Friday, May 24, 2019 | Last Update : 06:32 AM IST
Australia
Brett Lee picks his top three World Cup 2019 pacers
"What a wonderful bowler," said Lee of Bumrah, who has taken 85 wickets in 49 one-day internationals.
23 May 2019 2:42 PM
'Australia's ability to bowl and play spin will define their WC success': Ponting
Ponting said there were concerns about middle-order's ability to play spin but the return of Warner and Smith has strengthened the team.
23 May 2019 12:09 PM
'Jos Buttler is England's dangerman', says Ricky Ponting
Besides Buttler, England's team comprises of match-winners like skipper Morgan, Bairstow, Root, Stokes and Archer to name a few.
22 May 2019 1:47 PM
Indian-origin Dave Sharma wins Wentworthin seat in Australian federal election
Sharma was a former Australian ambassador to Israel and had claimed the seat of former Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull.
22 May 2019 12:34 PM
Former Aussie opener Michael Slater kicked off plane
Macquarie Sports Radio, citing eyewitnesses, said the row erupted between Slater and two women as they boarded a flight from Sydney.
21 May 2019 1:22 PM
'He just hasn’t been playing any cricket': Langer on exclusion of Hazlewood
Hazlewood expressed his frustration last week at first missing out on a place in the initial squad for England.
20 May 2019 11:43 AM
‘Smith played an unbelievable shot and it felt like Sachin bat’: Langer
Delighted with Smith's progress going into the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019, the head coach called him Australia's success.
20 May 2019 10:54 AM
‘England are red-hot favourites for 2019 World Cup, they deserve to be no 1’: Langer
England has had huge success in the ODI format after 2015 and the success can be credited to their newly adapted aggressive batting style.
19 May 2019 2:09 PM
Conservatives in Australia on course for 'sensational' election victory
Though it is unclear whether the Scott Morrison-led coalition can govern with an outright majority.
19 May 2019 8:57 AM
Voting under way in climate-dominated Australia elections
Between 16 and 17 million people are expected to vote across the vast island-continent, with the opp centre-left Labor party tipped to win.
18 May 2019 9:13 AM
India 'sleeping giant' of women's cricket, says Matthew Mott
The interest in women's cricket in India has been on the rise ever since they finished runners-up in the 2017 World Cup in the UK.
17 May 2019 12:27 PM
Oil prices ease on surprise rise in US stockpiles, but Middle East tensions support
WTI crude futures were at USD 61.39 per barrel, down 39 cents, or 0.6 per cent.
15 May 2019 9:56 AM
Koalas on the verge of extinction
A report claims koalas are ‘functionally extinct’, but what does that mean?
13 May 2019 4:24 PM
'Smith has got his timing and class back': Aaron Finch
Finch is happy that both Smith and David Warner have done incredible work during their time off the field which is showing off.
10 May 2019 5:06 PM
New Zealand's Will Young hits second straight ton against Australia
The three-match series is tied 1-1, with Australia aiming for a confidence-boosting win before heading to England to defend their WC title.
10 May 2019 2:06 PM
Barmy Army doctors Warney's official WC jersey, replaces 'Australia' with 'Cheats'
Justin Langer said they won't be rattled by a hostile reception at the WC as England's Barmy Army gave them a taste of what to expect.
10 May 2019 8:32 AM
Cricket Australia lauds players' post-scandal conduct
The men's national team had no conduct citings during the 2018-19 season, the first clean sheet in seven years.
09 May 2019 5:57 PM
Typo! Australia misspells 'responsibility' on USD 2.3 billion worth notes
The Reserve Bank of Australia said the spelling error will be corrected at the next print run later this year.
09 May 2019 3:12 PM
Jhye Richardson ruled out of World Cup due to injury, Kane Richardson replaces him
Richardson had been viewed as an exciting prospect in England looking at his pace and swing. He has taken 26 wickets in his first 12 ODIs.
08 May 2019 10:50 AM
Geoffrey Rush finally free of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ charges
The Australian actor wins his defamation case against Sydney newspaper publisher, in spite of testimonies by two female co-actors.
07 May 2019 9:57 PM
Columns
In the communal politics of the 1990s, a searing slogan was “Garv se kaho hum Hindu hain”, or “let us proclaim with pride that we are Hindu”.
On the Congress-led UPA side, the situation by 12 noon has shown that it did not gain much from last time.
The campaign has been as intense, acrimonious and polarising as the kind we have seen in India.
Cricket is indeed a strange sport: it draws inspiration from battlefields, on which, unlike the gallows, grass grows.