Sydney: Skipper Michael Clarke says Australia will prove their critics wrong and bring the urn home from England despite his team being panned as the "worst Ashes squad". Clarke has backed his 16-man party named on Wednesday to do the job in five Tests against England, starting at Nottingham's Trent Bridge ground on July 10. Sections of the British press have slammed Clarke's touring party with The Daily Mail declaring:"...
08:54 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Sydney: Former Australian captains Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor are backing the unfancied tourists to shock England and bring the famous Ashes urn home. Waugh said carrying the underdog tag could work in Australia's favour in the five-Test series from July, providing the team belief it could win and not merely compete. "We've got the bowlers to take 20 wickets," he told reporters. "We can beat any team in the...
04:24 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Sydney: Veteran wicketkeeper batsman Brad Haddin said on Wednesday he never doubted he would play Test cricket again and vowed to help instil the team spirit needed for Australia to win the Ashes series against arch-rivals England. The 35-year-old has played only one Test since January 2012 but now finds himself vice-captain to Michael Clarke and the preferred wicketkeeper in a team humbled by India 4-0 in March. Selectors hope...
01:17 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Sydney: Veteran wicketkeeper Brad Haddin was recalled to the Australian squad on Wednesday and made vice-captain for their upcoming Ashes tour to England with Chris Rogers and Ryan Harris also making the grade. Haddin, who has only played one Test in the past 14 months and turns 35 next week, replaces Shane Watson as Michael Clarke's deputy in a 16-man squad for the five-Test series starting in England in July....
08:39 AM, Apr 24, 2013
England batsman Kevin Pietersen may consider quitting Test cricket after this year's back-to-back Ashes series against Australia, his former team-mate Andrew Flintoff said on Thursday. Pietersen, 32, has been ruled out of next month's two-match Test series at home to New Zealand because of a knee injury he sustained during fielding practice in the away series against the same side last month. "I wouldn't read too much into his not...
07:22 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Siliguri: Forty six CPI-M activists, including a former MP, were on Friday sent to judicial custody till April 18 in connection with the clashes with cadres of the Trinamool Congress in Siliguri on Wednesday. The activists had been arrested following the ruckus, however, two Left leaders, Ashok Bhattacharya and Jibesh Sarkar, were released on Thursday after night-long detention. Five women councillors were also released on bail on Thursday. ...
06:29 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Melbourne: Mired in gloom following a Test drubbing in India, Australian cricket has turned to Canberra's halls of power for succour, asking the country's top immigration official to act as a de facto selector ahead of back-to-back Ashes series this year. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Australia's bid to secure a passport to England for Fawad Ahmed, a 31-year-old Pakistani refugee with just 13 first-class matches under his...
03:29 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Kolkata: The politics of violence has kept West Bengal on the edge as police had to resort to lathicharge with the workers of Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) clashing with each other in Siliguri on Wednesday. The Left Front has called for a 12-hour bandh in Darjeeling after former Left Front minister Ashok Bhattacharya and CPM state committee member Jibesh Sarkar were arrested on Wednesday. They...
07:56 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Kolkata: The Left has reportedly called a 12-hour bandh in Siliguri on Thursday after two of its leaders were arrested by the police following violence in the area. Nearly 30 people were hospitalised after the Left cadres clashed with Trinamool Congress workers who were on a rampage after party chief Mamata Banerjee and a TMC minister were heckled in New Delhi by suspected SFI activists on Tuesday. The police had...
09:40 PM, Apr 10, 2013
London: The 150th edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack published on Wednesday warned that the Ashes will be "stretched to their limit" as a result of numerous upcoming series between England and Australia. Cricket's oldest rivals - who played the first cricket Test in 1877 - meet 10 times in the now five-day format from July 2013, with a series in England, to January 2014, by which time they will be...
04:22 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Cairo: One person was killed and more than 80 wounded in clashes at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in central Cairo on Sunday after a funeral service for four Egyptian Christians killed in sectarian violence with Muslims, state media said. Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hard line Islamists repressed under his autocratic rule. The state news...
10:18 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Chennai Superstar Rajinikanth has appreciated the team behind the recently released Tamil thriller drama 'Chennaiyil Oru Naal'(CON) for highlighting the importance of organ donation through the movie. "We don't realise the importance of our body parts after death. Instead of wasting these parts, if we choose to donate them, then it might very likely save a life. I congratulate the team of CON for making a responsible film on the...
12:39 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Sydney: Allrounder James Faulkner has surged into contention to play in this year's Ashes series in England after being a surprise recipient of a Cricket Australia contract, reports said. The Tasmanian, who was previously regarded as a limited-overs specialist, leapfrogged recent Test debutant Moises Henriques to earn a central contract for the 2013-14 year, from July. Faulkner does not turn 23 until later this month but has already played 95...
08:29 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Australia's head selector John Inverarity says that Cummins, who's recovering from back strain, will not be rushed back into action any time soon. ...
01:19 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Tremlett has not played a Test match since January 2012 due to a long-standing back problem and last featured in a first-class match in July last year. ...
08:00 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Clarke, who returned home early from Australia's Test tour to India with a back injury, was discharged early Monday morning, said Cricket Australia. ...
02:11 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Brett Lee said that Australians have a tough job at hand in the upcoming Ashes series. ...
09:44 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Swann was sidelined for England's recent drawn Test series in New Zealand after undergoing elbow surgery. ...
11:37 PM, Mar 28, 2013
England were relieved to avoid the embarrassment of losing to a team who came into the series in disarray following a poor run of results and controversy over Ross Taylor's removal as captain. ...
09:58 AM, Mar 28, 2013
Australia's chief selector John Inverarity says Fawad Ahmed will be in contention for the Ashes if he is granted citizenship in time. ...
09:58 AM, Mar 28, 2013
