Opener Phillip Hughes and Moises Henriques scored unbeaten half-centuries to help New South Wales put up a modest 130 for two against Sussex Sharks in a Group B match of the inaugural Champions League in New Delhi on Sunday. Hughes played sensibly on the tricky Feroz Shah Kotla wicket to score 61 off 64 balls while Henriques was aggression personified from the time of his arrival at the crease as he took just 33 balls for his 51.
Australian cricketers in state side New South Wales continue to be hot property in the Indian Premier League (IPL)and young opener David Warner has become the latest to take the IPL plunge, signing a two-year deal with the Delhi Daredevils. The 22-year-old hit a NSW one-day record score of 165 not out against Tasmania in a Ford Ranger Cup game last month.
Australian batting tyro David Warner wants to attract the attention of selectors in all forms of the game.
Three Indian teams -- IPL II champions Deccan Chargers Hyderabad, runners-up Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Daredevils, the top finishers after the league phase -- will figure in the tournament, matches of which will be played at three centres.
The alliance would be a first for both parties, and comes after the Premier of Australia's New South Wales state, Morris Iemma, visited India recently. Ramadorai said he and other senior executives had fruitful discussions with Iemma, who led a delegation of 70.
Neil Maxwell has been named Chief Executive Officer of the Indian Premier League's Team Mohali. The former Australia 'A' player will oversee the team's operations and work towards building a brand for it. He is actively involved in cricket since the last 22 years. As an all rounder, he played for Australia 'A' and represented New South Wales and Victoria state teams for several years.
A 29-year-old Indian IT analyst died on Thursday after allegedly falling from the balcony of the third floor of an apartment in Sydney.
A doctor of Indian-origin has been barred from practising for 10 years after she was found guilty of professional misconduct by an Australian medical tribunal.
Former Australia cricket team captain Mark Taylor has said that next week's rescheduled first Test against India would allow the nation's grieving cricketers to start moving on from Phillip Hughes's shock passing.
Ram Puneet Tiwary, 27, beat Chow Lyang Tay and Poh Chuan Tan in the head several times and stabbed them in the neck to make sure they were dead, at their home in Kingsford in Sydney on September 15, 2003, the ABC online said.
Two hostages who have been killed in the 17-hour-long hostage drama at a cafeteria in Sydney were identified as the manager of the Lindt Chocolate cafe and a lawyer. The 38-year-old lawyer, Katrina Dawson, was a mother of three young children who became the victim of the siege. She was a barrister at Selbourne Chambers and was married to Paul Smith, a partner at Mallesons.
Here is a fact-box on Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who died on Thursday. He was 25.
The World Sikh Conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, on September 18-19, and discuss issues affecting the community and promote an understanding of Sikhism
Australia, especially the state of New South Wales, wants to clinch every opportunity to strengthen trade and business links with India, officials have said.\n\n\n\n
The Australian police believe it is a contract killing.
They notched up an identical seven wicket victory over Cricket Association of Bengal and New South Wales on the opening day of the Unibic 20-20 Bradman Cup tournament in Bangalore.
A number of schools in Australia were put under lockdown and students evacuated after "numerous threats" made to them as they opened on Friday after the long Christmas holiday period, sparking multiple police operations.
All tours of the Opera House were also cancelled for the day and ferries were either delayed or cancelled.
The Adanis' Australian dreams have been shattered.
Babar named Pakistan Test captain, takes charge of all three formats.
The tourists were all out for just 206 then captured just two wickets in reply as NSW wrapped up victory with eight overs to spare.
Pacer John Hastings has provided fill-up to Australia's ambitions of notching up a 5-0 whitewash in the ODI series against India, saying he is thriving on the extra responsibility following a few impressive performances. Hastings took the important wickets of centurion Shikhar Dhawan and India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to play a key role in the home team's victory in the fourth ODI in Canberra yesterday, their fourth in a row. With his show in the Australian capital, Hastings has proved that leadership is something that comes naturally to him.
Australia fast bowler Peter Siddle has claimed that it would be a little bit daunting at first to walk out onto the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) for the fourth and final Test against India, as it is the same ground where Phillip Hughes was struck by the deadly bouncer.
An armed gunman on Monday took several people hostage at the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Sydney and forced two people to hold what appeared to be a black flag bearing Islamic slogans written in Arabic in the store's window.
Young Indian-origin Australian fast bowler Gurinder Sandhu has reportedly received a special marketing contract from Cricket Australia (CA) as it aims to attract more Australians of Asian descent to the game.
On March 8, Bengaluru techie Prabha Arun Kumar was stabbed to death while returning home in Sydney. A month later, the Sydney police are still struggling to solve the murder mystery.
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The project was opposed by green groups and local residents.
Ian Craig, Australia's youngest Test cricket captain, has died aged 79, Cricket Australia said.
Former Australian Test captain Michael Clarke is set to return to first-class cricket six months after he announced international retirement and the lucrative India Premier League is on his radar, according to reports in the Australian media. The 34-year-old, who retired from international cricket following Australia's Ashes defeat last August, has also refused to rule out wearing the baggy green once more, insisting he was in good shape ahead of a grade cricket comeback. Clarke is likely to make his return for grade team Western Suburbs against Randwick-Petersham in a Sydney club match on February 20-21. "I'll start with playing this grade game for Western Suburbs and see if I miss it as much as I feel like I'm going to. If I do, the option is there to train the entire winter and then we'll see what happens," local media reported Clarke as having told 'News Corp'.
A 26-year-old Australian woman has allegedly abandoned her two children to join the Islamic State in Syria.
Mookhey, 32, was elected by the Labor to replace Steve Whan in the New South Wales upper house.
Prabha, who hailed from Mangalore, was stabbed to death in March in Sydney.
The peaks Prithvi Shaw scaled on the first day of his Test career in numbers, via Rajneesh Gupta.
Vivid Sydney is an annual festival that places light sculptures and installations throughout the city. More than 1 million people are expected to visit the festival this year, which takes place from 25 May to 16 June. Vivid is celebrating its 10th year with its biggest collection of light installations to date. Here are some dazzling sights from the lights festival.
Michael Clarke's Sydney cricket club is being probed for declaring at 17-0 during a local game on Sunday and claiming it was to boost the injured Australian captain's chances of batting time before the first Test against India next month.
The Sydney Cricket Ground is set to place a brass plaque outside the home-team dressing room in honour of Phil Hughes on Monday.
Cricket Australia chief Executive James Sutherland has admitted that the re-scheduling of the four-match Test series between India and Australia after the tragic demise of batsman Phil Hughes was "not perfect" but hopes that people will understand the "big picture".
Cowan says Australia needed to do more to look after the mental health of young players tossed out of the top level
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