Haddin, Watson rested for next two ODIs

After taking a 2-0 lead in the five-match ODI series against West Indies, Australia have decided to rest wicket-keeper batsman Brad Haddin and all-rounder Shane Watson for the next two ODIs and have replaced them with Tim Paine and Adam Voges.

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.

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.

Graham Manou replaces injured Paine for remaining ODI’s

South Australian Graham Manou will be flying down to India to join the Australian team replacing the injured Tim Paine who broke his finger during Australia’s drubbing in the second one-dayer. Manou is due to fly to Delhi on Thursday night and will land in time for the third one-dayer of the seven match series to be played in New Delhi on Saturday.

Australia’s injury crisis deepens, Paine ruled out of rest of the series

Australia’s injury woes continued on Wednesday with wicket-keeper batsman Tim Paine breaking his finger during the Indian innings in the second ODI at Nagpur ruling him out of the rest of the series.

Australia win a thriller, take 1-0 lead

If there was any doubt in anybody’s mind about the popularity of One-day cricket then this was a perfect match to answer those people. The match was all but over when Michael Hussey and Ricky Ponting set up what seemed like a pretty comfortable win for the Aussies until a eighth wicket partnership of 84 runs between Praveen Kumar and Harbhajan Singh threatened to snatch the game away from Australia.

Australians feel awkward to sledge Indians post IPL

Nobody can forget the famous confrontations between Glenn McGrath and Rahul Dravid in 2001 when Australia toured India. In fact there have been plenty of such on-field rivalries between Indian and Australian players. Saurav Ganguly-Steve Waugh, Harbhajan Singh-Ricky Ponting and going back to the most recent series in Australia, the infamous Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds controversy.

Introduce points system to save one-day cricket: Ricky Ponting

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting called for a reorganisation of one-day cricket to end meaningless dead rubbers as Australia left for a seven-game ODI series in India.

Watson helps Aussies retain Champions Trophy

Australian bowlers came to the party on the big day once again restricting the Kiwis to a modest 200 and then Shane Watson scored his second consecutive century to guide Australia to a six wicket win as they were crowed the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy winners.

Watson, Ponting crush England to enter CT finals

Opener Shane Watson (136 not out) and skipper Ricky Ponting (111 not out) smashed brilliant centuries as Australia romped over England by nine wickets to book their place in the finals of the Champions Trophy.

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