Cricket Australia has threatened to call off Australia-Pakistan series if Pakistan select players aligned with the ICL.
The tournament could run into trouble as Sindh High Court granted an interim order lifting the ban on nineteen cricketers who have joined the Indian Cricket League (ICL), can play in Pakistan’s domestic competition.
The ‘Herald Sun’ newspaper reported that [...]

Cricket Australia has lost “millions of dollars” from the postponement of the Champions League Twenty20 and the teams involved in the tournament are also worried about what they have missed out on as a result of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Victoria and Western Australia are not guaranteed of taking part in the next event, which [...]

Andrew Symonds has apologised to his team-mates for the events of the past few days after being cleared of any wrongdoing by Cricket Australia. Symonds is free to keep playing, including in Friday’s Adelaide Test against New Zealand, having avoided punishment for an incident in which a member of the public was alleged to have [...]

The manager of the Brisbane hotel where Andrew Symonds was involved in an altercation with a patron on Sunday night has said Symonds was being harassed by the man and did nothing wrong. Cricket Australia is investigating the incident at the Normanby Hotel, where Symonds had been drinking with members of the Australian rugby league [...]

Cricket Australia is investigating an incident surrounding Andrew Symonds after he was involved in a confrontation with a patron in a Brisbane hotel on Sunday night. Symonds said he was sharing some drinks with other players and “did not in any way provoke this situation”.
“A member of the public acted unreasonably towards me while [...]

Ricky Ponting has hit back at Cricket Australia for letting the national team down during the infamous Sydney racism row.
The Australian skipper also lashed out at eminent columnist Peter Roebuck for launching “over the top” criticism.
The skipper, currently under fire for losing Border Gavaskar Trophy series in India, said in his ‘Captain’s Diary [...]

Four valuable cricket bats signed by Australian batting legend Sir Donald Bradman have been stolen from a sports shop, police said on Thursday. The bats, together valued at 40,000 Australian dollars (39,050 US), were taken from a shop in the northern city of Darwin.
Thieves smashed in a front window, police said. Shop manager Graeme Flesfadar [...]

Australia’s first-class competition is to be called the Sheffield Shield once more after new sponsors Weet-Bix chose to restore the popular name of the competition.
The tournament has been known as the Pura Cup since 1999, but Weet-Bix agreed that the Sheffield Shield could resume the name it had borne for 107 years. It promises to [...]

Australia have taken the serial bomb blasts  in Karachi rather seriously as they will decide on the future of their title defence at the Champions Torphy in a matter of a fortnight.
At the same time, the ICC has also made it clear that PCB might be just a bomb blast away from losing the right [...]

The wife of former Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath died in Sydney on Sunday after a decade long battle with cancer, her family said.
Jane McGrath, who had battled breast and later bone cancer, had surgery earlier this year and was recovering before complications set in, the statement issued by McGrath’s management said. “With Glenn and [...]