Allan Border
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- The Ashes
The Ashes are hyped as the ultimate cricket contest. In Australia, they’re anything but
These Ashes have proven the folly of so much pre-series hype. England need help to break a cycle of uncompetitive bouts in Australia.
- Daniel Brettig
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Deano, Katich, Hodge: The real reasons behind Australian cricket’s biggest selection controversies
In the second part of our series on the inner workings of the national selection panel, we reveal the real stories behind some of cricket’s most controversial selection decisions.
- Daniel Brettig
‘He worked our backsides off’: Greats pay tribute to the man who revived Australian cricket
If Australia’s cricketers were out too late at night, Bob Simpson always found out.
- Andrew Wu
Hawke, Packer and ‘Supercat’: Cricket’s secret Kirribilli meeting and the end of apartheid
Forty years after the rebel tours of South Africa, we reveal one of the great sliding doors moments in Australian cricket.
- Daniel Brettig
Australia through to Champions Trophy semi-finals after washout
Australia were sitting pretty against Afghanistan – with a rampant Travis Head and Steve Smith in complete control – before heavy rain hit Lahore.
- Justin Chadwick
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- Cricket Australia
Head, Sutherland claim top gongs, herald new era for Australian cricket
Travis Head and Annabel Sutherland were voted Australia’s cricketers of the year, both winning the awards for the first time in a dominant year for the national teams.
- Jon Pierik and Daniel Brettig
Where’s the good in Riverwood? Get a heart!
With the number of homeless aged people on the rise, how heartwarming it would have been if the residents of Hardwicke Street had put out the welcome mat.
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- Australian cricket
‘My 100 per cent is a bit different’: Border on Parkinson’s treatment, Konstas, Smith and his SCG memories
Allan Border speaks candidly on Sam Konstas, his hopes of finally handing his trophy back to Australia, the friends he’s lost along the way, and his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
- Daniel Brettig
Bradman letters revealed: What Don really thought about Packer, Warne, the Queen and fame
A trove of personal letters have been unearthed that reveal Sir Donald Bradman’s private views on a wide range of issues and people, from cricketers to monarchs and prime ministers.
- Daniel Brettig
‘Significantly damages their chances’: India’s bold selection call for Test series in Australia
India’s superstar batter Virat Kohli is badly out of form. Now the tourists have made a shock selection call ahead of their gold-plated Test series against Australia starting next month.
- Jon Pierik