Australia pushed India to fourth place in the ICC Test championship table after winning the three-match series against the West Indies 2-0.
Virat Kohli dropped a position to 11th leaving India with no batsmen in the top 10 of the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen, in the latest update of the ICC Player Rankings released by the International Cricket Council on Tuesday.
Team India is bemused and laughing their guts out at the suggestion in the Australian media that they toyed with the idea of boycotting the ongoing three-day warm-up game against Cricket Australia Chairman's XI, being played in Canberra, because of rain.
Spin is going to play huge part on the upcoming tour of Australia, and, says Harish Kotian, India's young spinners R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha will have to adapt quickly and deliver.
The Indian government on Wednesday called on the Australian government to take stern action against the perpetrators of alleged racial assaults on Indians in Melbourne, Victoria.
India will take on defending champions Australia and New Zealand in Bangalore and Chennai respectively in the warm-up matches of the Cricket World Cup, International Cricket Council said.
India tour is not final marker for World Cup hopefuls, says Langer
With possibility of a drop in the number of Indian students to Australia in the wake of racial attacks, a delegation of top officials and academicians from Australia is coming to New Delhi next month to promote that country as a safe destination.
The Australia all-rounder feels that the Indian team with its strong batting line-up will find the conditions challenging Down Under.
Former Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist feels India has a great opportunity to register their first Test series victory Down Under as the former world No 1 side is currently in a transitional phase.
Mayank Agarwal's 37-ball 60 was in vain as Australia Under-19 registered a 15-run consolation victory over their Indian counterparts in the final one-dayer of the three-match series, in Perth, on Friday. Opting to bat, the Australians accumulated 276 for 7 in 50 overs, thanks to Jason Floros's 59-ball 70 and Joel Garrett's 52 off 47 balls, before skittling out the Indians for 261 in 47.3 overs at the WACA. India won the series 2-1.
Melbourne will host the traditional Boxing Day Test before the final match is played at the Sydney Cricket Ground from January 3.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended his best wishes to Indian and Australian teams ahead of the Women's Twenty20 World Cup final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. BCCI president Sourav Ganguly also extended good wishes to the women's team.
India on Friday recorded an all win-day at the Australian Open with Leander Paes, Sania Mirza, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna winning their respective doubles matches in Melbourne.
Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig held their nerves and saved two match points against Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski before pulling off a tense win to seal a place in the mixed doubles semi-finals of the Australian Open, in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Aus coach lauds Dhoni's fitness
Adequate security measures have been put in place by the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) and Rajkot Rural Police ahead of the first T20 match to be played between India and Australia at Khanderi stadium in Rajkot on October 10.
Vaughan said it was not a good precedent set by Australia.
Handling the spotlight and the probing questions from the fourth estate can be difficult for first-time international players and Cricket Australia prefers not to leave anything to chance.
Mayank Agarwal, who was the third opener for the West Indies series, is a contender for the yet-to-be-decided squad of 17 that will travel Down Under.
Indian and Australian cricketers were engaged in a war of words on Tuesday, ahead of the crucial third Test in Perth, with senior players of both sides taking digs at each other after Brad Haddin started the jibes by calling India a "fragile" team.
An injury-hit India proved no match to defending champions Australia as they lost 0-3 in a lop-sided semi-final of the Champions Trophy hockey tournament in Melbourne on Saturday.
Australia coach Mickey Arthur on Monday said that his men will "hammer down" the visitors in next month's One-Day International tri-series as well once all-rounder Shane Watson comes back into the team.
Sachin Tendulkar's 50th fifty in Test cricket is his tenth against Australia. He became the second Indian and the fourth in Tests to post 50 half-centuries or more. Allan Border tops the chart with 63 such knocks, followed by Rahul Dravid (53), Steve Waugh (50) and Tendulkar (50).
Cricket Australia confirmed on Friday that fast bowler Brett Lee will return to Australia to consult with specialists after being ruled out of the remainder of Australia's tour of India.
India's Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan lost their respective men's doubles third round matches in the Australian Open in Melbourne, on Monday.
In terms of days, Dale Steyn has spent 2,320 days at the top of the ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers, the most by any bowler since World War II.
Off-spinner R Ashwin, who has been phenomenal in home conditions, has made it to the Test team as the 12th man, while pacer Mohammed Shami has been included in the ODI team.
'A wicket like that, run out, specially of Virat is massive. He was batting pretty well, so happy with that.'
The Aussies suffered Monday morning blues and how! Rediff.com takes a look at how the day unfolded for the Aussies in Mohali.
Phil Jaques got his first duck in Test cricket and missed becoming the fourth player to record seven successive fifties, held jointly by Everton Weekes (WI), Andy Flower (Zim.) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI).
Sachin Tendulkar (154 not out) registered his 38th century, extending his world record. It was his eighth against Australia, equal to the Indian record held by Sunil Gavaskar.
Sachin Tendulkar, with 314 runs (ave.78.50) in five innings is now the leading run-getter in the series. Matthew Hayden (307) and Andrew Symonds (302) have recorded 300-plus in this series for Australia.
In scoring 124 not out on Day 1 of the fourth Test against Australia, Sachin Tendulkar extended his record for most Test hundreds to 39, and 23 on foreign soil. Having already registered 41 centuries in ODIs, he becames the first batsman to post 80 international centuries 39 hundreds in Tests and 41 in limited-overs internationals.
The 21-year-old was added to the Australian for the fourth and final Test against India keeping in consideration the turn that the Sydney track traditionally offers for spinners.
World No 1 Australia scored three goals in the final quarter to register their second consecutive win in Pool B at the Kalinga Stadium.
Images from the World Cup match between Australia and New Zealand at Lord's on Saturday.
From being called 'leader of snakes' to 'the Donald Trump of cricket' by the visiting media, Kohli has been facing all kinds of allegations.
Relieved he might be after a consolation win against the seemingly unstoppable Australians, but Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni rued the fact that the ODI side lacks a settled bowling line-up.
Although the Malabar is a routine exercise which has been carried out for several years now, security experts attach a lot of traction to it in view of China's assertive behaviour in the South China Sea, observes Rup Narayan Das.
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