Australian cricket network Channel Nine had reportedly missed the first ball delivered in the first day of the first Ashes Test, at Trent Bridge on Wednesday, due to 'excitement'. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the ball was an erratic first over from Australian fast bowler James Pattinson, although his first ball wide was far less dramatic than Steve Harmison's one six years ...
Ponting completes landmark feat of 24000 runs in first class cricket
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has reached a landmark score of 24,000 first-class runs as his batting display gave Surrey hope of a draw in their LV= County Championship Division One clash against Nottinghamshire at The Oval According to the Daily Express, Ponting, who needed 19 runs for the milestone, shared an unbeaten third-wicket stand of 97 with Arun Harinath, and batted for ...
Warner to join Australia A squad in Africa to get match practice
Australian batsman David Warner has been dispatched from England to join the Australia A squad in Africa to get match practice, after he was dropped from the squad for the first Ashes Test. Warner's swing at England's Joe Root during the ICC Champions Trophy in a Birmingham bar became a symbol for Australia's off-the-field problems in the build-up to the Ashes series and he was suspended and ...
England 215 Australia 754 in Nottingham Test
England hit back at Australia to claim four wickets for 75 after being dismissed for 215 in the first innings on the opening day of the first cricket Test of the Ashes series here at Trent Bridge Wednesday. All the 14 wickets to fall during the day were picked up by fast bowlers. Peter Siddle first rocked the Englishmen when they decided to bat on winning the toss. He had a fifer (5/50) and he ...
14 wickets fall on first day at Trent Bridge
It was a rollercoaster day at the Trent Bridge here Wednesday as 14 wickets fell on the first day after which Australia were left at 75 for four in the first innings against England in the first Ashes Test. Australia's fast bowling leader Peter Siddle came up with an awesome five-wicket performance as England was bowled out cheaply for 215 runs on day one. A buoyant Australia, who left the ...
Warner released from Ashes squad
Australia's opening batsman David Warner, who was dropped from the first Ashes Test, was been released from the squad and will join the Australia A squad in Africa to play Zimbabwe XI and South Africa A, Cricket Australia (CA) said Wednesday. Warner, who was suspended from the warm-up matches for hitting England batsman Joe Root in a Birmingham bar lost his place to Steve Smith, who will be ...
Its legal to Facebook while at work
A group of firefighters in Melbourne have approached the national workplace commission to win back rights to access Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other websites at the workplace for more than an hour a day. According to The Age, the ban on spending more than an hour of personal time online during work hours came after some within the fire brigade were warned about spending too much time on the ...
Science behind making ordinary men geniuses revealed
A neuropsychologist from Sydney is working to unlock extraordinary potential in ordinary minds. An acquired savant is a person, who is perfectly ordinary until an injury to the brain, usually to the left hemisphere of the brain, helps them possess a remarkable ability, like photographic memory, a talent for a musical instrument despite no prior training, a sudden propensity for complex ...
Steve Waugh urges Oz to display mongrel attitude to win Ashes
Former Australia captain Steve Waugh has urged Australia to cultivate the attitude of playing in the Ashes the 'Aussie way' to hold the urn not once but twice in the coming months. Waugh was one of the men in the 1989 Ashes squad, which began the series by being labelled the worst touring team ever to contest the Ashes, although the unbreakable team bond that they formed as they journeyed up ...
Steve Smith Cowan in squad for first Ashes squad Warner out
Australian batsman Steve Smith has reportedly been chosen for the middle order batting post ahead of suspended opener David Warner, while Ed Cowan will bat at first drop against England in the first Ashes Test starting on Wednesday. According to the Courier Mail, Smith, whose innings in the Worcestershire tour game have won over the selectors, will join a batting order that includes Shane ...
New nanomaterial developed for reducing CO2 emissions from coal stations
Australian researchers have developed a new nano-material which can help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations. University of Adelaide researchers have developed a new nano-material that could help separate the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from nitrogen. This would allow the carbon dioxide to be separated before being stored, rather than released to the ...
