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

GILLY BATS FOR PONTING

Adam Gilchrist has been in fine form of late but his captain Ponting is in the middle of a horrible run of form when compared to his own lofty standards.He has supported Ponting saying that the drama off the field in the Australian summer is as high as the drama on the field and this has started taking toll on him mentally.Australia have had a large off the field problems lately such as the tour of pakistan,Cricket Australia reluctant to allow its players into the IPL,harbhajan andrew symonds episode as well as Ponting himself is suffering from back spasms of late.He was off colour in the test series as well and just made a workman like century in the final test.He has been batting poorly in the one day series as well.

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.

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.