LEE WINS THE ALLAN BORDER MEDAL

Brett Lee has capped of his brilliant year by winning the Allan border medal for the best Australian cricketer of the year award.Lee has been Australia's strike bowler after the retirement of Glenn Mcgrath he has won the Australian test player of the year also.Lee polled a total of 125 votes for both test and one day cricket for the year and it was higher than the other ace cricketers Ponting and Hayden who got 107 and 64 votes respectivley.Having missed out on those two awards, there was recognition for Hayden's brilliant return to the limited overs ranks with the One-Day International Player of the Year gong.So congrats to Lee and we must also encourage him to repeat it again.

HAYDEN IN TROUBLE

Matthew Hayden has found himself in contrevorsy again after he described the ace Indian spinner Harbhajan singh as an obnoxious little weed while giving interview for a local radio station.He also said that no other person in the history of cricket have been charged more and also harbhajan has been pushing the line every time.These comments have been taken seriously by the Australian cricket board and he has been charged with Australian cricket board breach of code of conduct.His comments that the Indians are whining because they have lost every match against the Aussies have upset the Indians who have taken seriously to it.

AUSTRALIA DEFEATED INDIA

Australia have defeated India in what was a crucial game for India.A victory here for India here would have ensured their qualification to the finals.Australia won the toss and got of to a blistering start though they lost Adam Gilchrist quickly.Ricky Ponting scored a brilliant 124 and was aided by Hayden and Symonds who compiled half centuries apiece.Ponting hit seven fours and a six in a enterprising 132 balls knock and this was a courageous innings by the Aussie captain who had been badly out of form.In their reply India scored 299 runs and they were aided by a tremendous 113 by the Delhi youngster Gambhir and also a vital 51 by Robin Uthappa.Tendulkar failed again and hs form is needed should India enter the finals.Anyway one wishes India all the best against Srilanka at Hobart.

CLARKE PULLS OUT OF IPL

Emerging Australian batsman and future captain Micheal Clarke has pulled out of IPL saying he wants to concentrate more on international cricket.Players who have followed Micheal clarke are Gillespie,Stuart clark,Mitchell Johnson and also Brad Haddin.It is said that the players dropped out of IPL because of the fear of losing their places in the Australian squad.Thirteen players from Australia have been confirmed for the IPL tournament including retired stars Warne and Mcgrath.Australian contingent for IPL includes

Brett Lee, David Hussey, Mike Hussey, Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, Nathan Bracken, Cameron White, Simon Katich, Shane Warne, Justin Langer, Glenn McGrath

AUSTRALIA POWER PAST SRILANKA

An inspired spell by Nathan Bracken who got an five wicket haul took Australia to victory against Srilanka in their first meeting of the tri series here today.Micheal Clarke made an unbeaten half century and guided Australia to a total of 253 for six.Ricky Ponting just got out for nine but Clarke scored 77 not out and James Hopes hit an unbeaten 34 runs.It was a great start by Aussies who put on 65 runs for the first wicket.In the reply Srilanka got off to a poor start with Jayasuriya and Taranga getting out off consecutive deliveries.The last six wickets yielded just 61 runs for the Lankans and Australia secured a convincing win of 128 runs to move to the top of tri series standings.

HOLIDAYS IN AUSTRALIA

One would always like to spend holidays and vacations in a relaxed way and break ou the stress.In short holidays and vacations acts as stress busters and give us a bundle of energy when we get back to work.Australia is a great place to holiday.Darling harbor is one of the popular locations in sydney and has a great nigh tlife and entertainment purposes.Darling harbour hotels are very cheap and easily affordable.

Star city is full of energy and clubs with great life for youths and star city hotels are very easily affordable.Ibis hotel is very special and there are 256 hotel accommodation rooms together with iBistro restaurant, iBar and overlooks Darling Harbour and the Sydney city skyline.Then another hotel which is famous is four points sheraton darling harbour sydney and there are range of rooms of various classes here available.To visit Australia just book with cheaperthan hotels

AUSTRALIA HAMMER INDIA

Australia have defeated India by nine wickets in the twenty twenty match concluded just two hours ago.India were dismissed for 74 runs in the 18th over and just Irfan Pathan managed to get into the twenties with the rest of the batsmen failing woefully.Just the sort of match Austraia needed to get into momentum before their one day match against India on Sunday.It seems India will pay for neglecting stalwarts like Ganguly,Dravid and VVS laxman for the one day series.If the so called Indian young stars could not last for 20 overs what is the guarantee that they would win a 50 over game captained by irresponsible Dhoni.

