TWO wins from two is a good start, especially when the two teams you have beaten — Queensland and NSW — were either side of you in the top three of the Big Bash ladder last year.

WEST INDIES - 1st Innings

DAY-NIGHT Test cricket could be played in Australia as early as 2011 after successful trials of a revolutionary new finish that allows the white leather ball to keep its colour.

AUSTRALIA has survived a ferocious 84-run, eighth-wicket partnership between Indian tailenders Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar to claim a four-run win in the opening match of the team's seven-match series.

RICKY Ponting recently announced his retirement from international Twenty20 cricket with the intention of prolonging his Test and one-day careers. Most people believe that his successor as captain will be Michael Clarke.