Victoria re-proved their credentials as the best Twenty20 team in the country with their fourth Big Bash trophy in five years by crushing South Australia

Australia have an opportunity to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series against Pakistan in Sydney on Sunday

Ricky Ponting has praised the growing maturity of Cameron White after his match-winning century secured Australia a 1-0 lead in the five-match series against Pakistan

Cameron White finally showed he could be a potent force at home as his muscular century pushed Australia to a five-wicket win in the opening ODI against Pakistan

Hosting the Big Bash final is a major achievement for South Australia, who have not made a domestic decider since losing the 2005-06 one-day tournament

It is important to Ponting that the 50-over format survives and his team will attempt to show its best qualities from Friday when they face Pakistan at the Gabba

Pakistan are looking to hit back in the one-day series against Australia, which starts in Brisbane on Friday

Victoria's experienced core handed another lesson to Queensland's emerging players to secure a place in the rich Champions League Twenty20

For the second year in a row Queensland will host Victoria in the most valuable match of the domestic season

Australia's selectors have made the rare decision to consider the state's prospects in the Big Bash for the opening one-day internationals against Pakistan

Nathan Hauritz experienced the greatest pain he had felt on a cricket ground when he caught and bowled Mohammad Yousuf, but soon was enjoying five-wicket hauls in back-to-back Test wins

Ricky Ponting is not blaming his elbow injury for a poor run of form that is threatening his worst home summer in 11 years

The selectors demanded fourth-innings wickets from Nathan Hauritz and in back-to-back Tests he has provided 10 of them.

Michael Hussey has grown wiser in his four years as a Test batsman and can fashion runs on days when the fluency of his early days is hiding

In the most unbelievable turnaround Ricky Ponting's men up-ended Pakistan on a swinging day to wrap up the series at the SCG

Australia's aura may have vanished but the players' self-confidence remains untainted, with Shane Watson insisting the team still has a chance of victory

So close, so commanding, so gripping

Plays of the day for the third day between Australia and Pakistan at the SCG

The fall to No. 4, injuries to key bowlers, Ponting's return to mortality: Australia's 2009 was mostly filled with gloom

Australia are praying their final-session surge of seven wickets will motivate the batsmen into a significantly improved performance as they battle to avoid giving up their series lead.