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ODI: Australia on their way to series clean sweep

July 3rd 2008 23:17

The Australia one-day team are heading for a series clean sweep of the Windies after taking a 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

The Aussies took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five limited overs series after injury-prone Shane Watson notched his maiden international century in a crushing seven-wicket win over the Windies in the third match.

Watson has carried his great form from the IPL series to the one-day arena and formed a wonderful 190-run partnership with skipper Ricky Ponting as the visitors made 227-3 in 40.3 overs. The skipper also overturned his barren run rate of late with 69 runs before getting dismissed by Gayle.

Vice-captain Michael Clarke is adamant the team will not let their guards down for the two dead rubbers and will be looking for a 5-0 series clean sweep to kick-start a 'new era' for the Australian one-day team.

"With the team we have now, if we can win 5-0 it certainly shows we've stood tall," said Pup.

"Obviously we've lost a lot of players from both forms of the games, but we won the Test series here, and hopefully if we win this 5-0 it will be a great start to what is a new era" he added.

The next match will be at Warner Park on Friday.

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ODI: Australia secures 1-0 lead over Windies

June 25th 2008 07:14

Shaun Marsh at the crease

The Australia one-day cricket team has secured a 1-0 lead in the five-game one-day series against the Windies after posting 8-273 and then dismissing the hosts for 189 in St Vincent

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Australia seals 2-0 series win over Windies

June 17th 2008 08:18

Beau Casson does well on his test debut

Australia has completed a 2-0 series victory in the West Indies with a hard-fought 87 run win in the third and final test overnight

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Stuart MacGill retires ; Warne rules out Test return

June 9th 2008 23:05

Stuart MacGill in action

Stuart MacGill has become the third Australian spin bowler to retire from international cricket in the past 18 months

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Injury ends Hayden's West Indies tour

May 30th 2008 11:30

Australia test opener Matthew Hayden's tour of the West Indies has ended abruptly by a persistent Achilles tendon injury

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Stuart Clark wins it for the Aussies (LINK)

May 27th 2008 17:08

Ricky Pnting would have been a relieved man after having won the first Test against West Indies in the Sir Frank Worrell Trophy. With Mathew Hayden and Michael Clarke not playing, and Stuart MacGill having more off-days than usual these days, Ponting would have been a little worried at the end of the third day.

After taking over 100 runs in lead, the Aussies would never have expected the hostility of the West Indian fast bowlers that awaited them. By the end of the third day, Australia had lost four wickets for seventeen, and when they lost their fifth at 18, the nerves would have been jangling for the skipper

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Australia in a spot of Caribbean bother (LINK)

May 25th 2008 20:46

Even as I type this, the Australians are in a position that they would not have liked to be in. After getting such a wonderful start to the Test match by Ricky Ponting - who scored a masterly 150 as mentioned in our previous article, the Aussies collapsed in the first innings. The Chanderpaul played an innings so reminiscent of him, to take the West Indians within about a 100 runs of their total.

A lead of 100 odd hould have been enough for the Aussies easily seal the match. Not that they cannot right now, but they would have expected it to happen more easily if they do. Batting the second time around, the Aussies collapsed to 17/4 at the end of day three, before recovering a little to capitulate to a 165 all out. It was only an inspirational, aggressive innings of 79 by Symonds that saw them to such a total

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Ponting scores masterly ton, WI struggle (LINK)

May 23rd 2008 05:33

Ricky Ponting was said to be in a patchy form. However, looking at him bat the way he did on the first day at Kingston, Jamaica against the West Indies, one wonders whether the bad form story was actually a myth!

Ponting slammed a 158, Hussey scored another 50, where as Hodge is still batting with a fifty on board. Australia were 301/4 at stumps on the first day

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England be Warne-d! (LINK)

May 20th 2008 20:47

Shane Warne is making the news for all the right reasons these days. His captaincy has been much talked about in the ongoing IPL, he is one of the top bowlers and his mentoring of the Indian youngsters have all left him in a very good stead.

So when Shane Warne speaks about making a comeback in Test matches, one better take him seriously. Despite Stuart MacGills's return to form in the side game that Australia played against the Jamaicans. And one can visualise one very nervous team out there after havng heard this news; England

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Sour Grapes for Ricky Ponting? (LINK)

May 14th 2008 04:26

Ricky Ponting, the Australian skipper, would be leading his side to the Caribbean, and is worried that because of the Indian Premier League, not a lot of Aussies would be tuning on to watch the Test Series! And so he has urged the audiences in Australia to not watch retired Aussie cricketers play, but his own team!

Technically, there are only a handful of retired cricketers playing in the tournament. And secondly, and most importantly, it does not remain Ricky Ponting's prerogative to deide who watches what! Interestingly, the IPL and the Test matches would begin at approximately the same time, 1430-1500 hours GMT, which would make it next to impossible for audiences to follow both

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Harbhajan Singh unmasked!

May 11th 2008 07:17

Ricky Ponting minces no words, whether on field or off the field. And when asked for his opinion on the latest Harbhajan Singh, Ponting's reply was as simple and blunt as it could get,

The incident was him dealing with a guy that he has probably played 20 Tests with. Harbhajan has been unmasked

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BCCI better than ECB, says Greg Matthews

May 9th 2008 09:46

According to ex-Aussie cricketer, Greg Matthews – he had starred in that famous tied Madras Test in 1986 – he is very happy with the fact that the Asian block is one of the most powerful one in the ICC, and is vurtually ruling the cricket world. The reason?

Hear it from the horse's mouth, "I'm very, very happy now that Asia is running the game now. The English had 100 years of it and did a pretty average job

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Cricket going the Champions League way? (LINK)

May 8th 2008 05:57

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the governing body for the Lord's Cricket Ground, has come out with some earth shattering revelations. No, it has nothing to do with changes in the fine print of the MCC coaching manual, or a selection of a woman as their next Chief Executive.

It is simply this that the MCC has decided to agree to host neutral Test matches at Lord's and more importantly, it has also consented to host some of the matches of the proposed Champions League! We are not alluding to the sport of soccer here; it is the extension of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that would be played between the best teams of the various T20 leagues across the world. So, a Chennai Super Kings, a Pura Milk Perth Riders, a Vodafone Londoners and an Auckland Blacks side (names are definitely fictitious!), may face off in the Champions League of Cricket, with some of the matches being played in London, more specifically at Lord’s

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