The defeat in the final league match against Sri Lanka will not derail Australia's campaign in the tri-series finals and captain Ricky Ponting claimed the hosts were geared up to face India in the title clashes.
Australia suffered a jolt ahead of their cricket tri-series finals against India when they lost an inconsequential cricket tri-series game against Sri Lanka by a narrow margin of 13 runs in Melbourne on Friday.
Irfan Pathan denied the team was distracted by the imminent bidding for the Indian Premier League.
The Australians posted 253 for 6 from 50 overs and then dismissed the Sri Lankans out for 125 in the first meeting between the sides since last year's World Cup final in Barbados.
Statistical highlights from day four in the fourth and final cricket Test between India and Australia.
Darren Lehmann of Australia was suspended for five-day one-dayers over a racial remark in the earshot of the Sri Lankan dressing room during the 2002-03 cricket series.
India made one change with paceman Zaheer Khan ruled out because of an injured heel and was replaced by Ishant Sharma.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
The fast bowler took five for 58 to follow up on Ricky Ponting's brilliant century as Australia beat India by 18 runs.
Brett Lee claimed the first hat-trick as Australia thrashed Bangladesh by nine wickets in a Super Eight game of the Twenty20 World Cup.
World champions India were beaten by Australia by nine wickets in a low-scoring Twenty20 match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday. The Indians were bundled out for a paltry 74 in 17.3 overs and the home team rattled up the required runs in just 11.2 overs.
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The second Test against India starts in Adelaide on Friday.
All-rounder Mitchell Marsh leads a 14-man squad packed with international experience, a group featuring Alex Carey, Ashton Agar, Peter Handscomb, Head, Jon Holland, Usman Khawaja, Joel Paris, Matthew Renshaw and Chris Tremain.
They announced a 15-man squad on Tuesday for the World Cup starting next month in the West Indies.
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Brad Hodge will take his place in the team with Adam Gilchrist assuming the captaincy.
The South African wicketkeeper said he is after Ian Healy's mark of 395 dismissals in Tests.
The Indian cueists were beaten by Singapore's Peter Gilchrist and Aung Htay of Myanmar respectively in the quarter-finals of the Asian Billiards Championships.
South African cricket captain AB de Villiers continued to script statistical history at the ongoing World Cup as he entered the top-10 of all-time scorers' list.
Seamer Mitchell Johnson claimed his first five-wicket haul in one-day internationals as Australia scored a crushing nine-wicket victory over India in the fifth one-dayer in Vadodara.
Heavy spells of rain in this port city of Kerala have cast a doubt over Tuesday's one dayer, the second in the series, between India and Australia.
'There is a very fine margin between foolishness and bravado,' said the Indian captain, defending his decision not to continue with the match after rain subsided in the first ODI against Australia.
Harbhajan Singh was left out of the Indian line-up because of an injury he sustained during the nets on Friday evening.
The Aussies won the Group B match at the Twenty20 World Cup by 8 wickets and entered the Super Eight stage.
Australia beat New Zealand by four wickets in the warm-up match ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup.
The Indian went down to Myanmar's Kyaw Oo in the pre-quarterfinal match of the IBSF World Billiards Championships.
Madhuri praised him in Sinhalese, saying, 'Gondhak hundai (Very good)', which instantly made Sanath smile.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the numbers.
Australia will use this month's Malaysian one-day tournament to try out different players and combinations, their captain Ricky Ponting said on Saturday.
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson will quit international cricket after the ongoing World Twenty20 in India, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Thursday.
Shane Warne crowned his international farewell with a brilliant half-century to put Australia in control of the final Ashes Test against England on Thursday.
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.
A summary of the eight rounds in the IPL Players' Auction, held in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Australia fast bowler Brett Lee was reported for excessive appealing in the second Ashes Test.
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Australia's captain scored a brave unbeaten century in a three-wicket win over Bangladesh in the first Test.
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