Steve Waugh

Movement of players within New Zealand's domestic cricket has resulted in a re-balancing of player experience, especially when international players are taken out of the picture

Geoff Marsh, coach of the Zimbabwe team, has rated Steve Waugh as the second-best Australian cricketer, next only to Don Bradman

Sachin Tendulkar played down the fact that he had recently been overtaken by Steve Waugh in total Test centuries scored, saying that the two batsmen were not in competition with each other

Despite losing both Tests against Australia by an innings, Bangladesh did their reputation plenty of good

Steve Waugh admitted that he had his sights set on Sunil Gavaskar's Test record tally of 34 centuries but said that even if he did wrest the top position for himself, it would be for a short time only

Four wickets in 14 balls doomed Bangladesh to their 20th Test defeat in 21 matches when Australia grabbed victory by an innings and 98 runs at Cairns this morning to complete a 2-0 sweep of the series

Steve Waugh: the first man to score 150 against all Test opposition All three Australian batsmen who took guard at Cairns' Bundaberg Rum Stadium today walked off with milestones that became millstones around Bangladesh's neck as the

Darren Lehmann on his way to a superb hundred Darren Lehmann was in rampant mood as he scored his second century in two innings against Bangladesh at Cairns today

Pardon me for interrupting, but in a game which revels in spurious statistics there is one that defies belief doing the rounds in New Zealand cricket at the moment

The rhetoric was familiar, but after a less than impressive performance in the first Test at Darwin, Steve Waugh's assertion that Australia would be looking to improve carried a little more weight than usual

Australia, as expected, won their first Test against Bangladesh by an innings

The second day of the first Test between Australia and Bangladesh was significant for the centuries by Steve Waugh and Darren Lehmann, and Bangladesh's spirited display in the field and with the bat

Test cricket came to Australia's Top End today, when Steve Waugh won the toss and put Bangladesh in to bat on the drop-in pitch at the Marrara Oval, a cosy oasis of green in the dry old Northern Territory

This is the first in an occasional series of comments on the New Zealand cricket scene by Wisden CricInfo New Zealand Editor Lynn McConnell

Australia have decided to strengthen their batting for their first Test against Bangladesh, and have reverted to a four-bowler strategy

Much as Bangladesh would prefer it otherwise, the attention of the cricket world is going to be focussed on their performance against Australia for all the wrong reasons, when the first Test begins at Darwin tomorrow

Ricky Ponting has admitted that Australia can let themselves down with their behaviour in the field, and the game of cricket has been tarnished as a result

Steve Waugh has promised fans that Australia would "put on a good show" when his side takes on bottom-ranked Bangladesh in the first of two Tests at Darwin this week

Steve Waugh has said that he would like to retire at the end of Australia's tour of India in 2004