Dubai, Jan. 15 : Matthew Hayden's position of 10th and 18th in the all-time Test and ODI Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for batsmen is an impressive achievement by anyone's standards, but this has sparked off a debate on whether he is actually the 10th-best Test batsman or 18th-best ODI batsman in the history of the game.

The controversy seems to have erupted over the downgrading of India''s Sachin Tendulkar, who has been ranked 28th on the list of all time greats.

Hamburg - Bundesliga leaders TSG Hoffenheim could be without Vedad Ibisevic for several months as the league top scorer has likely partly ruptured the cruciate knee ligament.

Ibisevic was due to return to Germany on Thursday for thorough medical examinations from a training camp in Spain where he sustained the injury the previous day during a tune-up match with SV Hamburg.

"The first examinations indicate that the front right cruciate ligament is partly torn," Hoffenheim coach Ralf Rangnick told reporters on Wednesday night.

Wellington, Jan. 15 : New Zealand will take on Australia in a five-match Chappell-Hadlee Trophy ODI series in January and February.

The New Zealand Press Association quoted team coach Andy Moles as saying that his team would go all out for a win against their trans-Tasmanian rivals.

"To get a win under our belts is really key, we want to become a winning unit," Moles said of a side that has slipped from third to fifth on the ODI rankings since the 2007 World Cup.

London, Jan. 15 : Soccer star Steven Gerrard's wife, Alex Curran, was involved in a rush-hour collision on Wednesday.

Curran, who was driving her 55,000-pound Range Rover, crashed at traffic lights 10 minutes from the couple's home, reports The Mirror.

Shattered glass and bits of broken bumper were left in the road after her black 4x4 collided with another car. ng off."

London, Jan 15 : Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has been warned by his girlfriend Alyona Haynes' husband John Haynes that the lady he is dating is nothing but a two-timing liar.

Millionaire Haynes, 50, revealed that the 25-year-old Ukrainian beauty had used her sex appeal to win him over, though she was at the same time trying to woo another on the dating website where they had met.

, Jan. 15 : New Zealand Cricket and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have announced a revised schedule for India''s cricket tour to New Zealand, which will now include an additional test and a second Twenty20 International.

A New Zealand Press Association report said Napier has been allocated the additional test from March 26 to 30, which will form part of a three-match series.