Brisbane, Nov. 22 : A struggling Australian opener Mathew Hayden appears to be seriously considering possible retirement from international cricket after his 100th Test.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Hayden has spent considerable time mulling his options over the past year, and while he insists the fire within still burns, he seems to know that at 37, his playing days are close being over.

Brisbane, Nov. 20 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting believes all Test players owe it to the game to address the over rate crisis, which is ruining it at present.

"There is a great responsibility for everyone around the world to look at this over rate issue and make sure each team is doing the right thing by the game," The Australian quoted Ponting as saying ahead of the Gabba Test against New Zealand.

Brisbane, Nov 11 : New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has said that after losing comprehensively 0-2 against India in the just concluded four-match Test series, the Australians might unleash a strong backlash in order to prove a point in the ensuing two-Test series against New Zealand starting in Brisbane next week.

About Ponting''s decision to apparently put Australia''s over-rate ahead of winning the final Nagpur Test in India, Vettori said he didn''t think his Australian counterpart acted out of selfish reasons.

Brisbane, Sept. 13: Indian steel giant Bhushan is to acquire a 64 percent stake in Queensland’s Bowen Energy.

The Australian reported that Bhushan had paid 560,000 dollars to take its holding to 19.91 per cent and that the two companies had also entered into an agreement for Bhushan to subscribe to 100 million of Bowen shares for 32 million dollars.

The first 50 million share purchase, which will take Bhushan''s interest to 50.5 per cent, will be voted on at Bowen''s AGM in November.

Brisbane, August 19 : A comment of the Mayor of an Australian town on how lovelorn female "ugly ducklings" could help redress a gender imbalance has sparked a protest march.

Mayor John Molony sparked controversy by suggesting that "beauty-disadvantaged women... (should) proceed to Mount Isa (town)", where women are outnumbered five-to-one.

"We want an apology. We are offended and we want to settle the score," brisbanetimes. com. au quoted local woman Rikki Loccisano, a 22-year-old administration officer, as saying.

Brisbane, June 9 : A Queensland-based private detective says that the advancement of spy technology has made it very easy to obtain any sort of information about a person without having to leave on