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My life after cricket - Lee
No prizes for guessing the career that Brett Lee has got lined up for himself when he finishes with cricket.
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
No prizes for guessing the career that Brett Lee has got lined up for himself when he finishes with cricket.
Lee may not be able to make sweet music with the ball as injury has sidelined him for the World Cup - but he’s already thinking about his future plans off-pitch.
And, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reveals, someone who’s sold more records than Elvis or the Beatles reckons he could have a glitzy time of it.
Full postThe Hoff prepares for Australia reunion
In the Sun-Herald Paul Hoffmann, who is from central Queensland but is playing for Scotland, looks back at his run-ins with Australia’s current players
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
In the Sun-Herald Paul Hoffmann, who is from central Queensland but is playing for Scotland, looks back at his run-ins with Australia’s current players. In Hoffmann’s younger days Adam Gilchrist hit him for his first six, he had Ricky Ponting dropped and picked up Andrew Symonds first ball. On Wednesday he will get another look at them in a World Cup match.
"Glenn McGrath and I opened the bowling together in a possibles-probables game at Sydney University. I chatted to him before that game, because he was a boy from the bush as well who had turned up in Sydney and lived for a year or two in a caravan. He was a real gentleman and he gave me some insoles when I told him I had struggled with shin splints."
Ponting goes one-on-on with team-mates
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Ricky Ponting talks to the Sun-Herald’s Chloe Saltau about his captaincy and how he is having individual chats with his players ahead of the World Cup.
“One of the first things I did when we got here was to hold one-on-one meetings with all the players," Ponting said. "I asked them about their roles, if they were confused about their roles within the team. The responses I got were really positive.”
The story of Canada's Australian captain
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
In The Australian, Jon Pierik speaks to one of the more interesting characters at the World Cup, the man who smacked the fastest World Cup century in 2003, Canada’s captain John Davison.
Born in British Columbia to Australian parents, he moved to Australia aged five weeks. "My parents were over on a teaching exchange in Vancouver. My sister and myself were born in Canada," he said. "As soon as I was born, we moved back to Australia." It was only when he applied for a passport for a school trip to New Zealand when he was 16 that he realised he wasn't officially an Australian. "I was told I had to apply for a Canadian passport. I couldn't believe it," he said.
Ganguly and Dravid hold court
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Sourav Ganguly spoke to NDTV's Prannoy Roy at the Eden Gardens before he left for the Caribbean. The interview will be telecast on the NDTV channel at 8pm on Saturday.
Also see Prannoy Roy's interview with Rahul Dravid on the art of captaincy.
Full postI do enjoy captaincy. I see it as a great honour and privilege and I have enjoyed it. I have enjoyed everything that comes with it. I think you accept that there will be tough days as a captain. Not everyone is going to suddenly become the sort of good boy and then turn into a sort of whipping boy at some stage.
India look to make hay at Bay
The Hindustan Times ' Pradeep Magazine soaks in the sights and sounds of Montego Bay and talks about India's cricketers gearing up for the World Cup.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
The Hindustan Times' Pradeep Magazine soaks in the sights and sounds of Montego Bay and talks about India's cricketers gearing up for the World Cup.
The Indian cricketers who start their campaign from Trinidad almost a week from now, have to keep their minds from soaking in too much of this holiday atmosphere and remind themselves every moment of the day that they are here for the business of playing and not on a playful binge.
Australia still in a spin
Jon Pierik writes in the Herald Sun about the Australian slow bowlers holding a “spin summit” .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Jon Pierik writes in the Herald Sun about the Australian slow bowlers holding a “spin summit”.
Front-line spinner Brad Hogg and part-timers Brad Hodge and Michael Clarke had a detailed chat a day after realising how much of a key role they will have to play.
In The Australian Kevin Pietersen tells how he didn’t think Glenn McGrath was fast enough to break his rib.
Full postPoker for fun
Cricketers are not afforded, for want of a better word, the same wages as footballers
Will Luke
25-Feb-2013
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Cricketers are not afforded, for want of a better word, the same wages as footballers. But fortunately for their wives and girlfriends, they don't spend as much on gambling either. Following recent reports of a culture of gambling pervading team morale at West Ham, the Daily Mail have conducted their own investigation into the ruinous evils of poker games in the England (cricket) team.
The six poker-school regulars are batting coach Matt Maynard, who has supplied the cards and the counters, plus Michael Vaughan, Freddie Flintoff, Andrew Strauss, Paul Collingwood and Jon Lewis.
An England spokesman said: "The money involved is minimal. We regard it as a good relaxing way for the players to spend time bonding together out of their rooms. I don’t think anyone’s going to be too upset at being $10 down after a fun evening."
Full postLack of spin a worry for Australia
Jon Pierik, writing in the Herald Sun , worries about Australia’s lack of quality spin options during a tournament where the pitches are expected to offer turn.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Jon Pierik, writing in the Herald Sun, worries about Australia’s lack of quality spin options during a tournament where the pitches are expected to offer turn.
The two top-ranked sides lack a match-winning spinner, with Australia relying on left-arm wrist spinner Brad Hogg while the Proteas will forge ahead with an all-pace attack.
AAP reports Viv Richards saying Australia do not have the ability to hit back after losing to England and New Zealand last month.
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