February 2008


A new book about to be released containing stories from Aussie diggers from various conflicts.
Since the white fella first arrived Aussies have loved a drink and a punt - over $15b or 1.5% of Australia's GDP is spent on gambling. The government generated $5.6B in levies and taxes. Problem gamblers (300,000 people) represent over 33%. What is it?
Two very important yardsticks - past record and present performance - are not in their favour. But the Indians obviously feel that they have a realistic chance of putting it across the Aussies in the best-of-three finals of the CB tri-series that commences on Sunday. The belief in the Indian camp is that things are falling into place.
the fall of aussie wickets in the final league match against sri lanka which srilanka won by 15 runs.

Adma gilchrist in his final match at the melbourne cricket ground produced a memorable performance by smashing 83 of just 50 deliveries but aussies lost the game due to some excellent bowling by the lankans and some reckless batting by the aussies.

Check out this site if you want to go to Australia. It's created by aussies so they would know what they're talking about.