1.   Fellow strike bowler Donald was rested yesterday.

2.   Graham Dilley had rather supplanted him as main strike bowler, and Chris Old was a Headingley type of bowler.

3.   Scarborough festival when they omitted their leading strike bowlers.

4.   Apart from Ranatunga and de Silva, main strike bowler Chaminda Vaas is being rested.

5.   Australian main strike bowler Shane Warne remains in doubt for the cricket tour of India next month after testing his repaired spinning finger in three practice matches.

6.   Australian selectors will give injured strike bowler Glenn McGrath every chance to prove his fitness for the first test against South Africa starting Friday.

7.   Australia will field a team missing injured strike bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie.

8.   England will begin a five-match series of cricket internationals against Zimbabwe on Wednesday without its main strike bowlers Andrew Caddick and Darren Gough.

9.   In the only other change from Sydney, paceman Andrew Bichel replaced injured strike bowler Glenn McGrath.

10.   Its key strike bowler, off-spinner Saqlian Mushtaq, is unavailable due to international commitments with Pakistan and has to be replaced with another spinner.