'I'll be at the World Cup' - McGrath
Sunday is column day
The Surfer
25-Feb-2013
Sunday is column day. Glenn McGrath is not worried about his form or the recent criticism of Jeff Thomson and Steve Waugh. In the Sunday Telegraph he also blames the media for focussing too much on results rather than processes.
To all the doomsayers out there, I have absolutely no doubt I'll be playing in next year's World Cup. The reason I say this is because I feel as good as I've ever felt.
Darren Berry, the former Victoria wicketkeeper, wonders in the Sunday Age about Australia’s 2007 World Cup attack and is not sure whether McGrath will be there.
Dennis Lillee aside, McGrath is the greatest fast bowler this country has produced. He will be an important part of the Ashes campaign next summer but beyond that is hard to predict.
Mark Waugh defends the mid-series rest of Ricky Ponting, his golf mate and former team-mate, in the Sun-Herald.
Ponting has been given two games off in the middle of the limited-overs series. So what? I say he deserves it and he needs it. I can't recall the last time Punter's name wasn't on the team sheet. Like Glenn McGrath, like Adam Gilchrist, he's only human and he needs to freshen up mentally and physically. I played 18 holes of golf with Ricky on Friday and we were half expecting photographers to jump out of the bushes to snap him selfishly enjoying himself.