Australia's batting boot camp focussed more on mental work rather than technical shortcomings with wicketkeeper Brad Haddin predicting the form of the team's batting line-up will make-up for their inexperience in the series against India.
Australian pace spearhead Mitchell Johnson has admitted that he considered calling it quits after four of his closest teammates retired from the Test arena following the team's failure to retain the Ashes series against England.
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Delhi Daredevils by nine wickets in the Indian Premier League.
A guitar-strumming rocker when not keeping wickets, Australia's Peter Nevill will hope to hit the right note when he makes his surprise Test debut against England in the second Ashes match on Thursday.
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Australian vice-captain Brad Haddin has said that he knew he was out and did not need to wait for the replay to determine that he had hit the ball, which brought the end of the first Ashes Test, that went in favour of England.
West Indies's big-hitting middle-order all-rounder Kieron Pollard blasted an amazing 36 runs off one over that included a wide in a batting performance for the domestic Australian team the Adelaide Strikers.
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson has said the national selectors owe an explanation to out of favour wicketkeeper Brad Haddin on whether he has been dropped or rested from the One-day team.
Shaun Marsh will replace injured Australia captain Michael Clarke for the second Test match against India, starting at Brisbane from December 17, Cricket Australia said on Saturday.
Out-of-favour wicket-keeper Brad Haddin said he has been dropped and not rested, as suggested by the selection panel, from Australia's ODI team because of his inconsistent form.
As many as 144 players, including Indian Test batsman VVS Laxman, pacer S Sreesanth and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, will go under the hammer at the players' auction for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League in Bangalore on February 4.
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Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League match between Pune Warriors India and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Almost four years after he announced international retirement, 40-year-old left-arm spinner Brad Hogg on Monday stunningly returned to the Australian team by getting picked in the 14-member Twenty20 squad for the two matches against India next month.
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Rajasthan Royals batsman Brad Hodge on Sunday praised his captain Rahul Dravid for his skills to motivate the players as his side scored their second consecutive win in the IPL in Jaipur.
Australia's T20 specialist Brad Hodge and local boy Ashok Menaria scored some quick runs as Rajasthan Royals posted a competitive 164 for five against Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian Premier League match, in Jaipur on Sunday.
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Unheralded teenager Bevan Small looks like taking the honours for the most famous piece of cricketing action ever in New Zealand's domestic Twenty20 league after his athletic leap to facilitate a catch went viral over the weekend.
Rahul Dravid-coached India recorded a five-wicket victory over Pakistan on the final day of the warm-up matches on Monday ahead of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2016, which starts in Bangladesh, on Wednesday.
A United States lawmaker has written to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, asking him to look into the matter of the "forcible conversion" of a Hindu girl and ensure her safe return to her family. In a strongly-worded letter, dated March 12, Brad Sherman, a lawmaker from California urged Zardari to take steps to ensure that those responsible for such acts are held accountable. "I urge you to take action to ensure the safe return of this girl to her family," Sherman said.
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Aston Villa and Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given will be out of action for a month after suffering a torn hamstring, the Premier League club said on their website (www.avfc.co.uk) on Monday.
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Australia have dropped struggling top order batsman Shaun Marsh and rested wicketkeeper Brad Haddin for the first three matches of the one-day Tri-series against India and Sri Lanka, which starts next week.
Australia's woefully out of form wicketkeeper Brad Haddin could be replaced by Matthew Wade behind the stumps in the first three One-dayers of the tri-series against India and Sri Lanka starting on February 5.
Australian spin legend Shane Warne has backed out-of-form wicketkeeper Brad Haddin to retain his place in the national team but said Matthew Wade is ready to replace him.
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.
Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, on Tuesday, said that India had the slight edge in the first Test here but his side would look to tilt the scale by putting pressure on the visiting batsmen in the first session on Wednesday.
Having stopped Sachin Tendulkar from getting to his 100th international century for now, Australian vice-captain Brad Haddin, on Tuesday, said his team would look to prevent the Indian icon from reaching the milestone for as long as possible.
Images from Day 2 of the first Test between India and Australia, in Melbourne, on Tuesday.
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'In modern cricket, many batsmen play innovative strokes which I think are not enough to score runs in T20 format.'
Sri Lanka and Australia shared the spoils on the opening day of the third and final Test on Friday, the tourists putting up 235 for five before bad light stopped play. A sedate knock of 81 off 207 balls by Shaun Marsh held the Australian innings together as they struggled for runs throughout the rain-interrupted day.
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said if 'you look at the totality of our ties and we will look at where we have strong economic synergies, where we have strong technology promptings, these are really based on the flow of talent.'
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