Mitchell Johnson became the sixth player to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named as the 2009 ICC Cricketer of the Year at the ICC Awards ceremony in Johannesburg. Johnson fought off stiff competition to take the award from fellow short-list nominees Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni, as well as England captain Andrew [...]
Australia’s leading pace bowler in the last few Test series, Mitchell Johnson, has decided to give the lucrative Indian Premier League the miss and instead concentrate on staying fit for national duty. Johnson could have fetched something in the region of $$800,000 in the IPL auction on February 6 but said playing the league was [...]
India continued to falter in their chase against Australia in the first test at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Scorecard Set a target of 299 to win the match and take a 1-0 series lead, India lost Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid before lunch. After the break, Tendulkar and Gambhir again got together and added [...]
Aussie seamer Mitchell Johnson and vice-captain Michael Clarke have been approached by the Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi to take part in the League next year. Modi spoke to Clarke, who is in India currently with the Australian team, during the Australians stay at Jaipur. “He told me the other night he wants [...]