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Shane Watson could return to the Test team for Australia’s first match against South Africa as the side considers taking a four-man pace attack to the WACA. The Perth Test begins on December 17 and Australia’s captain Ricky Ponting said there was no guarantee a spinner would be required at a venue where pace has dominated in first-class cricket this season. Read more
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Ricky Ponting has warned his team will need to improve if they are to match South Africa in the upcoming three-Test series.

Australia captain Ricky Ponting has warned his team will need to improve if they are to match South Africa in the upcoming three-Test series.

Brett Lee claimed five wickets as Australia dismantled New Zealand’s batting line-up to record an emphatic innings and 62-run victory in the second Test at Adelaide Oval today and seal a 2-0 series whitewash.
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England have been offered a revised schedule for their tour of India but will await a security report before making any decision.

The England and Wales Cricket Board has said players will not be forced to go following the terror attacks in Mumbai.

Indian cricket bosses say the ECB has agreed to the Ahmedabad and Mumbai Tests switching to Chennai and Mohali, the first starting on 11 December. Read more
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Australia came home from India with more unanswered questions than when George Bush plays Trivial Pursuit but at least Brett Lee has responded in the affirmative to one of the biggest queries. An in-form Lee is essential for Australia to succeed in their contests against South Africa and England in the next nine months and his average of two wickets per Test in India was a worrying return.

There was even talk Lee, 32, would be rested for one of the New Zealand Tests, so after Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson outperformed him in the wickets column at the Gabba the pressure was really on.
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Worcestershire chief executive Mark Newton says work on the club’s new pavilion is still on schedule despite recent flooding at New Road.

Newton told BBC Hereford & Worcester the contractors had allowed time for possible flooding delay.

“We had no work for a week but they’ve absorbed that into the programme so the ground work is still continuing. Read more
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England will return to India to play their two-match Test series as per schedule, but without several senior players.

Following the terror attack on Mumbai, Flintoff and fast bowler Steve Harmison and perhaps another bowler in the squad of 15, are expected to pull out in the next two days, citing their children and wives as their prime consideration, a report in ‘Sunday Telegraph’ claimed. Read more
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Sussex have appointed David Brooks as their new chief executive to replace the departed Gus Mackay.

Brooks, 41, and a keen recreational cricketer, was previously in the same role with the Finsbury Food Group.

He told BBC Southern Counties Radio: “Cricket has always been a great passion of mine. I have wanted to use my business knowledge in that field.
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Sri Lanka completed a series whitewash over Zimbabwe with a 19-run victory in the fifth and final ODI at Harare Sports Club, but, not for the first time in the last week, Zimbabwe threw away a gilt-edged chance of winning within sight of the finishing line. Given a little more experience and common sense, Zimbabwe could actually have won two, if not three, of the matches, but when you average only 128 an innings, it is always going to be an uphill battle.

At the start of the 41st over, they needed 23 to win with four wickets in hand, with Keith Dabengwa and Prosper Utseya, who had added 72 for the seventh wicket, well set. Even though they held all the cards, in this series the Zimbabwe batting has been brittle, and today was to be no exception as they lost their last four wickets for three runs.
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New Zealand spinner Jeetan Patel says a session with former Australia spinner Ashley Mallett was invaluable.

Mallett, 68, played 38 Tests for Australia and offered to work with the BlackCaps number two spinner after Patel was named 12th man on the first morning of the second Test against Australia in Adelaide.

Patel, who has played five Tests since making his debut against South Africa in Cape Town in 2006, worked with former Australia spinner Bruce Yardley in Bangladesh last month and has also had the benefit from having outgoing New Zealand coach John Bracewell and Kiwi captain Dan Vettori to call upon for advice. Read more
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Michael Clarke is the youngest member of Australia’s batting line-up but maturity is not an issue for the man most likely to be the team’s next captain. Clarke’s 110 in Adelaide was his fourth Test century this year and his calm and measured manner was a contrast to the aggressive approach taken by Brad Haddin in his superb 169.

Being dropped from the Test team in 2005-06 was a wake-up call that still resonates with Clarke, who has scored a century in every series since regaining his position full-time in the 2006-07 Ashes. Clarke said his patience had increased considerably in the past couple of years.
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Sri Lanka remain on course for a series whitewash in the fifth ODI against Zimbabwe, but will be made to work for it.

The tourists were bowled out for 152 on Sunday morning.

Thilina Kandamby top-scored with 40 for Sri Lanka, who won the first two ODIs comprehensively but were made to work in the rain-affected third to win by five runs before struggling again to reach a target of only 146 with 15 balls to spare in the fourth. Read more
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A day to forget for Symonds …
Things have a habit of going wrong when you’re struggling, as Matthew Hayden discovered when he was run out on the second day. On the third morning fortune also frowned upon his good mate Andrew Symonds, who is trying to re-establish his Test career after being stood down from the side for two months. Following his bar-room incident in Brisbane, Symonds is under such an intense spotlight that even news of him missing a Queensland training session in October was splashed over the Sunday papers this morning. There were also reports that the man who photographed Symonds in the Normanby Hotel told Cricket Australia Symonds had elbowed him in the jaw, but the complaint came after the allrounder had been cleared of any wrongdoing. The day only got worse for Symonds when the umpire Billy Doctrove gave him out caught behind for a duck despite the ball appearing to miss the bat. Read more
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