Australia beat India by four wickets in a nail-biting finish after wicket-keeper Brad Haddin and James Faulkner held their nerves to help Australia go past India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Earlier, paceman Mitchell Starc captured a career-best 6-43 and Rohit Sharma hit a century as India put up a total of 267 for 8. Check out the images from the match...
Australia's key pace weapon Mitchell Starc roared to the top of the wicket-taking charts at the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup - and then made it clear he has no intention of resting on his laurels.
Australia fast bowler Brett Lee has been left out of the squad for the tour match against Northamptonshire starting on Friday, Cricket Australia said on Thursday.
A good deal of the 92nd Academy Awards (going hostless second year in a row) was a drag what with a staggeringly dull red carpet, long-winded, lacklustre speeches and uneven live acts following too quickly one after another.
Left-arm fast bowler Dirk Nannes has became the second Victorian star to retire from first class cricket this season.
The Australian national selectors on Wednesday rested wicket keeper Brad Haddin and all-rounder Shane Watson for the next two One-day matches against the West Indies, replacing them with Tim Paine and Adam Voges.
His impressive batting notwithstanding, Tim Paine will have to make way for Brad Haddin in the wicketkeeping role once the latter recovers from injury, says Australia coach Tim Nielsen.
The 35-year-old had put together a record partnership of 307 runs for the sixth wicket with Brad Haddin before the wicketkeeper was caught by Paul Collingwood off the bowling of Graeme Swann for 136.
Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Brad Haddin has been fined 10 per cent of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during his team's seven-wicket defeat against England in the final of the ICC World Twenty20 at Kensington Oval.
The Pakistan President made a 'thank you' call to the Hollywood actress for donating a million dollars for the people displaced by anti-Taliban military operations in the country's northwest.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari made a 'thank you' call to Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie for donating a million dollars for the people displaced by anti-Taliban military operations in the country's northwest.
Pakistanis are writing reams to thank Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt for donating a million dollar to assist people displaced by the military operations against the Taliban in the country's northwest.
After Steve Waugh, Brett Lee and Adam Gilchrist, it was the turn of Brad Hodge to express solidarity with Indian students following racist attacks.
Australia have named Mike Hussey as deputy to skipper Ricky Ponting in their 15-player squad for a one-day series in India starting on October 25.
The Oscar winning composer is all set to stage a glittering musical show in Los Angeles.
Left-handed opener Phillip Hughes is eager to take part in this year's Indian Premier League (IPL) after he made himself available for the January 19 auction despite Shiv Sena's threat to the Australian cricketers.
Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon said officials have done a good job.
West Indies legend Brian Lara will team up with some of Australia's finest players like Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist, Justin Langer and Glenn McGrath for the Australian Legends XI, which will take on Big Bash League champions Perth Scorchers in the Festival of Cricket match in Perth on Friday.
The 58-year-old actor is all set to fly to LA to dub for the character.
Shane Watson is not embarrassed by his on-field antics but Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is and will talk to his players about their on-field behaviour. The third Test between Australia and the West Indies was marred by a few ugly incidents, involving players from both the sides.
The second day's play in the third Test between Australia and the West Indies at the WACA on Thursday was marred by an ugly confrontation between Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin and Windies bowler Sulieman Benn.
The Brad Pitt starrer is doing very well overseas.
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Yusuf Pathan delivered with the ball against the Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday.
Williams's publicist Kelly Bush Novak was responding to a report on website Deadspin that an officer from the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) had visited seeking to drug test Williams outside the allotted daily window.
Ravichandran Ashwin took a dig at former Australia batsman and Gujarat Lions coach Brad Hodge, who was forced to apologise to Virat Kohli for his allegation that the India captain opted out of Dharamsala Test match to keep himself fit for the upcoming Indian Premier League.
Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Brad Haddin's century helped the visitors defeat New Zealand by six wickets in the third One-day International played at Seddon Park in Hamilton, and take a 2-1 lead in the Chappell-Hadlee series.
Indian and Australian cricketers will soon be sharing dressing rooms in the Indian Premier League and wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, fresh from his team's triumph in one of the most controversial and hard-fought bilateral contests in recent times, feels it's time to 'move forward'.
This is primarily because of the current economic situation in the country, Microsoft said. "Given the economic downturn, we are filing substantially fewer H-1B applications than we filed last year," Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith wrote in a blog posting on microsoftissues.com.
Struggling Mitchell Johnson has found much needed support from teammate and stumper Brad Haddin, who reckons that the Australian paceman was still making an impact in their Ashes defence.
Sourav Ganguly will no longer be the 'fixed' skipper of Kolkata Knight Riders). The team has decided to rotate captaincy in the second season of the Indian Premier League, starting in South Africa on April 18. KKR coach John Buchanan said captaincy would be shared between Ganguly, West Indian Chris Gayle, New Zealand's explosive opener Brendon McCullum and Australian Brad Hodge.
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Dirk Nannes (3 for 21) and Shaun Tait (3 for 30) ripped through the West Indies batting line-up to help Australia to a comfortable 38-run victory in the opening Twenty20 international at Hobart.
Pakistan opener Ahmed Shehzad suffered a fractured skull after being hit by a bouncer during the second day of the first Test against New Zealand on Monday.
This is for the first time in recent history that the leaders of the two largest democracies would be addressing a joint rally anywhere in the world.
Marcus North and Brad Haddin scored centuries as Australia declared their first innings on 674 for 6 before reducing England to 20 for 2 in the second innings on a rain-shortened fourth Day in the first Test.
My Name Is Khan is a film that will have the galleries cheering and making sure there aren't many dry eyes in the house.
Australia's world champion one-day team could face a major overhaul after they slumped to a 10th loss in 11 games, according to chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns.
Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by two runs in a low-scoring Indian Premier League match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.
Asking Sri Lanka to end the indefinite detention of 11,000 people for suspected links with the Tamil Tigers, a global human rights body on Tuesday said the lack of transparency on the issue raises concerns about possible torture of those in custody.
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