Melbourne, Jan 2 (ANI): Shane Watson and his fiance Lee Furlong are supporting a cause close to their hearts-they are the proud ambassadors of McGrath Foundation.
McGrath Foundation is the charity set up in honour of breast cancer victim Jane, wife of retired Australian [...]
Melbourne, Dec.25 (ANI): Pakistan opening batsman Salman Butt has said that his team has an advantage over the Aussies, as the hosts lacks quality spinners in their attack.
Butt said Australia would badly miss fast bowler Glenn McGrath and master leg spinner Shane Warne during the series, and underlined that South Africa’s series win in Australia [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 24 (ANI): Pakistan middle-order batsman Misbah-ul-Haq is expecting a tough series against Australia, but has also highlighted that the Aussie bowling attack lacks the experience and class that used to be there in the form [...]
Islamabad, Dec.13 (ANI): Despite his team’s less than a satisfactory show in the on-going Test series against New Zealand, Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam is confident that his squad would do well in the forthcoming series against the ‘beatable’ Australia.
Laughing-off reports about the series Down Under to be his last assignment, Alam said his Pakistan can [...]
Perth, Dec 11(ANI): Australian fast bowler Doug Bollinger has revealed that experience now counts for little as the team has adopted a new attitude of listening to rookies.
The Australian team, which has for long been a hub of experienced players like Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Mathew [...]
Sydney, Dec.11 (ANI): Right-arm fast bowler Peter Siddle has spoken out boldly in defence of Australia’s inexperienced pace attack, and declared that he will be firing up for the third and final Test against the West Indies to be played at Perth.
Siddle has shouldered great responsibility despite [...]
Sydney, Nov 23(ANI): Australian fast bowler Peter Siddle has said that along with fellow fast bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Ben Hilfenhaus, he intends to create a reputation as fearsome as their predecessors.
Siddle also said that the gang is eager to [...]
Brisbane (Australia), Nov.23 (ANI): Fearing another mass exodus of senior players in the coming years, leg-spinning great Shane Warne has urged the national selection committee to avoid becoming too comfortable with up-and-down results in a period of transition, and to plan for the future on a priority basis.
Warne said the selectors should look to revitalising [...]
Melbourne, Nov 15 (ANI): Michael Clarke will take on spin-legend Shane Warne in next week’s All Stars Twenty20 blockbuster, after he persuaded chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch how keen he was to play.
“I’ve spoken to Andrew Hilditch and told him I’m really keen to play. I think he’s happy for me to play,” Clarke [...]
Sydney, Nov 15(ANI): Former Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath has defended his role with a real estate firm that lured investors with allegedly misleading returns, where some investors have claimed that the returns have not eventuated and in others went backwards.
McGrath said that he felt for those families experiencing financial difficulty, but added that investors who [...]
London, Nov.12 (ANI): England fast bowler Stuart Broad should model himself on former Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath, feels former captain and fast bowler Ian Botham.
In an article for The Mirror, Botham says that the biggest career decision for Broad this winter will be to decide [...]
Sydney, Nov 10(ANI): Australian bowling legend Glenn McGrath has said that pace spearhead Brett Lee can be a major influence in the series against West Indies, and has a long way to go in Test cricket.
Questions have been raised about Lee’s ability to survive a Test match following his elbow injury.
“I think Brett’s still [...]
Nagpur/New Delhi, Oct. 29 (ANI):Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes his limited overs bowling attack is still missing the late innings skills of former fast bowler Glenn McGrath, more than two and a half years after he retired.
While Cricket Australia has praised the rebuilding efforts that have taken place since McGrath and other members of the [...]
Melbourne, October 21 (ANI): Nathan Bracken, Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson, Simon Katich and Shaun Tait are set to leave women drooling after stripping off for a new calendar.
The Australian cricketers posed for the 3 Mobile Men of Cricket calendar, priced at 29.95 dollars, the second instalment of an idea to raise funds for the McGrath [...]
Bangalore, Oct 18 (IANS) No Indian team was left in contention for the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20 after Banglaore Royal Challengers thrashed Delhi Daredevils by eight wickets in the Super Eight match at M. Chinnaswamy stadium here Saturday.
Chasing a victory target of 139 runs, Royal Challengers reached the target in just 15.1 overs. [...]
