A year ago most cricket enthusiasts felt that the best days of the Australian ODI team were over. The 2009 Champions Trophy changed all that. Australia easily won the trophy and haven't looked back since then.
Watford's hopes of avoiding relegation suffered a double blow on Tuesday when they were thrashed 4-0 at home by Manchester City and then slipped into the Premier League relegation zone after fellow strugglers Aston Villa beat Arsenal in the late game.
20 occasions she captured our attention.
India are eyeing a 10th straight bilateral series win over the Caribbean side.
Will India get their bowling combination right after the debacle in Chennai when they take on a buoyant West Indies in the second ODI
Test opener Phillip Hughes was among seven new players awarded contracts with Cricket Australia for the 2009-10 season.
Ricky Ponting's woes continued as Australia were dismissed for just 214 on the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand at the Gabba (Brisbane), on Thursday.
Youngsters like Brandon King, Khary Pierre, Sherfane Rutherford, Keserick Williams and Hayden Walsh Jr were preferred for the India tour
India captain Virat Kohli's stoic batting helped India eke out a draw on the fifth and final day in the opening Test against England in Rajkot on Sunday. But it was his English counterpart Alastair Cook, who stole the show and the records on the day!
Cricketing superpowers clash in an ODI series Sunday onwards. Rajeesh Gupta gives us all the numbers on India-Australia one day encounters.
Legions of fans may adore him as god of cricket but Sachin Tendulkar insists that he is only a mortal who loves playing for his country.
Former Australian coach John Buchanan has reacted to the criticism by recently retired skipper Michael Clarke, saying that the captaincy role is quite demanding and the former needs to work on it.
Perfect timing is an essential commodity in cricket and the emergence of batsman Phillip Hughes could not have come at a better time for the Australians.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has used his team's first-round exit from the Twenty20 World Cup for some intensive practice with his rebuilt side before the Ashes series starting next month.
20 years ago this week, India and Australia played one of the greatest Test matches in cricket history. Sreehari Nair relives the sound and the fury of that unforgettable game at the Eden Gardens.
Four among IPL's five best players are coming in relatively 'fresh' and only AB de Villiers among them has had a full cricket season. Lasith Malinga is returning from injury, and Irfan Pathan isn't a regular in India's playing eleven in ODIs and Tests.
When Deepika Padukone walked on the Cannes red carpet this year she followed in the footsteps of the biggest global beauty icons of two decades. Divya Nair looks back.
Last year's slapping row with S Sreesanth and the subsequent ban firmly behind him, feisty Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh says he is focused on making an impact in the Indian Premier League's second edition.
Deccan Chargers captain Adam Gilchrist and Chennai Super Kings batsman Suresh Raina are locked in a keen tussle at the top of the run scoring charts in the Indian Premier League. Currently, Gilchrist with a tally of 1090 runs in 37 matches leads Raina by just one run.
Legends Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Matthew Hayden will return to the field to launch the 2009-10 season in an All Star Twenty20 match at the Gabba in Brisbane, Cricket Australia and the Australia Cricketers' Association announced on Wednesday.
After scoring a brilliant 115 in the first innings of Durban Test, Philip Hughes went one step further as he scored 160 in the second dig.
Sunil Gavaskar has again accused International Cricket Council match referees of being biased against Asian players after Zaheer Khan was fined.
Less than a year after the Central Intelligence Agengy warned of renewed threats from a resurgent Al Qaeda, its director Michael Hayden portrayed the terrorist movement as largely defeated in Saudi Arabia and Iraq and on the backfoot throughout the world, including in its stronghold along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Indian and Australian cricket teams arrived in Mohali on Tuesday night to play the second match of the four-match Test series at Mohali beginning Friday.
After the first week of the DLF IPL, the Australians appeared to be dominating. From the second week onwards, especially after Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee and Andrew Symonds left, the Indians seemed to be gaining ascendancy with fine performances from Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, the Pathan brothers and M S Dhoni.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari secretly met the director of America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Michael Hayden on his recent US visit, a media report said on Monday.
Michael Hussey did a redemption act after a woeful Test series as he struck an unbeaten half century (53) to lead Australia to a six-wicket victory in the second Twenty20 International against South Africa in Brisbane on Tuesday.
IPL's second season will end soon. We still have 6 matches to go, and we'll surely see a few more outstanding individual performances. But the 'top 10' or 'top 20' list of this IPL's top performers is now unlikely to change.
There are reports that the BCCI has signed up several Australian cricketers, including Ricky Ponting, for IPL.
Australia were 341 for 9 against South Africa at the end of first day's play in the first Test at Perth.
Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani was handed a "charge-sheet" by Central Intelligence Agency chief Michael V Hayden on Pakistani intelligence agencies' links to militant activities and was told to rein in the ISI during their meeting in Washington.
The Foreign Department in Melbourne warned the Australian cricketers of the "high risk of terrorist activity" in India.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat first in Sunday's tri-series ODI against India.
After getting a clean chit from Cricket Australia in the pub brawl fiasco, embattled all-rounder Andrew Symonds has apologised to team-mates for putting them through this distraction and regretted his decision to visit the hotel. Symonds said he is still going through counselling sessions and promised to come out as a better person.
Controversies continue to chase Andrew Symonds as the Australian all-rounder is now said to have picked up a fight at a pub, forcing Cricket Australia to have a look into the issue. Media reports in Melbourne claim that Symonds, who has just returned to the national side after missing the India tour, was allegedly involved in a physical altercation at a pub in Brisbane.
Dhoni moves to fourth in ODI rankings India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni hasn't been dismissed so far in the Asia Cup, having scored 135 runs in two unbeaten innings. This effort moved him up five places in the ODI batting rankings to fourth position, level with Michael Hussey and Ricky Ponting of Australia.
The visitors were 102 for 4 at stumps, after India posted a formidable first innings score of 469, on Day 2 of the second Test.
Some interesting numbers from first day's play in the first Test between India and Australia in Bangalore.
Australia's captain led from the front with a fighting knock of 123 that saw the team post a decent 254 for 4 on the opening day. He believes it is a good score, on a pitch that is getting slower by the hour.
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting says his team is confident of tackling India's spin aces Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh in the upcoming Test series.
