Clarke is only player in history to be on the winning side of two Ashes whitewashes.
The Indian team management has opted for the closest substitute for Ashwin.
Michael Clarke looks back at the year 2013 and picks some of the best and the worst moments for his team.
The company is presently sponsoring the Punjab team in the Ranji Trophy.
Ishant Sharma has taken responsibility for conceding 30 runs against Australia in an ODI.
Since Nathan Lyon debut in August 2011, he has played in 26 out of the 30 Tests played by Australia — second only to captain Michael Clarke, who has played 29. The only Tests he was rightfully left out of was the green mamba in Perth against India in 2011; his exclusion from the other three Tests was puzzling to say the least.
The final India-Australia One-Day International (ODI) match has emerged as the highest rated single day TV event this year, while the seven-game series was the most watched bilateral ODI series of 2013.
The incontrovertible reality is that Virat Kohli is in the form of his life. The accompanying irrefutable truth, nay a lockstep as would be agreed to by even the most sybaritic of his admirers is that such form is perfectly unreal.
Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was fined 10 per cent of his match fee on Sunday for using offensive language against Shane Watson after dismissing the Australian batsman in the seventh One-Day International (ODI) at Bangalore. The incident happened in the 29th over and Jadeja was found to have breached Article 2.1.4 of the ICC Code of Conduct which relates...
While almost every player from each side who could bat a bit, revelled in the recently-concluded seven-match One-Day International (ODI) series between India and Australia, the hosts’ key players — Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina — had a disappointing run with their shortcomings being exposed badly by the Australian bowlers. Even though one bad series isn’t enough a reason to sweat about, the reasons behind the failure cannot be ignored — especially in the case of Yuvraj and Raina as India gear up for a tougher season ahead with few overseas tours.