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...giant of cricket, Glenn McGrath does a fair impression of a regular guy. Hanging about in the members' area of the Sydney Cricket Ground on a chilly afternoon last month, the fast bowler might have kept chatting with New South Wales State of Origin rugby league players, who happen to be milling about, too. But his attentions turn to the reporter, whom he knows a little. He agrees to talk outside, looking out over the ground, even though those things on his arms look a lot like goosebumps. Earlier, he'd noticed some of the members playing tennis. He says...
...wicket to take his tally in Tests to 500, a mark reached by only three other bowlers. If he can manage 21 wickets for the series, he'll pass the West Indian Courtney Walsh as the game's most prolific fast bowler. Though vanity is frowned upon in Australian cricket, there's no point McGrath claiming that these milestones are unimportant to him. During a televised awards ceremony earlier in the year, it emerged that he's able to recall, in detail, the circumstances of all of his 499 wickets. Just pick a number and off he goes...
...consecutive Ashes victories. Publicly, the England camp has been circumspect about its chances. Mostly it's been lauding Australia, which has lost just seven of its last 40 Tests against its oldest rival - and 17 of its last 100 against all countries. Only in April, the England and Wales Cricket Board set 2009 as the date by which the No. 2-ranked England would be ready to claim the top spot. Considering there'll be two Ashes series in the meantime, many Australians would regard this as typical Pommie pessimism. England, after all, was unbeaten in Tests last year...
...what it's all about," said the captain, resplendent in gray suit and pink shirt, shortly before boarding a plane in Brisbane for London on June 4. "Everything we do is based on applying pressure." It's one reason that, outside of Australia, most people with an interest in cricket would be delighted to see England beat the cocky visitors...
...Bhutto that she may be able to return home-but only if she does not challenge him directly. Musharraf himself was enjoying a much more cordial homecoming on Saturday: he flew to the Indian capital New Delhi, where he was raised before migrating to Pakistan, to watch a cricket match between India and Pakistan...