Ricky Ponting and his team will have a tough task ahead on Monday to perform or face an embarrassing early exit from the World Twenty20 when they take on emotionally-charged Sri Lanka. West Indies have stunned the Australians with the seven wicket defeat on Saturday and they cannot afford to lose the match against...
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Match 3: Australia Vs West Indies: Gayle and Fletcher stunned Aussies
Australia began their quest for the ICC World Twenty20 title against the West Indies at the Oval on Saturday with Andrew Symonds been sent home. The Group C which is termed as the Group of Death has Australia, West Indies and Sri Lanka. The first and crucial match for the Aussies ended with a...
IPL to miss top players
The Indian Premier League may bring unforseen riches to the world’s top cricketers, but not everyone has fallen for the lure of the lucre. Australian captain Ricky Ponting and senior pro Michael Hussey opted out of the IPL’s second season starting in South Africa on Saturday to rest tired limbs after a back-breaking schedule....
Ponting hopes to finish tour on high
Ricky Ponting’s men have been unable to win back the one-day international ranking but he believes they can still finish the tour on a high. South Africa claimed the series with a 61-run win in Port Elizabeth on Monday in the 4th ODI and in doing so confirmed their position at the top of...
South Africa Vs Australia: SA Won 4th ODI
South Africa beat Australia by 61 runs at St George’s Park in the fourth one-day international on Monday to claim an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series. South Africa innings G. Smith c Haddin b Hopes 20 H. Gibbs c Clarke b Bracken ...
Lee, Symonds back in Team while Ponting rested
Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel have not included regular skipper Ricky Ponting, Michael Hussey and pacer Mitchel Johnson in the 14-member squad to give them due rest before the Ashes and the ICC World Twenty20 Championship in England in June. Brett Lee and troubled all-rounder Andrew Symonds returned to the Australian team for the...
Hussey opts out of IPL
Michael Hussey will become the latest Australian cricketer to withdraw from this year’s IPL in an effort to reinvigorate himself ahead of the Ashes. Hussey is one of only two Australians, along with Brad Haddin, to have played in all 12 Tests and 10 one-day internationals since last year’s tour of India, and was...
South Africa Vs Australia: SA clinches T20
Roelof van der Merwe and captain Johan Botha took South Africa to a series-clinching 17-run win in the second Twenty20 International against Australia at Centurion Park on Sunday. Van der Merwe hit 48 off 30 balls as South Africa struggled to 156 for five after being sent in. Then Botha produced a miserly spell...
