Monty Panesar captured five wickets on his Ashes debut to help England bowl out Australia for 244 on the opening day of the third Test.
Stuart Clark took five wickets to help Australia win the first Test against West Indies on Monday by 95 runs after bowling out the hosts for 191 at Sabina Park.
England declared their first innings on 551-6.
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The Pakistan paceman is hoping to extend his playing days by cutting back on one-day international appearances.
The BCCSL has demanded an explanation from the off-spinner for accusing Australian pace bowlers of chucking in a radio interview.
India were six without loss at stumps on Day 3 after Australia set them a mammoth target of 499 runs for victory,
The former India captain said he has no problem facing the new ball bowlers led by Brett Lee on the bouncy wickets in Australia.
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Australia's Phil Jaques will replace the retired Justin Langer in the first Test against Sri Lanka.
Vice-captain Adam Gilchrist has dismissed any possibility Australia would suffer a hangover from their extraordinary one-day series loss to South Africa when the first Test starts on Thursday.
Yuvraj Singh's brilliant 121 was in vain as India went down by 47 runs in the third ODI.
Jonty Rhodes had posted an image of himself taking a dip at the Holy Ganga river. Harbhajan Singh Rhodes saying that 'you have seen more India than me'.
Australia outplayed Sri Lanka to record a 116-run victory in the opening match of their triangular ODI series
More than three months after his death, Dean Jones was paid another tribute at his home ground at the Melbourne Cricket Ground by Indian and Australian players, who were joined by his wife, daughters and the legendary Allan Border in remembering the effervescent former player on Saturday.
Australia's coach says the Indian skipper's mental games have propped the confidence of his players.
Ricky Ponting will captain the side and fast bowler Brett Lee, who missed the World Cup through injury, returns in place of the retired Glenn McGrath.
Brett Lee and Jason Gillespie replace the duo in Australia's squad for the tri-series involving India and Zimbabwe.
Glenn McGrath captured four wickets and Brett Lee and Stuart MacGill grabbed three each as Australia took early command of the second Test.
Left-handed batsman Jimmy Maher, who also keeps wicket, is likely to play his first game of the tournament on Sunday.
India face a tough task to avenge their World Cup final defeat by Australia in the tri-series starting on Thursday.
Australia's LOI captain was unbeaten on 137 with Test captain Steve Waugh on 43 when rain forced an early end to the second day of the second Test against Zimbabwe.
The match is being held in Perth. This is Zimbabwe's first Test in Australia.
'You have to be courageous to score runs in Perth,' Steve Waugh said.
Australia won the 4th ODI to take an unassailable lead in the seven-match series.
After winning the toss and racing to 52 without loss in the 11th over, England's batting collapsed with all 10 wickets tumbling for 103 runs as the innings came to abrupt end in the 42nd over.
Australia stormed to an innings and 99 runs victory, wrapping up a fourth straight win in the series with more than two days remaining.
The fast bowler captured six wickets in his first Test for almost 11 months as England collapsed to 157 all out on the third day of the first Ashes Test.
Australia named five fast bowlers in a 13-man squad for next week's first Ashes Test against England.
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Sri Lanka cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan revealed that India's batting great Sachin Tendulkar had a slight weakness against off-spin bowling.
Australia beat Bangladesh by four wickets in the first ODI
Damien Martyn top scored with 101 as Australia, needing 292 to win, scored 294-8 on the fifth morning of the final Test to complete a first series sweep in South Africa.
