Shane Warne cannot even escape the headlines now that he has retired. Trevor Marshallsea writes in The Sydney Morning Herald that Warne appears to have done some revising of his history with “John the Bookmaker”.

While Warne this month told British TV interviewer Michael Parkinson he did not know John was a bookmaker until months after he accepted $US5000 from him in 1994, eight years ago the Australian inquiry that heard Warne's version of events found otherwise.

In the same paper, Marshallsea discusses Matthew Hayden’s poor form and suggests his chance of a trip to the World Cup could be slipping away.

Since Hayden was dropped following the 2005 tour of England, Australia have been disappointed in their quest for a regular partner for Gilchrist. Simon Katich had his time, but though he scored runs he did so too slowly for the selectors' liking. Should Hayden suffer many more failures in the series selectors will be eager to see Shane Watson return as soon as possible.

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