The ongoing India Australia cricket test series has provided more than it's fair share of fun, drama and action with some of the most enthralling and exciting cricket matches in recent times. With so much attention given to this series both in print and blog media, it isn't a big sur

The fourth test in Adelaide present a perfect opportunity for the Indian cricket team to register an astounding comeback and draw what has arguably been the finest cricket test series since the Ashes two years back. India come into this match on the back of an excellent hard fought victo

Irfan Pathan is the man of the match. The Indian cricket team wrapped up a memorable victory down under as they responded in the best possible manner after all the baptism suffered after the infamous Sydney test match with a famous victory at the WACA in Perth. Australia chasing a ma

India went one step closer to a momentous victory in the third test of the ongoing India Australia Border Gavaskar test series after an intriguing day's cricket at the WACA on the third day of this closely fought third test match. India have set Australia a mammoth target of 413. Austral

India pulled themselves back into reckoning with a sublime bowling performance in the second day of the third test match in the India Australia cricket test series. The Indian bowlers especially RP Singh were bang on target from ball one and the substantial lead of 118 given to team India by t

Australia pegged India back towards the fag end of an intriguing day after India had moved on to a position of strength courtesy a fine middle order partnership between Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar. Virender Sehwag who had scored a fine century in the previous three day warm up

The Indian cricket team has dropped the charges of misconduct and foul language against Brad Hogg barely a week after the most infamous test in recent years between India and Australia. Anil Kumble reportedly held a long meeting with Australian skipper Ricky Pointing and he later rem

Virender Sehwag was the star show for an Indian batting lineup that flayed the ACT XI attack to all parts of the ground in their recently concluded 3 day match up against the ACT XI line up. The flamboyant dasher from Najafgarh made his intentions clear from the very first over itself an

India take on Australia in the 3rd test match of the latest edition of the Border-Gavaskar test series at the high and bouncy WACA this Friday in what promises to be a real cracker of a test match. Though the trophy has been retained by the Aussies on the virtue of their unbeatable 2-0

India look to offset their batting issues and pull up a fine performance going into the second test against the mighty Australia at the SCG this Wednesday. Australia clearly dominated India in all aspects of the game last time around and will be in supreme form and confidence ahead of

The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will not affect Australia's upcoming tour of the country, Cricket Australia today said. CA spokesman Peter Young said there was no imminent danger to the tour and a final decision will be taken later, near the scheduled beg

India's star middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh faces a disciplinary hearing with Match Referee Mike Proctor for showing dissent after his dismissal in the Boxing Day Test against Australia. Umpire Billy Bowden ruled Yuvraj caught behind off Stuart Clark yesterday, a decision that fai

Hailing Anil Kumble as a bowler with "outstanding intuition," former Australian captain Steve Waugh said one should never underestimate the veteran leg-spinner. Impressed with Kumble's performance on the opening day of the first cricket Test here, Waugh said Kumble was a cl

The Indian team management may be keen to have Munaf Patel in the squad, but the BCCI is not too happy with the paceman's attitude and appears to have second thoughts about sending him to Australia. The BCCI, it is learnt, has taken strong exception to Munaf's decision to skip the Ra

The Indians may have done exceptionally well to reduce Australia to 337 for nine in the opening cricket Test but Matthew Hayden reckons the visitors will also find the going tough on a pitch that will "definitely get difficult to bat on over the next few days". Hayden stood o

Christmas festivities stretched into the Boxing Day as Kolkatans distributed sweets to celebrate local hero Sourav Ganguly's 100th Test appearance for India. The denizens woke up early to witness the historic moment of Ganguly's career at Melbourne Cricket Ground where India play

Launching a lampoon at John Buchanan, former captain Ian Chappell has said that his daughter would not have done a bad job as coach of the Australian team. Defending spin great Shane Warne, who has been criticised for his panning of Buchanan, Chappell said the former coach's contribution i

VVS Laxman has been Australia's bugbear for quite a while and the classical middle order batsman prescribes self-belief with relentless aggression as the formula to succeed against the world champions. With a firmness in his voice, Laxman said India would not allow any let-up in steam

Australia's pace spearhead Brett Lee is keen to cross sword with Indian master Sachin Tendulkar in a bid to prove to the "world's greatest" that he is a vastly improved bowler now. "I am actually looking forward to bowling against Sachin Tendulkar. It's going to be his

The choice of Rahul Dravid as opener for India's opening cricket Test against Australia on Boxing Day next week is not cast in iron yet. Apparently, a rethink is on within the Indian ranks if it would be wise to put their trusted man in the middle order at the top of the ranks. A few thi

Throwing his weight behind Brad Hogg, spin legend Shane Warne said the chinaman bowler has done well against India in the one dayers and there is no reason why he can't do it against them in the forthcoming Test series as well. Warne admitted supple wrists and nimble footwork of the In

Indian vice-captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has admitted that the side goes into the Boxing Day Test against Australia short of match practice as just one warm-up game before the four-Test series was not enough to get acclimatised with the conditions here. "It's always better to have

Unperturbed at being identified by Indian skipper Anil Kumble as a weak link in the Australian team, spinner Brad Hogg is confident of his success in the Test series. Hogg hopes Melbourne's drop-in pitch will help earn him a Test recall after a four-year absence. The condition of the

Australia have warned India of a hostile series Down Under but vice-captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said they will not shy away from maintaining that aggressive tempo which unnerved the World Champions during their visit here for the ODI series. "It will be interesting. They are famo

Left-arm spinner Brad Hogg was today included in the 12-man Australian squad, announced by Cricket Australia for the first three Tests of the four-match series against India. Hogg, who last played a Test for Australia in October 2003, replaced injured spinner Stuart Macgill. Express bowl

Skipper Anil Kumble and his teammates today left for Australia bidding to create history by becoming the first Indian team to conquer the Aussies in their own backyard. Kumble and his men left by a morning flight to Singapore en-route to Melbourne, firm in their belief that they had

Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh today claimed Australia is short on spin bowling options and Indian batsmen would feast on Brad Hogg's bowling should the left-arm chinaman bowler be selected for the first Test in Melbourne. The Punjab bowler declared Hogg was not close to the illustr

Gung-ho after the triumph over Pakistan, India captain Anil Kumble today put the onus on the star-studded batting line-up to deliver the goods and notch up a rare series win against formidable Australia. Addressing a press conference on the eve of the team's departure for a four-match

Captain Shoaib Malik will be grilled by the officials of Pakistan Cricket Board at a meeting in Lahore less than 24 hours after returning from India following humiliating series defeats in one-dayers as well as Tests. Malik and team manager Talat Ali Malik will attend the meeting to be

Cricket Australia is well on course of introducing a revolutionary and untouched idea of day and night Tests. White lights and coloured clothings have illuminated one-day cricket and the most recent Twenty20 format, but the traditional five-day game with a history of 130-years have been spa