Lehman and Clarke re-live the old and look to the new
As Australia counts down the final hours till the first ball is bowled in a bumper back-to-back Ashes Series, coach Darren Lehmann and captain Michael Clarke recalled their past playing days and how their relationship works now as Coach and Captain. Lehmann and Clarke first played together for Australia in 2003 and went on to play seven Tests and 18 ODIs. It has been well documented that ...
Pakistani Fawad Ahmed is now Australian officially
Pakistan-born leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed Wednesday officially became an Australian citizen at a citizenship ceremony conducted by Minister Brendan O'Connor at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices here. After getting the news last week that his citizenship application was successful, Wednesday's ceremony completed the fulfilment of a dream for the 31-year-old Ahmed. "It is a great day for me and ...
Hulk Hogan challenges Warner to rumble with 24-inch pythons biceps
American wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan has released a video, in which he challenged Australian opener David Warner to a match with him and his '24-inch python' arms, ahead of the Ashes which starts in Trent Bridge on Wednesday. According to the Courier Mail, Hogan has released a video, which was paid for by a betting agency and has quickly gone viral, challenging Warner to 'rumble' with his ...
Clarke says Ashes hype should not define him as captain
Australian captain Michael Clarke has expressed his fear for the hype surrounding the Ashes series, starting from Wednesday at Trent Bridge, and insisted that whatever happens in England over the next six weeks should not define him. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the dawning of a new Ashes series is a time for a captain to reach for a piece of history, with either Clarke or England ...
Australian coroner?s report points to Labor?s responsibility for insulation deaths
In a bid at damage control, newly reinstalled Prime Minister Kevin Rudd belatedly apologised last week to the families of four young men killed in 2009 and 2010 when working for contractors under his Labor government's $2.5 billion Home Insulation Program. The hurriedly rolled out program provided rebates to insulate the ceilings of 2.7 million houses across the country. It was part of the ...
Australia at crossroads as China boom ends PM
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Thursday said the China resources boom was over, leaving the economy at a crossroads, as he called for a new productivity pact to boost competitiveness.In his first major policy speech since ousting Julia Gillard as leader, Rudd also urged a sharper engagement with Asia, particularly Indonesia, to help smooth the nation's economic ...
Campbell Newman announces plan to deal with Queensland MP pay rises
QLD Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has promised to review a 42 per cent MP wage hike after anger from unions, the Opposition and the public.The Queensland Government has been criticised over the salary rise for state MPs, which comes after broad cuts to public sector job cuts.The increases would see MPs get an extra $57,000 a year, ministers an extra $90,000, while Mr Newman's pay ...
Kevin Rudd Press Club address Labor warns against Coalitions slash and burn plan
Australia In a wide-ranging speech on the economy, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has hinted that the Government may boost support for the unemployed and has seized on Queensland's rising jobless rate to warn against the federal Coalition's economic plan to "slash and burn".Mr Rudd used his first major speech since seizing back the leadership to defend the Labor ...
Aspergers dad loses almost all access to his children
A father with Asperger's syndrome is reeling from a judge's decision that the time he spent with his children was so poor it should be cut from 30 hours to four hours a fortnight. The man, who was given the pseudonym "Mr Bratsch" by the Federal Circuit Court, previously spent every second weekend with his children, but their mother sought orders requesting sole parental ...
Reds pumped for Waratahs says Slipper
Stand-in skipper James Slipper insists there'll be no hangover from the British and Irish Lions series as the Queensland Reds chase a Super Rugby home qualifying final with victory over the NSW Waratahs on Saturday night. Slipper has been promoted to captain the Reds in the crucial interstate derby in the absence of injured leaders James Horwill and Will Genia. Along with hooker Saia ...
Abbott parental plan to hit consumers PM
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has panned Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme as a "huge slug on business" that will inevitably hit consumers. Businesses were "not a bunch of philanthropists", and if anyone believed they wouldn't pass on the cost of the parental scheme "well, pigs might fly", Mr Rudd said. Business groups want the opposition leader to ...
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