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Australia’s selectors have stuck by the Test team that escaped with a draw against the West Indies in Adelaide and named an unchanged squad for the final match of the series. The announcement of an unchanged line-up for Perth means the side will again be without Ben Hilfenhaus as he recovers from a left-knee tendon [...]
Australia can count themselves lucky to escape with a draw in their second Test against the West Indies in Adelaide in a match that belonged very much to the tourists. The Windies turned in a match that was the antithesis of the insipid performance they had mustered in Brisbane to head into the final day [...]
Opinion remains divided over the umpire decision review system, which is presently in use in Test series between Australia and West Indies, and Pakistan and New Zealand. So when umpire Mark Benson withdrew from the Adelaide Test and flew home to England the suggestion was made that the DRS was a driving factor in his [...]
South Africa have been denied, at least for the time being, the chance to take to the field as the world’s No. 1 Test team. With a home series victory over Sri Lanka, that title now belongs to India, and the Proteas now enter the four-Test series against England in the familiar position of the [...]
England and South Africa are poised to implement the new umpire decision review system in their upcoming Test series, but the reaction to its use in the Adelaide Test match coming out of Australia at the moment is at best lukewarm. The DRS was called into play three times on the opening day of the [...]
Australia have announced their squad for the second Test against the West Indies and there’s only one forced change from the side that thumped the tourists in the Brisbane opener. Ricky Ponting’s men will be without strike bowler Ben Hilfenhaus for the second Test as the Brisbane man-of-the-match rests a knee tendon injury. In his [...]