It is fast becoming a question of whether India can register a win on the tour or not, let alone winning a series. Australia have been emphatic in all departments of the game and even a change of formats did not help the battered Indian side. Friday presents yet another opportunity for India

It has been a summer of major mismatches as India were humbled, embarrassed and whitewashed in the four-match test series. Going into the second month of a dreadful 2012 so far, Team India will be hoping for a turnaround in fortunes in the first Twenty20 match on Wednesday. While the Indian p

No one would have thought a month ago that, going into the last test match, the series would have been such an anti-climax. Australia have comprehensively marched on to a 3-0 lead as India look to avoid a whitewash as they enter the fourth test match at Adelaide on Tuesday. It will be a new b

After getting thumped at Sydney, India's task only gets more difficult when they head to Perth. Australia, meanwhile, are enjoying a comfortable time putting in clinical performances match after match. India could not have expected a worse start to their New Year than the innings defeat in th

It sounds like an all-too familiar story. Another away series, another first-test loss, and, another set of hopes of Team India bouncing back like they almost always do in the second test match of an away series. After looking good to break the jinx through most part of the match, India's ren

India take on Australia in the firt Test match of the four-match series. This is the third time that the two sides are playing each other in a Test series in three years and it sure will be an exciting one given that the Indians have never won a series in Australia and the home side is struggl

New Zealand face an uphill challenge to register their first win on Australian soil in over two decades. Australia have only compounded Kiwis' problems with an impressive win in the first test. The Trans-Tasman rivals square off in the final test of the series from Friday at Bellerive Oval, Ho

Australia begin their home summer in an unusually back-foot situation when the Trans-Tasman rivalry is renewed with the first test starting at the Gabba (Brisbane) on Thursday. New Zealand, on the other hand, realize that this is as good a chance as they have come across in recent times to bea

Australia will not mind having to play over five days as long as they are able to square the two-test series against South Africa. The second test match starts on Thursday at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. After an action-packed first test that saw the game see-saw within hours and wrapped up

Once the top two sides in the world, South Africa and Australia head into an unusually-short two-test series starting from Wednesday. Cape Town will present the home side its first test match since the New Year's test against India. Australia, on the other hand, are gradually picking up under

Once again South African batting line up collapsed; as a result they were beaten once again by Australia. This time the difference was 93 runs. These two titans will be facing each other once again in the second ODI on Sunday, October 23 at 8:00 GMT. Their first ODI was a rain affected match.

South Africa were beaten by the awesome Aussies in the first Twenty20I, but they did bounce back and got a win in the second Twenty20I against Australia in a very exciting match where hosts seemed clearly out of the competition when they lost 7 of their batsman relatively very early in the inn

The awesome Aussies defeated their arch rival South Africa by five wickets in the inaugural match of the Australia's tour of South Africa. Their second and final Twenty20I encounter will be played in October 16 at 18:00 GMT. Batting first the home side put up a competitive total of146 runs losi

Not very long both Australia and South Africa were the most attractive and powerful teams of the world, they are still dangerous for any opponent but certainly they have lost their sharpness a bit especially Australia. To gain their lost pride back they have been consistently trying hard, appl

The third and final Test between Sri Lanka and Australia will be played at Singhalese Sports Club in Colombo on Friday, September 16 at 10:00 IST or 4:30 GMT. Australia have now 1-0 lead in the series. It could have been 2-0 but rains saved Sri Lanka in the second Test match at Pallekele. T

For modern test matches limitation of time is five days but it didn't take not more than four days to thrash Sri Lanka in Galle though rain washed away a lot of time of the first test match of three matches series between Sri Lanka and Australia. Australia beat Sri Lanka comprehensively by

The first Test match between Sri Lanka and Australia will be played from August 31 at Galle. Sri Lanka will go into the Test match after having won the T20I but lost the ODI series 3-2 and would love to turn the corner on their opponents. The Aussies, on the other hand, will need to get going

Australia will play Sri Lanka in the fifth ODI of the series at the RPS in Colombo on Monday. Australia have already won the series and will be happy to have begun under the new regime with a win and will now be able to rotate their players for this game; unless of course they want to go into

The fourth ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia will be played at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, with the action finally moving into the capital city. The Aussies still lead the series 2-1, having won the first two games in the series, but will look to ensure that they can overcome the los

The third ODI between Australia and Sri Lanka will be played at the Hambantota ground and the home team will know that they have a mountain to climb. Sri Lanka have lost both their opening matches in the ODI series and another loss here will mean that the series will be lost. That is an eventual

It is the second ODI of the series between Sri Lanka and Australia and there cannot be any doubt that it will be most important one of the series for both the sides. If Australia can win it, it will mean that they will take a 2-0 lead in the series something that will be difficult to overcom

The second ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia will be played at the Hambantota ground on August 14. Hambantota had hosted a few matches in the World Cup this year and that had been its debut at the international level. Sri Lanka had gone into the ODI series as favourites, but the first match l

Sri Lanka will play Australia in the first of the five ODIs to be played at the Pallekele ground near Kandy. It is the same venue at which the two teams played in the two match T20I series, that the Lankans had gone on to win 2-0. While there is a considerable change in the Australian line-u

The second T20I between Sri Lanka and Australia will be played at the same ground that hosted the first game, Pallekele International Stadium near Kandy. Sri Lanka were easy winners in the first game of the series and the Australian side will need to do something dramatic to overcome the issue

The Australian tour of Sri Lanka will begin with a T20 game at Pallekele on Saturday. The match will be a night game and begin at 1900 hours local time. This will be the first of the two T20Is that will be played in the series, with the second match to be played on Monday. Australia will be

Cricket Australia's decision to not give Simon Katich the contract has obviously not gone down well with the opening batsman. According to the former Australian batsman, it was a ridiculous decision that made no sense at all given that he has been one of the better batsmen for the side in rece

There may still be good news for the ICC Associate countries. According to a latest ICC announcement, there is a chance that the Associate countries may be allowed to play a qualifier to have a chance of qualifying for the World Cup 2015. Earlier, it had been announced that the 2015 edition of

The first ODI between Australia and Bangladesh in the three-match series will be played at the Shere Bangla stadium in Mirpur in Dhaka. This is a short series that has been conducted in order to get the ICC calendar requirements out of the way. Bangladesh had been patchy in their Worl

The ICC executive committee met on Monday, April 4, a couple of days after the end of the World Cup to decide on the future of the World Cup cricket and decided that there will only be ten teams that will play in the tournament. What adds fuel to fire is that the ten teams will go through no qua

Australian captain Ricky Ponting has announced his resignation from the captaincy in all formats of the game but has said that he will be a part of the side if selected. Ponting announced to the media that the reason for the stepping down was the early ouster from the World Cup and said tha