Shaun Tait

With a World Cup around the corner there is plenty at stake for Australia and England; two teams enjoyed changing fortunes

Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait will be Surrey's overseas player for this summer's Friends Provident t20 competition

It's coloured clothes and white balls that will dominate the game for the next few months.

Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and David Hussey have all been given the chance to impress the selectors in Australia's only ODI before the World Cup squad is named

Ricky Ponting knows it's a big ask but he hopes Brett Lee and Shaun Tait will be part of his World Cup attack in February

The fast bowler Shaun Tait will miss Australia's limited-overs matches in India this month and at home against Sri Lanka in November after having surgery on his right elbow

The pitch look threatening at the start and Shaun Tait seemed set to capitalise, but Davy Jacobs had other ideas

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the day from the Twenty20 between Warriors and South Australia at Centurion

The Plays of the day of the Twenty20 between Royal Challengers Bangalore and South Australia Redbacks in Durban

Shaun Tait, the South Australia fast bowler, has said quick bowlers will relish bowling on the fresh pitches in South Africa during the Champions League Twenty20

Shaun Tait has knocked back a request from Ricky Ponting to return to Tests, ruling himself out of the Ashes series

Shaun Tait has categorically ruled out a return to the Test side for the Ashes series that starts in November

Shaun Tait has left the door open for a return to Test cricket after producing one of the fastest spells ever seen at Lord's as he was clocked at 100mph

Andrew McGlashan's Plays of the Day from the fifth ODI at Lord's

Shaun Tait broke the 100mph mark for the first time and shattered England's batting line-up to ensure Australia ended their lost series on a positive note, with a 42-run win at Lord's

For the first time in a long time, Australia are being threatened with the prospect of a 5-0 whitewash, and must rely on their inner mongrel to salvage some dignity from a series in which they have been comfortably outplayed

Doug Bollinger has admitted that it would be "devastating" to concede a one-day series whitewash to England, but is confident Australia can regain some pride in the final two matches after their late surge at Old Trafford nearly pulled off a stunning come

Ricky Ponting has credited Shaun Tait with restoring some of Australia's spark in the one-day arena, despite their loss to England at Old Trafford

The finale was clumsy and ungainly, and it came as scant consolation for the wider sporting public on a day when the nation's footballers were soundly thrashed by their own arch-enemies, Germany, but England's cricketers somehow held their nerve to wrap u