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Australian opening batsman Shane Watson has been ruled out of Friday’s first Test against New Zealand with a bruised hip.
The right-hander, who has enjoyed a brilliant summer with the bat that earned him the Allan Border Medal, was reportedly struck by a Mitchell Johnson delivery at training on Thursday.
Australia won the toss and elected to [...]

Wellington, Mar. 20 (ANI): Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has dedicated his 14th Test century to ex-fiancée Lara Bingle, as also to his family, friends, team mates.
””Without her (Lara) and her support, I certainly wouldn”t have been back over here. It’’s a very special feeling any time you make a hundred, but it’’s been [...]

Wellington, Mar. 19 (ANI): Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has returned to the Test team in emphatic style scoring his 14th Test hundred against New Zealand in Wellington.
Clarke (100 not out) put aside his broken engagement to celebrity model Lara Bingle to help Australia to a comfortable 4/316 at stumps.
Western Australian left-hander Marcus North, whose position [...]

Vice-captain Michael Clarke and four other Australian Test squad members have arrived in Wellington for the two-Test series against New Zealand starting Friday.
Clarke skipped the last three one-day international games against the Black Caps to sort out his relationship with model Lara Bingle back in Sydney.
Clarke announced on Friday the pair’s engagement was off and [...]

New South Wales coach Matthew Mott says Steve Smith is ready for the Test arena, but must he given time to mature as a leg spinner.
Smith put himself in line for his Test debut against New Zealand starting in Wellington on Friday with his 7 for 64 against South Australia in the Blues’ innings victory [...]

Pacemen Shane Bond and Tim Southee have dismantled Australia as New Zealand bookended the five-match one-day series with a consolation victory in Hamilton.
Chasing yet another ordinary total of 241, the tourists folded for 190 with the knowledge they had already wrapped up the series with their third win in game four.
Bond (4 for 26) and [...]

Despite having already clinched the series Australia did not cut New Zealand any slack in the fifth and final one-day international at Wellington on Saturday.
Ross Taylor (30) and Scott Styris built a solid partnership of 53 but it was brought undone by Shane Watson as the home side battled to 4 for 114 after 25 [...]

Ricky Ponting praised the leadership qualities of Cameron White after the pair scored half-centuries to guide Australia to a series-clinching win in the fourth one-day international against New Zealand in Auckland.
The victory at Eden Park gave Australia a 3-1 lead in the five-match series and means the tourists retain the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy ahead of game [...]

Southampton (UK), Sep.9 (ANI): Australian speedster Brett Lee admitted last night that he was still to know why team officials instructed Shane Watson to tell a press conference he was not ready for the fourth Test at Leeds when he had declared his fitness.

The odd strategy left Watson having to explain his comments afterwards to [...]

Melbourne, Aug 30 (ANI): Former Test selector John Benaud has blamed the Australian selection panel for a series of blunders, including dumping opening batsman Phil Hughes for Shane Watson, opting for wicketkeeper Brad Haddin over Graham Manou and leaving behind a spare batsman.

Benaud has called for an overhaul of the four-man panel, claiming the team [...]

London, Aug.26 (ANI): Skipper Ricky Ponting is adamant that the immediate future of Australian cricket is bright in spite of the Ashes loss and that several emerging players have come of age in England.

Writing in his exclusive column in The Australian today, Ponting says: “While we had bad sessions at Lord’s and The Oval which [...]

Sydney, Aug.23 (ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck believes Australia’s weaknesses have been brutally exposed in the fifth and final Ashes Test at The Oval and the urn seems destined to change hands for the third time in three series.

While accepting that two dreadful umpiring decisions had gone against Australia in the game, he said: [...]

Sydney, Aug.23 (ANI): Former New South Wales coach and Australian keeper Steve Rixon expects forgotten opener Phil Jaques to return with such vengeance this season that he puts serious pressure on the Test partnership of Simon Katich and Shane Watson.

Rixon, who is the president of Sutherland grade club where Jaques plays, said the 30-year-old left-hander [...]

Melbourne, Aug. 22 (ANI): Nine of the players currently playing in the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval, have been included in Australia’s 15-man squad for next month’s Champion’s Trophy to be played in South Africa.

The national selection panel has resisted the temptation to blood some exciting [...]

London, Aug. 22 (ANI): Should Australia lose the fifth and final Ashes Test being played at The Oval, it could signal the end the side’s domination of world cricket.

According to the Courier Mail, only something very special, or days of unforecast rain, can prevent Australia losing the fifth Test, the Ashes and ultimately tumbling [...]

London, Aug.20 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has hinted strongly that the selectors are likely to keep faith in fast bowler Stuart Clark at the expense of Nathan Hauritz in the final Ashes Test beginning today What we see at the moment is what we expect,” said Ponting who, at 34, will surely be [...]

Leeds (UK), Aug.9 (ANI): Having scored his third century in six Tests on Saturday, Australian all-rounder Marcus North’s long wait for the Baggy Green has finally paid off.

According to The Courier Mail, Saturday’s hundred would have been North’s fourth in six Tests had he not perished for 96 in the third Test at Edgbaston last [...]

Sydney, July 4(ANI): With the Ashes series scheduled to begin in less than a week’s time, former Australian spin legend Shane Warne has rated each player of the Australian squad.

Warne has indicated that captain Ricky Ponting is the mainstay of the batting line-up, who would [...]

Melbourne, June 30 (ANI): South Africa has handed over England its successful blueprint on how to beat the Australians in the Ashes 2009.

England will head into the Ashes series with fresh intelligence after Proteas coach Mickey Arthur revealed his game plans on hoe to put one over the Aussies.

Arthur’s team created history in the [...]

Melbourne, June 30 (ANI): Australia’s injured all-rounder Shane Watson has been almost ruled out for the first Ashes Test after he did not train with the team in Worcester.

Watson, who has an injured thigh, was confined to walking laps with team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris in a crucial training session in the lead-up to Australia’s tour [...]