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Mitchell Starc heads home from India with injury despite an enormous amount of research into his workload and management © Getty Images Mitchell Starc is perhaps Australian cricket’s most prized asset. His bowling action, fitness and workload are all managed with the utmost precision by Cricket Australia’s extensive team performance and sports science divisions. His appearances in the IPL have been duly limited. And at 27 he is at the…

ICC chairman Shashank Manohar wrote about his resignation to chief executive David Richardson © IDI/Getty Images Shashank Manohar, the person chiefly responsible for trying to reduce the influence wielded by the Big Three, has resigned from his post as ICC chairman because of personal reasons after only eight months in office. Manohar was elected unopposed as the ICC’s first independent chairman – one not affiliated to any of its member…

Xavier Doherty was at his most effective for Australia in ODIs © Getty Images If it isn’t quite Chappell, Lillee, Marsh, the simultaneous retirements of Adam Voges (37), Xavier Doherty (34) and Chris Hartley (34) from Australian domestic ranks will leave a major hole in terms of experience and character in the game down under. All three elected to announce their exits from the game on the eve of the…

Ross Taylor’s absence removes a significant part of New Zealand’s batting core © AFP Take Michael Hussey or Mohammad Azharuddin out of Australia in the 2000s or India in the 1990s and it would have left a hole. Take Jason Gillespie and Javagal Srinath out of the same sides at the same time and, if they didn’t have the likes of Ricky Ponting and Glenn McGrath or Sachin Tendulkar and…

Match facts March 16-20, 2017Start time 0930 local (0400 GMT) With the series on the line, more high-intensity cricket can be expected © Associated Press Big Picture Is a week a long time in cricket? Not really. Not unless the match is being played on Venus, where a day lasts for nearly eight Earth months and a week would thus drag on for almost five of our years. Probably explains…

Trent Boult will miss his second Test of the season © AFP Trent Boult has been ruled out of the second Test against South Africa in Wellington with the leg injury he sustained in Dunedin. Boult did not bowl after tea on the fourth day of the opening Test – when he was one of just two frontline seamers alongside Neil Wagner – and even with the final day’s play…

Mitchell Starc heads home from India with injury despite an enormous amount of research into his workload and management © Getty Images Mitchell Starc is perhaps Australian cricket’s most prized asset. His bowling action, fitness and workload are all managed with the utmost precision by Cricket Australia’s extensive team performance and sports science divisions. His appearances in the IPL have been duly limited. And at 27 he is at the…