Monty Panesar will become a target for Australian crowds if he makes the Ashes tour, according to a report in The Age by Geoff McClure.

Brett Lee is ready, er, to bowl another maiden over on Saturday when he marries Liz Kemp

Andrew Hilditch’s life away from the limelight has finished after he was promoted to chairman of Australia’s selectors following the resignation of Trevor Hohns

Shane Warne just can’t stay out of the news pages

After the ICC’s report about racism in Australian crowds, Trevor Marshallsea writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about whether spectators will be able to call next year’s tourists “Pommy bastards” .

Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald South Africa’s first-Test defeat doesn’t seem to have happened

The final round of the Pura Cup starts today and five teams are in with a chance of meeting Queensland, the sixth side, in the final

Reaction to Australia’s Test squad still dominates the newspapers and Dean Jones tells The Australian the sacking of Brad Hodge for Damien Martyn could open the door for Matthew Hayden’s one-day return .

Damien Martyn’s plans to attend U2’s Melbourne concert have been scrapped, as Alex Brown reports in the Sydney Morning Herald .

The Australian Cricketers’ Association’s new Legends Tour hits the Queensland outback town of Longreach, where Mark Taylor tells The Courier-Mail Glenn McGrath’s current lay-off could be helpful , and Rodney Hogg supports his bowling brother.

Alex Brown writes in the The Age how Australia’s thinking for the Test squad didn’t get any clearer over the weekend.

A productive day for The Courier-Mail’s Ben Dorries who apparently discovers the South Africans have been giggling at the omission of Jason Gillespie .

Alex Brown reports in The Age about Australia’s desperate search for fast bowlers ahead of the South Africa Test tour.

A photograph claiming to be of Don Bradman will go to auction next week

Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald Glenn McGrath’s withdrawal from the South Africa tour means Australia’s selectors may soon be pondering a move that until recently has been considered cricketing high treason .

Darren Lehmann and Mark Waugh have backed Phil Jaques’s delayed re-entry into the one-day squad

A Johannesburg DJ disrupts the sleep of Australian players before the Twenty20 match on Friday with a host of prank calls

Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald Damien Martyn's right index finger should come with its own M-rating

Trevor Marshallsea reports in the Sydney Morning Herald about Moises Henriques, the boom New South Wales allrounder who is in the squad for the ING Cup final on Sunday.

Ricky Ponting writes in his column in The Australian about his expectations for the South Africa tour .