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All of Wales Aviva Premiership-based players will be made available for the autumn Test opener against Australia in Cardiff on November 5.Premiership Rugby has confirmed the one-off move, describing it as a gesture of flexibility. It means that Wales interim head coach Rob Howley can call on the services of Northampton wing George North, Harlequins centre Jamie Roberts, Gloucester flanker Ross Moriarty, Exeter prop Tomas Francis, plus Bath forwards Luke Charteris and Taulupe Faletau, although number eight Faletau is currently injured.Premiership Rugby - the umbrella organisation for Englands 12 Aviva Premiership clubs - do not normally release non-England players who ply their trade in the Premiership for Tests that fall outside World Rugbys autumn international window.The Australia game is outside of that official three-weekend slot, with Wales also facing Argentina, Japan and South Africa in November.The Premiership Rugby decision applies to all nations in Test action on the weekend of November 4-6.The only other Tests that weekend are Ireland against New Zealand in Chicago and Japan versus Argentina.As a gesture of flexibility, the Premiership Rugby clubs will release their players outside the approved Test window for matches on the weekend of 4-6 November, a Premiership Rugby spokesperson told Press Association Sport. This comes as we continue deliberations on a new post-2019 global season structure to find an appropriate balance between club and international rugby.We are showing flexibility to help a number of unions who have decided to play on this particular weekend, but we must stress this is a one-off variation to the allowed window while discussions continue.Premiership Rugbys stance is a huge boost for Howley as Wales look to address a run of 11 successive defeats against Australia.Howley is at the helm this season while head coach Warren Gatland concentrates on British and Irish Lions business building towards next summers three-Test New Zealand tour.And the certainty of game-breakers like North and Roberts being available will be of huge benefit as preparations begin for the Wallabies fixture in 12 days time. Trevor Hoffman Jersey . Andreas Johnson had a goal and two assists while Jacob de la Rose also scored for Sweden (2-0-0). 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But when it comes to Australian cricket, alpha showdowns dont cease upon retirement - they extend to autobiographies too.Johnsons journey to Australian fast-bowling royalty - and he does belong there - is genuinely compelling, and never more so than when one contemplates the sheer rapidity of his elevation into the heady world of professional cricket. He literally didnt own a pair of cricket boots when Rod Marsh thrust him into Australias Under-19s team (to the chagrin of many of the other players parents).But like so many modern-day players with stories to tell and sell, Johnson in his memoirs struggles to shine a light on his professional years that hasnt already been shone.Its barely his fault. The ubiquity of media means that many of us are well-acquainted with each stars road. With Johnson, we know about the potential, the pace, the doubt, and the glorious return. At 392 pages, Resilient is nothing if not thorough in its chronicling of each plot point in Johnsons career. However, like so many other books, it does settle into a mechanical rhythm of moving from match to match to match, serving more as a reminder than much else more. This isnt to say there arent some highlights: his account of South Africa away and England at home - especially his 7 for 40 in Adelaide - will provide sweet tidings for Johnsons Australian readers looking for something soothing after Christmas (and the South African series).When you cant bring the matches to life, many ex-players understandably go where punters cant, by turning their autobiographies into titillating tales of the dressing room. To Johnsons great credit, it should be said, Resilient admirably resists joining this race to the bottom. Yes, he covers Homeworkgate and Katich v Clarke, but not gratuitously. It would be incorrect to put this down to any kind of naiveté or aloofness on Johnsons part. While he makes no pretensions to social over-analysis, he does have a discreet sense of old-school decency (as opposed to the chest-beating type), and it emerges in the book. So rather than view Australian crickets great in-house stoushes through the prism of base-level gossip, he places them in an altogether more relevant context: that of Australian crickets struggle for cohesion under Michael Clarkes influence. His notes are diplomatic, subtle, but communicate enough. Upon Ricky Pontings departuure, Johnson writes, When he left he took something with him, and while he describes Clarke as tactically excellent, there is a seismic difference in the superlatives he chooses to use for each captain.ddddddddddddBut where Johnsons cricket yarns might lack mystery, his upbringing does not - at least in a cricketing sense. While Dennis Lillees description of him as a once in a generation fast bowler probably belongs in cricket cliché scrabble, how Johnson arrived at the moment is probably less well known. He was a genuine roughy from the bush, who, at the time of Lillees spotting, claims he didnt even know he was quick. The image he paints of arriving two days later to the Australian U-19 camp in Adelaide, long-haired, clad in a black Slayer T-shirt, owning no cricket kit, illustrates just how naturally talented he must have been. It also leaves you desperate for a picture of Johnson bowling in the nets with said T-shirt and hair. His emergence from the back of Townsville nonetheless provides an instructive backdrop to his entire career. With respect to the concept of lifelong learning, here was a guy who was picking up how to play cricket while competing in the Sheffield Shield. Johnsons rawness of talent and technique lent a youth to him that seemed to remain for his career. To that end, its easy to forget that his formative cricketing years were spent alongside Shield warhorses like Jimmy Maher, Andy Bichel, Michael Kasprowicz, Andrew Symonds, Ashley Noffke and James Hopes. Johnson, who at one stage says that all he ever did was just wang it down - writes with pride about the influence of their old-school values on him. It was an influence that remained with him until the close of his Test career in 2015.The stories of so many champion players tell of being chastened by early and unexpected failure, and Johnsons mid-career walk through the shadows of cricketing decline are surely as dark as any. His description of the relentless carousel of international cricket travel, and the collapse of his body, technique and confidence, does help the reader appreciate the triumph that followed. We all know the Barmy Army song about him, but to properly consider that Johnson often could not rid his mind of it is illustrative of the difficult mental space he occupied for years.The book isnt written completely in Johnsons voice, however. There are welcome flourishes of content from people close to him, most of whom exist outside the insular cricketing sphere. Their inclusion here speaks of a man who never originally defined himself through his performances, but one who nonetheless harnessed his considerable abilities to achieve greatly in an unerringly human way.Mitchell Johnson: Resilient by Mitchell Johnson ABC Books, 2016 A$49.95 ' ' '