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Australian cricket
This AFL industry bigwig predicted Test cricket’s future a decade ago. He’s been called in to fix it
AFL players’ chief Paul Marsh is working alongside a FIFA expert to help build an alternative calendar and financial model for international cricket amid global concerns about the future of Test matches beyond 2027.
- by Daniel Brettig
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Back in the baggy green? Selectors plan for Glenn Maxwell’s Test comeback
Glenn Maxwell is in line for a long-awaited return to Australia’s Test team this summer, as the national selectors ponder a radically altered line-up.
- by Daniel Brettig
Newcomer thrives as cricket’s circle of life closes in on Jimmy Anderson
Jimmy Anderson started his Test cricket career with a bag of wickets at Lord’s, just as Gus Atkinson did on debut in Anderson’s farewell Test 21 years later.
- by Adam Collins
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England
Blond highlights: Keeping pace with Anderson’s remarkable 20-year Test career
Australians first laid eyes on a peroxide-tipped Jimmy Anderson more than two decades ago. As he prepares for his farewell from the Test arena, we pick out five of the pace legend’s finest moments.
- by Dan Walsh
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Cricket Australia
Global warning: Test cricket may shrink to six teams within four years
Test cricket may be played by as few as six countries within a few years without greater equalisation measures by its richest boards – India, England and Australia.
- by Daniel Brettig
‘Jonny will hate me saying this’: Root admits Lord’s stumping was fair
Jonny Bairstow was dropped from the England Test team this week, and has now had a big-name teammate admit his Lord’s stumping was fair.
- by Daniel Brettig
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Australian cricket
At arm’s length: MCC members pay the price for Lord’s Bairstow fracas
Marylebone Cricket Club are custodians of cricket’s laws and CEO Guy Lavender says the Australians did nothing wrong despite the outcry over Jonny Bairstow’s stumping.
- by Malcolm Conn and Daniel Brettig
McGrath promoted up the order to lead King’s Birthday Honours
The legendary fast bowler is among more than 700 Australians to be recognised with King’s Birthday Honours.
- by Malcolm Conn and Angus Thomson
The show taking viewers behind the scenes of the infamous Ashes stumping
The just-released new season of The Test ends where the first season began, with the Australian cricket team accused of unsportsmanlike behaviour.
- by Tom Ryan
Australian great Ponting reveals approach over India coaching job
Australia great Ricky Ponting was sounded out for the India head coach’s role but the 49-year-old said he is not in the race to succeed Rahul Dravid in the high-profile job.
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Australian cricket
Boxing Day, women’s Tests in limbo amid stand-off with Allan government
A stand-off between Cricket Australia and the Victorian government has left the Ashes Boxing Day Test and next season’s women’s Test in limbo.
- by Malcolm Conn and Annika Smethurst