Siddle back on right track for Ashes
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
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Chloe Saltau reports in the Age on Peter Siddle’s encouraging recovery from injury as the Test bowler sets his sights on England.
Siddle returned from South Africa with instructions to allow the stress reactions that recurred in his left foot to heal, and although he is still three weeks away from bowling, the first steps have been encouraging. "All that is actually feeling really good now. I've been running the last week and it's pulled up fine."
He is using the enforced rest to lay the foundations for his first Ashes series, get home to his family and mates in Morwell and see as many North Melbourne games as he can. The latter proved an instant ice-breaker with Australian captain and fellow Kangaroos fanatic Ricky Ponting, who during the South African tour declared that the 24-year-old "typifies everything that it is to be an Australian cricketer and to wear a baggy green cap".
In the Sydney Morning Herald Andrew Stevenson writes about two of the major problems facing world cricket: how to cope with the explosion of the IPL and the Twenty20 format, and how to deal with the security headaches that have confirmed Pakistan's no-go status.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo