Steve O'Keefe's hopes of joining the Australian slow-bowling attack in the four-Test series in India from next month have been boosted after the left-arm spinner was withdrawn from the remainder of the Big Bash League to prepare for the tour.
A new chair in the memory of former Reserve Bank of India Governor IG Patel will be created at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Cricket, once the national game of Canada, is set to make an overdue comeback.
Mexico's Oribe Peralta and Alex Morgan of the United States were named winners of the inaugural CONCACAF Male and Female Player of the Year awards on Friday.
From the moment he switched nationality Greg Rusedski has never been far from controversy.
The US Senate is expected to decide this week to dump such a policy and pursue a new nuclear cooperation deal with India.
Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood has pulled out of the ongoing Indian Premier League after a hectic summer of cricket and a busy national schedule ahead.
The Australian government and 14 moderate Islamic leaders agreed on Tuesday to fight terror together.
The left-arm pacer is expected to join Peter Siddle and Ryan Harris in the Australian attack for the first Test against England starting at Gabba on November 21 after missing out on the Ashes tour of England earlier this year.
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The South Africa captain was cleared of racially abusing the West Indies all-rounder in the fourth Test in Antigua.
Australia has so far refused to sell uranium to India because it has not signed the non-proliferation treaty.
The ban was imposed this week among guards and attendants at the building in Canberra, Australian media reported.
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Former test batsman Mark Waugh will step down as a national selector at the end of August, Cricket Australia said on Tuesday.
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Former Australian skipper Michael Clarke believes the coach and the team management have too much say and authority in Australian cricket.
Yes, a *lot* happened at the Hollywood Film Awards.
England have attempted a minor shake-up of the largely conventional world of Test cricket by offering to use a points-based system to determine the winner of their home series against Sri Lanka.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the presence of visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Researchers have found that the smell of food could play an important role in how the body processes calories.
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'It's pretty likely that Kissinger, Rice et al came bearing gifts (read Trojan Horses) from McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Grumman, Northrop, and all the other Military Industrial Complex stalwarts,' argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
After 15 years of failing to win an Ashes Test series in England, Cricket Australia have decided to give players more experience with the Dukes cricket ball by using it in their domestic first class competition from next year.
'We always knew it was going to be an important one playing against a quality side, but I think it affected us a little bit too much.
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