Justin Langer understands how Cameron Bancroft became embroiled in the ball-tampering scandal and said he would have cheated too if instructed to by senior players when he first played Test cricket.
Finch and Khawaja put on 209, a record opening stand for Australia while chasing in ODIs, bettering Mark Waugh and Adam Gilchrist's 206 against West Indies in 2001.
8045 - Runs scored by Rahul Dravid at number 3 position in Test cricket - most by any batsman at this position.
Former Australian coach John Buchanan on Sunday hit back at Sunil Gavaskar for taking a dig at his modest playing career and questioning his success as coach, saying his similarities with ex-captain Steve Waugh took the team to dizzy heights.
Rahul Dravid scaled another lofty peak in his illustrious career when he created the world record for the most number of Test catches by a fielder in Wellington on Monday.
The Perth triumph is the first under Anil Kumble's captaincy in three Tests away from home all against Australia.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting said his bowlers were a bit off the line with the reverse swinging ball in the Mohali Test and paid the price for that.
Harbhajan Singh pays tribute to Sourav Ganguly, the captain who transformed his career.
The merit of the toss has been debated as a need to reduce home advantage that often results in host nations rolling out pitches doctored to favour their players in what tends to end up as one-sided encounters.
Shaken by the match-fixing scandal, Indian cricket was going through a turbulent time at the start of the 21st century when Sourav Ganguly took charge of the team.
The guy revises the record books every game. Rajneesh Gupta gives us the latest numbers on the Indian skipper's awesome exploits on the cricket field.
Statistician Rajneesh Gupta has interesting numbers from the first ODI between India and Australia the match. Check them out.
Statistical highlights after the end of the second Test match between India and Australia at the SCG in Sydney on Sunday.
Ricky Ponting [Images] passed the 10,000 Test runs mark and Simon Katich scored an unbeaten 113 as Australia scored 259 for three on the first day of the second Test on Friday.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting became only the seventh batsman to reach 10,000 runs in Test matches on Friday and declared himself proud of his long career. He went to the crease needing 61 on the first day of the second test against West Indies and become the third Australian to reach the milestone following former captains Allan Border and Steve Waugh.
Pietersen said in his stirring address, which focussed on highlighting the relevance of Test cricket.
The ace spinner appeared in 118 Tests before making his captaincy debut. Steve Waugh led Australia for the first time after playing 111 Tests.
Adam Gilchrist has been voted Australia's greatest one-day player with captain Ricky Ponting second.
Indian batsman Rahul Dravid became the sixth player to tally 10,000 Test runs on Saturday.
Proposals to scrap the time-honoured tradition of a coin toss prior to Test matches defy logic and should not be considered, according to several former South Asian cricket captains.
Ricky Ponting leading Australia to the 16th straight win was drowned in the row that followed the Sydney Test.
Ricky Ponting is on the verge of joining an exclusive club of 10,000 Test runs, but the Australian captain said he was not aware of his impending milestone only to be told by a team official.
The second Test against India starts in Adelaide on Friday.
A former Ranji player and national junior selector, his 'Cricket Bar' is his latest tribute to the game.
Rajneesh Gupta surveys the batting landscape in India-Australia Test encounters.
The Indian captain was involved in a world record 106-run partnership with Wasim Jaffer on Friday.
Virat Kohli is the first Indian captain to win two series in Sri Lanka.
26 Number of Tests Virat Kohli has captained India without ever playing the same XI in two consecutive matches.
Shane Warne has proposed a cricketing scholarship or medal as a tribute to David Hookes.
Recalling his glorious exploits in arid Sharjah, especially his famous 'Desert Storm' knock of 143 against Australia to help India romp into the final of a tri-nation ODI event in the late 1990s, cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday described how physically tough it was.
India have hatched plans for Test nemesis Matthew Hayden, conceding he is the game's No.1 batsman.
Was the left-hander the right man for the job or simply in the right place at the right time?
Under financial stress, Cricket Australia has already put 80 per cent of its staff on 20 per cent salary till end of June, while a handful of others, including the executives, remained on 80 per cent pay.
Do you think India have gained the psychological advantage after the first Test?
Australian leg spinner Shane Warne may end up as an actor in Hollywood at the conclusion of his career, according to his English manager Michael Cohen.
Brian Lara scored his 22nd century to become West Indies' all-time leading Test run scorer on the second day of the second Test against Zimbabwe.
Flintoff is sixth in the bowling lists and 20th in batting in the latest PwC world cricket rankings.
Shobhan Mehta, who is in Gujarat police's custody, told interrogators that Australia's Mark Waugh and former South Africa skipper Hansie Cronje, who died in 2001 in a plane crash, also gave tips to bookies.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has achieved the memorable milestone of recording 100 ODI wins as captain after leading India to a resounding victory against Bangladesh in the World Cup quarter-finals in Melbourne on Thursday.
