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The last time Australia played on Pakistani soil was in late 1998. The long wait will finally come to an end. Pakistan-Australia 2022 schedule 1st Test - March 3-7, Karachi 2nd Test - March 12-16, Rawalpindi 3rd Test - March 21-25, Lahore 1st ODI - March 29, Lahore 2nd ODI - March 31, Lahore 3rd ODI - April 2, Lahore Only T20I - April 5, Lahore The three Tests are part of the new ICC World Test Championship cycle and the ODIs will be considered for the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League standings....

Melbourne - The Australian cricket team will fly to India between Feb 7-11 for the upcoming four-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy which starts Feb 22. Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel (NSP) finalised the departure dates of the players Monday. “The players in the 17-man squad will travel to India in three separate groups in an effort to find the best balance for players,” said national selector John Inverarity in a press release....

However, very few have taken notice of the sorrow of the unfortunate 68-year-old man who missed out on an opportunity of watching his son-cum-student playing one of the best Test innings of his career, as a consequence of high heart rate. The background India’s stupendous Test specialist Pujara lit up the souls of billions through his prodigious daddy hundred, his 18th in the purest format of the game. The 378-ball-long stay in the crease strengthened India’s chances of dominating Australia in their own backyard and pulling out a historical and significant series victory, something that was never achieved by the Indians before....

Having shown the stomach for a fight in the second innings, the Indian team ended Day 3 with 166 run-lead, with Cheteshwar Pujara and the newly-entered Ajinkya Rahane holding fort at stumps. KL Rahul started off with a flurry of strokes, and his positive intent helped garner a start to what can be a promising lead for India. Che Pujara, stuck on one end, seems to be carrying on in the same vein that helped him get a hundred in the first innings....

The home team is not in best of the forms with their star batsman out of the series due to bans and the fragile batting order. However, it is the star-studded bowling attack of the home team that has regularly caused problems in the past to the mighty Indian batting lineup in the 2014 Tour of India Down Under. India has never won a series till date in Australia....

Audero has impressed on loan at the Luigi Ferraris this season and the deal between the clubs was modified in January to include an obligatory purchase option. Samp have now fulfilled the requirements of that clause, meaning the goalkeeper has finalised a move away from Turin. In a statement released on Tuesday, Juve said: “Juventus Football Club announces that, following the achievement of the conditions provided by the contract, the obligation for the definitive acquisition of the registration rights of the player Emil Audero Mulyadi by Sampdoria became due for a consideration of €20m, to be paid in the next four financial years....

Mills told a Melbourne radio station on Wednesday that Australia would be fielding a super-competitive team for the Olympics tournament, despite some key withdrawals, reports Xinhua. “This is arguably the best team Australia has ever put together to go to an Olympics,” he said. Embarking on his third Olympic campaign with the Boomers, the San Antonio Spurs’ guard said an Olympic medal remained at the top of Australia’s priority list....

Injured former world number ones Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, along with Kei Nishikori and Stan Wawrinka, are set to be back in action in time for the season’s opening Grand Slam in January. Williams won this year’s Australian Open while pregnant, and she has spoken of her “outrageous” plans to play in Melbourne in 2018 – just four-and-a-half months after giving birth to her baby girl. Tournament director Craig Tiley said all 100 top men and women had confirmed they intended to play in Melbourne – which includes Williams, who is currently ranked 24th....

He got just that on Sunday afternoon at Kansas Speedway. Dillon finished sixth in the Hollywood Casino 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race, moving him to ninth in the standings and into a tie with Joey Logano for what will be the final spot in the next round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Logano owns the tiebreaker. MORE: Kevin Harvick wins at Kansas | Hamlin in trouble Dillon and his Richard Childress Racing team made a gutsy call to gamble on two tires on a late pit stop....

The redshirt junior power forward was already suspended for the Cavaliers’ two preseason scrimmages, and the season-opener at UNC Greensboro on Nov. 11. MORE: Top 16 programs since 2000 The school gave no specific reason given pertaining to Nichols’ release. “It’s a privilege to be a part of this program and Austin has lost that privilege,” Virginia coach Tony Bennett said in the release. “We have standards for our student-athletes and when those standards aren’t met, there are consequences and this is the unfortunate consequence....

In a report released on Monday, UNESCO divulged that the long-term outlook on the reef has “deteriorated from poor to very poor,” and that “there is no possible doubt” the reef was in imminent danger from climate change. The draft recommendation calls on government officials in Australia to take action in order to reduce the impacts of climate change on the reef, saying that the government’s “progress has been insufficient in meeting key targets of the Reef 2050 Plan....

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) decided to draw attention to in-game purchases back in April, and Australia’s decision to follow suit should come as no surprise. After all, the stated purpose of the rating is to “strike a balance between matters,” including alerting consumers (particularly families) to objectionable media and shielding children from inappropriate content. Though added quietly with no press release to speak of, the metric is further evidence that public opinion of the practice of in-game purchases has fallen in 2020....

In case you didn’t know… Australia has never won Ashes in England since they won the series in 2001. The team led by Tim Paine knows that they are fighting against history as they have lost the last four Ashes in England. The heart of the matter An intra-squad contest between Australia and Australia ‘A’ was organized before the selection meeting. This allowed some of the fringe players to give an audition ahead of the selection....

Shaun Marsh, who landed India this morning has been ruled unavailable for the match, owing to his hamstring problem and late arrival due to his second child’s birth. In case you didn’t know… After a horrible home series against India, Australia started their away assignment in style, trouncing hosts by 2-0 in the T20I series. The Men in Yellow displayed a dominating display of bowling and batting to seal the two-match series....

Smith and Warner were both suspended for a year by Cricket Australia, with Cameron Bancroft ruled out for nine months, due to their involvement in the national team’s ball-tampering scandal in South Africa in March. And Australia, led by Paine following skipper Smith’s sanction, have struggled in the absence of their key men, most recently losing the third Test to India by 137 runs in Melbourne on Sunday. Marnus Labuschagne has subsequently been called into the squad for the fourth match in Sydney, but Paine believes experience is needed and referenced Smith and Warner as he discussed the problem in his news conference....

These two teams have faced each other 17 times in the World Cup, with Australia leading England 11-4 in the head-to-head. There was one tied match between the two sides and 1 no result. The two teams met twice in the final of the World Cup, with Australia emerging victorious on both occasions. Let us now look at some of the key stats in matches between these two teams in the World Cup....

BCCI has announced that it will not be a first-class fixture and every member of the squad will be allowed to bat or bowl and only eleven fielders will be allowed to take the field at a given point of time. D’Arcy Short will be the only international player participating in the practice match including the new entourage of concluded U-19 Cricket World Cup like opening batsmen Max Bryant, all-rounder Jonathan Merlo and Param Uppal....

Will it be Rohit Sharma, who hasn’t played any major red ball cricket since his last match against South Africa, or Hanuma Vihari, who has been excellent in domestic cricket and made his debut in England with a half-century? The selection of Rohit for the Australian Test squad had raised multiple questions among fans and former cricketers. He was neither part of the team which traveled to England, nor was he involved in the series against West Indies at home....

He bowled brilliantly and picked up two wickets in the session and reduced Australia to 117/4 when the players took the Tea break. Peter Handscomb is unbeaten on 33 while Travis Head was batting on 17. Let us take at how the wickets fell in the session. Also read: Australia vs India 2018-19, 1st Test, day 2, Lunch: Fall of wickets in detail Shaun Marsh b Ravichandran Ashwin 2(19)...