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.
Former test batsman Mark Waugh will step down as a national selector at the end of August, Cricket Australia said on Tuesday.
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.
The Australian government and 14 moderate Islamic leaders agreed on Tuesday to fight terror together.
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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.
A promising premise, except it's a poorly planned trip that goes nowhere and infuriates with its inadequacies.
Researchers have found that the smell of food could play an important role in how the body processes calories.
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The South Africa captain was cleared of racially abusing the West Indies all-rounder in the fourth Test in Antigua.
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.
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.
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.
'What Kamala Harris' rise and rise underscores is that our old ways of identifying the Indian-American Diaspora need to change...' 'None of this detracts from her Indian-American identity, which makes us feel as if we are Americans too,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'If she contests it, then these people will have to fight it in court.'
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'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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The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the presence of visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Cricket Australia on Tuesday confirmed former India One-Day International player Sriram Sridharan will join the coaching staff for the forthcoming Test tour of India as a spin consultant.
The James Bond actor spent months in India shooting for another film, but his connection to India goes much deeper than that.
Australia has built an artificial pitch at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane to help its batsmen deal with spin-bowling on the slow tracks of the subcontinent, where they have so often struggled in the past.
Champions Manchester City galvanised their pursuit of Premier League leaders Chelsea on Sunday with an emphatic 3-0 victory over a Southampton side who have surprisingly come between the leading title protagonists.
'Before Shastri's induction, things were sketchy and it was not known who was responsible for taking cricketing decisions around the team. The selectors chose a squad of players, the captain ran the show on the field and the coaches helped draft plans, or sort of tried to. There needed to be one man who could coordinate all elements around the squad -- someone who had the backing of the Board, the respect of the players and that of the support staff.'
Darren Lehmann has extended his contact as Australia's head coach until 2019 to cover the World Cup and the Ashes series in England that year, the country's cricket board (CA) said on Monday. The 46-year-old former left-handed batsman took on the role on the eve of the 2013 Ashes and despite losing 3-0 in England, he went on to guide the team to series wins over South Africa, England, India, New Zealand and West Indies. He also won the 2015 World Cup on home soil with Australia, who currently top the ICC rankings in both test and one-day international cricket.
