He looks unlikely to play before arriving in Australia a fortnight before the first Test.
But as Australia A began to lose second-innings wickets, variable bounce was becoming a factor.
When a quick delivery at Ferguson kept low and scuttled through the right-hander's defences, Australia A were 84-3.
The ex-Australia A international suffered the serious injury in the Dragons' 26-7 Heineken Cup loss in Toulouse on Saturday.
It was then the turn of England's bowlers to work out a way past the Australia A upper order.
South African referee Marius Jonker ordered it to be re-set twice before awarding Australia a free-kick at the third scrum.
He has been a regular member of the Australia A team, but has yet to play Test or one-day international cricket.
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Carraro, who started out with the Waratahs Academy, has also been part of the Australia A squad for the Pacific Nations Cup.
In a rain-hit one-day international, Sri Lanka scored 213-3 in 41.1 overs leaving Australia a Duckworth-Lewis adjusted target of 244 from 39 overs.
When I was in Australia a few years ago, a fellow librarian and good friend recommended Peter Temple's The Broken Shore to me.
Tait, 21, has played for Australia A and in January became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an Australian domestic limited overs match.
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An under-strength Canada suffered a monumental 102-8 defeat by Australia A last month and their Rugby Canada select suffered a second-half collapse against Scotland last weekend.
All-rounder Watson was also fined 15% of his match fee for the way he celebrated snaring Gayle in a victory which gave Australia a 2-0 series win.
Bell, 121 overnight, batted for six hours in all before Australia A reached 128-3 in their second innings, still trailing by 165 with a day to go.
"Ashley has played a big part in Queensland's recent run of success and we have been very impressed with his form for both Queensland and Australia A, " Hohns explained.
The ball was still hard enough to go through with reasonable pace, however, and two Johnson wickets before lunch left England on 97-3 and gave Australia a clear advantage.
The former Australia A backs coach was keen to play down any extra pressure after the Blues' efforts last season, their most successful since the advent of regional rugby.
However, this time around the tourists have three first-class matches - with South Australia and Australia A still to come - before the first Test begins in Brisbane on 25 November.
Botham and Willis added just five more runs the next morning to leave Australia a target of 130 to win, and at 56-1 they were firm favourites to do just that.
Had England arrived in Australia a few days earlier, they may have been able to expand on the one-day and two three-day games they played in the run-up to the opening Test.
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England's Test bowlers have been practising at the nearby Allan Border field having been rested for the match against Australia A in Tasmania - and they will get their first look at the Gabba on Sunday.
This may be less fun to watch, but it is a lot more interesting for the country's financial planners, who hope that a more efficient futures market will help to make Australia a regional financial hub.
Addressing a misconception that Australia is a mature mineral exploration jurisdiction primarily due to cover, T.
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An outstanding fielder, he once appeared as a substitute for Australia in a Test in Brisbane in 2005.
The Sophos piece links to a story from Australia where a trucking company was hit by ransomware.
"By and large, my record in the Slams has been pretty good this year - a final in Australia and a Wimbledon semi-final, " he said.
He's been a wonderful player for Australia for a long period of time.
India is currently playing a triangular series with Australia and Sri Lanka in Australia after a poor show in the Test series.
At least that was a possibility U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates held out on a recent trip to Australia, a U.S. ally eying new warplanes.
Geoffrey Blainey's A Shorter History of Australia is a useful primer.
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