Players / Mitchell Johnson

World Cup 2015

Where are the yorkers?

Feb 18, 2015: Fielding restrictions and inventive batsmen have made bowlers develop other skills in addition to targeting toes, but common sense and the fundamentals can still work

World Cup 2015

'We want to play perfect cricket' - Johnson

Feb 17, 2015: Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has said that the side has a goal of playing 'perfect cricket' in the World Cup and aim to keep getting better with each match

World Cup 2015

Focussed Johnson ready for England

Feb 9, 2015: Mitchell Johnson wants to focus on one game at a time with a long year ahead for Australia, starting at the World Cup

World Cup 2015

Johnson not coveting new ball

Feb 2, 2015: Mitchell Johnson is open to bowling first change for Australia during the World Cup as the best way to balance his speed and menace with the new-ball swing of Mitchell Starc

Carlton Mid Tri-Series 2014-15

Johnson ready for one-day return

Jan 30, 2015: Mitchell Johnson is ready for his first match in more than a month after a much-needed rest period over January

Special and brutal

Jan 30, 2015: Mitchell Johnson's savage spell not only made the South Africans shiver, it broke their intimidating record in Centurion

Carlton Mid ODI Tri-Series 2014-15

Johnson searches for pace

Jan 24, 2015: Mitchell Johnson sought to regain the pace he has been missing for much of this summer in a private bowling session at the SCG nets on Saturday evening, to help Australia's coaches gauge his readiness for an immediate return to the team in Monday's ODI ag

Australia v India, 4th Test, Sydney

Johnson ruled out of SCG Test

Jan 3, 2015: Mitchell Johnson has been ruled out of the fourth Test against India in Sydney after complaining of hamstring soreness

India in Australia 2014-15

How Johnson rose above all to create magic

Jan 2, 2015: When the clock is ticking but the drop-in pitch is refusing to misbehave, when everything is hitting the middle of the bat, you need a man to rise above the conditions, you need some magic. On day five in Melbourne, Mitchell Johnson created magic

India in Australia 2014-15

Australia to keep testing Kohli's composure

Jan 2, 2015: Australia will keep baiting Virat Kohli at the SCG after being convinced they managed to distract him from the task at hand midway through his commanding 169 in India's first innings of the Boxing Day Test

India in Australia 2014-15

Johnson wants shorter spells

Jan 2, 2015: Mitchell Johnson will ask Australia's captain Steven Smith and coach Darren Lehmann for shorter spells akin to those he fired down at England last summer

Australia v India, 3rd Test, Melbourne, 3rd day

No reason to respect Johnson - Kohli

Dec 28, 2014: Virat Kohli said he was left with no good reason to respect Mitchell Johnson and some of the other Australia players after verbals flew "throughout the day" at the MCG

India in Australia 2014-15

A month of reflection and flashbacks

Dec 23, 2014: Cricket has picked itself up and carried on in the weeks since Phillip Hughes' death, but its emotional impact has never been far from the surface

India in Australia 2014-15

'Verbals got me going' - Johnson

Dec 23, 2014: Mitchell Johnson has described how India's cricketers played into his hands by revving him up at the start of his first innings at the Gabba, an innings of 88 that effectively wrested control of the match from India

Australia news

Johnson says 'mind games' will never end

Dec 22, 2014: Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has reinforced the importance of "psychological warfare", arguing it is imperative to intimidate the opposition

Australia v India, 2nd Test, Brisbane, 4th day

Batting confidence breeds Johnson's bowling belief

Dec 20, 2014: Whenever Mitchell Johnson the batsman has clicked in Test cricket, Mitchell Johnson the bowler has not disappointed either. It was no different at the Gabba

Australia v India, 2nd Test, Brisbane, 3rd day

Smith and Johnson pick perfect time to reap

Dec 19, 2014: Australia were in trouble when Mitchell Johnson joined Steven Smith and began a partnership that could have snatched the Test from India's grip

Australia v India, 2nd Test, Brisbane, 2nd day

Monster Johnson goes missing

Dec 18, 2014: Perhaps it is the death of Phillip Hughes, perhaps it is the heat, perhaps it is the absence of Ryan Harris, but Mitchell Johnson is not as scary as he used to be

Australia v India, 1st Test, Adelaide, 3rd day

Johnson and Kohli fight their demons

Dec 11, 2014: From the bouncer that struck him on the badge of his helmet to the bouncer that dismissed him, Virat Kohli's century, and his duel with Mitchell Johnson, made for compelling human drama

Australia v India, 1st Test, Adelaide, 3rd day

The terrifying bouncer

Dec 11, 2014: When Mitchell Johnson hit Virat Kohli on the helmet with a bouncer, Australian fielders came from everywhere. Mental disintegration had gone, replaced by the cricket unity. Two teams, one family.