Resurgent Australia stand between unblemished India and World Cup glory
Several batsmen played reckless sweep shots only to fall lbw or be bowled by the Indian spinners.
A look at the best catches of the match...
Abhishek Sharma's stupendous 12-ball 37 set up Sunrisers Hyderabad's successful run chase against Chennai Super Kings.
Smith carried his bat with an unbeaten 91 in a losing cause in Brisbane.
KKR CEO Venky Mysore justifies Mitchell Starc's huge pay check from skill-set standpoint
Australia's World Cup heroes Travis Head, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc have all kept their respective base prices in the highest bracket of Rs 2 crore.
Aiden Markram stroked a half-century to steer Sunrisers Hyderabad to a comfortable six-wicket victory against Chennai Super Kings.
The IPL teams are expected to splurge on players like Pat Cummins, Harry Brook and Mitchell Starc.
Mitchell Marsh said on Tuesday he will gladly captain Australia for as long as required as the all-rounder prepares to lead the Twenty20 and one-day sides on a tour of South Africa.
India dominate the business side of global cricket by virtually every metric but Australia showed commercial clout counts for little when teams battle on the game's biggest stage.
Australian batting has not clicked as a unit so far in the World Cup, and captain Pat Cummins hoped that his batters will fire on all cylinders against Pakistan in Bengaluru on Friday.
'Ultimately, (Australia captain) Pat Cummins is a really great guy and I would be amazed, once the emotion settles, if he does not sit back and think, 'I got that one wrong', even though his bottom line at the time was winning a Test match.'
New Zealand might be tempted to recall retired pacer Neil Wagner to the side for the second and final Test against Australia
Pat Cummins said Australia are fired up to perform against teams that they have done well against in the recent past.
Their house in complete disarray after consecutive defeats, Australia will look to wake up from the slumber and return to winning ways against an equally stuttering Sri Lanka in the World Cup match in Lucknow on Monday.
'When you have the prime minister of a country walking into the dressing room, it is special.'
Australia face a selection headache with Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland and Josh Hazlewood vying for two slots in the pace attack.
The Australian captain's gesture won cricketing hearts all over.
All-rounder Aaron Hardie will travel with rest of the Australia squad to India as cover for Sean Abbott and Nathan Ellis.
The most sensational catches that defined the encounter.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player Index of IPL 2024 after Game 37.
KL Rahul believes it is always good to put himself in "challenging situations"
Australia face happy selection headache ahead World Cup semifinal: Pat Cummins
KKR trumped SRH in the league stage matches and it will give them an edge going into Sunday's summit clash, Matthew Hayden and Kevin Pietersen.
Beers in hand, the 'super troopers' were all smiles as Finch clobbered three sixes during his match-winning knock -- the Aussie now has the 3rd highest number of sixes in T20Is, a dizzying 125 sixes.
Rinku Singh credits Gautam Gambhir for Sunil Narine's transformation as 'specialist opener'
It was a game the bowlers would like to forget in a hurry as not a single bowler from either side managed an economy rate of under 10.
In a nervy finish, Australia snatched a last-ball win over New Zealand in the first T20 International in Wellington.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz has revealed that he made the difficult choice of leaving his ailing mother in hospital to play for KK
The never-ending speculation surrounding Mahendra Singh Dhoni's retirement, Virat Kohli's 16-year-itch, the second chance that life has offered Rishabh Pant and Rohit Sharma's bleeding heart will make for intriguing sub-plots in the annual carnival called the Indian Premier League starting on Friday.
Australia Women's team captain Alyssa Healy on Wednesday said that her husband and fast bowler Mitchell Starc deserved the record-breaking IPL paycheck as he has worked hard for many years.
'A fair bit of shock and certainly excitement with how it was all unfolding, but nothing I could have ever imagined.'
'I never thought we would get him for that price because of his performance being tremendous in the last couple of years in T20Is and ODIs for Australia.'
Pat Cummins wants to play international cricket for another five years
Images from Day 1 of the third Ashes Test between England and Australia at Headingley in Leeds on Thursday.
When the Aussie skips posed with their chottu babas, it surely made for the cutest pic!
Australia were grossly under-prepared for the India challenge, while pacer Mitchell Starc virtually ran out of ideas when Rohit Sharma smashed him for 29 runs in an over in their Super Eights match in Gros Islet (Saint Lucia), says former-cricketer Brad Hogg.
Australia captain Pat Cummins admitted his team had endured an uncomfortable time before winning the second Ashes Test against England at Lord's.
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