Indian batting was at it's miserable worst as the visitors were bundled out on 165 runs by Australia in the 10th ODI of the ongoing CB Series, here on Sunday.

Spin legend Shane Warne will be inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame at the annual Allan Border Medal ceremony, where current skipper Michael Clarke is expected to make a clean-sweep of the top honours on Monday night.

The spirit of cricket debate was reignited once again at the ongoing ODI tri-series and it was India at the centre of it all yet again.

Iconic India batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday became the first overseas player to be presented with the honorary life membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground here.

Australia skipper Michael Clarke said on Wednesday that it will be a "weird" and "strange" feeling when he will walk out in Hobart to play against Sri Lanka without Ricky Ponting, who he says is a "giant of the game".

Australia's batting coach and former player Justin Langer on Wednesday lauded the "perform or perish" policy adopted by national selectors, who dropped the legendary Ricky Ponting after a no-show in the first half of the ongoing tri-series.

The BCCI on Wednesday sought to scotch the intense speculation of a rift in the Indian cricket team in Australia with its President N Srinivasan calling such media reports "exaggerated".

Hailing his former captain Ricky Ponting as a "great ambassador" for cricket, Australia speedster Brett Lee said the Tasmanian batsman, who is out of reckoning for One-Day Internationals, would be sorely missed in the dressing room.

Former Australia opener Matthew Hayden on Tuesday lashed out at the national selectors for dropping Ricky Ponting from the one-day squad and termed their decision as "disgraceful".

Critical of Mahendra Singh Dhoni's rotation policy, former India skipper Sourav Ganguly has said that time has come for the selectors to appoint different cricket captains for the three formats of the game.