India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat in the Twenty20 international against Australia.
Sri Lanka beat Australia off last ball to win first T20
India's top scorer said the end of his blossoming partnership with Sourav Ganguly probably changed the face of the team's first innings on Day 2 of the first Test against Australia.
The wicket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground is like a subcontinent track. Batsmen struggled while playing on it this week in the Pura Cup clash between Victoria and New South Wales.
Ticket sales for the first Test between India and Australia have not kept pace with the excitement generated.
England's batting once again disappointed against Australia on Day 2 of the third Test
With an eye on the gruelling Australia series that follows the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League, the Indian Tests specialists including Cheteshwar Pujara and Hanuma Vihari have begun preparations for the pink ball Test against Australia at the ICC Academy in Dubai, from Friday evening.
India have tasted a lot of success recently in Australia including back-to-back Test series wins and veteran spinner Ashwin said the team will draw confidence from that.
Australia on Sunday crushed West Indies by 113 runs in the first One-day International at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The 2024 T20 World Cup will be played in a different format in which 20 participating countries will be divided into four groups of five teams each and the first round will be followed by the Super 8 stage.
Long retired from the game but Sachin Tendulkar's mere presence was good enough for a near-capacity crowd to go hysterical during India's World Cup game against South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in Melbourne on Sunday.
Jasprit Bumrah emerged as the lone bright spot with a record haul of 32 wickets.
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Australia beat India by four wickets in a nail-biting finish after wicket-keeper Brad Haddin and James Faulkner held their nerves to help Australia go past India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Earlier, paceman Mitchell Starc captured a career-best 6-43 and Rohit Sharma hit a century as India put up a total of 267 for 8. Check out the images from the match...
England's secret plans purporting to detail Australia's batting weaknesses found their way into opposition hands.
Rahane was left to pick up the pieces at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and responded in emphatic style.
Anil Kumble revealed that the decision was taken by skipper Sourav Ganguly.
The England fast bowler was shown on national television gesturing to the boisterous Melbourne Cricket Ground crowd of 50,451 after he was called for a no ball.
India were unchanged from the side that played the abandoned match in Brisbane last Tuesday.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has been ruled out of Friday's Twenty20 clash against India with a back injury.
Images from Day 4 of the second Test between Australia and India, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on Tuesday.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test against India.
Fast bowler Shaun Tait and all-rounder Brad Hogg have been recalled to the Australia side for the first Test against India.
David Warner made 34 in what is likely to be his penultimate innings in the long form of cricket as Australia reached 116 for two on the rain-disrupted second day of the third Test against Pakistan on Thursday.
The 22-year-old Afridi will join the national team in Australia on Saturday after completing his rehabilitation programme for a knee injury under the supervision of the PCB Medical Advisory Committee.
Thirty years after Imran Khan's Pakistan claimed the 1992 World Cup, Babar Azam's team may feel it is their destiny to deliver trophy.
'Hopefully we start the series well and try and win this one moving onto Boxing Day and get that momentum into the New Year'
The Australian fast bowler said he was confident of being fit in time to play in the third cricket Test on December 26.
The fourth Test ended in a draw late on day five, with home captain Smith's unbeaten 102 saving Australia and doling out another portion of frustration for England's bowlers, who toiled fruitlessly on a flat Melbourne Cricket Ground strip.
'Just because of the nature of how good those bowling attacks were they probably embellished it a bit. So, you wouldn't want to play on it every day, but I think for occasional Test matches it's not the worst thing.'
The winner of Tuesday's match between England and New Zealand will take on the hosts in the best-of-three finals.
The England captain said his own form and that of many of his team mates lacked the quality needed to be taking on the Australians on home soil.
The Australian leg-spinner now has 999 international wickets, leaving him on the cusp of another remarkable achievement.
Warne clean bowled England opener Andrew Strauss for 50 on the second ball of his fourth over.
Indian batters, with the exception of Yashasvi Jaiswal (84), faltered yet again to lose the match by 184 runs and trail 1-2 in the five-match series.
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 will be staged in Australia and New Zealand from February 14 to March 29, and India will begin its title defence against traditional rivals Pakistan in Adelaide on February 15, the International Cricket Council announced on Tuesday.
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