Sydney, Dec 8 : Injured spinner Jason Krejza and all-rounder Shane Watson have been recalled to Australia’s 12-man squad for next week’s first Test against South Africa beginning in Perth.

Off-spinner Krejza has been selected subject to fitness after missing the second Test win over New Zealand in Adelaide due to an ankle injury, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

The 25-year-old hasn’t played a Test since taking 12 wickets on his debut in the final Test against India in Nagpur last month. Watson edged him out in the opening match of the NZ series in Brisbane.

Sydney, Dec 8 : South African pace spearhead Dale Steyn, who is carrying a hamstring strain, will miss Thursday’s opening tour game against Western Australia at Perth’s WACA Ground.

Captain Graeme Smith told reporters on Monday that Steyn, who has taken a world-leading 60 Test wickets in 2008, picked up a minor hamstring injury during the recent Bangladesh tour.

Sydney  - Is a bare-all calendar a sure-fire way for your community group to raise funds this Christmas?

An Australian researcher said Monday total exposure was a turn-off and that calendars leaving something to the imagination were the better sellers.

"Experience has shown that in the successful calendars the bodies must be sanitized - non-erotic, maternal, coy and covered," University of Tasmania lecturer Dr Pamela Turton-Turner said. "That is, they are de-eroticized because they are accepted as maternal, giving and nurturing."

She told Australia's AAP news agency that pubic hair and nipples were out and strategically held teacups and flowers were in.

Sydney, Dec. 8 : In form New South Wales batsman David Warner has caught the attention of Indian Premier League scouts, and could turn out for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the second season of the Twenty20 competition next year.

Warner has blasted Tasmania for 165 not out (from 112 balls) and 97 (from 54 balls) over the past eight days - the latter innings contributing to NSW''s thrilling tie with the Tigers at Bellerive Oval yesterday.

Sydney  - A sex-crazed rhinoceros that smashed through the steel bars of its pen in search of female company had to be shot with a tranquilizer dart to keep him within the bounds of Adelaide's Mona

Sydney  - Australian double Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kerryn McCann has died from cancer aged 41, her family announced Monday.