TAIT OUT INDEFINETLY

Australia and perhaps world's quickest bowler ShaunTait sprang a surprise today and he has announced that he is a sabbatical from the world of cricket.Tait announced that he was physically and emotionally exahusted and suffered from playing too much of international cricket.Tait played in the third test at Perth and he ended up as the weakest bowler of test match as even RP Singh and Ishant Sharma plundered him for runs.He pledged to root India out of Perth but now he finds himself rooted out of cricket.One wonders what the future holds for this talented Australian paceman.The Australian Cricket Board meanwhile has announced that Tait will be rehabilitated and will comeback stronger than ever.

HARBHAJAN CLEARED OF RACISM CHARGE

Ace Indian off spinner Harbhajan Singh has been cleared of all the racism charges levelled against him.Harbhajan had been accused of calling Andrew Symonds "monkey"during the second test match held at Sydney.Harbhajan was earlier banned for three matches and the charge was referred to the Federal court in Adelaide.The level of offense was downgraded to the one using abusive language and he was let off with a 50% fine only as learnt from reliable sources.The racism charges were levelled against Harbhajan by the two notorious umpires Bucknor and Benson after a complaint from the hapless Ricky ponting who clearly became scared of losing to India.

India Australia Test Match Second day Review

The second day was dominated by the Indians and they rattled the Aussies who began dropping catches in an uncharacterestic manner.The day started with the useless MS Dhoni getting out for a low score of 16 again.Then Sachin Tendulkar scored his 17 th score of 150 or more runs and then got out with a standing ovation from the crowd which was a last test match in Australia for the champion.Anil Kumble and Harbhajan singh put on 107 runs for the 8 th wicket before Harbhajan got out for 63 runs and RP singh followed him for a duck.India wound up on 526 runs with Kumble the last man out for 87 runs.Australia finished the day at 62 for no loss.Catch up here on all five days for review.

TENDULKAR CARRIES INDIA

Sachin Tendulkar scored an amazing knock of 124 runs studded with 3 sixers and India finished the day at 309 for 5 on the first day of the fourth test against Australia today.Australian fielding was unusually below par today and Indians capitalised on it with Laxman being dropped by Gilchrist on 37 runs.Sehwag and Laxman displayed both character and class to make 63 and 51 runs respectivley.The day however belonged to the Bombay bomber who reserved his best day of the series at the Adeleide Oval.The ease with which he smashed the Australian bowling reminded everybody that he is still the best batsman in the world.India brought Harbhajan singh in place of opener Wasim Jaffer while Brad Hogg replaced Tait for Aussies.Ganguly and Sehwag were once again given out under contrevosial circumstances.

AUSTRALIA SMASH NEWZEALAND

Australia have given the Black caps the scantest of respect in this series and they have won the Chappell Hadlee series 2-0.Australia in today's third one dayer scored 282 for the loss of six wickets.The highlights of the day was once again a stunning innings from the exciting Ricky Ponting who smashed the Kiwis to all corners of the ground and remained unbeaten at 134. Andrew Symonds smashed 52 off 63 balls with four fours and opener Matthew Hayden contributed 29 off 32 balls.Haddin and Hopes contributed with little cameos of 20 odd runs and the Adam Gilchrist was rested.This was Ponting's 25 th century in ODI.In reply Kiwis were dismissed for 168 runs in 34 overs and Brett Lee and Brad Hogg claimed three wickets each to guarantee the Aussies of an emphatic victory over their bitter rivals.

JUMBO'S PREDICTION

Anil Kumble here today maintained that India will be looking to meet fire with fire against the Aussies in the test series.Kumble acknowledged that the Indians will be looking forward to make full advantage of lack of quality spin bowlers in the Australian side.He also urged the senior players in the ranks of Sachin,Dravid,Sourav,Laxman and himself to make a final push for the coveted series win against Australia at their own backyard.He also urged the players to make more notes and draw more inspiration from their series draw against Australia last time they visited here.To get the latest updates from the Australia series tune into this blog regularly.

AUSTRALIA THRASH NEWZEALAND

Australia have just beaten Newzealand in the opening game of the Chappell Hadlee throphy yesterday.The Newzealanders wound up their innings atleast 30 runs short after they were given an terrific impetus and momentum by the kiwi star batsman Brendon Mccullum who scored a swashbuckling 96.Shaun Tait pulled things back for the Aussies by capturing 3 wickets.

In their reply Aussies cruised home with nearly eight overs to spare.Adam Gilchrist scored 51 off just 29 balls before being cleaned up by Chris Martin.The job was made easier for captain Ricky Ponting who scored an unbeaten107.Aussies now lead the three match series 1-0.