Australian skipper Ricky Ponting's two unbeaten centuries in the Chappell-Hadlee Series gave him his career best rating points of 832 even as he continued his domination at the top of the ICC rankings for the ODI batsmen, released today. Ponting not only ensured his team's 2-0 vi

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

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

Australian spin legend Shane Warne will be the highest paid cricketer in the BCCI-sponsored Indian Premier League (IPL) with a staggering USD 400,000 in his kitty. The BCCI managing committee announced the names of 34 cricketers including Warne, who have signed the contract and w

Shane Warne may have voiced his choice of Michael Clarke as the vice-captain ahead of veteran Adam Gilchrist but captain Ricky Ponting feels the youngster did not really need to be his deputy before taking over reins of the team. Warne yesterday suggested the name of close friend and &

Michael Clarke maybe the natural heir to Australian captain Ricky Ponting but belligerent all-rounder Andrew Symonds revealed he too cherishes the ambition of leading the side, even if it's just in the one-dayers. Symonds reckons Clarke stood the best chance to succeed Ponting when it co

Sourav Ganguly does not really freeze at the prospect of facing on-field taunts when he travels Australia later this year and the former captain asserts the Indian squad is mature enough to handle such hostile reception Down Under. Australia's recent tour of India earlier this year was b

Australia's regular vice captain Adam Gilchrist is sulking after the selectors ignored him and handed the captaincy reins to youngster Michael Clarke for Tuesday's Twenty20 match against New Zealand in Perth. Chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch admitted the decision to make Clarke lead

Shaun Tait staged a comeback after an injury hiatus but Stuart Clark failed to make the cut as Australia today announced a 13-member squad for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy one day series starting in Adelaide on December 14. "After making a huge impact at the World Cup earlier

Adam Gilchrist pipped legendary Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting to receive the honour of Australia's greatest ever one-day international cricketer after securing highest number of votes in a players' poll. Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) in collaboration with Cricket Australia had i

The Australian first-class competition is the toughest cricket outside the Test arena," according to West Indian great Sir Garfield Sobers. Indian fans will have a great opportunity to see action from one of the domestic cricket season in Australia, on ESPN STAR Sports, which will showca

Australia captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and decided to bat first in the final one dayer of the seven-match cricket series against India here today. India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said senior player Rahul Dravid has been 'rested', with Dinesh Kaarthick replacing him. Fit-again left

India paid a heavy price for their pathetic batting display against Australia who humiliated the hosts with an emphatic nine-wicket victory in the fifth cricket one-dayer to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the seven-match series here today. The Australians first bundled out the home team fo

Australian captain Ricky Ponting today described their resounding nine-wicket win against India as a "flawless job" and said it was possible because of the homework his his team had done. "It has been our best performance of the series so far. We batted, bowled and fielded ve

Stung by the defeat to India at Chandigarh, Australian captain Ricky Ponting is not in a mood to concede more ground and cautioned the home team that they will treat the fifth cricket one-dayer tomorrow as a virtual final. "The last game was a terrific game of cricket and India have mad

Australia captain Ricky Ponting today said his side was well on course for a win against India but losing the in-form duo of Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds at crucial stages dashed their hopes. Ponting said India did well to keep wickets in their hands and rued that his side could not t

S Sreesanth, who was at his belligerent best in the first two cricket one-dayers against Australia before going uncannily quiet in the third match, mellowed down due to criticism of his volatile temper, said Robin Uthappa. "You guys have mellowed him down," Uthappa quipped at the p

Having taken a 2-0 lead in the One-day series against India, Australian captain Ricky Ponting today warned his teammates to guard against complacency and said it was important to keep the heat on the home team. Ponting said the lead taken by his team would be "pretty handy" and i

Australian captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat against India in their third one-day cricket match here today. Australia omitted Brad Haddin to bring in fit-again Ponting, who had missed the first two games due to hamstring injury. India have made just one change by bringin

Taking a potshot at the Indian team for their "new aggressive outlook", Australian captain Ricky Ponting today said his team would continue to play good cricket and leave the hosts to do all the talking in the ongoing one-day cricket series. "They are the ones who have c

Australian captain Ricky Ponting, yet to fully recover from hamstring injury, is doubtful starter for the first one-day cricket match against India at M Chinnaswamy Stadium here tomorrow. "We are not 100 per cent sure but he is very close to playing tomorrow," stand-in skipper

Australian captain Ricky Ponting today issued a warning to India ahead of the seven-match one-day series, saying his team was looking to "impose" itself on the hosts by playing aggressive cricket. Ponting also said his side was better prepared to tackle the Indian team, including

Australian captain Ricky Ponting said today his side was better prepared to tackle the Indian team including big guns Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly as it knows their "strengths and weaknesses". India would be under pressure after their young team clinched th

Speedster S Sreesanth's on-field aggression has come in for praise from Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, who said his team was looking to "impose" itself on India in the one-day series with a similar behaviour. "I know it (Sreesanth's aggression) is going to be there. That's

The Australian cricket team breathed a huge sigh of relief today when captain Ricky Ponting was cleared for the upcoming seven-match one-day series in India. Cricket Australia's National Selection Panel confirmed that Ponting, who suffered a hamstring strain during the ongoing Twenty20 Wor

The Australian cricket team today received a major jolt with captain Ricky Ponting being ruled out for the rest of the Twenty20 World Cup due to injury which also rendered him doubtful for the tour of India. In yesterday's Super Eight match against Pakistan, which Australia lost by six wic

Rahul Dravid's out-of-the-blue decision to relinquish the captaincy of the Indian cricket team found a supporter in former Australian captain Ian Chappell, who believes India should ask VVS Laxman to lead the Test squad, while the ODI reins should be in MS Dhoni's hands. Chappell, an astut

Rattled by the shocking loss to Zimbabwe in the Twenty20 World Cup, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has urged his teammates to respect the shortest form of cricket or risk being embarrassed again. The four-time ODI world champions were handed a stunning five-wicket defeat by the minnows i

The hype around them notwithstanding, none of the 'Men in Blue' could make it to the shortlist for ICC annual awards, which has the lone Indian representation in Jhulan Goswami, nominated for the 'Women's Cricketer of the Year' category. The long list for the ICC awards included Zaheer Khan

Sachin Tendulkar has pipped Brian Lara as Shane Warne's greatest cricketer. Warne, who released the last ten names of his 50 greatest cricketers, said it was a "close call" to choose between Tendulkar and Lara, but rates the Indian ahead because of his 'mental toughness'. "I