Smith claims 'experienced' Michael Di Venuto behind his 'smoot...

You might have heard of him. His name is Michael Di Venuto. He played nine one-day internationals for Australia and 336 first-class matches for Tasmania, Durham, Derbyshire and Sussex. For the past two years, he's been Australia's batting coach. ...

STEVE Smith singled out Australia's batting coach Michael Di Venuto for special praise after Smith's amazing 2014 won him the Allan Border Medal at a gala dinner in Sydney. The 25-year-old became the youngest recipient of the prestigious award ...

Prahran's Nathan McNally sends one down against Footscray-Edgewater on day one. Picture: Valeriu Campan Source: News Corp Australia IT meant nothing but it meant something, a Prahran supporter said after the True Blues batted all day to go to stumps ...

Vettori says Aussies always impressive but doesn't see much between the sides Dan Vettori (right), will today play his 81st international match against Australia. Photo / Brett Phibbs Dan Vettori's ODI debut was at Adelaide, December 7, 1997. He ...

Mohali, February-April 2013 One by one, they filed in. Captain Michael Clarke, coach Mickey Arthur, manager Gavin Dovey, assistant coaches Steve Rixon, Michael Di Venuto and Ali de Winter, analyst Dene Hills, physio Alex Kountouris, strength and ...

While most big teams appear to have brought an armada of support staff, India is thriving by doing things differently The trend at this World Cup seems to be about specialisation and micro-analysis, but for Team India it appears bigger is not ...

Nathan McNally lets go with his leggie against St Kilda at Toorak Park last Saturday. Picture: Chris Eastman Source: News Corp Australia FROM bowling a two-piece ball on synthetic wickets at Eildon Park to establishing himself as an all-rounder at ...

Jonathan Ang scored a pair of goals and the Peterborough Petes rode a five-goal first period to a 6-3 win over the Windsor Spitfires on Pink in the Rink night before 3,135 fans at the PMC on Saturday night. Pink in the Rink was huge tonight ...

With those three simple words, acting Australian cricket captain Steve Smith announced himself as a good bloke. Here's what we mean by that. Over the years, your correspondent has interviewed his fair share of big name sports stars. When you meet ...