The struggling Australian cricketers have been offered professional counselling to prepare well for the third Test against India and come to terms with the axing of four teammates, including vice- captain Shane Watson.
Their morale lifted after a win over Sri Lanka, India will look to break the shackles and come strong against Australia when the two sides clash in the fourth match of the ongoing ODI tri-series in Adelaide on Sunday.
Images from the World Cup match between Australia and New Zealand at Lord's on Saturday.
'A wicket like that, run out, specially of Virat is massive. He was batting pretty well, so happy with that.'
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has not only stuck to its guns on non-acceptance of the Decision Review System (DRS), but also shot down the use of Hot Spot for the upcoming series against Australia.
Anderson becomes number-one ranked Test bowler
Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Anurag Thakur, on Thursday, lashed out at Cricket Australia officials for targeting Virat Kohli over the DRS controversy in the ongoing Test series, terming their conduct 'disgraceful' and 'arrogant'.
The duo has been left out of Australia ODI squad for UAE despite bans ending before tour end
India rode on Virat Kohli's brutal unbeaten 115 and Shikhar Dhawan's 100 to pull off a sensational six-wicket victory over Australia in the do-or-die sixth One-Day International and level the seven-match series 2-2, in Nagpur, on Wednesday. Chasing a mammoth 351, the Indians blazed away on a belter of a track at the VCA stadium in Jamtha to overhaul the target with three balls to spare.
New Zealand beat Australia by six wickets in the second ODI at the MCG on Friday to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. Australia's fifth successive defeat meant that India displace them from the No 2 spot in the ICC ODI rankings.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Thursday said his government is committed to taking every 'physically possible' step to ensure that all international students in his country remain safe. "The Australian government is committed to doing all that is physically possible to ensure that all international students in Australia have safe and rewarding experience," he said.Indian students have been the target of frequent racial attacks in Australia.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith arrived in New Delhi on Monday on a five-day visit amid attacks on Indians in that country.
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has been angered by Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to lift a ban on uranium exports to India and her move threatens to divide the ruling Labor Party.
'This WC will heavily rely on openers as they have to set the tone'
India have never won a Test series on Australian soil, but go into the series-finale starting Thursday with a 2-1 lead. The visitors need only a draw to claim a piece of history.
Chasing a victory target of 143, Mithali Raj smashed a quick-fire 51 but failed to hit a final ball six that would have tied the scores as the Indian women's cricket team lost their Twenty20 international against Australia by two runs in Sydney on Tuesday.
Modi conveyed a "sense of concern being felt in India over the recent brutal killing of Manmeet Alisher, a person of Indian origin, in Australia," a prime minister's office statement said.
Ricky Ponting feels Ajinkya Rahane has done a great job for India 'to pick up the pieces' from the Adelaide debacle
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.
Paceman Mitchell Starc retains his place in the side despite what was perceived to be a sub-par performance in Adelaide, and will be looking for a strong performance in conditions which are expected to favour his skills at the new Perth Stadium.
IPL Action VIII: These players went unsold
Australia skipper Steve Smith has described Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar as the best death bowlers around. His assessment came after Australia suffered a five-wicket defeat to India in the third One-Day International between the teams in Indore on Sunday.
Defending champion Rohan Bopanna went down fighting in the thrilling doubles opening round game at the third edition of Tata Open Maharashtra, in Pune, on Wednesday. Playing alongside local boy Arjun Kadhe, the ace Indian player Bopanna dominated the game initially. However, after winning the first set convincingly, the Indian duo couldn't manage to continue the momentum further in the games against French pair of Benoit Paire and Antoine Hoang as they lost the match 3-6, 7-5, 10-7.
The Australian government has already made it clear that it will reverse a decision by the previous John Howard administration to sell uranium to India as New Delhi is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. 'But the Bush administration is expected to seek a promise from Australia that it will not vote against the Indian agreement in the NSG, in which it is one of 45 member States.
Leander Paes and Purav Raja were no match for Colombia's Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in the pre-quarter-finals of the men's doubles at the Australian Open on Sunday. The unseeded Indians were beaten 1-6, 2-6 by their 11th seeded opponents in 69 minutes.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
Indian BPOs are at the centre of a fresh controversy with an Australian television channel claiming that some of them were illegally selling personal information of tens of thousand Australian customers.
While wicket-keeper-batsman Klaasen recently notched 69 runs from 30 balls in South Africa's six-wicket win over India in the 2nd T20I, 20-year-old Mulder has played a single ODI against Bangladesh at East London in October 2017.
Australia opened up a six-point lead over India at the top of the MRF Tyres ICC Test Team Rankings following the annual update, with the results from 2012-13 no longer included in the calculations and outcomes from the 2014-15 series weighted at 50 per cent.
Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) is confident that the fifth One-Day International between India and Australia in Cuttack on Saturday will be held as planned and if required it will use a chopper to dry the outfield at the Barabati Stadium.
Phillip Hughes's sad demise barely a week before the first India and Australia Test has put a question mark over the series opener and batting great Sunil Gavaskar feels the onus is on the cricket boards of the two countries to decide whether to call off the match or not.
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Rohit Sharma made history on Thursday with a scintillating 264, the highest individual ODI score, as India amassed 404 for five in the fourth one-dayer against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Take a look the ten best scores in ODIs
India's batting legend Sachin Tendulkar along with former team mate Vinod Kambli on Tuesday interacted with Australia-bound young opener Prithvi Shaw.
Indian bowlers were thwarted by Australia's perseverance as Steve Smith's men survived a battle of nerves on Monday to force a draw in the third cricket Test in Ranchi and keep the series alive.
This provided only the sixth such instance in Test cricket of the first six batsmen getting the past the half-century in an innings and four of them have have come against India.
As India broke a long-standing World Cup jinx against South Africa in Melbourne, appreciation and congratulatory messages poured in from the cricket fraternity which hailed the team's "terrific" all-round performance in front of a packed MCG.
They are determined to recapture the number one spot in the ICC ODI rankings but Australia skipper George Bailey said it would be "silly" to assume that the visitors would be able to thrash India by the requisite 6-1 margin in the seven-match series starting in Pune.
The Australians only had themselves to blame for their defeat on Friday as they had several opportunities to turn the game their way.
India A coach Rahul Dravid described the team's 119-run loss to Australia A as disappointing and said they will come back stronger in the next match of the triangular One-day series.
England and Australia cannot come to terms with India's growing importance in world cricket, according to Sunil Gavaskar, the International Cricket Council's cricket committee chief.
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