Hyderabad, Oct 4 : Australian skipper Ricky Ponting today said that the aggression being shown by the Indian team was nothing but an attempt to put a brave front to face them.

Lahore, Oct 4 : Former Pakistan captain Inzamam ul-Haq has announced that he has ‘no immediate plans to retire from Test cricket’.

Inzamam confirmed that he had informed the Pakistani selectors about his availability for the second Test.

"I am fully fit and have no plans to retire. I don’t want to leave the game. I want to play as long as I am fit and can perform," the Daily Times quoted him, as saying.

Kochi, Oct 2: Australia beat India by 84 runs in the second ODI of the seven-match series played here today.

Chasing a target of 307 runs set by Australia, India was all out for 222 runs with more than two overs to go.

India lost its first four wickets in quick succession and before the end of first fifteen overs, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa were back to pavilion scoring 7,16, 10 and 41 runs respectively.

Karachi, Oct 2 : Mohammad Yousuf’s last-minute withdrawal from the playing line-up ignited speculations that the player was forced to stay away from the match after receiving threats from the Indian Cricket League (ICL).

Yousuf, however, denied that his decision to sit out of the Karachi Test match had anything to do with the ICL issue.

When pressed by the reporters, Yousuf said that they should ask the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about the issue.

Karachi, Oct 1 : The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has awarded the team with a cash prize of approximately 130 million rupees for reaching the final of the recently concluded Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa.

Each member of the Twenty20 squad was awarded with a cash prize of six million rupees, while a similar sum was announced as bonus for 20 centrally contracted “A” category players by the PCB chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf at a glittering ceremony here on Sunday.