MacGill, Mallett give fresh spin

Australia's newly-appointed spin mentor Stuart MacGill has warned the team against bringing in Xavier Doherty for the second Test as he feels the left-arm tweaker is "not a Test bowler" and the move would boomerang on the visitors.

Source: Herald Sun STUART MacGill is adamant Fawad Ahmed should be selected in Michael Clarke's Ashes squad if he is granted an Australian passport in time. MacGill has been working with Ahmed, a Pakistani asylum-seeker who was granted a permanent ...

London, Apr.29 (ANI): Australian bowling Coach Stuart MacGill has reportedly said that the England cricket team needs left-arm spinner Monty Panesar to join the team for challenging the Australians during the Ashes series in 2013, more than ...

Sydney, Apr 26 (ANI): Former Australian cricketers Stuart MacGill and Ashley Mallett, who have been appointed by Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence as coach and consultant respectively, are reportedly set to give a new direction to the ...

Sydney, Apr 6 (ANI): Former Australian spinner Stuart MacGill said that refugee player Fawad Ahmed should be selected in captain Michael Clarke's Ashes squad if he is granted an Australian passport in time, adding that he is talented enough to face ...

Nathan Lyon is the only spinner in the Ashes squad but said that was no reason to relax. Photo: Rohan Thomson Nathan Lyon says his decision to move from South Australia to NSW is more about family than cricket, but he will relish the chance to work ...

THE drugs don't work. English rock band The Verve once sung that. They mightn't work - peptides included - but the drugs are tearing poor old Cronulla in two. We are told there is a natural divide forming between the players over the issue - those ...

I found myself channel-hopping between the Indian Premier League and the West Indies versus Australia Test series this week. A few years ago that would have been heresy. As a lover of the longer game, the Caribbean Tests would have won out every ...

It seems bizarre to label Brian Lara's remarkable career, that included the highest score in both Test cricket and First Class cricket, as an under achievement. But that is the overriding view I have of the immortal Brian Lara. Automatically people ...