Oz pacer Johnson asks girlfriend Bratich to marry him

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - Everton star footballer Steven Pienaar faces action for breach of promise from his ex-girlfriend and mother of his girl child, Skyla. Danielle Steeneveld is suing Pienaar for a sum equivalent of 850,000 pounds for failing to keep a promise to marry her.

August 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - They hug and put their hands on each other's shoulders time and again. And they were quick to come to one another's rescue whenever the situation got tricky at a media interaction here.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - Brit Formula One racing driver Jenson Button was recently spotted hosing down his sexy girlfriend, before getting a hosing down himself, during a break from racing. Button, 29, was enjoying the hols with his model girlfriend Jessica Michibata, 24, aboard a luxury yacht in St Tropez, and the two just could not seem to keep their hands off each other.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Australian left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Johnson is loving his newly discovered art of sledging, and said he will ramp it up during next week's fifth and final Test at The Oval after rediscovering his form and confidence at Headingley. "I don't normally say too much, but maybe it was a bit of a surprise to those guys for me to say something," Johnson said.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - With Australia handing out an innings and 80 run defeat to England to level the Ashes series one-all, a relaxed left arm fast bowler Mitchell Johnson revealed Tuesday that his performance in the Leeds Test was a career-saving one. Johnson said that he feared being dropped and candidly admitted that he had failed to cope with the increased on the field expectations and the tensions related to his mother and his girlfriend.

August 4th, 2009 BIRMINGHAM - Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has claimed that a more confrontational approach was responsible for a better performance in the just concluded third Test at Edgbaston. While still below his best, Johnson said he felt he was now taking the game up to England instead of worrying about simply putting the ball into play.

July 25th, 2009 BRISBANE - Struggling Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson's father, Kevin, has backed his son to bounce back in the ongoing Ashes series. Former Australian cricketers have blamed Johnson's mother Vikki Harber for his lean patch.

July 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The greatest left-arm pacer of all time, Wasim Akram, has offered to come to the aid of Mitchell Johnson, as the Australian paceman seeks to resurrect his Ashes campaign. The Pakistani great, who is based in Manchester, has been watching Johnson's struggles, noting the mechanical problems that contributed to the 27-year-old's wayward spells in the second Test at Lord's.

July 24th, 2009 LONDON - Australia's former Test skipper Kim Hughes and former leg spinner Shane Warne have said that main attack bowler Mitchell Johnson's confidence has hit 'rock-bottom' since the row with his mother became public. Johnson has lost his form and so far has taken eight wickets for 331 runs in the opening two Ashes Tests.

July 23rd, 2009 LAHORE - Expressing happiness over him being included in the initial list of 30 probables for the Champions Trophy, banned Pakistani left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Asif has said the call is like a "rebirth" for him. "You can say that it's a sort of rebirth for me.

July 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Aussie cricketer Mitchell Johnson's mum Vikki Harber has lashed out at Cricket Australia for turning its back on parents in favour of flying over "bitchy" girlfriends to the games. Harber, 45, also said that her once close relationship with her son has deteriorated ever since he started going out with his karate champ girlfriend Jessica Bratich.

July 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Aussie cricketer Mitchell Johnson's mum Vikki Harber has lashed out at Cricket Australia for turning its back on parents in favour of flying over "bitchy" girlfriends to the games. Harber, 45, also said that her once close relationship with her son has deteriorated ever since he started going out with his karate champ girlfriend Jessica Bratich.

July 5th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australian bowler Mitchell Johnson's fiancee has hit back at the controversy surrounding the inclusion of WAGs in Ashes Tour. Jessica Bratich, who recently got engaged to Johnson and is also a karate champ, branded the controversy 'ridiculous'.

June 16th, 2009 LEICESTER - Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson has said that he is ready to being compared with England's Andrew Flintoff, and added that he is ready to handle the extra pressures that come with his burgeoning reputation as the team's key all-rounder. Johnson is already being written up in the England press as the man most likely to decide the series - from either team, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

June 15th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Aussie cricket ace Mitchell Johnson's fiancee Jessica Bratich has been named the hottest WAG in a poll by a men's magazine. Bratich, a karate black-belt, has beaten Aussie vice-captain Michael Clarke's fiance Lara Bingle, who secured the second place in the online poll by Ralph magazine.