Both laboured to 2-1 victories over Malaysia and Italy respectively in the Indira Gandhi Gold Cup women's hockey tournament.
Derick Knos from Western Australia will work closely with the Indian team till the World Cup, to be held at Monchengladbach from September 6 to 17.
'Both Anilbhai and Harbhajan are great bowlers and in good form. It's not going to be easy for the Australian batsmen in the Test series,' young leg spinner Piyush Chawla predicted.
Australia have been in good form in the five-day format and having won a one-day tournament in India last year will be confident and will be looking to do an encore as they face India in the first of the three-match ODI tournament in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Openers Shane Watson and Simon Katich gave Australia a bright start to their first innings in the second Test against the West Indies at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday as they closed play on 174-0, trailing by 277 runs.
Former captain Allan Border wants the current team to play "hard-edged Australian brand of cricket" in the memory of Phillip Hughes but at the same time urged them not to get involved in some heavy duty sledging with the Indians during the Test series starting December 9.
Check out the mood swings in the dugouts during the IPL 2023 game between the Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley stadium in New Delhi, April 4, 2023.
'I couldn't even hold my bat, but I still wanted to carry on batting despite the amount of pain because me staying there was important for the team.' 'It was tough, but if you want to win matches for your team, if you want to contribute, then you will have to overcome such challenges.'
Australian captain Pat Cummins couldn't believe his ears when he found a near 100,000 people at Narendra Modi Stadium go pin-drop silence after Virat Kohli's dismissal giving the vibe of a "quiet library" during the World Cup final against India.
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The Aussies put on a strong display of running hockey with Jamie Dwyer finishing off their relentless attacks with three flying field goals.
Pacer Pooja Vastrakar, who wrecked Aussies with a four-wicket haul in their first innings of the one-off Test, said on Thursday that the Indian Women's plan was to exploit the visitors' vulnerability against incoming deliveries bowled with a wobble seam.
Striking at a dazzling 237.14 strike rate, laced with seven boundaries and six sixes.
After leaking 37 runs in his first three wayward overs on a languid Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch, Arshdeep Singh's night was seemingly doomed.
The 24-year-old said even though India have already bagged the series 2-0, it won't stop him and the team to continue seeking improvement.
It remains to be seen if Jadeja unfollows Lyon after 24 hours of if they stay friends on social media.
The young leg spinner grabbed two wickets as Australia, replying to Board President's XI 455, were 191 for 4 in their first innings on Day 2 of the four-day match. Michael Hussey (54) and Brad Haddin (34) were unbeaten when stumps were drawn.
It also showed that a side placed 102nd in the FIFA World Rankings can thwart a team placed 77 places above them. And India did keep the mighty Aussies out for 50 minutes before a fatal error saw the Blue Tigers punished after all the good work.
The former England opener says the Australians will be keen to avenge their 2001 defeat when they tour India later this year.
Just when it looked like Punjab were sneaking back into the game, Glenn Maxwell came to the party.
Going into the final Test against South Africa, Australia are staring at the lowest ebb in their 140-year cricketing history.
'I consider myself very lucky that I'm not as affected physically by chronic kidney disease as other people who are affected by the same thing.'
Ben Stokes came up with a witty response after an Australian newspaper ridiculed him following the controversy over Jonny Bairstow's dismissal in the Lord's Test.
In the current scenario, form in the IPL will carry a lot of weight for selection in the Indian team bound for USA and Caribbean.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma said five players, including in-form Shubman Gill, will not be available for selection for the third ODI against Australia, as the squad has been hit by a viral sickness.
Now, the 'Men in Blue' are left with just five T20Is -- two more against the Proteas and three games against Afghanistan at home in January -- ahead of next year's T20 World Cup in the West Indies and the USA.
After the truce in Perth, the Indian and Australian cricket teams resumed their war of words on Saturday with the visitors saying that the home side was playing defensively as it was "scared" of losing the current fourth Test in Adelaide and the Aussies hitting back by accusing Indian bowlers of adopting "wide tactics".
India won the opening match in the four-Test series against Australia by eight wickets on Tuesday. Captain MS Dhoni and spinner R Ashwin were the wreckers-in-chief, as the Aussies were outplayed on a dustbowl of a pitch through the five days of the Test. Rediff.com looks back moments from the memorable victory.
Top Indian doubles player Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden continued their dream run to advance into the Wimbledon semi-final.
Khawaja steers calm course on Ashes rollercoaster
Border scored 11,174 runs in 156 Tests at an average of 50.56, with 27 centuries and 63 fifties in the format, and a of 205.
Australia were bowled out for 219 in their first innings -- their lowest total against India in Tests.
With as many as fourteen Australians taking part in the inaugural edition of the Women's Premier League, CA CEO Nick Hockley was happy to see the growth of women's cricket.
On Thursday afternoon, class XI student Sameer Khan was making life difficult for the 6'4" tall Marcus Stoinis during Australia's net session ahead of the opening ODI against India.
Australian stand-in captain George Bailey has expressed his concern over Indian 'comeback star' Yuvraj Singh ahead of the limited-overs series.
800 gets so lost in celebrating its grand subject that it forgets something pretty elementary: Cricket is a team sport!, notes Sreehari Nair.
The IPL teams are expected to splurge on players like Pat Cummins, Harry Brook and Mitchell Starc.
Australian batsmen haven't been able to survive enough overs in the last two Tests to know what it is like batting on a typical Indian track on the fifth day of a match and that prompted them to practice on the Test-match strip in Hyderabad.
Alyssa backed Harmanpreet and the India team to come out stronger from this series.
India's hopes of breaking their ICC trophy drought after 2013, remained unfulfilled as Australia handed them a crushing loss at the WTC Final.
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