Johnson driven to succeed

Admit it. Part of you wonders why Mitchell Johnson is in India with the Australian one-day squad for the Champions Trophy, writes Alex Brown in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Simple answer would be this: express left-arm bowlers, particularly those with the ability to swing the ball, have been the rarest of commodities in Australian cricket for more than a century. Surely, though, there is more to Johnson's rise than a mere attempt by administrators to match a man with a job description. Perhaps, then, the answer lies in the battles Johnson has waged, and seems to be winning, against his body and mind.