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Text trail leaves a cloud over Australian Tests

AUSTRALIA'S two Tests against Pakistan in England last year will be the subject of a fresh ICC investigation after the uncovering of text messages that indicate agent Mazhar Majeed tried to use Pakistan players to rig a succession of [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Cricket-Australia name teenager Cummins in test squad for S....

Australia have named 18-year-old paceman Patrick Cummins in their 15-man test squad for their two-match series in South Africa, while retaining Mitchell Johnson despite the mercurial paceman's struggles in Sri Lanka. Cummins, the [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Cricket Australia slams "outlandish" allegations

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland says claims made in a London court over Australian match-fixing are "outlandish and made by a person of dubious repute." On Monday, the player agent at the center of the Paki [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

India to play extra warm-up game in Australia

The Indian cricket team will play two warm-up matches ahead of the Test series in Australia. Cricket Australia (CA) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Wednesday confirmed there would be two warm-up games for the visitors [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Amla to lead Proteas against Australia

Hashim Amla will captain South Africa in this month's limited-overs series against Australia, Cricket South Africa (CSA) said on Monday. Opening batsman Amla, who will lead South Africa in two Twenty20 internationals and three one- [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Australia makes Sri Lanka sweat

Going by the amount of time lost in the two test matches and the manner in which the West Indies – Sri Lanka matches went, it will be safe to assume that if a result is required in Sri Lanka, one of the following two criteria need t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Australia's Test new boys impress in Galle

Australia's debutants took a central role as Australia claimed three Sri Lankan wickets in the morning session on day two of the opening Test in Galle on Thursday. Trent Copeland and Nathan Lyon both claimed wickets in their openin [...]

Posted On : Sep, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

So this is what it feels like to be an Australian

For a moment on Thursday, as Alastair Cook clubbed another boundary off the hapless, helpless Indian bowlers, as records tumbled, as England’s cricket team moved on serene and untroubled, grinding into the turf the dignity of oppone [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Cameron White dumped from Australia's one-day cricket side

The selectors announced squads for the two Twenty20 and five ODI games and will announce the Test side this month. White has struggled of late, failing to score more than 22 in the world cup and losing his place during the tour of Banglad [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Cricket Australia back review system

Cricket Australia is at odds with India after strongly supporting the use of the Decision Review System (DRS) for all international matches. Currently, the DRS can be used in a series when agreed by both teams. However the Indian board (B [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Cricket Australia backed minnow ban‎

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced four minnow nations won't contest the next World Cup, to be staged in Australia and New Zealand in 2015. Only the 10 Test playing nations - Australia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Australian media call for selectors' heads

Australian media called for the country's cricket chiefs to resign and urged wholesale reform of the game after a woeful showing which saw England retain the Ashes in the fourth Test. Ricky Ponting's side crashed to a humiliating [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Australian cricketers fall from gods to bedraggled larrikins

Andrew Strauss takes his England cricket team from Melbourne to Sydney for the final, celebratory chapter of their enthralling Ashes campaign assured but not smug in the assumption that opponents so long regarded as gods have been reduce [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Cricket-What Australian media are saying about the Ashes

Rain may disrupt play but Australia still need 137 runs to make England bat again with their last two recognised batsmen, Michael Hussey and Marcus North, already at the crease. Here is a sample of the Australian media's reacti [...]