A dominant Victoria Bushrangers put one foot in the semifinals of the Champions League Twenty20 after crushing local favourites Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets in Thursday night's League B encounter.
Australia's most promising players Cameron White and Peter Siddle headline the 15-member Victoria squad. Limited-overs cricket specialist David Hussey also looms as a big threat while Brad Hodge's vast experience in domestic cricket in a few different countries will also come handy.
With a view to build a team for the 2011 World Cup, Australian selectors on Thursday included three new faces while leaving out batsman Brad Hodge in the preliminary squad of 30 for the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in September in South Africa.
Rajneesh Gupta highlights all the important numbers of the Australian team from World Cups.
South Africa batsman J P Duminy's 52 off 37 deliveries proved crucial as Mumbai Indians beat Kolkata Knight Riders by nine runs in the Indian Premier League match in East London, on Friday. Kolkata have now been consigned to the bottom of the table with just one victory in seven matches, while Mumbai Indians jumped to third with seven points from six matches.
The 14-year-old star kid is joined by debutants Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas and Edwin Hodge.
Australia opening batsman Matthew Hayden has been ruled out of Thursday's first Test against West Indies at Sabina Park with an Achilles tendon injury, a team spokesman said. Simon Katich, returning to Tests after nearly a three-year absence, will now open along with Phil Jaques.
Australia vice captain Michael Clarke will delay his departure for the tour of West Indies due to the failing health of his fiancee's father. Cricket Australia (CA) announced on Friday that Clarke would join the Australian team at a later, as yet unspecified, date and that Brad Hodge would act as a temporary replacement.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting hopes there will be no recurrence of the racial abuse that has been directed at his players during the ODI series.
The West Indies A top-order put up a gutsy show to force a draw despite another five-wicket haul by left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem as India A won the unofficial three-'Test' series 2-0.
38-year-old Brad Hodge and 41-year-old Pravin Tambe engineered a comfortable 30-run victory for Rajasthan Royals against Highveld Lions of South Africa in the Champions League T20, on Wednesday.
Ricky Pointing struck an outstanding 158 as Australia dominated West Indies to finish at 301 for four on the opening day of the first Test.
Left-arm seamer Mitchell Johnson was Australia's leading bowler in the recent one-day series in India and is likely to join Brett Lee and Stuart Clark in a three-pronged pace attack for the first Test against Sri Lanka in Brisbane starting on Nov 8.
ICC president Ray Mali said they would take concrete action once they receive reports of alleged racist crowd behaviour in India.
'The Sena has lived with the BJP long enough to know its vulnerabilities and how to hit where it hurts the most,' points out Amulya Ganguli.
Every person was tested 72 hours before they travelled in order to ensure that all members of the party were travelling virus free.
Australian explosive batsman David Warner has become the second player of his country and fourth overall to enter cricket's most exclusive 6000 runs club in Twenty20 format.
Brad Hodge will take his place in the team with Adam Gilchrist assuming the captaincy.
The stylish right-hander will play for the county club for the second half of the season as a replacement for Australia's Brad Hodge.
Check out the Rajasthan Royals squad for IPL 2014.
"There's no chance I'll be missing my wedding," Finch told reporters.
Australia beat New Zealand by four wickets in the warm-up match ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup.
The pair will replace Stuart Clark and Ben Hilfenhaus in a reshuffled team for the fourth match of the triangular series.
Gujarat Lions would look to better their debut season's success and aim for a winning start against two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian Premier League match, in Rajkot on Friday.
The Australia captain missed two games against Sri Lanka as part of the selectors' rotational policy
The 14-man Australia A squad will play two four-day matches against Pakistan A in Rawalpindi and three 50-over matches against the same opposition in Lahore.
The 27-year-old left-hander will replace Australia's Brad Hodge for the 2005 season.
India's captain said players faring well on the domestic circuit could be considered for selection.
Australia were 229 for three in their first innings, trailing West Indies by 176 runs
Brad Hodge was named 12th man while Michael Clarke moved up the batting order to four for the ICC Super Test.
Rahul Dravid top-scored with 66 as the ICC World XI registered a 12-run victory over Victoria in a practice match.
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'.
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A masterly century by Brad Hodge and a run-a-ball 40 by Virender Sehwag helped their team draw against Warwickshire.
The December 19-21 match will be India's final preparation for the third test against Australia starting in Melbourne on December 26.
Team sources said a request to hire the former Aussie left-arm fast bowler as bowling coach for the Australia tour has been made to the BCCI.
