Short break for Warne and McGrath

The retirements of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath didn’t last long. On Sunday they played a Twenty20 game, although it was a walk-in-the-park charity affair. AAP reports in the Sydney Morning Herald.

In the same paper Trevor Marshallsea’s Mad Monday column takes a light-hearted look for a better poem for the Ashes urn.

In The Australian Malcolm Conn explores Australia’s spin bowling stocks.