The strike received Receiving support from , among others , the Cork senior hurling team , former President of Ireland Mary Robinson , human rights campaigner Noam Chomsky , international soccer player Paul McGrath , musician Christy Moore , film and theatre actor Cillian Murphy , and Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson .

From the last series , Jason Gillespie , Matthew Hayden and Darren Lehmann had been dropped Motion_directional by Australia , while Damien Martyn was out with injury Bodily_harm and Glenn McGrath was rested .