Australia cricketer Phillip Hughes remains in an induced coma on Thursday after spending a second night in a Sydney, with the local ambulance service now under scrutiny for their response to the accident.
Play was halted for a few minutes on the fourth day of the third Test between India and Australia after the visiting players complained of abuse from the crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday.
The 23-year-old fast bowler has not played a Test since his stunning seven-wicket debut against South Africa as an 18-year-old in 2011.
'We were on tenterhooks arranging for the visa, last minute flight bookings, provisional loans and a Plan B.'
It is understood that the controversy has not gone down well with the travelling team and it is not amused with how Cricket Australia has so far handled the issue.
The 35 per cent travel discount comes in the wake of racist attacks made on international students including Indians and aims to benefit students who stay away from their colleges or universities in particular.
The six-day lockdown in South Australia to contain COVID-19 cases has improved Adelaide's chances of remaining the venue of the first day-night Test between India and Australia from December 17 even though the situation remains fluid
England bowling coach Chris Silverwood has been named the head coach of the men's team replacing Australia's Trevor Bayliss, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Monday.
'We are notifying ticket holders, players and staff that there will be no fans onsite at the AO for five days'.
Cricket Australia's hopes of staging the fifth Ashes Test in Perth appear in jeopardy, with the Western Australia (WA) state government reiterating its "very strict rules" on quarantine and restrictions on players' family members.
Sood, who could get a 10-year jail term, is due to face a hearing before the state medical tribunal next month. Last week, the New South Wales Supreme Court held Sood guilty of illegally carrying out an abortion.
The Australian umpire is set to become first female of officiate a men's Test match.
Having narrowly lost their clash against Mumbai Indians, Caribbean side Trinidad and Tobago, need to sort out their batting as they take on former winners New South Wales in their Champions League Twenty20 cricket match, in Chennai on Wednesday.
Bushfires are an annual problem for Australia, but this season has been unprecedented. As of January 2, about 5.9 million hectares (13.5 million acres) of land has been burnt; that's larger than Denmark and The Netherlands. The Australian state of New South Wales also declared its third emergency in as many months -- the last two times, in November and December. Furthermore, 18 people have died, eight on New Year's Eve, making it one of Australia's most deadly bushfire seasons.
Cricket Australia says the limited-overs cricket international between Australia and England at Brisbane on January 30 will be a fundraiser for victims of devastating floods in Queensland and New South Wales states.
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
Mumbai Indians all-rounder James Franklin, who top-scored with an unbeaten 42 in his side's five-wicket defeat to New South Wales on Sunday, said the Chepauk pitch was one of the most challenging he had played on.
Veteran New South Wales pacer Stuart Clark, on Saturday, said his team's openers David Warner and Shane Watson are due big knocks in the Champions League Twenty20 and is hoping that these innings come in their remaining two group matches.
Australia have not lost a Test match at the Gabba since 1988.
Play was impossible at the Sydney Cricket Ground, where the tourists are scheduled to play a non-first class tour match against an understrength representative side
Australia's Claire Polosak created history as she became the first lady match official in a men's Test match, taking up the fourth umpire's role in the third Test between India and Australia in Sydney.
The third Test venue has been the subject of debate after a new community outbreak emerged in Sydney's northern beach suburbs late last week.
New South Wales breezed into the final of the Champions League Twenty20, steamrolling country cousins Victoria Bushrangers by 79 runs in a grossly lop-sided semi-final in Delhi on Wednesday night.
A look at the fixtures of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament.
Warner managed only 67 runs while still hampered by the injury and Australia lost the series 2-1.
Australian bowler Sean Abbott returned to action with New South Wales.
In what probably would have been the toughest day for Sean Abbott, whose bouncer was responsible for batsman Phillip Hughes's death, the media respected the pacer's sentiments by maintaining a distance.
Nine schools in Australia's largest city Sydney in New South Wales were evacuated on Monday after receiving bomb threats, days after several educational institutions were locked down in the same province following similar threats.
Dynamic Australian opener David Warner reckons he will have to face "at least six to nine months" of rehab for his groin injury but will be back in action for New South Wales next week.
After months of waiting, the body of a 33-year-old Indian businessman which was found dumped near New South Wales border last October, has been cremated by his family in Melbourne at a memorial ceremony.
Indian Premier League-II runners-up Royal Challengers Bangalore take on South Africa's Cape Cobras in the opening match of the Champions League Twenty20 [ Images ] cricket tournament that commences in Bangalore on October 8. Hyderabad will host the final, on October 23, as well as the second semi-final, on October 22, while Delhi will host the first semi-final on October 21.
After charging an Indian couple for the brutal murder of Ranjodh Singh, whose body was found half burnt in New South Wales, the Australian police on Friday arrested a 25-year-old man for the murder.A motorist found Singh's badly burnt body off Wilga Road, approximately 20 kilometres south of Griffith in southern NSW on December 29.An autopsy revealed that Singh, 25, who had been bound and had his throat slashed, had been stabbed many times and was set alight while still alive
Infosys has opened a new Sydney branch office to keep pace with business growth of more than 500 per cent in New South Wales over the past five years, the company said in a statement.
The price eclipsed the A$425,000 achieved by the late Don Bradman's baggy green when it was sold in 2003.
A fresh coronavirus outbreak in Adelaide forced Australian players, including captain Tim Paine, into self-isolation but the country's cricket board asserted that the first Test against India here from December 17 will go ahead as scheduled.
Australian bowler Sean Abbott, who bowled the bouncer that led to the death of Phillip Hughes, is set to return to action.
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.
Fresh from a crushing win over local favourites Delhi Daredevils, in-form New South Wales will take on English team Sussex in their second group B match of the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament in New Delhi on Sunday.
Simon Katich and Boeta Dippenaar, captains of New South Wales and Diamond Eagles, slammed the newly-laid Ferozeshah Kotla pitch, saying it was far from ideal for Twenty20 cricket.
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