Sydney, July 27 (IANS) Fast bowler Stuart Clark insists he can intimidate England just the way Andrew Flintoff has Australia.

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New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Struggling Australian spearhead Mitchell Johnson has been backed by team coach Tim Nielsen despite another terrible game in a three-day match against Northampton

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Sydney, July 27 (IANS) Australian skipper Ricky Ponting feels England's star batsman Kevin Pietersen's absence will add more pressure on the Lord's Test hero Andrew Flintoff.

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New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Former fast bowler Wasim Akram, who made appealing a fine art during his playing days to win marginal decisions, now wants to teach how to appeal convincingly to young Indian fast bowlers

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Mumbai, July 27 (IANS) The winners of its Corporate Trophy will bag Rs.10 million in prize money while the runners-up will get Rs.5 million, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced here Monday.Twelve teams will be divided in four groups of three each and the league matches will be played in Mohali, Visakhapatnam, Dharamsala and Bangalore Sep 1-3. Mohali will host the first semi-final Sep 5 while Bangalore will host the second semi-final (Sep 6) and the final (Sep 8).

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New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Pakistan's legendary fast bowler Wasim Akram is wondering why the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is not utilising his services to groom young bowlers.Akram, who has helped Indian fast bowler Irfan Pathan and also struggling Australian bowler Mitchell Johnson, feels that he got only limited opportunities to work with Pakistani bowlers.

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Karachi, July 27 (IANS) Pakistan cricket captain Younis Khan has vehemently denied rumours of divisions in his team, saying he would step down if such a problem existed.

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New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram feels it is for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to preserve the sanctity of Test format.Akram said the ICC should go ahead with day-night Tests and must ensure that matches are played on sporting tracks to counter the popularity of Twenty20.

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England cricket team selector Geoff Miller has said that all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is bullish about his chances of turning out for the team at Edgbaston and is looking forward to “sorting out” the Australians.Flintoff is in the squad for the Edgbaston clash, which starts on Thursday, despite a chronic knee problem casting serious doubt on his ability to finish the series.

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Oz cricketer Mitchell Johnson has called for a truce with his mother, Vikki Harber, after she made scathing comments about his fiancee, Jessica Bratich.

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Australian fast bowler Stuart Clark believes that he can intimidate England and is confident about a Test recall after being his side’s best bowler during the second day of a three-day tour match against Northamptonshire yesterday.

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Ian Bell warned Monday that he is ready to disprove his doubters when he makes his first appearance in the current Ashes series on his home Edgbaston ground this week.

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Thiruvananthapuram, July 27 (IANS) Fast bowler S. Sreesanth, who has signed up for English county team Warwickshire to play in the ongoing season, hopes that he can make a comeback into the Indian cricket team through his stint in England.

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Australia’s leading spin-bowling legends and coaches have elected to banish the doosra, making it difficult for their own spinners who are working hard to come at par with their sub-continental counterparts.

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Former captain Ramiz Raja has said that Pakistan team’s lack of Test match exposure, faulty technique of the batsmen led to their drubbing in Sri Lanka.With nearly all the visiting teams shunning Pakistan on security grounds, the team hardly played Test matches over the last couple of years, he said.

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Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Shaharyar Khan has supported Shoaib Akhtar’s omission from the 30-member ICC Champions Trophy squad, saying that the mercurial pacer is not fit to even make it to a list of 50.

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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt will meet ICC president David Morgan on Tuesday to discuss the possible solutions to a scenario in which the Pakistan cricket team is not allowed to play its 2011 World Cup home matches in India or if the Pakistan Government does not allow its team to play in India.

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Former England all-rounder Sir Ian Botham has branded as "stupid and arrogant" a call by Griff Rhys Jones, the television presenter, for canoeists to "disturb as many fishermen as possible". The Telegraph quoted Botham, a keen angler, as saying that Rhys Jones knew little about the countryside and the benefits of fishing for Britain''s rivers.

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Controversial Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar ran into trouble Monday again as cricket authorities accused him of violating his contract by criticising team management during a television interview.

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Australia's leading spin bowlers say they are firmly against coaching the controversial 'doosra', with one Test great saying it is an illegal delivery.The 'doosra', an Urdu term for a ball that turns away from a right-hander, as opposed to a conventional off-spinner which turns towards him, has engendered debate over its legitimacy in world cricket.

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Left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak made a triumphant return to the Bangladesh side when he helped the Tigers win the opening one-day international against West Indies by 52 runs on Sunday.

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Australian media and cricket fans Monday called for Mitchell Johnson to be left out of Thursday's third Ashes Test against England amid mounting concerns over his lack of bowling form.

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