Australian media rubs salt into India’s wounds

The Australian media didn’t waste the opportunity to rub salt into India’s wounds, hailing their cricket team for the ODI series win against India saying the series win has put to rest the debate of who the undisputed kings of the game are.

McDonald, Cockley to join battered Aussies

Victorian all-rounder Andrew McDonald and New South Wales speedster Burt Cockley are the latest additions to the Australian side battling with injuries. They will be taking the place of Moises Henriques, who has flown back home nursing a hamstring injury, and Peter Siddle, who returned home with stiffness in his left side, respectively.

Hopes ruled out for rest of the series, to fly back home

An injury hit Australian side got another body blow on Sunday with all-rounder James Hopes being ruled out of the rest of the seven match ODI series against India.

Lee, Johnson ruled out of second ODI

Australia will be without their lead bowling pair of Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee as well as all-rounder James Hopes after they were ruled out of participating in the second ODI against India in Nagpur. Lee picked up a right elbow strain in the opening match of the series on Sunday while Johnson had hurt his left ankle. James Hopes, too, had gone off the field with a hamstring problem.

Lee powers NSW to CLT20 title

“Cometh the hour, Cometh the man!” Brett Lee came to the party when the New South Wales Blues needed him the most, putting in an outstanding all-round performance and guiding the Blues to the title of the inaugural Champions League T20 champions with a convincing 41-run victory over the Caribbean team of Trinidad and Tobago and with it hitting the jackpot of US$ 2.5 million for his club.

New South Wales cruise into the final of CLT20

Winners of Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash, New South Wales Blues, delivered a clinical performance in the first semi-final of the inaugural Champions League T20 on a rather difficult Feroz Shah Kotla pitch thrashing the runners up of their domestic competition, Victorian Bushrangers, by 79 runs, in what was probably the most one-sided match of the tournament.

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