November 30, 2010

First Ashes Test report card

Filed under: News — @ 11:48 pm

Read our first Test report card and see what foxsports.com.au users thought about the Gabba draw.

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Smith, Khawaja in the runs

Filed under: News — @ 9:47 pm

Test hopefuls Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja state case for Test selection with half-centuries for New South Wales.

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Nielsen backs struggling Johnson

Filed under: News — @ 9:18 pm

Tim Nielsen, has said that the team will do everything in its power to boost the morale of their misfiring strike bowler, Mitchell Johnson, whose place in the starting XI for Friday’s second Test at Adelaide is in jeopardy

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Clarke wasn’t injured: Nielsen

Filed under: News — @ 6:50 pm

Australia insist Michael Clarke is fit and was merely the victim of diligent bowling rather than his fragile back during the first Ashes Test.

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Nielsen considers changes

Filed under: News — @ 4:20 pm

Changes will be considered for the second Test after the poor Brisbane showing, says Australia’s coach Tim Nielson.

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Johnson under fire

Filed under: News — @ 1:20 pm

Mitchell Johnson is under fire ahead of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide after his underwhelming performance in the drawn first Test.

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Adelaide promises chance of fireworks

Filed under: News — @ 12:15 pm

Adelaide Oval curator Damian Hough seeks a fair pitch - with result potential - after the drawn first Ashes Test in Brisbane.

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Ponting slams TV referral system

Filed under: News — @ 10:45 am

Ricky Ponting brands cricket’s electronic referral system a blight on the game after being denied what he considered a fair catch.

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Aussies innocuous mess: British press

Filed under: News — @ 8:51 am

Britain’s press were brutal - but not so much as you’d have thought - in analysing the drawn first Ashes Test against Australia at the Gabba.

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Sangakkara bumps Tendulkar from top spot

Filed under: News — @ 6:30 am

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara returns to the top of the ICC Test batting rankings, overtaking India’s Sachin Tendulkar.

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Strauss lauds Cook’s ’special innings’

Filed under: News — @ 2:41 am

Andrew Strauss praised Alastair Cook’s double-century as one of the greatest innings in Ashes history, as England closed out the first Test with a monumental batting performance on the final day at the Gabba

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November 29, 2010

Ponting unimpressed with technology

Filed under: News — @ 9:45 pm

Ricky Ponting called the technology used to rule on disputed low catches “a blight on the game” after his take of Alastair Cook was turned down

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Bollinger and Harris added to Test squad

Filed under: News — @ 8:36 pm

Ricky Ponting says none of Australia’s bowlers from Brisbane are safe
after Doug Bollinger and Ryan Harris were added to a 13-man squad for
Friday’s second Test in Adelaide

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Queensland take honours in draw

Filed under: News — @ 7:22 pm

Queensland took the only points from their draw with Victoria at the MCG, but finished four wickets short of victory

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England break records in high-scoring draw

Filed under: News — @ 6:51 pm

It was a day for burning up the record books at the Gabba as Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott produced a herculean unbroken stand of 329 to secure a comfortable draw for England

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Cooking the books

Filed under: News — @ 6:15 pm

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the fifth day between Australia and England at the Gabba

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George bowls Redbacks to victory

Filed under: News — @ 12:36 pm

Peter George delivered a remarkable victory for South Australia in Hobart, where they recovered from being bowled out for 55 in their first innings to win by 43 runs

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Live: Australia v England - T1, D5

Filed under: News — @ 10:21 am

Australia are looking for quick wickets as they bid to claim an unlikely victory against England in the first Ashes Test at the Gabba.

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Wicketless Johnson needs a win

Filed under: News — @ 6:59 am

Cricket is all about numbers and Mitchell Johnson’s have been far from beautiful at the Gabba: no wickets, no runs and no catches.

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‘It was very satisfying’ - Cook

Filed under: News — @ 12:12 am

If Andrew Strauss’s century was an innings that Australia had anticipated on the strength of his performances in England in 2009, then Alastair Cook’s personal epic crept up on them via the blind-side

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