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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia bowling coach Craig McDermott, who has been credited with turning his country’s pace attack into one of the most potent in the world, has signed a new two-year deal, Cricket Australia said on Monday.

The 49-year-old former paceman returned as Australia’s bowling coach ahead of last year’s home Ashes series against England, his second stint after working with the fast bowlers for a year starting May 2011.

Australia demolished England 5-0 at home and then won a series in South Africa to climb back to the top of the test rankings with the pace battery widely proclaimed as the best in the world.

“Craig has built a really strong rapport with the bowling group,” Cricket Australia’s team performance manager Pat Howard said in a statement.

“Combine that with the international experience and technical expertise, it has proved to be a successful combination in recent times and we’re keen to see that continue.”

Since his return, McDermott has worked only with the test pacemen but in a new role will now also help out the limited-overs bowlers as Australia prepares to co-host the 50-overs World Cup with New Zealand next year.

“Craig will also do a bit more work with the limited overs players, along with Ali de Winter, as we head towards the World Cup early next year,” Howard added.

“As part of his role he will be closely connected to the work being done at the National Cricket Centre to ensure he is aligned to also developing players for the future.”

Mitchell Johnson and Ryan Harris have been Australia’s standout bowlers during their recent success, with the reliable Peter Siddle, young gun James Pattinson and spinner Nathan Lyon also making telling contributions.

McDermott, who took 291 wickets in 71 tests for Australia, said the goal would be to maintain the good work with a home series against India coming up, followed by next year’s World Cup and the Ashes in England.

“I feel like we’ve got a really good group at the moment,” he said.

“It’s really been great to build this close bond with them all - the boys call it the fast bowling cartel, but we also let Nathan Lyon in – and we’re all really motivated to keep that going.

“I’m also looking forward to taking on more responsibility and to work closely with Darren Lehmann (head coach) to broaden my coaching skills and, alongside Michael Di Venuto (batting coach), to ensure we’re a well-oiled coaching unit.”

Writing by Sudipto Ganguly; editing by Nick Mulvenney

IVER HEATH, England (Reuters) - James Bond will take on a sinister organisation with links to his past in the next installment of the blockbuster spy series, which star director Sam Mendes said on Thursday would be called “SPECTRE”.

Mendes unveiled a new cast and souped-up car - an Aston Martin DB 10 - but few other details about the 24th film in the series, that will see Daniel Craig return for his fourth outing as the dapper, martini-drinking agent.

“We’ve got to be bigger and better than ‘Skyfall’. It’s as simple as that,” Craig told Reuters, referring to the previous film in the series.

He said he’d had a role in shaping the script, with Mendes and the writers. “I’m allowed free rein - what a gig,” he said.

Austrian actor Christoph Waltz would play a leading role, Mendes added, without going into more details. Most commentators assumed the sadistic villain of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” would play the baddie.

Italian actress Monica Bellucci and French actress Lea Seydoux, who shot to fame in the erotic hit “Blue is the Warmest Colour”, would play “Bond girls”, Mendes added at a press conference at Pinewood Studios north of London.

In a teaser description of the plot, Sony Pictures Entertainment said in a statement:

“A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.”

The title was a clear reference to the global criminal organisation that Bond has battled since the first film in the series, 1962’s “Dr No”.

SPECTRE infamously stood for the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.

Much secrecy has surrounded the latest outing for the Bond franchise, which has taken in more than $5 billion (3.18 billion pounds) worldwide since its debut in figures adjusted for inflation on the trade site Box Office Mojo.

The Sony Pictures Entertainment film, scheduled for release in November next year, previously had only a working title as “Bond 24”.

Along with Craig, Mendes presented returning cast members Ralph Fiennes, who plays “M” after a long turn in the role by Judi Dench, alongside Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw and Rory Kinnear.

Mendes said shooting would begin on Monday at Pinewood and that other locations would include London, Rome, Mexico City, Tangier and the Austrian alps.

Mendes directed the previous Bond film “Skyfall”, which was the most lucrative in the series to date, taking in $1.1 billion worldwide.

Writing by Michael Roddy; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Raissa Kasolowsky