Melbourne, Jan 20 : The Australian Cricketers Association has claimed that the Cricket Australia's handling of Mathew Hayden's case was "inconsistent," and has advised players of Board leveling financial penalties if they are injured during the Indian Premier League.

Hayden had his pay cut by Cricket Australia in an apparent warning to star players that they compete in the Indian Premier League at their own risk.

Melbourne, Jan. 20 : The Honda Accord Euro has won Australia''s most prized motoring award being named Wheels magazine''s car of the year.

The car was today declared the best new release of 2008 with the judges saying it delivered an exceptional package of driver satisfaction, passenger comfort and all-round user-friendliness.

According to Fox Sports, the judge started with 35 eligible models, short listed 18 for a week of final evaluation, including tests at Ford''s You Yangs proving ground near Geelong.

Perth, Jan. 20 : Former Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist has urged New South Wales batsman David Warner to learn to relax first, and said that once he does that, the runs will flow again.

Gilchrist, who played 287 one-day internationals during his nearly decade-long career, was quoted by Fox Sports as saying: "Don''t put too much pressure on yourself, I always felt that pressure came from within, it is not a matter of the headlines or the air time that you received."

Melbourne, Jan 20: Two Burmese men, who were rescued after they were found in the Torres Strait off Queensland in a giant icebox, revealed that they had been drifting for 25 days after their fishing boat sank.

Their boat had sunk southeast of Indonesia, and they had drifted hundreds of kilometres in the red icebox before a Coastwatch plane spotted them on January 17 about 60 nautical miles off Horn Island, in the Torres Strait.

According to the Courier-Mail, the two men revealed that that they were forced to crew a 10m-long Thai fishing boat that broke up about 200 nautical miles north of Australia.

Melbourne, Jan 20: Tourism Queensland has assured that the Great Barrier Reef "dream job" is real despite attracting criticism for publicising a fake applicant.

The tourism officials have admitted that the video of a woman getting a tattoo in order to win the `dream job' was fake - insisting it was a lapse in judgement of posting it without any indication.

The video showed an Australian woman "Tegan" getting a tattoo to showcase her passion for the Great Barrier Reef, in a bid to land the six-month, 150,000 dollars job, who is otherwise an employee of the ad agency behind the campaign.

Melbourne - Spain's Fernando Gonzalez crushed the home hopes of Lleyton Hewitt as he dumped the former finalist out in the first round of the Australian Open 5-7, 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 on Tuesday.

The second-day shock at Melbourne Park derailed the 27-year-old Hewitt's plans as he played his home major for the 13th time.

He had not lost in the first round at Melbourne Park since 2002. It is the first time since the 2000 Open that he has not been seeded at a Grand Slam.