next week's series-opening Test. With no tour match in New Zealand the...
View ArticleDavid Saker to take over as Australia's bowling coach
David Saker, having led the Victorian Bushrangers to Sheffield Shield glory as coach last season, will be Australia's new specialist bowling coach. The former Victorian fast bowler had also led the...
View ArticleAustralia v New Zealand: Mitch Johnson retirement hurries decision on pace...
Perth: Even if Australia's brains trust had decided it was time to move on without Mitch Johnson, as a consequence of him being blunted by New Zealand's batsmen, they ideally would not have had to...
View ArticleSheffield Shield: James Pattinson improves as Victoria claim early Tasmania...
Peter Siddle's advice to be patient with James Pattinson after his muted return from injury was vindicated by his fellow paceman's improved bowling on day two of the Sheffield Shield match at the MCG....
View ArticleBatting dynamo Glenn Maxwell encouraged to show greater patience
There is no denying Glenn Maxwell's talent but Victorian coach David Saker says the man with all the shots "needs the penny to drop pretty quickly" if he is to forge a consistent international career....
View ArticleSheffield Shield final: Fawad Ahmed's Test claims soar after eight-wicket haul
Big haul: Fawad Ahmed walks off holding the ball up high after taking 8-89. Photo: Getty Images An eight-wicket haul from Fawad Ahmed, the best ever in a Sheffield Shield final, has allowed Victoria to...
View ArticleJames Pattinson's Test hopes in doubt as he re-injures hamstring in shield final
James Pattinson's return to Australia's Test team is again under threat due to injury. The fast bowler was forced into an early exit from the bowling crease on day four of the Sheffield Shield final...
View ArticleAustralia v West Indies, Second Test: James Pattinson's no-balls put Josh...
James Pattinson's no-ball troubles cost him back-to-back five-wicket hauls and is jeopardising Josh Hazlewood's chances of playing in his home Test. Hazlewood has been adamant he can play all six Tests...
View ArticleAustralian cricket's most surprising Test selections
It's fair to say the selection of Nathan Coulter-Nile for Australia's squad for the First Test against the West Indies has raised some eyebrows in the cricket world. The 28-year-old paceman hasn't...
View ArticleNew Zealand v Australia: James Pattinson insists he is ready for Tests...
James Pattinson is adamant bowling only 39.3 overs in the past five weeks, the same as he managed in three days when he played his last full match, is enough for him to be ready to face New Zealand...
View ArticleSheffield Shield final: Victoria lose James Pattinson and grip on shield as...
HOBART: Victoria have endured a nightmare day four of the Sheffield Shield final, losing James Pattinson to an injury which clouds expectations of his winter return to the Test team and allowing...
View ArticleRecalling Duncan Spencer, the cricketer who lived fast and bowled even faster
Duncan Spencer played football as a kid, before taking up cricket and becoming a batsman. Then he found his sporting superpower: he could bowl ‘quite quick’...
View ArticleTo see or not to see – Australian cricket divided over pink ball Test
This week in Australian cricket: players make a fuss about the pink ball, the Matador Cup winds up and the case of the dodgy scorebook...
View ArticleBig Bash League preview: all the ins and outs for the 2016-17 tournament
Defending champs Sydney Thunder now consider themselves underdogs, but who else will contend for the Big Bash League crown in 2016-17?...
View ArticleCricket: Victorian quick James Pattinson confident despite being rested
James Pattinson is confident he will play all remaining Sheffield Shield games despite being rested on Cricket Australia's advice for this week's game against New South Wales. Pattinson said he was the...
View ArticleTest selectors urged to let James Pattinson regain his groove
Although he has started the new summer with successive man-of-the-match performances, the national selectors have been urged to overlook Victorian fast bowler James Pattinson until Christmas....
View ArticleInside Twenty20: on the front line of a cricket revolution
The shortest form of the game is transforming the culture of cricket, its effects on players, fans, competitions and revenues unprecedented. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Australia, where the...
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