IMAGES from the ICC World Cup match played between Australia and Bangladesh in Pune on Saturday
Travis Head smashed a brilliant 137 as Australia cruised to their sixth World title after outclassing India by six wickets in the final on Sunday.
The home team bowlers did not put a foot wrong but the pitch "surprisingly" dried up quite quickly at the Optus stadium on the second day, eventually helping the Indian batters, reckons Australia head coach Andrew McDonald.
When you are defending to save a game, a loose delivery comes along and you suddenly opt to play an attacking shot, you are unlikely to hit as well as if you were playing your naturally aggressive game all along. First Pant, then Jaiswal, found that out the costly way, observes Prem Panicker.
Australia crushed West Indies by eight wickets in the second ODI in Adelaide on Tuesday to take a 2-0 lead in the five game series.
Captain Ricky Ponting stroked 107 not out while Adam Gilchrist smashed a 26-ball half century to guide Australia to a seven-wicket victory in their first one-day match against New Zealand in Adelaide on Friday.
Australia beat Pakitsan by 40 runs in the third one day international at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
At this point it is still anyone's game, with a draw also an option, says Prem Panicker in his analysis of Day 4.
Images from the World Cup 2023 match between Australia and South Africa.
Images from Day 4 of the second Test between Australia and South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday.
Australia exploited England's lack of power hitters at Lord's on Sunday to beat the hosts for the second time in three days and take a 2-0 lead in the seven-match one-day series.
Australia outplayed Sri Lanka to record a 116-run victory in the opening match of their triangular ODI series
Australia were 341 for 9 against South Africa at the end of first day's play in the first Test at Perth.
Visitors Australia handed India a 21-run defeat in the decider at the MA Chidambaram Stadium to clinch a 2-1 win over the hosts.
Ravindra Jadeja led the demolition of Australia with the ball as India triumphed by six wickets inside three days in the second Test.
Australia's bowlers struck twice in quick succession in a devastating spell against England at Edgbaston on Sunday, before heavy rain prevented any further play.
India are chasing a victory in Ahmedabad to confirm their place in the final of the World Test Championship against Australia in June.
Green made a bigger impact in the ongoing contest in Ahmedabad where he smashed 114, only the third century in the bowler-dominated series.
'When Nathan Lyon was bowling I saw two or three balls without any drift. So, I thought of taking on Lyon so that we get some quick runs.'
'Kuhnemann put his hand up straight away and did a fantastic job'
Sri Lanka were dismissed for their lowest test total of 42 after South Africa's Marco Jansen produced bowling heroics to help the hosts take a firm grip on the first Test.
The former South African quick explained the pre-set plan against Head, though it eventually fell flat on its back.
Australia dismissed New Zealand for 302 in the second innings to win the second Test by 176 runs. Man of the match Mitchell Johnson claimed 6-73 for a total of 10 in the Test.
Images from Day 1 of the fifth and final Ashes Test between England and Australia at The Oval in London on Thursday.
Images from the ICC World Cup match between Australia and New Zealand, in Dharamsala, on Saturday.
Australian media hailed Pat Cummins' batting heroics as the final blow of a "rope-a-dope" strategy that delivered a thrilling two-wicket win over England
England were all but beaten with Australia on the verge of regaining the Ashes at stumps on the third day of the third Test in Perth on Sunday.
'When we go to Australia, they play India only at five Test centres. They don't play us in Canberra. They don't play us at any of the other venues where they won't be very familiar with the conditions. So do England'
Australia squared the two-match Twenty20 series against England on Friday, by beating the visitors by four runs in the second Twenty20 international that was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Only once in the history of Test cricket has a team bounced back to win after being bowled out for less than 50.
Australia's pacemen Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins ripped out England's top order with a masterclass of textbook bowling to put their side in sight of a 2-0 Ashes lead on Saturday.
Australia, replying to England's first innings of 102, ended Day 1 in the fourth Ashes Test on 196 for 4, a lead of 94 runs.
For India's current head coach, the Test series defeat against New Zealand at home, a first in 12 years and after 18 victories on the trot, would be a bitter pill to swallow.
Images from the fourth T20 International between India and England in Pune on Friday.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the opening Ashes Test played between England and Australia at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham on Saturday.
India made one change, bringing in Rohit Sharma for Ramesh Powar, while Sourav Ganguly was ruled unfit for the match.
Off-spinner Marcus North bagged six wickets as Australia completed a record 13th consecutive victory over Pakistan on the fourth day of the first Test at Lord's on Friday.
Australia bowled out South Africa for 256 to win the fifth and final one-day international by 47 runs at the Wanderers on Friday. The visitors, trailing 3-1 in the series, piled up 303 for seven earlier in the day after being put in to bat.
