First Ashes Test, Brisbane
Dates: 25-29 November Start time: 0000 GMT Coverage: Listen live to Test Match Special on BBC 5 live sports extra, Radio 4 LW and online (UK only). Watch live on Sky Sports 1, highlights on ITV 4
Doug Bollinger has been robbed blind by the Australian Test selectors, according to a column in Sydney's Daily Telegraph. The paceman was rested to leave him fresh for the Ashes - and then told he had not played enough.
Full story: Daily Telegraph (Sydney) Hat-trick hero Peter Siddle paid tribute to England bowling coach David Saker after taking a Test best 6-54 to help bowl out the tourists on the first day of the Ashes series.
Full story: Sydney Morning Herald According to the Courier Mail, the scar from England's inadequate first flurry in this Ashes series will cut far deeper than their exit for just 260.
Full story: Courier Mail (Brisbane) While the Daily Mail says Captain Andrew Strauss took his leave of the first Ashes session with quite the most spectacularly foolish shot of his career.
Full story: Daily Mail Australia captain Ricky Ponting wants the country which wins the Ashes to take possession of the urn. Cricket's most famous trophy is kept at Lord's but Ponting sees no reason why the six-inch high urn cannot be transported between Australia and England.
Full story: The Sun Durham are interested in staging the first Test of the next Ashes series in 2013. Five other counties are battling to host three of the five games that have still to be allocated with no guarantee yet there will even be a Test at Lord's.
Full story: The Guardian AND FINALLY Peter Siddle's mum has revealed she watched her son's hat-trick heroics from the comfort of her sofa, in her pyjamas.
Full story: Herald Sun Siddle has an interesting taste in music, according to a Q&A on his profile on the Cricket Australia website. Asked what music he listens to before games, his answer: S-Club 7 or the Vengaboys. No wonder he was able to reach for the stars. Full story: Cricket Australia
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