Australian Open organisers have decided to leave Belgian duo Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin as potential banana skins in the tournament draw, refusing to tinker with world rankings in naming their seeds on Thursday.
Current world No.1s Roger Federer and Serena Williams will be top seeds for the Open starting next Monday.
According to the Sydney [...]
Two men were detained at Sydney airport for questioning over the murder of an Indian man whose partially burnt body was found a fortnight ago. They were let off but their passports have been seized, a media report said Sunday.
The two men were apparently employed by Ranjodh Singh, 25, whose partially burnt body was found [...]
Australian captain Ricky Ponting said the criticism thrown at the team inspired his boys to a sensational 36-run win against Pakistan here Wednesday.
Set a modest 176 to win, Pakistan was bowled out for 139. It was just the third time Australia has trailed by more than 200 on the first innings and won.
‘What we have [...]
There has been a sharp fall in the number of Indians applying for visas to study in Australia, a media report Thursday said. The development comes following a string of assaults, including two killings, on Indian students.
The immigration department figures for the period from July to Oct 31 last year show a 46 percent drop [...]
Sydney, Jan 4 (ANI): Sophie Monk has spoken of the trials of settling into a life in Los Angeles as she enjoys a vacation in Sydney.
“I stayed at someone’s place and she went crazy,” Monk says. “She said she was going to pull a gun on me. I’d [...]
Sydney, Jan 4(ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has said that the Australian team has only themselves to blame for the pathetic performance they had on the first day of the Sydney Test against Pakistan.
Roebuck said that none of the top-order or middle order batsmen showed [...]
Sydney, Jan 4(ANI): Injured Australian fast bowler Brett Lee is hopeful that he would make a complete recovery to return to the national team for the World Twenty20 championship in the West Indies in May.
Lee, who has not played a Test in the past 13 months [...]
Sydney, Jan 3 (ANI): Five-year-old tots may soon get busy chatting with pals on their own mobile phones as their toy phones may be replaced by real ones in the near future.
According to a study commissioned Cartoon Network, one out of four seven- to 10-year-olds already has a phone. It was also found 17percent more [...]
Sydney, Jan 3(ANI): Pakistan fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Sami exploited the seaming conditions of the SCG to rip through the Australian batting line up and bundled them out for 127 runs on the first day of the Sydney Test.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting’s decision to bat first on a hard, well-grassed pitch and overcast [...]
Sydney, Jan 3 (ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting believes that his team has learnt from their first explosive encounter with Pakistan’s 19-year-old batting prodigy, Umar Akmal, and have taken note of some areas to exploit.
Peter Siddle allowed Umar Akmal to free his arms, but Ponting is confident it won’t happen again.
The plan to contain Umar [...]
Sydney, Jan. 2 (ANI): Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting is worried that the possible decline of first class tournament Sheffield Shield competition for the expansion of the domestic Twenty20 tournaments would weaken Australia’s position as a leading cricket nation.
“I’d hate to see the day where we start playing more Twenty20 cricket at the expense of Sheffield [...]
Sydney, Jan.2 (ANI): Pakistan cricket captain Mohammad Yousuf says that as far he is concerned, there is no link between his cricket and his controversial decision to become a Muslim after spending most of his growing up years a Christian.
Interacting with columnist Peter Roebuck during a Sydney [...]
Sydney, Jan.2 (ANI): Simon Katich and Shane Watson have developed into a formidable opening combination for Australia. This was never supposed to last and was supposed to be a stop-gap solution until Watson was shifted back down the order so [...]
Sydney, Jan. 2 (ANI): Left-arm pacer Doug Bollinger returns to his home ground-the Sydney Cricket Ground-as a potent force a year after making his Test debut.
He will bowl Australia’s first over in the second Test against Pakistan, beginning tomorrow and is a major component in the home side’s hopes [...]
Sydney, Jan. 2 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has said that he has never shied away from facing up to the chin music dished out by his fast bowling opponents.
Speaking ahead of the second cricket Test against Pakistan to be played here from Sunday, the [...]
