Selection of cricket teams is a tough and thankless task.

Late last Sunday afternoon XXXX Gold Queensland Bulls sat at the bottom of the Bupa Sheffield Shield table. A couple of hours later they had qualified to play in this season’s final.

Australia's spin bowling depth has once again become the subject of heated discussion after Nathan Lyon's omission for the second Test.

If one good thing comes out of the unusually high numbers of players who represented Australia this summer, it is, that the competition is now as hot as it has been for a long time.

Much has been made of Cricket Australia's rotation or 'player management' policy that has operated this summer.

Saturday night’s BBL Final at the WACA, affectionately named the Furnace, never really got going as a cricket contest.

Michael Edward Killeen Hussey, the kid from Wanneroo, retires from Test cricket today as a legend.

The Boxing Day after I retired, I vividly remember standing in my kitchen with a cup of coffee, singing the national anthem under my breath, as the boys belted it out in front of a roaring MCG crowd.

Last year the BBL was a great success and from afar it looked like everyone involved had a brilliant time being a part of Cricket Australia’s new T20 iniative.

Ricky Ponting retires from the game as a legend. Few men boast this legacy. Equally few are irreplaceable, but like Shane Warne, Ricky Ponting probably is.