Arina Rodionova has unloaded on Tennis Australia, claiming a personal vendetta cost her a wildcard into her home grand slam despite being the nation’s top-ranked women’s player. Rodionova suffered a straight-sets first-round loss in Australian Open qualifying on Tuesday, then accused the governing body of causing undue stress on players – not just her – […]

Steve Smith’s surprise switch to opener in the Australian Test team is all but locked in but the selectors could still keep fans and the West Indies guessing when they announce their squad on Wednesday. The panel of selection chief George Bailey, Tony Dodemaide and coach Andrew McDonald are set to announce a squad of […]

New Dolphins prop Thomas Flegler ditched Brisbane to play under Wayne Bennett and join three former Melbourne heroes who he intends to learn plenty from. Prop Thomas Flegler has completed his first team training session with the Dolphins and revealed the four words from Wayne Bennett that convinced him to leave the Brisbane Broncos. The […]

They are the manufactured openers adding weight to Cameron Green’s case for a Test recall. From Usman Khawaja to Bob Simpson, and the six other men who have moved from Australia’s middle-order to become regular openers in the past 70 years, all but one has seen his average improve when making the full-time switch to […]