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Tasmania have signed Netherlands allrounder Ryan ten Doeschate for the upcoming Australian Twenty20 Big Bash tournament

India’s top players should play more domestic cricket so that the juniors can learn from them, says Makarand Waingankar in the Hindu. He recalls the era when national team stars used to regularly turn out for their state and club sides and feels the Australian approach of making domestic cricket mandatory is worth emulating. Teenager Dilip Vengsarkar learned more about batting watching Gavaskar from the other end for Dadar Union than listening to a dozen coaches. Former India opener Madhav Apte, who toured the West Indies in 1953, played ‘A’…

Phillip Hughes, the Australian opener, has returned to the Test squad while his New South Wales team-mate Josh Hazlewood also won a place in the 15-man pool for the tour of India

Ricky Ponting, writing in the Australian, outlines Australia’s philosophy of trying to win every game. It is inconceivable to me that anybody would try to throw a game or be involved in fixing. I was completely shocked when I saw it on television and read the papers … It is the collateral damage that is most concerning to us and naturally the focus comes back to the Sydney Test. Not for one moment did any of us suspect that anything untoward or suspicious was happening as that game unfolded. It…

A valiant 71 not out from Australian Adam Voges was not enough to prevent Nottinghamshire Outlaws from slipping to their third Clydesdale Bank 40 defeat to dampen their hopes of reaching the semi-finals

Rudi Koertzen has said the Australian players were quite a handful to officiate, singling out former fast bowler Glenn McGrath

Suzanne Hill speaks with Geoff Lawson, Australian Cricketer and former coach of the Pakistan cricket team.

A group of Australian limited-overs specialists including Brett Lee could be crossing the ditch to New Zealand to play in its Twenty20 league this summer

SYDNEY – Australian cricket legend Richie Benaud’s childhood home in Sydney could soon be knocked for six unless a public outcry – and the local council – succeeds in classifying his old backyard as hallowed ground.A development…

The Australian’s Peter Lalor writes that Michael Clarke is tweeting in a Cricket Australia meeting about tweeting. Shane Warne is not in the meeting about tweeting, but is tweeting about the meetings and suggests to his friend that he should call a meeting about calling the next meeting. Clarke likes that and notes with tongue-in-tweet that Warnie always did like a good meeting. The vice-captain then tweets that: “The youngsta is falling asleep in these meetings” – the meetings about tweeting, that is. “The youngsta” in this case is Clarke’s…