THE forgotten man of Australia's Test fast bowling stocks, Brett Lee, is aiming to re-establish himself as the spearhead of our attack this summer.
A rapid-fire half-century from Trinidad & Tobago all-rounder Kieron Pollard saw New South Wales sink to a four-wicket loss at the Twenty20 Champions League.
QUEENSLAND gained first innings points to open the Sheffield Shield season with a draw against Western Australia at the WACA.
CRICKET Australia has officially appointed Michael Clarke captain of the national Twenty20 team in place of Ricky Ponting.
A CENTURY from opener Ryan Broad and a 124-run six-wicket stand has taken Queensland to within 49 runs of first innings points against Western Australia.
QUEENSLAND reached 1-87 in their first innings at stumps on day two of their Sheffield Shield clash against Western Australia at the WACA.
VICTORIA has advanced to the last eight of the lucrative Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament in India despite losing their final group game.
ENGLAND star Andrew Flintoff says his cricket injuries were so painful, he often needed his wife to put on his socks and shoes for him.
NEW Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram has announced his retirement from Test cricket because of continuing battles with injury.
QUEENSLAND have ruled out all-rounder James Hopes for the Sheffield Shield clash with Western Australia at the WACA Ground which starts tomorrow.
VICTORIAN finger spinner Jon Holland has been included in the Australian cricket squad to play India in a series of seven one-day internationals.
AN English cricket fan is preparing to ride a bicycle from London to Brisbane so he can watch the next Ashes series.
FALLEN hero Andrew Symonds has told Queensland he won't play for them in the Sheffield Shield this season as he doesn't want to take a younger player's spot.
AUSTRALIA expects to draw something from the rivalry factor in tonight's Champions Trophy cricket final against New Zealand in South Africa.
NEW Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has emerged as the Queensland Bulls's heavyweight target for this season's summer of crash and bash cricket.
AUSTRALIA'S Mitchell Johnson has capped an outstanding 12 months by winning the cricketer of the year award at an ICC presentation.
AUSTRALIA has secured a semi-final berth in the Champions Trophy after a one-day match against Pakistan that went down to the final ball.
AUSTRALIA will have to beat Pakistan to be assured of reaching the Champions Trophy semi-finals after rain washed out the clash with India.
CAPTAIN Ricky Ponting says Australia must improve on its first-up win over the West Indies if it is to push deeper into the Champions Trophy tournament.
INDIA'S cricketers got some unusual sex advice from their coach – bowl a maiden over before trying to bow maiden overs.
GRAEME Swann's five-wicket haul has denied Australia a whitewash of their series against England in the final one-day international at the Riverside.
RICKY Ponting and Shane Warne expect more cricketers to follow high profile all-rounders Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Symonds in going freelance.
BRETT Lee snared a five-wicket haul as England's batting woes continued, leaving Australia to chase 221 runs for a fourth straight victory.
ENGLAND won the toss and elected to bat in the third one-day cricket international against Australia at Southampton's Rose Bowl.
CALLUM Ferguson anchored Australia's innings for a second match in a row as the tourists set England a target of 250 in their one-day clash at Lord's.
WICKETKEEPER Brad Haddin has been ruled out of Australia's Champions Trophy defence in South Africa this month because of a broken finger.
CAMERON White has shone for Australia on a dreary day at Old Trafford, where the Twenty20 match against England ended in a wash-out.
AUSTRALIA has lost two Ashes series in a row in England and great pressure will descend on the men who return there in 2013. But who will they be?
AFGHANISTAN has scored its maiden first-class cricket win, four months after securing one-day international status.
FORMER Test cricketer Glenn McGrath has revealed how the generosity of Australians helped lift him after the loss of his wife Jane to breast cancer last year.
NEW Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has become only the eighth player to achieve the double of 3000 runs and 300 wickets.
RICKY Ponting has told Brett Lee that he must perform well in the coming one-day series if the former Australian spearhead is to regain his Test place.
