Dizzy returns

The prospect of reuniting Australia's most successful pace combination does, at first, sound like cause for a pre-emptive tickertape parade before the Ashes, writes Alex Brown.

Any thoughts of McGrath and Gillespie returning to lead the attack in a throwback to a golden period of Australian cricket would seem unrealistic, however nice an image it may be for the romantics.

Chloe Saltau, of the The Age, finds out that "Dizzy" didn't expect the call up and was "getting ready to play for the Yorky boys".