Melbourne, Dec. 23 (ANI): About two-thirds of players (67 per cent) said they could envisage an Australian player rejecting a CA contract to ply their trade in leagues such as the IPL in the short to medium term.
Asked if they would consider knocking back a CA contract to [...]
Brisbane (Australia), Dec. 23 (ANI): New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori will join Queensland as a guest player in the Twenty20 Big Bash tournament beginning next week.
Left-arm spinner Vettori has agreed to a two-match stint with the Bulls as their overseas player and will make his Queensland debut in the January 13 [...]
Brisbane (Australia), Dec. 20 (ANI): Former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has revealed his friendship with Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke is over in the wake of his tumultuous exit from international cricket.
Symonds said he and Clarke had “gone our separate ways” and were no longer on speaking terms.
The Queenslander also lamented the loss of characters in [...]
Sydney, Nov.14 (ANI): The overused argument that only by excelling for a national side can a player become valuable in an auction of the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL), is fast losing credibility, at least in the Australian context.
Australia’s current Test players are being identified as the poor cousins of fellow players like out of [...]
Melbourne, Nov 13 (ANI): Andrew Symonds has answered an urgent call from an injury-hit Queensland to line up for the Bulls in Alice Springs on Saturday.
Symonds, who ended his international career when he was sent home from England in June, will make a surprise return to domestic cricket against South Australia in a one-day [...]
Hyderabad, Oct 15 (IANS) Scoreboard of the Champions League Group A match between Deccan Chargers and Trinidad and Tobago here Wednesday.
Trinidad & Tobago
Lendl Simmons lbw b Edwards 7
William Perkins lbw b Edwards 38
Darren Bravo c & b Suman 14
Darren Ganga run out (Symonds) 0
Dwayne Bravo run out [...]
London, Oct.14 (ANI): Former England Test all-rounder Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff’s declaration that he is keen to play in Australia is likely to spark a fierce inter-state bidding war for cricket’s freelance gun for hire.
In an expansive interview to the Daily Telegraph, Flintoff said: “I’m hoping to play more for Lancashire and in the Indian [...]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) South African cricket selector Mike Procter might be pitching for specialists, but the Australians have a different take on it. Cricket Australia (CA) has been encouraging all-rounders and is now reaping the benefits.
From Andrew Symonds to Simon Katich, Shane Watson, Andrew McDonald and Marcus North, Australian all-rounders have proved to [...]
Brisbane, Sep.30 (ANI): Andrew Symonds is loving life outside the cricketing establishment, and believes that he stands on the cusp of cricket’s new freelance frontier.
Since being sacked from the Australian team on disciplinary grounds, Symonds has immersed himself in training and strapping duties with the Queensland Broncos, running training drills so many times he could [...]
Melbourne, Sep 27 (ANI): The Brisbane Broncos, an Australian professional rugby league football club, has adopted troubled all rounder Andrew Symonds as their 18th player.
Coach Ivan Henjak invited Symonds to join his squad two months ago to help his younger players deal with the pressure of football.
Symonds has an unpaid role, but he attends every [...]
Brisbane, Sep.23 (ANI): The on-again, off-again romance between former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds and girlfriend Katie Johnson is off again, it seems.
Word has reached Confidential that Johnson, who had been running her beauty therapy business from home, had moved out of Symonds’ digs and taken up a job in Brisbane’s CBD.
The couple had split in [...]
Nottingham (UK), Sep.16 (ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting expects more cricketers to follow Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Symonds in going freelance.
Flintoff has rejected an incremental contract with his country and is reportedly been the target of interest from South Australia and Northerns in South Africa.
Symonds is considering Twenty20 options around the world after his [...]
Bangalore, Sep 9 (ANI) Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh lost his cool on Wednesday,jabbing at a cameraman at Bangalore International Airport before leaving with the team for the tri-series in Sri Lanka.
Singh jabbed at the ANI cameraman Lakshmi Narayanan after his camera had hit him on the head while he was taking his luggage out from [...]
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 [...]
