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/ 19 December 2007
Australia’s bowlers backed up captain Ricky Ponting’s second successive one-day international century to lead their side to a 114-run win and series victory against New Zealand in Hobart on Thursday. Ponting, who made 107 not out in Australia’s seven-wicket victory in the first game in Adelaide, struck an unbeaten 134.
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/ 20 November 2007
Australia beat Sri Lanka by 96 runs on Tuesday to win the second Test at Bellerive Ova and complete a 2-0 series sweep. The Australians wrapped up victory in the third over after lunch on the fifth and final day when Sri Lanka were dismissed for 410 despite a defiant 192 from Kumar Sangakkara.
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/ 19 November 2007
Kumar Sangakkara says a secure start to the final day could lead to a stunning victory for Sri Lanka over Australia in the second cricket Test at Bellerive Oval on Tuesday. Sangakkara was Sri Lanka’s batting hero on Monday with an unbeaten 109, his 15th Test hundred, as the tourists chase down a record-breaking 507 runs to level the two-match series.
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/ 18 November 2007
Australian strike bowler Brett Lee has supported Ricky Ponting’s decision not to enforce the follow-on in the second Test against Sri Lanka despite the temptation of chasing a quick kill. The Australians had the option of making the Sri Lankans bat again after bowling them out for 246 — 296 runs behind the home side’s first innings total of 542.
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/ 18 November 2007
Australia resisted the option to enforce the follow-on after dismissing Sri Lanka for 246 after tea on the third day of the second test at Bellerive Oval on Sunday. Sri Lanka finished 296 runs behind Australia’s first innings total of 542-5 after a batting collapse but were spared the ignominy of being sent back in after Ricky Ponting decided to give his bowlers a rest.
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/ 17 November 2007
Adam Gilchrist became the first player to smash a 100 sixes in Test cricket in a brutal display of power hitting that put Australia in control of the second Test against Sri Lanka on Saturday. Gilchrist clubbed three massive sixes, including two in succession off Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, to blaze his way to an unbeaten 67.
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/ 16 January 2007
All-rounder Andrew Flintoff lifted a jittery England to a drought-breaking three-wicket win over New Zealand in the triangular series one-day international on Tuesday. England were forced to work hard to beat New Zealand’s modest total of 205 and secure their first victory since arriving in Australia in early November.
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/ 7 February 2006
Australia may not have things all their own way when they head to South Africa later this month despite convincing wins over the Proteas in the Test and one-day series, Graeme Smith said on Tuesday. The SA skipper, whose team was bundled out of the triangular series after losing their last three matches, believes the Proteas can turn things around on home soil.
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/ 7 February 2006
Malinga Bandara took four wickets on Tuesday to bowl Sri Lanka to a 76-run win over South Africa and into a place opposite Australia in the tri-series limited-overs cricket finals. Bandara came into the match in the 20th over and turned the match in Sri Lanka’s favour when he claimed four wickets between the 27th and 35th overs.
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/ 7 February 2006
A cautious Sri Lanka failed to make the most of a solid start in their do-or-die triangular series match against South Africa at Hobart’s Bellerive Oval on Tuesday, coasting to an unthreatening 257-9. The Sri Lankans were mindful of the shocking batting collapse that cost them the match the last time the two teams played.
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/ 6 February 2006
Sri Lankan coach Tom Moody knows his team are lucky to be in the hunt for a berth in the finals of the triangular series and this time he wants to make sure there are no mistakes. The Sri Lankans have host-nation Australia to thank for keeping their prospects in the limited overs competition alive after they scored crushing wins over South Africa in the last two matches.
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/ 21 November 2005
Test cricket’s leading wicket-taker Shane Warne was ”stiff and sore” after bowling a long stint in the second Test with a sore back but was likely to play in the third Test against the West Indies, skipper Ricky Ponting said on Monday. Warne was in doubt to play on the eve of the Test match, but satisfied Ponting he would be able to stand up to five days of the game.
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/ 21 November 2005
Australia mopped up a nine-wicket victory over the West Indies to claim the second cricket Test and retain the Frank Worrell Trophy series at Bellerive Oval on Monday. Australia were left with the modest target of scoring 78 runs for victory after being forced to bat a second time following a record 182-run seventh wicket partnership between Dwayne Bravo (113) and Dinesh Ramdin (71) on Sunday’s fourth day.
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/ 19 November 2005
Brian Lara reached another milestone in Test cricket on Saturday but the rest of the news for the West Indies wasn’t good in the second Test against Australia at Bellerive Oval. Lara became the second-highest test run-scorer but the Caribbean side was 82 for four in its second innings at stumps on the third day, still needing another 175 runs to make Australia bat again.
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/ 15 November 2005
Glenn McGrath may have taken Brian Lara’s wicket 14 times in Tests but the Australian pace spearhead is deeply respectful of the West Indian batting superstar. McGrath’s success with the champion left-hander from Trinidad is almost double that of the next most successful bowler against Lara.
Australian scientists were on Monday studying a giant squid which washed up on a Tasmanian beach at the weekend and could be a new species of the deep sea Leviathan.