Making his first PGA Tour start since winning the Wyndham Championship a month ago, Arjun Atwal continued his brilliant form to share the lead with a six-under 66 in the opening round of the US $3.6 million Viking Classic golf tournament in Madison, US. Atwal shares the top spot with Bill Lunde, Ken Duke, Brett Quigley in a crowded leader-board.
Speculation has started whether Hrithik Roshan's underperforming film will good business in the mainstream theatres as a 90 minute version of the 130-minute long film Kites: The Remix retooled by the popular Hollywood film-maker Brett Ratner opens in a few dozen theatres this Friday.
The Auckland Aces fast-bowler has been cleared fit to play after fracturing his right thumb in Sri Lanka last month and will join Blackcaps teammates Tim Seifert and Colin Munro in the 12-man squad.
The seventh wicket partnership of 74 runs between Mike Hussey and Steve Smith in Wednesday's WT20 against Bangladesh is Australia's highest for this wicket in T20Is. The pair obliterated the previous record stand of 57 between Brad Hogg and Brett Lee at Johannesburg on 24-02-2006.
Australian fast bowler Brett Lee is 'gutted' by his latest injury which ruled him out of the Twenty20 World Cup but it is unlikely to end his international career, Cricket Australia's physiotherapist said.
The event technical committee of the Twenty20 World Cup has approved Ryan Harris as replacement for injured Brett Lee in the Australian squad for the tournament which begins in the Caribbean on Friday.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians played in Mohali on Friday.
Delhi's first Couture Week ended on a high note with designer duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla's returning to the ramp after a four-year hiatus.
Bangladesh defeated New Zealand by 77 runs to win its fourth Plate Championship title at the ICC Under-19 World Cup at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. India overcame Tagenarine Chanderpaul's century to beat the West Indies by 46 runs and take fifth place at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar has lot of reasons to look forward to the upcoming World Cup, having missed the previous edition due to a doping ban, and one of them is the possibility of a duel with Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar.
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.
'He grew up poor and faced racism as he worked to become one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Hank never let the hatred he faced consume him.'
Tim Cahill and Brett Holman scored second half goals to give Australia a 2-1 victory over Serbia Wednesday but the victory was not enough to stop the Socceroos from going out of the tournament. Serbia, who beat Germany 1-0 in their last match, lost their chances of advancing and finished bottom of Group D.
The return of two suspended players and the absence of two others could prove to be a deciding factor in Wednesday's World Cup Group D clash between Australia and Serbia.
Australia made light of their advancing years and the early dismissal of striker Harry Kewell to produce a gallant fight for World Cup survival on Saturday as they held Ghana to an often dramatic 1-1 draw.
Australian forward Harry Kewell was controversially sent off midway through the first half but Australia managed to cling on to a 1-1 draw with Ghana Saturday in a result that put the Africans top of Group D.
Australia coach Tim Nielsen said the cramped schedule is hurting his team with injuries to key players but stayed short of criticizing the administrators for introducing new formats of domestic Twenty20 tournaments.
Australia suffered a huge blow ahead of Wednesday's second one-dayer against India as fast bowlers Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson as well as all-rounder James Hopes were ruled out of the match due to injuries.
Winning the series opener could not dilute Ricky Ponting's anger. The Australian captain is absolutely furious, claiming that the Champions League Twenty20 hindered his team's preparation for the ongoing ODI series against India.
After Steve Waugh, Brett Lee and Adam Gilchrist, it was the turn of Brad Hodge to express solidarity with Indian students following racist attacks.
Images from the Champions Trophy final between Australia and New Zealand in Centurion on Monday.
Brett Holman struck four minutes into injury-time to spare Australian blushes and give an undisciplined Socceroos a 2-1 victory over trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand in a World Cup warm-up on Monday.
Blackpool, in the bottom tier of the football league 10 years ago, secured a place in the Premier League with a 3-2 Championship playoff final triumph over Cardiff City at Wembley stadium on Saturday.
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American director Brett Ratner is confident that his remix version of Anurag Basu's Kites will appeal to non-Indian audiences.
Injury-hit pacer Brett Lee, who was declared fit to play in the Twenty20 World Cup, is satisfied with his bowling performance during the Indian Premier League.
Injured pacer Brett Lee's management has indicated that the Australian bowler might be better off delaying his international comeback for the time being as he does not want to appear at less than his best for the upcoming World Twenty20 Cup.
Former Australian captain Greg Chappell wants the national team and Cricket Australia to consider a rotation system to reduce the pressure on fast bowlers.
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting will take time out from his preparations for this week's fourth Ashes Test on Tuesday to visit minor league English football club Altrincham after becoming a shareholder.
Injury-ravaged and short of match practice he might be, but pacer Brett Lee still found a place in the 15-member Australian cricket squad announced on Tuesday for the World Twenty20 Championships starting next month in the West Indies.
Fast bowler Brett Lee has returned to Australia from the Indian Premier League (IPL) to undergo more treatment on his elbow in a bid to make himself available for the world Twenty20 championships.
A year ago most cricket enthusiasts felt that the best days of the Australian ODI team were over. The 2009 Champions Trophy changed all that. Australia easily won the trophy and haven't looked back since then.
Australian fast bowler Brett Lee believes that a successful comeback to cricket in the Indian Premier League is the first step to reclaiming his position in the national team for the Twenty20 and the 2011 World Cup.
Australia's hopes of strengthening their bowling attack suffered a blow when strike bowler Brett Lee was ruled out of the third one-day international against India, at the Ferozshah Kotla, in New Delhi, on Saturday.
Statistical highlights of the first India-Australia ODI in Vadodara.
Paceman Brett Lee, all-rounder Moises Henriques and opening batsman Phil Hughes on Friday joined their NSW Blues team-mate David Warner in the Champions League All-Star XI team.
His international career derailed by one injury breakdown after another, Australian pacer Brett Lee says he is unsure about his future and may never bowl again.
South Africa's domestic Twenty20 champions Diamond Eagles will have to play out of their skin if they desire to start their Champions League campaign on a winning note against a formidable New South Wales (NSW) in New Delhi on Friday.
New South Wales is Australia's most successful domestic team and one to watch out for in the upcoming T20 tournament. The 15-man squad includes as many as eight current international players, led by pace ace Brett Lee, who played a major role in Australia's ICC Champions Trophy triumph.
Australian speedster Brett Lee has claimed that England have lost their X-factor without all-rounder Andrew Flintoff.
