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After India won the toss and elected to bat on a wicket that looked like it would crumble later in the day, openers Manish Sharma and Ravneet Ricky got India off to yet another solid start

Australia won a match they seemed to have lost

There is presently one immutable rule that you must bear in mind when watching cricket - never dismiss the Australians, no matter how precarious their position

Mike Hussey produced another Man-of-the-Match performance as Western Australia cruised to yet another one-day win, under lights at the WACA against New South Wales last night

Pakistan right-arm leg-spinner Danish Kenaria destroyed Australia's batting with figures of five wickets for 17 runs off 10 overs to give Pakistan victory by four wickets at the R

Australia extended their lead at top of the Carlton & United Series tonight with a comprehensive 81-run win over Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground

A six off the fifth ball of the penultimate over by T Welsford off M Samuels gave Australia a four wicket victory over West Indies at the SSC ground in Colombo

The Bankstown-Canterbury under sixteen A.W.Green Shield side completed a unique double when they won the competition for the second season in a row with a convincing victory over Penrith last Sunday in the final at Rosedale Oval

In a tournament already loaded with low scoring matches, and in a season dominated by Australian wins, there came another contest at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today to reinforce the pattern

Ex-Comets batsmen Mark Higgs and Brad Haddin returned to Canberra to give their former teammates a lesson as New South Wales won by 118 runs in a rain shortened Mercantile Mutual Cup match at Manuka Oval today

Sri Lanka scored a convincing eight-wicket win over Australia to top Group `D' of the under 19 World Cup competition at the R

Australia came out the victors in a low-scoring fourth match of the Carlton & United Series at the Sydney Cricket Ground this evening

Australia made it two wins out of two games, beating a spirited Ireland team by 63 runs at the CCC ground in Colombo

The crowd at Manuka Oval numbered 500 at most

The emotion and drama of the first two matches of this Carlton and United Series had provided spectators and commentators alike with plenty about which to eulogise

The Australian Youth side opened their account with a formidable performance against African competitiors Namibia at the P.Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo in their Group D match today

To say that this was an unusual day in the life of Shoaib Akhtar and of Pakistan cricket in general would be a gross understatement

In many ways, this series has represented both the best of times and the worst of times

So remarkable is the ability of Australian teams these days that the task of successfully standing in the path between them and victory borders on the verge of impossibility

Capitalising upon the opportunities afforded them by a significant improvement in Melbourne's weather, it was two players at opposite ends of the Test cricketing spectrum who emerged as the stars on a magical day three of the Second Test between