The former Australia captain said Moody is young, talented and will gel with the Indian team.
The former Australia captain said the ICC may have had good reasons to backtrack.
Former Australia captain, Steve Waugh feels that teen pace sensation Pat Cummins, who will miss part of the home Test series against India due to a heel injury, would have tested the likes of veterans Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.
Australian batting legend and former skipper Steve Waugh thinks a ''favourable'' schedule could see the Indians doing well on their upcoming tour Down Under.
Former Australian captain Steve Waugh's son Austin is following in his father's footsteps. Playing in the Under 17 National Championships, Austin scored a brilliant century to help his team New South Wales Metro seal a massive victory over Queensland in the final. Austin smashed 122 runs from 136 balls, which included four fours and four sixes respectively, to help NSW Metro reach 6-274 from their 50 overs.
Former Australia captain Steve Waugh says Indian bowling has come off age. 'It was all about India's spin bowling, but now Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma are doing well. They are good at reverse swing and India always had quality spinners.'
Former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh has reinforced his stand that players accused of match-fixing should volunteer themselves for lie-detector tests in order to clear their names.
The former Aussie captain said umpires have a duty and batsmen are not always in the best position to rule themselves out.
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.
The Australia skipper is looking up to his fast bowlers to make early in-roads into the Indian batting line-up in the second Test.\n\n
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting may be loathe to admit it, but his predecessor Steve Waugh has no qualms in saying that Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh play with the passion of the "baggy greeners" and without their spirit, Australia would already have been one up.
The former Australian batting star crafted an unbeaten 108 in a six-wicket victory over England in a festival match.
Former skipper Steve Waugh has urged current captain Michael Clarke and his deputy Shane Watson to sort out their differences for the betterment of Australian cricket.
Waugh claimed his 33rd Test win as captain from 44 matches, passing Allan Border's Australia mark of 32 from 93 Tests.
Legendary Australian cricketer Steve Waugh hailed former India skipper Sourav Ganguly, saying he brought toughness to the team he led.
Zimbabwe's coach said Waugh's captaincy record is outstanding and his performance with the bat speaks for itself.
Showering rich accolades on Virender Sehwag for his match-saving 151 on Monday, former Australian captain Steve Waugh tipped the opener ahead of Mahendra Singh Dhoni to replace Anil Kumble as the next Test captain of India.
Former Australian batsman and team selector Mark Waugh has lauded talented batsman Steven Smith, claiming that he is the stand out player along with South African ace batsman AB de Villiers, but insisting that he has a unique style of his own.
The 'loyalty to money' which Twenty20 leagues around the world are promoting has made it impossible for any country to strike the perfect balance between all three formats of cricket, says former Australian captain Steve Waugh.
Former Australia captain Steve Waugh, known for his risk-free batting style that brought him nearly 11,000 Test runs, wishes he could have flung the bat in the Twenty20 format.
Victoria bore the brunt of the Australia Test captain's knock in the inter-state match.
Australia captain became only the third player in history to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket when he made an unbeaten 69 against England.
Steve Waugh said Dravid should not be written off after just two failures and he would prove a perfect foil for Sehwag.
The Australia captain will retire from international cricket after the final Test against India at Sydney.
Steve Waugh has dismissed the notion that sportspersons knew when their time was up and said that he experienced a raging mental conflict in his final days wearing the Baggy Green cap.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) on Wednesday acknowledged the services to cricket of some of the all-time greats of the game with five new inductees to the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Former Australia skipper Steve Waugh says Australia makes it happen while other teams think what will happen.
Waugh said the best bit of advice he could pass on to Ponting was to enjoy his team mate's success as much as his own.
The former Australia swing bowler believes struggling Test sides like Zimbabwe and Bangladesh should consider luring a player like Mark Waugh out of retirement.\n\n
India dominate the business side of global cricket by virtually every metric but Australia showed commercial clout counts for little when teams battle on the game's biggest stage.
The legendary cricketer will boost awareness of Australia as a holiday destination.
Australia have drawn inspiration from former World Cup-winning captain Steve Waugh in how to handle big-match pressure ahead of Friday's quarter-final against Pakistan.
His long-standing feud with Steve Waugh was out in the open once again when spin legend Shane Warne slammed the former Australian captain as being a 'selfish cricketer'.
"It's a huge challenge but India did it to us the last time over there (in 2001)," said the Australian captain.
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