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  Lee Needs More Cricket To Earn Place In Team: Hilditch

  Cricket | October 27, 2010 15:52 IST

  Melbourne : Injury-prone pacer Brett Lee  is "very much" in contention for next year's World Cup but he needs more cricket  to earn his place back in the team, feels Australian chief selectors Andrew Hilditch.

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  Ponting's Match-Fixing Doubts Drift A Little

  Cricket | October 26, 2010 15:51 IST

  Melbourne: Australian captain Ricky Ponting's doubts about the genuineness of his team's win in the Sydney Test against Pakistan are mounting amid reports that the ICC knew of suspected match fixer Mazhar Majeed's activities during

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  Can't Be Absolute Best Anymore But Neither Can Sachin: Ponting

  Cricket | October 21, 2010 16:12 IST

  Melbourne: Australian captain Ricky Ponting  said he can no longer be at his "absolute best" with the bat but that should hardly be a surprise or concern as even an icon like Sachin Tendulkar  is

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  ICC Rankings Not True Reflection Of Form: Hussey

  Cricket | October 19, 2010 16:17 IST

  Australian batsman Mike Hussey has rejected the ICC's Test rankings, which place his team at fifth, saying that the Aussies are "definitely better than that and the system is not a true reflection of their

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  Sick Of Seeing Sachin Score So Heavily: Clarke

  Cricket | October 16, 2010 21:07 IST

  Kochi, Oct 16: The stand-in Australian captain Michael Clarke is relieved that batting stalwart Sachin Tendulkar and the dashing Virender Sehwag will not be a part of the much vaunted Indian batting line-up in the

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  Sheila's Intervention Prevented England, Australian From Pulling Out

  India | October 15, 2010 17:44 IST

  London, Oct 15: England, Scotland and Australia were close to pulling out from the Commonwealth Games, but for the last minute intervention of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to salvage the event, a top British

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  Indian, Australian Teams In Kochi For Sunday ODI

  Cricket | October 14, 2010 16:55 IST

  Kochi, Oct 14: Indian and Australian ODI squad members arrived here from Bangalore by a chartered flight this afternoon for the first of the one day series starting on Oct 17 at the Jawaharlal Nehru

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  Ponting Wants To Clone Harbhajan

  Cricket | October 09, 2010 18:43 IST

  Sydney: A desperate Australian team's skipper Ricky Ponting, having failed to find a good spinner, is so impressed by Harbhajan that he wants Hauritz to be a clone!Ponting wants his ace off spinner Nathan Hauritz

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  Laxman Won't Be Allowed Runner This Time, Says Ponting

  Cricket | October 08, 2010 19:20 IST

  Bangalore, Oct 8: Wary of even a half-fit VVS Laxman, Australian captain Ricky Ponting today said that in case the Indian batsman plays the second cricket Test despite back spasm, he will not be allowed

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  Doug Bollinger May Play In Bangalore Test

  Cricket | October 08, 2010 16:40 IST

  Sydney: Injured Australian pacer Doug Bollinger remains in contention to take part in the second Test against India after scans revealed that he suffered only a very minor abdominal strain on the final day of

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  Australian, English Swimmers Sick Due To Contaminated Pool Water

  Other Sports | October 07, 2010 20:41 IST

  An outbreak  of sickness that has swept through Australia's Commonwealth Games swimming team - resulting in questions about hygiene at the pool - has not stopped the emergence of a new star, reports The Age,

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  Australian Sally Pearson Stripped Of 100m Gold In CWG

  Other Sports | October 08, 2010 8:49 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 7 : Australian sprinter Sally Pearson was on Thursday  stripped of her gold medal after England protested that she had a false start in a controversial women's 100m dash in the Commonwealth

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  Australian Swimmers Down With Diarrhea After Consuming Games Village Food

  Other Sports | October 05, 2010 22:19 IST

  Australian swimmers Rob Hurley and Ryan Napoleon went to India to race in the Commonwealth Games but after a bad meal in the athletes village were left racing each other to the toilet. Napoleon recovered

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  Australian Wrestler Stripped Of Silver For Rude Gesture

  Other Sports | October 05, 2010 22:15 IST

  Australian wrestler Hassene Fkiri lost his temper and a certain medal in the 96kg Greco-Roman class at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.Tunisian-born Fkiri, 36, was disqualified midway through his gold medal bout against India's Anil

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  Aus Coach Nielsen Wary About Sehwag's Aggressive Batting

  Cricket | September 29, 2010 16:50 IST

  Mohali: Virender Sehwag's pyrotechnics with the bat give Indian cricket team an edge as the flamboyant batsman takes the pressure off his middle-order colleagues by scoring at a fast pace, Australian coach Tim Nielsen said

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  Ponting Admits He Is Harbhajan Singh's 'Bunny'

  Cricket | September 29, 2010 16:44 IST

  Sydney: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has admitted that Harbhajan Singh is one of the few bowlers in world cricket to have dominated him down the years.Harbhajan has been a thorn in the Australian sides and

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  Ponting Should Take Inspiration From Sachin, Says Mark Taylor

  Cricket | September 28, 2010 14:38 IST

  Sydney: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting should take inspiration from cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar in order to resurrect his fading batting form, according to former captain Mark Taylor.  Ponting is aware that he needs to score

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  Australian Swimmers Leave For KL En Route Delhi

  Other Sports | September 25, 2010 14:49 IST

  Australia's swimmers put on a united front and played down any concerns over health and security issues on Saturday at Sydney airport as they prepared to depart for the 19th Commonwealth Games to be hosted

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  Australian Cricketers Give Thumbs Up To Security In India

  Cricket | September 24, 2010 9:44 IST

  Chandigarh: At a time when international athletes are worried about their security in India during the Commonwealth Games, the visiting Australian cricket team on Thursday gave a thumbs-up to the security arrangements for their tour

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  Demi Moore Sues Australian Mag Over Photos

  Hollywood | September 22, 2010 12:44 IST

  SYDNEY: A legal battle between actress Demi Moore and an Australian magazine over photos it published of a private post-Oscars party thrown by the star is scheduled for trial next week. Moore is suing Pacific