Sri Lanka bowled out for 104 against Australia

According to the fresh reports from the center of Galle cricket ground, a superb five-wicket haul for Nathan Lyon - including a wicket with his very first ball - has put Australia in a leading command on day two of their opening Test against Sri Lanka.

Lyon has took 5-34 off 15 overs as Sri Lanka crumbled to be all out for 105 in their first innings at Galle, the South Australian claiming the milestone with an athletic caught and bowled to dismiss Chanaka Welegedara (1).

The 23-year-old off-spinner's display was his first five-wicket haul in his short career and is the best bowling performance on Test debut by an Australian since Jason Krejza's 8-215 in Nagpur in 2008.

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Australia lost early wickets against Sri Lanka in 1st Test match

According to some fresh reports from the cricket, Australia lost the wickets of its two opening batsmen cheaply before lunch on the opening day of the first cricket Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Wednesday.

Australia captain has won the toss and decided to bat first, were 76 for two at the break with Ricky Ponting and skipper Michael Clarke on 21 runs each, the pair having put on 40 for the third wicket.

The start was delayed by an hour due to overnight rains, but coverings ensured the wicket and the outfield remained dry.

                                                                                            

India has to chase 261 runs against Australia

India v/s Austriala

According to the fresh reports from the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, India is all set to face three times world champion Australia in today’s First match of the ICC Cricket World Cup quarter finals match Played at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad.

The captain from the Australi, Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat first.

While talking to media, he said that 250 runs on this groud are quite enough to stop Indians to achieve the target.

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Brad Haddin

Ricky Ponting

Sachin Tendulkar

Australia

Yuvraj Singh

Zaheer Khan

Ricky Ponting

Zaheer Khan celebrates the wicket of M Hussey

Ricky Ponting plays a short

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Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat against Pakistan

Australia

According to the fresh reports from the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Pakistan is all set to face three times champion Australia in today’s Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (neutral venue), 19 March 2011 - day/night (50-over match). 

ICC World Cup- Ricky Ponting is a good captain but not a good leader

According to the latest news from the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting got into the 'Angry Youngman' mode after his run out in the World Cup match against Zimbabwe and allegedly smashed the LCD in his dressing room at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad.

Ponting Playing a short against Zimbabwe at Ahemdabad in ICC World Cup Cricket match.

The Aussi captain, who lost 3 Ashes series under his captaincy, still remains one of Australia's best captains.

Australia have played 72 Tests and won 48. In the same way, they have won 161 ODIs out of 222.

However, the two-time World Cup winning captain has off late been under fire for his leadership abilities

Whatever may be the reason, but it is not for the first time that the Tasmanian has got embroiled in a row.

Some of the facts about the player are as below;-

- It was during Australia's tour of India in 1998 when a drunk Ricky Ponting was kicked out of a Kolkata nightclub for his misdemeanour.

- After winning the ICC Champions Trophy in 2006, the BCCI president Sharad Pawar handed the trophy to the Australian skipper. Soon after, Ponting and his teammates pushed Pawar so that they could have a team photograph. This incident did not go down too well with the Indians.

- He did not let go a passing comment made by cricketer-turned-commentator Sunil Gavaskar, who said that the Australians were not popular winners, and said things which was not in good taste.

ICC World Cup: Australia will bat against Zimbabwe

The latest news from the sports desk reveals that Australia skipper Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat against Zimbabwe.

 The defending champions begin their World Cup campaign at the Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad.

Ponting said, “There were no injury worries for the four-time winner ahead of the Group A match at the Sardar Patel Stadium, and the Australians were eager to get going. Australia lost both its warm-up matches.”

As expected, Australia is going to play with three fast bowlers, with Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson and with only one off-spinner Jason Krejza.

Australia have been unbeaten in 22 matches in the last two tournaments played in South Africa (2003) and West Indies (2007), under Ricky Ponting.

The Aussies have a superb batting line-up in which Shane Watson, who opens the batting, and Ponting are crucial in the top order to lay the platform for others to build upon.

Watson has performed brilliantly with the bat in ODIs in the last year, having scored 832 runs and Zimbabwe's think tank would have talked about ways of stopping the Queenslander from taking the game away.

Teams:

Australia: SR Watson, BJ Haddin (wk), RT Ponting (capt), MJ Clarke, CL White, DJ Hussey, SPD Smith, MG Johnson, SW Tait, JJ Krejza, B Lee

Zimbabwe: BRM Taylor, CK Coventry, T Taibu (wk), SC Williams, CR Ervine, E Chigumbura (capt), P Utseya, SW Masakadza, AG Cremer, Regis Chakabva, RW Price

Umpires: Asoka de Silva and Richard Kettleborough

Third umpire: Amish Saheba

Match Referee: Jeff Crowe