AUSTRALIA'S returning cricketers have launched a spirited defence of captain Ricky Ponting after arriving home from the failed Ashes campaign.
AUSTRALIA'S selectors were last night forced to admit they got it wrong after Shane Warne led a chorus of protest over their Ashes bloopers.
RICKY Ponting is hoping he won't face too many tough questions from Cricket Australia over his second Ashes loss in England.
Ben Dorries in London: AUSTRALIA has lost its No.1 Test ranking and plunged to fourth place on the world cricket list.
MICHAEL Clarke was one Australian to emerge from the Ashes tour with reputation enhanced. Ben Dorries and Malcolm Conn rate the tourists.
Malcolm Conn in London: ANALYSIS: No matter how tough the street fighter from Mowbray may be, Ricky Ponting cannot hide the pain.
Malcolm Conn: IF this crumbling Oval pitch was presented for a county match, the home side would have been docked points.
STUART Broad has usurped Andrew Flintoff's Test farewell and hopes to one-day fill the void the retiring all-rounder will leave in England's Test team.
Malcolm Conn in London: FOURTEEN years of world domination is in danger of crumbling with The Oval pitch, as Australia eyes a slip to fourth in the world rankings.
IAN Bell bemoaned England's inability to score Ashes centuries but claimed a dry and dusty Oval pitch would make life difficult for Australia.
Malcolm Conn in London: THAT'S the problem with trying to manufacture fairytales. They can become scary stories as Andrew Flintoff found in the fifth Ashes Test.
Malcolm Conn: RICKY Ponting could not have picked a better toss to lose at Headingley, and, a worse toss to lose at the Oval.
Allan Border: PICKING the side for an Ashes-deciding Test is going to involve some of the toughest decisions made with an Australian team for a long time.
RICKY Ponting says England dumping Ravi Bopara to throw Jonathan Trott into the cauldron of an Ashes-deciding Test on debut smacks of desperation.
FULL itinerary for the Australian cricket team's tour of England, Wales and Scotland with the game's most coveted trophy, the Ashes, up for grabs.
STRAIGHT BAT ... Ryan Broad drives during his innings of 103 fror Queensland against the Western Australian Warriors in Perth. Pic: Paul Kane/Getty Images
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VICTORIA established itself as the giant killer of the Champions League overnight when it again beat an Indian Premier League power on its own patch.
AUSTRALIA is considering a two-spinner policy including young left-arm tweaker Jon Holland for the one-day series in India starting this month.
A FULL-strength West Indian side is coming to Australia this summer . . . but don't expect much competitive cricket from this Calypso rabble.
ANDREW "Freddie" Flintoff's declaration that he wants to play in Australia is likely to spark a fierce interstate bidding war for cricket's freelance gun for hire.
TEST batsman Marcus North has scored an unbeaten hundred to put West Australia on top in the Sheffield Shield match against Queensland.
AUSTRALIA'S grand vision of a lucrative southern hemisphere Twenty20 cricket tournament to rival the Indian Premier League has collapsed.
ASHLEY Noffke came back to haunt his former Queensland teammates, with with both bat and ball inspiring Western Australia to a nailbiting two-wicket win.
AUSTRALIA will launch its bid to regain cricket's Ashes in Brisbane next November and could even do so in the first day-night Test.
AUSTRALIA claimed their second successive Champions Trophy title, beating New Zealand by six wickets in the final at SuperSport Park in Centurion.
NEW Zealand captain Daniel Vettori was a shock late withdrawal from the Champions Trophy final against Australia at SuperSport Park, Johannesburg.
GRANT Elliott braved a thumb injury with a half-century as New Zealand stormed into the Champions Trophy final with a five-wicket win over Pakistan.
AUSTRALIA will play in the Champions Trophy final after thrashing England by nine wickets thanks to centuries by Ricky Ponting and Shane Watson.
