South Australia will take on Queensland at Adelaide in the KFC Big Bash T20 tournament, with the South Australians looking to strengthen their hold over the top spot in the table. This will be only the third game for Queensland in this series as their last fixture was postponed due to heavy floods. They have [...]
Shane Watson’s 59 runs helped Australia reach 157/4 in their allotted 20 overs in the first of the two-match T20I series here at the Adelaide Oval. Cameroon White won the toss in the afternoon and elected to bat first on a pitch that appeared to be full of runs. The Aussie openers scored at ten [...]
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting readily agreed to the fact that Australia weren’t in the best of their form over the past few weeks owing to which they had failed to deliver and thus completely deserved to be criticised. Ponting also said that it is the characteristic of the game of cricket to turn around so [...]
Ricky Ponting has lost his place in the world’s top 20 Test match batsmen according to the ICC rankings. This has happened for the first time since 2001. The failure in both the innings of the Adelaide Test proved to be the final nail in the coffin for Ponting. Ponting’s golden duck in Adelaide proved [...]
Kevin Pietersen scored his second double century in Test match cricket and first against Australia at Adelaide. Pietersen’s 200 that came off pushed the English side to more than 500/4 and in an impregnable position. Pietersen had begun the day on 85 and lost his overnight partner, Alastair Cook early in the day. However, Pietersen [...]
Doug Bollinger and Ryan Harris have been named in the 13-man squad for second Ashes Test that begins this Friday at Adelaide and in all possibility might find themselves in the playing eleven. Bollinger and Harris, who were in the original squad for the first Test, were rested owing to fitness issues. Australia v England [...]
After experiencing flip-flops of fortunes, the first Ashes Test finally ended in a tame draw at the Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba. At the end of the fifth and final day, Australia were 107/1 in 26 overs, when they were asked to chase down 297 runs for victory. The play was called off an hour earlier. [...]
The 2010 edition of the Ashes series between Australia and England will be played from November this year. The first Test match will be played in November at Brisbane. Already, it has been announced that the sale of tickets for the premier Test cricket series in the world has picked up so well, that the [...]
The tickets for the Ashes which will be played in November, later this year, have been put up on sale. The demand was not as much as it was in the year of 2006 when the Aussies had to win the series to regain the urn, but it was good enough for starters.
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