Beau Casson

Former captain's consulting role becomes official, as Beau Casson and Matt Mason also join the Scorchers coaching staff under Adam Voges

The former spinner has seen Patterson's development up close, and credits the batsman with having "huge self-awareness"

Ahead of their WCL Division Three tournament in Uganda, head coach Pubudu Dassanayake took the assistance of top Australian coaches to sharpen players' skills in USA's bid for promotion to Division Two

A slew of former international and first-class players have been enlisted as consultants to work with USA men's, women's and junior players at a specialist preparation camp from April 6-9 in Houston

Beau Casson played one Test for Australia before a heart condition put paid to his cricket career. Unfortunate? Quite the contrary, he says

Beau Casson, the former Australia spin bowler, has spoken for the first time about the heart condition relapse that forced his retirement from cricket

Beau Casson, the Australia and New South Wales spinner, has retired from all forms of cricket at the age of 28 because of a heart condition

Beau Casson will contemplate his future as he flies home to Sydney on Wednesday, having been ruled out of the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia

Beau Casson's return to cricket with New South Wales has taken a most unfortunate turn after the former Australian left-arm wrist spinner was taken to hospital

South Australia's batsmen made a firm start to their opening Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales, though it might have been better than a stumps score of 4 for 309

Eleven Australian spinners who struggled to stand in the shadow of the Great One

They hoped to fill the void left by Warne and MacGill, but Casson, McGain, Cullen and Krejza are out of the picture now, though they will take heart from Hauritz's comeback

While Australia's cricketers contest the Ashes on the lush outfields of Britain, Beau Casson will attempt to resurrect his representative career on the sun-scorched pitches of the Northern Territory

Martin Love led with an outstanding 219 as Queensland were on the verge of regaining second spot

Brad Hodge missed a hundred by two runs as he was responsible for building a healthy lead for Victoria against New South Wales

Two inexperienced Bulls, Chris Swan and Nick Kruger, gave the so-called baby Blues a stern lesson at the SCG, where Queensland finished the first day well on top

The delay by the Australian captain to introduce Shane Watson and Simon Katich into the bowling attack on the second day in Delhi is likely to go down as a tactical blunder

Phillip Hughes narrowly missed out on a double-century but New South Wales remained in total control on the third day against South Australia

Beau Casson will have his first chance to impress since being overlooked for the Test tour of India when he lines up in New South Wales' Sheffield Shield side on Friday. The Blues begin their title defence against Western Australia in Perth