VICTORIAN batsman David Hussey is headed to the Champions Trophy in South Africa as a replacement for injured Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke.
AUSTRALIA'S Champions Trophy campaign has been dealt another major blow, with Michael Clarke on his way home because of a back problem.
ENGLAND has stormed into the Champions Trophy semi-finals with a 22-run victory over South Africa who crashed out of the tournament at Centurion.
AUSTRALIA has lost Nathan Bracken for the Champions Trophy cricket tournament, with the fast bowler going home because of a knee problem.
TILLAKARATNE Dilshan belted a century and Ajantha Mendis grabbed three wickets as Sri Lanka cruised to a 55-run win over South Africa in the Champions Trophy.
TIM Paine's maiden international century has handed Australia a 111-run victory over England in the penultimate match of their one-day series at Trent Bridge.
A CENTURY by captain Ricky Ponting has lifted Australia to a comfortable win over England in the fifth one-day international at Trent Bridge.
CAMERON White has scored his first one-day international century to lead Australia to a 3-0 lead in their series against England.
MITCHELL Johnson's performance with bat and ball has handed Australia a 2-0 advantage in their one-day series against England with a 39-run win at Lord's.
AN unbeaten half century to Callum Ferguson set Australia up for a nail-biting four-run win in their first one-day match against England last night.
A ROW has broken out over the abandonment of Australia's second Twenty20 match against England without a ball being bowled at Old Trafford.
A CENTURY from David Hussey led Australia to a comfortable 189-run win over Scotland in their one-day international in Edinburgh on Friday.
A CENTURY from David Hussey led Australia to a commanding total of 345 runs in its one-day international against Scotland in Edinburgh tonight.
MITCHELL Johnson only needs to clear his head to reach his considerable potential as a Test match bowler, according to Glenn McGrath.
RICKY Ponting has fuelled debate over his long-term future as Australian skipper by suggesting he would be prepared to play on without the captaincy.
WORLD cricket's new South African top dogs have vowed to create an Australian-style dynasty and prevent Ricky Ponting's men taking back the No.1 crown.
SHANE Warne would come out of retirement "in a heartbeat" if offered the Australian captaincy, according to former Test star Dean Jones.
Malcolm Conn: ANDREW Strauss became England cricket captain as an afterthought and is now a national hero.
SHANE Warne says the decision to leave spinner Nathan Hauritz out of the fifth Ashes Test was "staggering" and someone will have to take the blame.
RICKY Ponting's Ashes crusade has ended in despair as he became the second Australian captain to lose two series in England. Now the inquest starts.
ENGLAND'S new Ashes hero Jonathan Trott is related to a former Australian Test batsman who played at the turn of the 20th century.
MONTHS after having his contract torn up, Andrew Symonds will resurrect his career with the Queensland Bulls, playing for match fees only.
DON'T blame the deck. That was the message from Australia's Simon Katich and England's Stuart Broad after 15 wickets fell on a dusty second-day pitch.
BARRING a world record run-chase or a deluge of rain not on the weather forecast, Australia look like handing back the Ashes at the Oval.
AUSTRALIA may be only a day or two away from handing over the Ashes after a shocking batting collapse of 10-87 on a dodgy and dusty Oval pitch.
AUSTRALIAN paceman Peter Siddle is delighted to be the leading wicket taker in this Ashes series given the struggle he had in the first two Tests.
PETER Siddle snatched back the Ashes advantage for Australia as he tore through the heart of England's batting lineup on day one of the fifth Test at The Oval.
Ben Dorries in London: ENGLAND captain Andrew Strauss says he is prepared to risk losing Andy Flintoff's farewell Test to try to win back the Ashes.
AS Andrew Strauss tries to conjure an Ashes triumph, he is clearly and persistently being undermined by England's all-rounder, Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.
Shane Warne: WITH the Ashes up for grabs, Australia needs to play positive cricket from ball one tonight if we are to retain the famous little urn.
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