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• Ricky Ponting may be considering retirement

  

  The international career of former captain Ricky Ponting could be over after the 37-year-old was dumped from Australia’s one-day squad. Meanwhile, coach confirms Wade is now the preferred keeper to Haddin.

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• Australian One Day cricket at England’s Oval in 2012

  

  New tickets have been released this week for the previously sold out One Day cricket clash between England and Australia at the Kia Oval this summer.

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• Ian Chappell’s blueprint for Australian cricket success

  

  Australian cricket legend Ian Chappell blasts cricket’s ‘unfair’ switch hit technique and says Australia still has a way to go to before reclaiming top Test team status.

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• Ricky Ponting could be Australian captain again

  

  Australia cricket captain Michael Clarke hopes to miss just one limited-overs international due to his leg muscle injury.

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• Australian cricketers honoured with award nominations

  

  Seven Australian cricketers have been recognised for their successes in 2011, by being nominated for year’s ESPNcricinfo Awards. The awards celebrate the best individual performances in 2011 by batsmen and bowlers in Tests and one-day internationals from cricketing nations around the world.

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• Australia can win Ashes next year: Waugh

  

  Former Test captain Steve Waugh says Ricky Ponting’s avalanche of runs this summer has left selectors in a “tricky situation”.

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• Cricket switch-hit must stay, says Hussey

  

  Australian Twenty20 allrounder David Hussey concedes switch-hitting frustrates him as a bowler. But Hussey says he doesn’t want it outlawed as it’s the type of innovation that is attracting huge audiences to the new format.

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• Michael Clarke inspired by Ashes failure

  

  Australia captain Michael Clarke says his poor performances last summer against England have helped inspire him to his stunning run-scoring efforts against India.

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• Australian cricket attack best I’ve faced: Sehwag

  

  India’s thrashing machine Virender Sehwag paid the home side a mighty compliment on Monday, saying this was the best attack he had faced in his 20 Tests against Australia.

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• Ed Cowan wants to keep Watto off the top

  

  In-form Test opener Ed Cowan is clearly a big fan of Shane Watson but wants to ensure the fit-again all-rounder’s days atop Australia’s batting order are long gone.

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• Australian cricket coach says Ashes is the main goal

  

  Australia cricketers are determined to complete a 4-0 sweep of India but coach Mickey Arthur admits reclaiming the Ashes next year is the ultimate goal.

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• David Warner slams 69-ball hundred against India in Perth

  

  David Warner blasted a 69-ball hundred, the fastest by an opener in Test history, as Australia reached 0-149 at stumps after bowling India out for 161 in the third Test in Perth.

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• Clarke to sign $1m bat deal: report

  

  Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke is reportedly set to sign a new contract with a bat sponsor worth more than $1 million.

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• Australia wrap up big cricket win over India at SCG

  

  Australia claimed an innings and 68-run win over India at the SCG on Friday to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the four-Test series.

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• Michael Clarke passes up records for Test win in Australia

  

  Australian captain Michael Clarke is hoping his decision to call time on the standout innings of his career will pay dividends with an SCG Test win over India.

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• Ponting, Clarke triumph over India with SCG tons

  

  Ricky Ponting is eyeing off a career renaissance and Michael Clarke the highest individual score ever posted at the SCG, after Australia destroyed Indian hopes with a batting masterclass on day two of the second Test.

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• Test cricket a breeze for James Pattinson

  

  James Pattinson must think Test cricket is a walk in the park. His Test career is just 34 days old but already he has snared 24 wickets. Plus bagged two five-wicket hauls, been named man of the match twice in three Tests and man of the series in his only completed series.

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• Indian cricket guns shot down by Aussies at SCG

  

  Australia’s inexperienced bowlers once again put India to the sword and put the hosts in a dominant position at stumps on day one of the second Test at the SCG.

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• Monkey on Sachin Tendulkar’s back now a gorilla

  

  Has Sachin Tendulkar’s elusive 100th international hundred become a monkey on his back? Former Indian captain Ravi Shastri says it’s worse than that – the monkey is now a gorilla.

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• Aggression is natural for fiery James Pattinson

  

  James Pattinson says the aggressive streak that resulted the young tearaway being cautioned for bouncing India’s batsmen on the last day of the MCG Test comes naturally to him.

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