This touring exhibition will enable many more Australian cricket lovers, right across the country, to see the urn and learn more about its long and fascinating history.

He is probably right (about the) longer format, one-day cricket or like Twenty20 cricket the shorter the game the more of a bit of a lottery it can become,

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

To bring home the Ashes will be fantastic, not just for us but for every sport in this country. Cricket has been in the headlines, on the front page and one the back. Even David Beckham has been talking about it. Can you believe it, football talking about cricket?

We want to try and get our mental game right. That is shortcoming in Barbados' cricket - the way we prepare ourselves mentally and our general attitude going into first-class games.

No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.