THE ROUTINE: Brett Lee, Australian Test Fast Bowler - the Best Way to Get Match-Fit Is to Hit the Beach - and Run 5km on Soft SandAt 26, Australian Brett Lee is one of the top strike bowlers in world cricket, and is likely to play a key role in the forthcoming Ashes series. ...
Fast bowler Mitchell Starc brings intensity to Australia's Test and white-ball teams with his exceptional speed and deadly bowling strategy - swinging the ball at high speeds while consistently delivering wickets proves him a lethal force on the pitch. He debuted in 2010, marking the start of ...
Left-armer Spencer Johnson has been ruled out of Australia's Twenty20 series against England and Scotland with a side strain. He got injured while participating in the Hundred competition for the Oval Invincibles last summer, amassing six wickets in five matches for Australia. Johnson has played...
Newlands has been a very telling centre point for one of Australia’s darkest days of cricket; if not the most. It stems back to before the Ashes of the summer just gone; heck, probably goes further back with the culture and “bully attitude” some talk about in world cricket. Australi...
Curious, I followed, to find a group of some twelve kids playing street cricket. With an old crate for a wicket, and a plank for a bat, their equipment was as elementary as you could imagine. Standing at the crease—having marked it in the dirt with his bare foot—was my little ...
Cricket: Muralitharan Completes Pakistan Demolition ; Sri Lanka 268 & 224 Pakistan 199 & 236 Sri Lanka Win by 57 Runs MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN finished with 10 wickets in the match as Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 57 runs on the final day of the second Test here yesterday to take... RAI Peshawa...
THE IoS PROFILE: Shane Warne; More Spinned against Than Spinning ; It May Be the Fast Bowlers of the Australian Cricket Team Who Get the Back-Page Headlines, but It Is Their Maverick Spinner Who Is Splashed All over the Front of the Tabloids. the Man They Call 'Hollywood' Is Still ...
A medium/quick seam bowler and successful coach, Wayne Clark played in 10 Tests for Australia - taking 44 wickets at 28.72. He coached Yorkshire to the County Championship title in 2001, their first since 1968, before moving home to coach Western Australia. ...
Byline: Guy Williams Guy.Williams@capnews.com.auCRICKET: It's been the biggest build-up for an Ashes series in recent times, and now, much to the delight of cricketing enthusiasts around the globe, it's here.Day one of the first Ashes Test against England begins at 9.30am today with ...