Legendary spinner Shane Warne has expressed his displeasure over the recent performances of Australia's Test and one-day teams, and questioned why 'bits and pieces' players are being selected in the team.
Former India spinners Sunil Joshi and Ramesh Powar will be among 20 candidates to be interviewed for the role of the women's cricket coach in Mumbai on Friday.
An aggressive opening batsman in limited overs cricket, Aaron Finch said he is unsure what role he would be asked to play in the Tests against Pakistan in the UAE, if selected.
'It's just frustrating; I'd imagine it's frustrating for everyone.'
Australia Test captain Michael Clarke has married his model girlfriend Kyly Boldy in a secret ceremony in the Hunter Valley near Sydney.
The others are Australian bowling greats Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis and West Indian batsman Brian Lara.
Pat Cummins' hopes of a long-awaited second test for Australia have been dealt a savage blow with the paceman ruled out of the Bangladesh tour with a back injury.
West Indies right-hand batsman Shai Hope believes that their upcoming five-match ODI series against England would be a good gauge for them ahead of the 2019 World Cup.
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Starc has long suffered from bone spurs in his right ankle and decided to take the opportunity to have an operation to resolve the problem while sidelined by a foot injury sustained against New Zealand.
A toe injury that kept Mitchell Johnson out of cricket for the entire Australian summer might have saved his career, the paceman said on Friday.
Australia Test skipper Michael Clarke, opener Aaron Finch and South Australia's Tom Cooper are among eight pall-bearers, which includes Phil Hughes's dad Greg, brother Jason and locals Corey Ireland, Mitchell Lonergan and Matthew Day, for the late cricketer's funeral in Macksville on Wednesday afternoon.
As a triumphant Australian team takes a brief break after crushing India in the third Test, out-of-form wicketkeeper-batsman and vice-captain Brad Haddin has been told to play in the Big Bash Twenty20 League.
Australia Test and One-day captain Michael Clarke has defended his players against match-fixing allegations after a sports agent said the country's top cricketers were "the biggest" culprits.
Australia coach Mickey Arthur made it clear that nobody is assured of a place in the national side and senior cricketers like Ricky Ponting will have to perform to be in the reckoning for the first cricket Test against India, starting December 26.
However, if aggression was the buzzword during the Australia Tests, the Kohli that was on show against Pakistan was a different version, a restrained one, and if one may say, after the Border-Gavaskar series, possibly a more matured one.
Australia will hold a training camp for their struggling batsmen before naming the side for the opening Test against India on December 26, team performance manager Pat Howard said on Wednesday.
Australia's backup wicketkeeper and top order batsman Tim Paine has been ruled out of the entire four-Test series against India after being forced to undergo surgery on an injured finger.
Former Australia cricketer Mark Waugh expects Ricky Ponting to scrap for survival in Australia's Test set-up despite being shunned from the One-day side.
Indian pacer S Sreesanth has been sidelined for up to eight weeks due to a toe injury, ruling him out of contention for the four-Test series against Australia starting December 26.
Peter Roebuck, one of the most respected cricket commentators, who also wrote for Indian newspapers, committed suicide at his hotel in Cape Town where he was covering Australia's Test series against South Africa.
The former West Indian speedster has called for the Jamaican speedster to undergo remedial work to fix his "dicey" action.
Kagiso Rabada regained his top spot among bowlers crossing the coveted 900-point mark in ratings even as Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin climbed up a couple of notches to be placed fourth in the ICC Test Player Rankings, released on Tuesday.
Former Australian captain Bill Lawry expects a run feast in the eagerly-anticipated India-Australia Test series and feels the side which scores most number of runs will go on to win the rubber starting December 26.
Teen pace sensation Pat Cummins' injury-forced absence from the India-Australia Test series has made it an "even" contest and the hosts will need greentops to contain the famed batting line-up of the visiting side, feels former Aussie captain Steve Waugh.
Former Australia Test cricketer Terry Jenner, who mentored spin-bowling great Shane Warne, died at the age of 66 on Wednesday.
Australia's Test side deserve credit for impressive performances in the ongoing four-match tour of India, proving wrong a host of experts and pundits who predicted a whitewash for the home side, batsman Gautam Gambhir has said.
All-rounder Mitchell Marsh leads a 14-man squad packed with international experience, a group featuring Alex Carey, Ashton Agar, Peter Handscomb, Head, Jon Holland, Usman Khawaja, Joel Paris, Matthew Renshaw and Chris Tremain.
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Shaun Marsh is determined to grasp what he admits is probably a final chance to establish himself as a regular member of the Australia Test side after earning an Ashes recall.
Former Australia Test cricketer Terry Jenner, who mentored spin-bowling great Shane Warne, died at the age of 66 on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old Holland played two Tests in Sri Lanka in 2016 but has not appeared for his country in any format since.
Zimbabwe axed their coach Dav Whatmore and captain Hamilton Masakadza just days before the arrival of India for a five-match limited-overs tour.
Former Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie has made it clear that he is not interested in replacing Craig McDermott as bowling coach of the Australia Test side.
Cricket Australia said on Tuesday that Test skipper Tim Paine will also captain the one-day international team during next month's tour of England
'The one thing that a cricketer aspires for is earning the respect of the dressing room and that respect is earned only when any player puts his hand up in adverse conditions and does his job for the team.'
Australia's legendary wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist has a special advise for the current team ahead of their next year's tour of India. Gilchrist's first of five Asian Test tours was a 2-1 series loss to India in 2001. After scoring a century in the opening match in Mumbai, he then posted scores of 0, 0, 1 and 1 in his remaining four innings. However, he returned three years later to captain the side for most of their 2-1 series victory, Australia's first series win on Indian soil since 1969.
After using his famed digits to publicly criticise captain Ricky Ponting on Twitter during Australia's Test loss to India on Wednesday, Shane Warne has proffered them to help embattled spinner Nathan Hauritz get his groove back.
Ricky Ponting has defiantly vowed to fight on as Australia's Test cricket captain despite facing the possibility of his third Ashes drubbing since taking over from Steve Waugh.
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