Melbourne, Dec 25 : All rounder Andrew Symonds and Nathan Hauritz have been included in Australia's playing XI for the crucial Boxing Day Test against South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Victoria paceman Peter Siddle kept his place in the team despite a moderate showing in the Perth, but all-rounder Shane Watson was again overlooked, FOX Sports reported.

Symonds has been suffering from knee soreness but on Wednesday night was cleared to play.

Sydney, Dec 18 : Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds, former Australian cricket team coach John Buchanan and other sport stars have been caught up in the collapse of financial planning group Storm Financial.

Many of Storm's 13,500 clients nationally, from the Torres Strait to Geelong, have had their savings wiped out this year and some stand to lose their houses due to an aggressive stock market investment strategy, which relied on using high levels of debt.

Brisbane, Dec. 8 : Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds is preparing for another feisty Test summer against the South Africans, following last year’s run-ins with Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh.

According to the Daily Telegraph, there is no love lost between Symonds and South Africans, whom he has labelled as "humourless".

Several of the Proteas top players have vivid memories of clashing with Symonds during Australia''s 2006 tour of South Africa, and some privately admit they cannot stand the controversial all rounder.

Adelaide, Dec. 2 : Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has backed all-rounders Andrew Symonds and Shane Watson to fire at the WACA during the contest against South Africa, which begins from December 17.

Ponting has said that he will contact Perth curator Cameron Sutherland well before the first Test to uncover whether he plans to use an old strip or one of the WACA Ground''s recently relayed pitches.

The latter wickets have provided pace and bounce for domestic fast bowlers all season, and if Sutherland indeed intends to use a relayed surface for the match against South Africa, Krejza may be facing a third consecutive Test as Australia''s unlucky loser.

Sydney, Nov 27: Aussie all-rounder Andrew Symonds, who was involved in a brawl in a pub last Sunday but was cleared of the charge by Cricket Australia yesterday, is learnt to have addressed his teammates revealing the intimate details of the extent of his emotional and psychological problems.

Adelaide, Nov. 26 : So haunted was he by the fame that goes with his star status as a cricket player for Australia, that controversial all-rounder Andrew Symonds offered to take a massive pay cut of up to 250,000 dollars this year to avoid all off-field commitments.

Symonds made the offer in May during contract negotiations, after becoming the highest-paid overseas player in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition, with a deal worth about two million Australian dollars if he plays the full six weeks of the tournament.