Legendary West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding feels that Australia lacks the fire-power to reclaim the Ashes from Andrew Strauss's Englishmen.

Peter Siddle has flown home from Australia's tour of the West Indies and James Pattinson will follow him at the conclusion of the second Test in Trinidad after both were ruled out of the third Test, due to begin in Dominica on Monday.

Fast bowlers Peter Siddle and James Pattinson are to return home to Australia from the West Indies owing to back soreness, Cricket Australia revealed on Thursday.

Australian bowler Peter Siddle has signed with English county Essex for the summer Twenty-20 campaign, subject to clearance from Cricket Australia, the club said on Monday.

Peter Siddle will be unleashed in the West Indies as a Test match spearhead rather than taking part in Australia's forthcoming ODI assignments, the national selector John Inverarity has said.

Australian bowlers hunted in a pack all throughout the Test series to demolish the famed Indian batting line-up. Pace spearhead Peter Siddle said the home team reaped rich dividends by sticking to its plan of "bowling in partnerships".

A professional Australian team knocked the wind out of India and claimed four remaining wickets in an hour to thrash India to a 298-run defeat. With it, the team claimed a whitewash and threw up statistics galore on Saturday.

Paceman Peter Siddle took a swipe at India after another stout-hearted bowling effort put Australia on track for a 4-0 series whitewash in the final Test on Thursday.

Once upon a time he was called 'The Wall' for giving that steady look to the Indian cricket team, but the way Rahul Dravid is struggling these days, does he not personify 'The Berlin Wall'?

Fast bowlers must embrace Cricket Australia's new rotation policy if they want to last long in Test cricket, a leading coach has suggested even though some others feel that the idea still needs to be debated.