Sydney, Jan.2 (ANI): Australia opening batsman Simon Katich is in doubt for the second Test against Pakistan because of an elbow injury he picked up in the Boxing Day Test.
Katich’s New South Wales teammate Phillip Hughes, who was dropped from the team after the second Ashes Test in 2009, [...]
Sydney, Jan 1 (IANS) Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting is happy with the way his spinners, especially Nathan Hauritz and newcomer Steve Smith, are improving.
Ponting’s comments come a month after he raised his concerns over the dearth of good slow bowlers in the country.
‘I’m very happy with the way our spin bowling stocks are looking [...]
Sydney, Jan.1 (ANI): Before the Australian summer had begun, the national cricket team had three main worries-Shane Watson was not a proper opening batsman. Michael Hussey was at the end of his tether and spinner Nathan Hauritz was being projected as a pie-chucker. Now, the cricket community needs to find something else to fuss about, [...]
Sydney, Jan.1 (ANI): Incumbent Australian spinner Nathan Hauritz said today that upcoming leg-spinner Steven Smith is definitely a Baggy Green prospect, but added that the ownership on the Australian spin position was his for the time being.
Hauritz declared he’s going nowhere as rookie Steven Smith continued his snowballing momentum towards international selection.
After taking his maiden [...]
Brisbane (Australia), Jan.1 (ANI): A 13-year-old girl has made what could be Queensland cricketing history by taking a hat-trick with her first three balls against senior men in competition.
Fast-bowler Holly Ferling almost rewrote the record books again when she just missed a rare double hat-trick in the match at Kingaroy, but still managed to [...]
Sydney, Jan.1 (ANI): Captain Ricky Ponting believes Australia is finally on track with the development of slow bowlers.
“I’m very happy with the way our spin bowling stocks are looking at the moment,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Ponting, as saying ahead of the SCG Test against Pakistan, which commences over the weekend.
“A few weeks ago [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 30 (ANI): Ricky Ponting today became Test cricket’s most winning player and captain after Australia won the first Test over Pakistan in emphatic fashion.
Ponting declared the win one of the side’s best in years.
“It’s been a great game for us, it’s one of our best Test [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 30 (ANI): Australia have named an unchanged 12-man squad for the second cricket Test against Pakistan at the SCG starting on Sunday.
NSW spinner Steven Smith, who was called to join the 12-man squad in Melbourne as cover for Nathan Hauritz, has been left out.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, there [...]
Melbourne, Dec.30 (ANI): Chasing a mammoth total of 422 runs, Pakistan had a daunting task of surviving the penultimate day of the first Test match here, and Australian off-spinner Nathan Hauritz made the task impossible with his maiden five wicket haul.
Riding [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 29 (ANI): Umar Akmal’s brilliance as a batsman and Mohammad Aamer’s post-tea burst with the ball against Australia in the Melbourne Test suggests that the future of Pakistan cricket is in [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 29 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting may be just a few runs and 10 wickets away from becoming the most successful Test captain in history, but he does not seem to be enjoying the Boxing Day clash against Pakistan, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
He [...]
Sydney, Dec. 28 (ANI): Retirement is a dirty word for Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt, and he can’t wait to launch his summer campaign on Saturday at the Hopman Cup in Perth after reviving his career in 2009 under former junior doubles [...]
Sydney, Dec 28 (ANI): The average alcohol consumption of Aussies triples during the festive season, a new study has found.
A research by Australian charity FebFast shows that alcohol intake is the most during December and January and even surpasses birthdays, work drinks and traditional weekend socialising.he study saw [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 28 (ANI): He may have shone with the bat, but Australian off-spinner Nathan Hauritz has realised that he must finally deliver with the ball and spin Australia to victory in the final innings of the MCG Test before selectors lose patience.
Hauritz, who scored 75 [...]
Sydney, Dec 27 (ANI): Move over Botox, as a new cosmetic therapy has arrived – plasma replacement therapy.
The therapy which has arrived in Sydney involves injecting patients with their own plasma to firm up saggy skin.
Dr Mariusz Gajewski, 39, known as Dr Mazza, of [...]
