Smith’s startling confession
An emotional Steve Smith reveals he stopped loving cricket several times during his 12-month ban.
Ashes
Smith ton rescues Aussies
Steve Smith scored one of the great centuries to save Australia from humiliation.
Dawning of a test of heroes
What lies in store for all players, Ashes veterans or virgins, is the most intense experience of their cricketing lives.
Vile bile of Edgbaston fans
They call it comedy but the bile emanating from the stands at Edgbaston sounds a lot like hate.
Paine and Smith’s curious Test journey
The Australian skipper and his predecessor have walked different paths since their debuts
Even McGrath’s on fence
England should by rights be strongly favoured to regain the Ashes but it’s much closer than that.
Graveyard to House of Paine
The Australians are done with headbutting lines and taken to quoting lines from famous England philosophers.
Barmy cracks over sandpaper Aussies’ return
The Barmy Army has revealed its plot to target the cricketers involved in last year’s ball-tampering scandal.
England seamers target Smith
England captain Joe Root said his team would put the Aussie star’s technique against a moving ball to the test.
Aussies ready for hostile welcome
Tim Paine knows the infamous Edgbaston crowd will give the returned players a hostile reception.
Kitchen Man cleans up
Tim Paine has done a decent job in difficult circumstances.
Starc faces shock axing
Australia’s best bowler at the World Cup is set to be dumped as selectors pick a new-look side.
Rise of the cricket bat nerd
The bat nerd is tragic character. The most annoying person in a cricket team. And Australia have some of the worst.
Tim Paine reveals his Ashes game plan
In the past teams have come to England and played a brand of cricket that wins games in Australia and that hasn’t worked.
Fair result unlikely in Test championship
The unwieldy Test championship is unlikely to produce a final between the best two teams.
First Ashes Test team becomes clearer
Usman Khawaja is fit and James Pattinson will make his return to Test cricket.
Pacemen won’t go the distance
Josh Hazlewood does not expect to play every Test of the Ashes series and doesn’t expect the other fast bowlers to do the same.
Batting puzzle coming together
Australia’s attention turns to who opens with David Warner after Usman Khawaja declared himself a near-certainty for the first Test.
Soaring on eagles’ wings
Marnus Labuschagne was pushing the hotspot camera around for Channel 9 in 2010 when he saw his “coolest” Ashes moment.
Peter Lalor decodes our tactics
Australia plans to bowl smart and bat ugly, in the hope of winning their first Ashes series in England since 2001.
A 100 and out for unlucky ones
A judgment call was the simple reason behind Australian selectors dropping two players with last-start Test hundreds.
Getting the banned back together
Cameron Bancroft returns to the Test squad alongside Steve Smith and David Warner.
Inside the Ashes selection process
It’s going to be an uneasy night for our best cricketers, ahead of a brutal squad announcement.
Bancroft firms for Ashes opener
Cameron Bancroft is closer a reunion with his former top order partner David Warner.
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