New Delhi, Oct 13(ANI): Former Australian legend Glenn McGrath will soon be doing double duty, that of representing the Delhi Daredevils and as well as being the bowling coach for New South Wales.
McGrath, who is in India playing for Daredevils in the Champions League, has accepted [...]
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Following is the scoreboard of the Champions League Twenty20 Group D match between Delhi Daredevils and Wayamba Eleven here Sunday:
Delhi Daredevils
Tillekaratane Dilshan c Mubarak b Welegedara 10
Virender Sehwag run out (Jayawardene/de Zoysa) 66
Gautam Gambhir lbw b Mendis 3
Dinesh Karthik st de Zoysa b Mendis 61
Owais Shah b Welegedara [...]
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Glenn McGrath showed his old mastery with the ball while Virender Sehwag and Dinesh Karthik struck explosive half centuries to breathe life into Delhi Daredevils’ Champions League campaign with a 50-run win over Wayamba Eleven in a Group B match here Sunday.
Sehwag (66) and Karthik (61) shared a 67-run stand [...]
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Ishant Sharma might not be bowling at his best, but he would certainly be heartened by Steve Waugh’s encouraging words. The former Australia captain sees a bit of Glenn McGrath in the lanky Indian pacer.
‘Ishant is an encouraging potential. I see a bit of Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillispie in [...]
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Injury and age is fast catching up with him, but Australian speedster Brett Lee says the tag of ‘world’s fastest bowler’ is too dear to his heart and he will do whatever it takes to maintain his lethal pace of 150 kmph.
The last couple of seasons have not seen Lee [...]
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Former Australia pacer Glenn McGrath will replace injured England batsman Paul Collingwood in the Delhi Daredevils squad while Stiaan van Zyl will come in place of Richard Levi in the Caper Cobras squad in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament Oct 8-23.
Both sides had sought the approval of the tournament’s technical [...]
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Former Australia pacer Glenn McGrath will replace injured England batsman Paul Collingwood in the Delhi Daredevils squad while Stiaan van Zyl will come in place of Richard Levi in the Caper Cobras squad in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament Oct 8-23.
Both sides had sought the approval of the tournament’s technical [...]
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Australian bowling great Glenn McGrath can be seen in action again. After failing to play in any of the matches in the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the summer, he is back in the Delhi Daredevils squad for the Champions League Twenty20.
McGrath replaces injured New Zealand [...]
Johannesburg, Sep.24 (ANI): Key Australian left-arm fast bowler Nathan Bracken has been ruled out of the Champions Trophy with a knee injury.
Bracken, who is the highest ranked ODI bowler in the Australian team and has the ability to swing the ball both ways and change-up speed has been an essential part of the squad over [...]
Islamabad, Sep.23 (ANI): Tainted Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif is set to return to international cricket on Wednesday in the Champions Trophy match against the West Indies.
The Pakistani team is yet to announce the final eleven for the match, but chances are that Asif, whose doping ban expired on Tuesday, would feature in [...]
Sydney, Aug.27 (ANI): Former Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath has told left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson not to overdo or over think things and keep things simple if he wants to reach his considerable potential as a Test match bowler.
McGrath, who has high hopes for Johnson and the other two members of Australia’s Ashes pace attack [...]
Sydney, Aug.27 (ANI): There have not been too many dark days in the life of former Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath, but he says that in January of this year, six months after his wife Jane’s passing, was a particularly trying time.
He had been working hard on a McGrath Breast Cancer Foundation function that was [...]
London, Aug.12 (ANI): Australian spin legend Shane Warne was thrilled yesterday when he was told that he would be inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in October.
“That’s fantastic news. It will be an absolute honour and privilege to join so many great Australian sportsmen and women in the Hall of Fame. So many [...]
Hampshire (UK), Aug.9 (ANI): Hampshire’s director for cricket operations Tim Tremlett is of the view that Australian fast bowler Stuart Clark is set to wreak more havoc in the Ashes series with his Glenn McGrath-like qualities.
Tremlett believes that Clark possesses the nagging accuracy and probing line and length to leave the required devastating impact.
Clark [...]
Melbourne, Aug 8 (ANI): Australian legend Glenn McGrath has advised skipper Ricky Ponting and his teammates to grin and bear the crowd abuse which is flaring during the Ashes.
McGrath insists Australia should try to have some fun with the crowd rather than antagonise them further.
Australia’s most successful fast bowler, who was regularly the target [...]
