Melbourne, Jan. 4 (ANI): Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne has revealed he is keen to play in the Twenty20 Big Bash next year.
Warne was writing in his exclusive blog for the Daily Telegraph today.
Asked how many more years he would play IPL, and if [...]
Melbourne, Jan. 4 (ANI): Cricketing legends Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting have been urged to speak out against violence against Indian students following the brutal murder of Nitin Garg on Saturday night.
Gautam Gupta, a spokesman for the Federation of Indian Students in [...]
Sydney, Jan 4 (DPA) Shane Warne and other cricket superstars were Monday urged to condemn the latest assault on an Indian student in Australia.
The call from Gautam Gupta, spokesman for the Federation of Indian Students in Australia, followed the stabbing death Saturday of 21-year-old accounting graduate Nitin Garg.
‘There is a lot of frustration within the [...]
Sydney, Jan.2 (ANI): The second Test match between Pakistan and Australia starting Sunday (January 3) here would see two players from both the teams returning to the place where they had made their Test debuts five years ago.
Both Australian all-rounder Shane Watson and Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif [...]
Sydney, Jan.1 (ANI): Incumbent Australian spinner Nathan Hauritz said today that upcoming leg-spinner Steven Smith is definitely a Baggy Green prospect, but added that the ownership on the Australian spin position was his for the time being.
Hauritz declared he’s going nowhere as rookie Steven Smith continued his snowballing momentum towards international selection.
After taking his maiden [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 31 (ANI): Thrilled with his second innings five wicket haul against Pakistan in the just concluded MCG Test, Australian off-spinner Nathan Hauritz believes that he can repeat the same feat in the second Test at the SCG.
“I’m trying to get batsmen out more [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 28 (ANI): Cricket Australia’s newly launched campaign ‘Know When to Declare’ – aimed at responsible drinking – matched Aussie captain Ricky Ponting’s state of mind on Sunday who finally declared the innings at 5 for 454.
The score was the smallest total he had ever declared [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 28 (ANI): Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne has said that his return to top class competition is “highly doubtful”, despite a personal plea from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Blogging live with the Herald Sun website today, Warne said [...]
Melbourne, Dec 26 (IANS) Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif said that one day he will lift the lid on his darkest days that saw him tossed out of international cricket after testing positive for drugs in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Asif was banned for a year after he tested positive for banned substance Nandrolone while [...]
Durban (S. Africa), Dec. 26 (ANI): Cricket South Africa’s decision to zero in on Graeme Smith as captain in March, 2003, when he had just turned 22, has proved to be the most inspired choice ever made.
At that time, [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 25 (ANI): Pakistan cricket captain Mohammad Yousuf will remind his team that brilliance alone won’t be enough to beat Australia in the first Test at the MCG, starting on Saturday.
Yousuf said he was happy with the way his young side [...]
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 [...]
Sydney, Dec 23 (IANS) With none of the Australian spinners getting a vote of confidence from the national and state-contracted players to be automatically selected, it is a big blow for the motley crowd of tweakers across the country.
In an annual poll conducted by the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA), it was revealed that Australia is [...]
Melbourne, Dec 20 (ANI): Shane Warne and his ex-wife Simone Callahan seem to be very much together again, and are hoping to celebrate Christmas by sealing the deal on a new family home, it has emerged.
The pair is set to buy a luxury home in Middle Brighton for 9 million dollars, reports the Age.
Despite repeated [...]
Sydney, Dec 18(ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has said that though Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has been a superb replacement for Adam Gilchrist, he has miles to go before he can be compared with the man considered to be one of the best wicketkeeper-batsmen in the history of the game.
He also highlighted that Gilchrist [...]
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.12 (ANI): Middle order Australian batsman Marcus North has rubbished calls for Michael Hussey axing from the Australia side, as he prepares for his first home Test at the WACA against the West Indies, starting on Wednesday.
North has scored [...]
Melbourne, Dec.12 (ANI): Former Australian leg spinner Shane Warne has called on the national selectors to sack veteran Mike Hussey.
Warne believes young opener Phillip Hughes, who scored 75 against Queensland at the Gabba yesterday under the eye of selector Jamie Cox, should be recalled with Shane Watson shifting down the order.
According to the Daily [...]
Brisbane (Australia), Dec.11 (ANI): Former Australian spinners, including Shane Warne, Stuart MacGill, Ashley Mallett, Terry Jenner and head Center Of Excellence (COE) coach Greg Chappell have in principle accepted a suggestion to launch an Australian Idol-type series to unearth new spin stars.
Under the proposed series, young spin hopefuls could audition before the cameras and be [...]
East London (S. Africa), Dec.8 (ANI): England batsman Kevin Pietersen takes it as a compliment that he runs a gauntlet of hate every time he bats in South Africa.
England’s star batsman says the abuse puts him in a category with modern greats Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne and Graeme Smith.
That trio are booed or [...]
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Former Hampshire player Sean Morris was Monday appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of Rajasthan Royals.
The 41-year-old Sean will focuss on development of Rajasthan Royals brand outside India.
‘Sean represents a great addition to the outstanding existing management team. He brings a strong mix of skills, and a real enthusiasm [...]
Adelaide (Australia), Dec.2 (ANI): West Indies team manager and former fast bowler Joel Garner has said if the world’s leading cricket nations opt for pursuing a two-tier system for Test playing nations, it would be a very selfish move.
Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne had voiced the idea earlier this week after the tourists were rolled [...]
London, Nov 25 (ANI): Hair loss cure adverts featuring cricket legends Shane Warne and Graham Gooch have been banned after complains from newspaper readers.
The Advanced Hair Studio’s ads suggest that laser therapy technology and “strand by strand” techniques could put an end to thinning hair.
Aussie spinner Warne was shown as saying in the ads: [...]
Melbourne, Nov 23 (IANS) Australian spin great Shane Warne has given a reality check to cricket authorities around the world saying that Test cricket needs a fresh lease of life.
Warne said the fact that Test finds limited fans in majority of cricket playing nations is a cause of concern and International Cricket Council and Cricket [...]
Sydney, Nov 23(ANI): Tasmania spinner Jason Krejza has pulled out his version of the ‘doosra’ in bid for a recall to the national squad.
Krejza used the ‘doosra’ during a Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales. He was bowling to Usman Khawaja, when [...]
Melbourne, Nov.23 (ANI): Former Australian leg spinner Shane Warne has called on the game’s managers to take urgent steps to keep Test cricket alive and popular among the spectators
Lamenting the unusually quiet surrounding the forthcoming Test series between Australia and the West Indies, Warne writes in an article for the Daily Telegraph says: ” There [...]
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.22 (ANI): Former Australian leg spinner Shane Warne believes that off-spinner Nathan Hauritz is the country’s number one spinner.
“I think Nathan Hauritz is doing a pretty good job,” Warne said before training in the nets for the first time in six months.
“First of all, the sign of any good international cricketer is if you [...]
Brisbane, Nov. 22 (ANI): West Indian cricket team coach David Williams has warned the Australians that the visitors will not to wilt under pressure from the hosts this summer, even as former players Shane Warne and Dennis Lillee have come up with doomsday predictions.
The West Indies has declared they will not lose their composure if [...]
