Cricket News

Glenn McGrath is at it again, proclaiming Australia will win the forthcoming Ashes series 5-0 despite being left red-faced after the same prediction 18 months ago in England

McGrath predicts another whitewash

Shane Warne made a strong return in his first match of the season in Australia and then announced he was ready to turn it on again during the Ashes

Warne ready for another Ashes campaign

Stuart Clark, the Australian fast bowler, has been named the ambassador for Australia's Special Olympics cricket team

Clark named ambassador for Special Olympics team

Darren Lehmann, the South Australia captain, has pushed for Greg Chappell to take over from John Buchanan as coach of Australia

Lehmann backs Chappell to coach Australia

07-Oct-2006•Cricinfo staff

Lillee tips Johnson for Ashes

Dennis Lillee says Mitchell Johnson, the Queensland fast bowler, could be in the running for an Ashes berth if he performs strongly in the early part of the Australian domestic season

07-Oct-2006•Cricinfo staff

Rotating strike key to Katich's sheet-anchor role - Marsh

Geoff Marsh has said that for Simon Katich to remain in the one-day team and play the sheet-anchor role, he must rotate the strike and build partnerships

Michael Vaughan's "small window of opportunity" for the Ashes has been rubbished by John Buchanan as a "smokescreen" after he consulted with Jason Gillespie, who recently returned from a stint with Yorkshire, on Vaughan's condition

Buchanan dismisses Vaughan gossip

Graham Yallop has said that having only one Victorian player (Shane Warne)in the Test team will hurt the state's future cricket

Yallop laments Victorian absence in Test side

Shane Warne has decided not to play in any of Victoria's one-day games for the season mainly because of the Ashes schedule

Warne to skip Victoria's one-day games

Martin Love will join Warwickshire next season on a one-year contract

Love signs for Warwickshire

Tasmania has been added to the list of venues for the forthcoming Ashes Exhibition tour of Australia, in which the original Ashes urn, plus over 30 other unique artefacts charting the shared cricket history of England and Australia, will put on display to

Tasmania added to Ashes Urn tour

Brad Hodge is likely to open the batting for Victoria's one-day side in coming season

Hodge likely to open for Victoria

Michael Kasprowicz, the Australian fast bowler, has sustained a back injury, jeopardising his chances of making the Australian squad for the Ashes next month

Kasprowicz sidelined with back injury

Dan Cullen has replaced Stuart Clark in Australia's squad for the Champions Trophy

Dan Cullen replaces injured Clark

Brett Lee has pledged to put country ahead of family and will take the field for Australia in the first Ashes Test at Brisbane next month, even though his wife Liz is due to give birth to their first child on the eve of the match

Lee puts country before family

Stuart Clark, the Australian fast bowler, has been excluded from Australia's campaign for the Champions Trophy after sustaining a thigh injury

Stuart Clark out of Champions Trophy

Cricket Australia have announced that Ford Australia will be the new partner for the domestic one-day competition for the 2006-07 season

New sponsor unveiled for domestic one-day tournament

James Sutherland, the chief executive of Cricket Australia, is concerened about the increasing number of reports on Australian players for bad on-field behaviour over the last year

Australian players warned about conduct