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Smith, Starc come to defence of George Bailey

Mitchell Starc and Steve Smith have pointed at Australia's success during George Bailey's time as chief selector, dismissing criticism of him during the Ashes.

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Sydney has a history of hosting Ashes comebacks – and launching dynasties

Classic New Year’s Tests offer clues for how England and Australia can end this series on their terms at the SCG and set up for the next

The Guardian - AU

Pat Cummins is in rare air as an Ashes captain. Can his Dad’s Army go around again?

Captain has achieved an Ashes feat that few others have but he’s still missing an outright win in England

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Numbers crunched: how the votes were cast in the Guardian’s men’s Ashes top 100

Australians dominate at the very top of our list but the overall numbers are split evenly and England lead the way for all-rounders

The Guardian - UK

Australia’s ‘old blokes’ rally together for the Ashes chasing one last demolition of England

Australia’s Ashes squad contains only one player – Cameron Green – younger than 30 years old but that does not mean this battle-hardened Test team are over the hill just yet

The Independent UK

Cummins, Lyon defend selectors on tough transition call

Australia captain Pat Cummins insists the Test team's succession planning remains on track, despite Steve Waugh's concerns over selectors' management of it.

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If he farts it's a headline: Bailey feels for Konstas

Sam Konstas could still be given time against England's attack in tour matches this summer, as Steve Waugh says the opener needs time with NSW to find his game.

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Waugh takes shot at selectors over Test team transition

George Bailey has insisted the transition of Australia's Test team remains on track, despite Steve Waugh taking a swipe at him over the handling of the issue..

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Tom Curran’s sledging added rare intensity to Hundred spectacle

With on-field wars of words it is often a fine line between a genuinely pithy one-liner and cringeworthy stag-do bore

The Guardian - UK

Phones, sweets and sandpaper: a pocket history of cricketers’ unusual items

The mobile that fell out of Tom Bailey’s trousers when he was batting over the weekend isn’t the strangest thing players have secreted in their whites

The Guardian - UK

Is Steve Smith set to become the best? What data says about Test cricket’s elite 10,000+ run club

In the recent Border-Gavaskar series against India, Steve Smith agonisingly missed out reaching 10,000 Test runs in front of his home crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground, falling short by just one run.

The Conversation

When hands fail and history alters: cricket’s notorious dropped catches

England’s most renowned butterfingered culprits share the lingering regret that came from a single moment

The Guardian - UK

Smith's path from Sydney suburbs to history books

Steve Smith has been building an international legacy for 15 years, but it might not be until his career is over that it is fully appreciated.

AAP

Twin peaks: meet the greatest pre-Curry pairings in sporting history

Curry twins follow in famous footsteps as they become the first to play together for England’s men’s rugby union team

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Steve Smith enters elite club with 10,000th Test run

After a false start in Sydney, Steve Smith has joined Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh and Allan Border as one of only four Australians to have made 10,000 Test runs.

The Guardian - AU

Steve Smith stands out as different to the rest as he takes place among the greats

The Australian batter will enter the 10,000 Club for Test runs to less fanfare in Sri Lanka but with a career record that is as unique as his style

The Guardian - UK

England’s T20 World Cup predicament goes far beyond their own failings

Australia meet Scotland in St Lucia on Saturday with the potential for a 1999 World Cup-style controversy in the air

The Guardian - UK

Head-to-head stats highlight why Test cricket is greatest sporting format

Every match comprises hundreds of contests between batter and bowler. If statistics are your thing, it’s mesmerising

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Shamar Joseph may be ‘saviour in purest form of cricket’, says Steve Waugh

Young sensation Shamar Joseph bowls West Indies to first Test win in Australia in 27 years, hailed as a 'saviour in the purest form of the game' by Steve Waugh.

The Hindu

Steve Waugh slams South Africa for naming depleted squad, ICC for not caring about Test cricket

Former Australia skipper Steve Waugh has slammed the International Cricket Council and top cricket boards, including the BCCI, for not caring about Test cricket after South Africa named a depleted red-ball squad for the tour of New Zealand, prioritising its T20 league over the longest format.

The Hindu

Interview | Virat is the best batter in the world and Rohit is great for the game, says Dr. Ali Bacher

Dr. Ali Bacher, 81, is a cricketer, administrator, and passionate advocate for South African cricket. He follows the tough domestic games and will be watching the India-South Africa series with great enthusiasm. He believes India has the best chance of winning the Test series due to their strong bowling attack.…

The Guardian - UK

Scars from South Africa’s ultimate self-sabotage still bring pain and fear

The most frightening ghosts of the Proteas’ World Cup past – Australia and semi-finals – await in Kolkata with 1999 weighing heavily

AAP

Mathews joins long list of bizarre cricket dismissals

Angelo Mathews' timed out for Sri Lanka at the World Cup puts him alongside Steve Waugh, Len Hutton and Ben Stokes on the list of cricket's unusual dismissals.

The Guardian - UK

England are finding out the hard way that they may have passed their peak

The nucleus of an incredibly successful team are all of a similar age and the years appear to have caught up with them at this World Cup

The Guardian - UK

England on brink of World Cup exit after heavy loss to Sri Lanka – as it happened

Over-by-over report: England lost for the fourth time in five matches as Sri Lanka strolled to an eight-wicket win

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