Tim Paine replaces Haddin for England one-dayers

Wicketkeeper Tim Paine has been recalled to the Australian one-day cricket team as a replacement for the injured Brad Haddin.

Symonds felt “caged” while playing for Australia

Mercurial Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has said that he is happy to be out of international cricket because playing for Australia had started making him feel “caged” and the only regret that he has in his life is signing an Australian contract that had a “keep off drinking” clause in it.

We can sort Afridi out in test cricket: Ponting

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting took a dig at Shahid Afridi, saying that the new Pakistan captain is in the team only for his leadership skills and that Australia will test his batting in the longest format of the game during the two Tests in England in July.

IPL’s growth needs to be monitored to avoid T20 overkill: Gilchrist

Legendary Australian wicket-keeper batsman Adam Gilchrist has warned of player burnout and T20 overkill in the wake of IPL’s success and the tournament slated to get longer from next year saying that its high time that the administrators gave a thought to how much a player can take.

Gilchrist backs Steven Finn to be an Ashes star this year

Legendary Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist believes that young England fast bowler Steven Finn has it in him to be a star performer in the Ashes series later this year.

Australia may soon have separate T20 and Test teams

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland feels that with the growing popularity of the shortest version of the game, specialist players are required to deal with the slam-bang format and hence Australia may just go in for separate teams for Test matches and T20s in the future.

No match fixing in Sydney test, Australia won the match on merit: ICC

The ICC has stopped investigating the Australia-Pakistan Sydney Test after finding no evidence of match-fixing, a Cricket Australia spokesman said.

Clarke keen to continue as Australia captain

Australia’s T20 skipper, Michael Clarke, said he has no intention of quitting as captain of Australia in the shortest format of the game despite struggling with his batting in the recently concluded Twenty20 World Cup in West Indies, where Australia were beaten by arch-rivals England in the finals, while adding that he may need to rediscover his aggressive approach of batting to become a successful T20 batsman.

T20 tournaments should have best of three finals: Ricky Ponting

Disappointed with Australia’s loss in the summit clash of the Twenty20 World Cup, Test and ODI captain Ricky Ponting said the finals of such tournaments should be a best-of-three affair.

England is no longer scared of Australia: Shane Warne

With a win in the T20 World Cup final against Australia, England has now scored two major victories over the Aussies in less than a year. They had earlier beaten their arch-rivals in the Ashes series in 2009 and now the World Cup and legendary Australian leg-spinner, Shane Warne, believes that this England team is not scared of the Australians, a quality which most England teams didn’t have.

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