Melbourne, Dec. 30 : Victorian all-rounder Andrew McDonald and New South Wales left-arm pacer Doug Bollinger are likely to be called up into a squad of 13 for the Sydney Test.

McDonald''s selection follows the return of Shane Watson''s injury curse and the form and fitness concerns surrounding Andrew Symonds, who has been unable to bowl medium pace in the Boxing Day Test because of an injured knee.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Bollinger is favored to replace Brett Lee, who will miss the remainder of the summer with a stress reaction in his left foot.

A well made 67 from Tanmay Srivastava facilitated Uttar Pradesh to reach 289 for eight in their second innings and virtually shut Gujarat out of the game on the penultimate day of the quarterfinal match.

At the end of the third day’s play, UP were 477 runs ahead with two second innings wickets in hand at Motibagh ground here.

Resuming at the overnight score of 76 for the loss of one wicket, young lad Suresh Raina fell victim to Parmar. Tanmay Srivastava (67runs, 149balls, 4 boundaries) played a patient knock but a doosra from Parmar saw the end of his courageous innings.

Melbourne, Dec 29 : Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has said that the idea of playing day-night Test cricket is still a number of years off which needed to be tested at different venues before it could be taken to the International Cricket Council for approval.

The concept is still under development, although there is hope of a trial day-night Sheffield Shield match next season, The Australian reported.

Sutherland said his organisation was waiting to hear back from the CSIRO, which is developing a special ball.

Sydney, Dec 29: Australia's cricket coach Tim Nielsen has called it the stuff of nightmares, after South African young batting prodigy J. P. Duminy steered his team to a 61 runs lead on the third day of the Boxing Day Test.

Duminy transformed Australia's overnight lead into an alarming deficit, as one of the most exciting young batsmen in the world, but also inflicted on Ricky Ponting, his team and the selectors a national crisis, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Melbourne, Dec 29: Former Australian skipper and cricket commentator Ian Chappell believes that England could start next year's Ashes series on home soil as favourites.

Chappell said despite England's 2005 series victory, not since 1989 had an Australian side looked so vulnerable ahead of a tour to Britain.

Sydney, Dec 28 : To avoid embarrassment of losing consecutive series against South Africa and England, a section of Australian media has favoured recall of spin legend Shane Warne.

The Sun-Herald, for the people, would like to present the case for Shane Warne returning to the Australian Test team.

It's a serious attempt to remind Warne that his word is his bond. Warne vowed to ride back on his white horse if Australia's spin-bowling stocks went up the chute after his retirement, the Sydney Morning Herald said.