Cricket News | Cricket Updates | Match Report

Not the Johnson of '09, but a fine imitation

To watch Mitchell Johnson zip the ball through at pace on a bouncy Potchefstroom pitch, to see him curve the ball just enough to trouble the batsmen, it was impossible not to think back to his tour of South Africa in early 2009

01-Nov-2011•Brydon Coverdale in Potchefstroom

Series at stake for rusty hosts

ESPNcricinfo previews the second ODI between South Africa and Australia in Centurion

22-Oct-2011•The Preview by Daniel Brettig

Australia cruise to win in rain-reduced match

Australia were inconvenienced more by rain than South Africa as they rampaged through the hosts in a truncated first ODI at Centurion, winning by 93 runs under Duckworth-Lewis calculations

19-Oct-2011•The Report by Daniel Brettig

Johnson 'in a good place' after Shield success

Mitchell Johnson is confident he will take on South Africa in good form after collecting five wickets to help Western Australia to victory in their Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania on Friday

15-Oct-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Johnson takes five in Warriors' win

Mitchell Johnson warmed up for Australia's Test tour of South Africa with a five-wicket haul that set up victory for Western Australia in a tense finish in Perth

14-Oct-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Butterworth fires, Johnson falls

Luke Butterworth's four wickets rolled Western Australia for 176 before Tasmania battled to 5 for 142 at stumps on day one of the Sheffield Shield match at the WACA ground

11-Oct-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Expensive Johnson costly for Coulter-Nile

Nathan Coulter-Nile has been squeezed out of the Western Australia XI for the Sheffield Shield opener because Mitchell Johnson cannot be relied upon to bowl in an economical fashion

11-Oct-2011•Daniel Brettig

Johnson relies on time and tide

Australia's enigmatic fast bowler Mitchell Johnson believes he can nab plenty of wickets in South Africa - simply by replicating the way he bowled in Sri Lanka

06-Oct-2011•Daniel Brettig

Hilditch believes Johnson should keep Test spot

Australia's acting chairman of selectors, Andrew Hilditch, does not believe Mitchell Johnson should be dropped from the Test side for the upcoming series in South Africa

28-Sep-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Cooley wants Johnson 'up and firing'

Australia's acting head coach, Troy Cooley, hopes the conditions in South Africa will help Mitchell Johnson regain his best form after a disappointing year

27-Sep-2011•Brydon Coverdale

Johnson 'hasn't lost his mojo' - Clarke

Australia's captain, Michael Clarke, does not believe Mitchell Johnson is past his best, but he has conceded the selectors will face a tough decision on which fast men to play in the first Test in South Africa

21-Sep-2011•ESPNcricinfo staff

Lessons aplenty for the visitors

Australia needs to show the capacity to learn quickly from the reverses of the first match, while Sri Lanka seek to extend a psychological advantage

07-Aug-2011•Daniel Brettig

McDermott tells Johnson to get a grip

Mitchell Johnson's first advice from the new Australian bowling coach Craig McDermott must have seemed fiendishly simple

12-Jul-2011•Daniel Brettig

Johnson says no to BBL

Mitchell Johnson has boldly turned his back on the Twenty20 Big Bash League in order to keep himself fit for one of Australia's most taxing Test match summers

12-Jul-2011•Daniel Brettig

Johnson to target Sehwag with short delivery

Mitchell Johnson has said Australia will target Virender Sehwag's rib-cage with the short delivery in a bid to get him out quickly during their World Cup quarter-final against India

22-Mar-2011•Brydon Coverdale in Ahmedabad

All-round Australia seal easy win

Australia's fast men had New Zealand gasping for breath at 73 for 6 but Nathan McCullum and Daniel Vettori dug in to push them to 206

25-Feb-2011•The Bulletin by Sriram Veera

Ponting confident pacemen can dominate

Ricky Ponting is confident Australia's pace attack can threaten every team in the World Cup, after they proved too good for Zimbabwe in the 91-run win in their opening game of the World Cup on Monday

22-Feb-2011•Brydon Coverdale

Australian pace too much for Zimbabwe

Australia began their World Cup campaign on a winning note, wrapping up an easy 91-run win over a Zimbabwean outfit with no answer to the pace battery of Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson

21-Feb-2011•The Bulletin by Liam Brickhill

Johnson happy to be back in Perth

It's been a difficult summer for Mitchell Johnson but he is back on a happy hunting ground for the last home game ahead of the World Cup

04-Feb-2011•Andrew McGlashan in Perth

Big chases prepare us for the World Cup - Clarke

Michael Clarke believes Australia's record run chase against England was the perfect preparation for the World Cup where large totals are going to dominate the tournament

02-Feb-2011•Andrew McGlashan at the SCG

7 8 9 10 11

Showing 161 - 180 of 450