Indian cricket team skipper M.S. Dhoni hit three runs off the last ball to earn India a tie in the one-day series against Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.

India revived their Australian tour with a convincing eight-wicket win over the home side in the second Twenty20 international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.

Facing severe criticism for his unimpressive captaincy and performances in Test cricket, under-fire Mahendra Singh Dhoni has offered to quit the leadership role in the longer format of the game if the BCCI feels there is a better replacement waiting in the wings.

Australia beat India by 298 runs in the fourth Test to sweep the series 4-0 early on the final day at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday.

Ageing players or inexperienced ones, there is something of a team which has lost the battle in the mind that becomes distinctly evident after a period of time.

Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek denied the Bryan brothers a record 12th men's grand slam doubles title on Saturday as they beat the American top seeds in straight sets in the Australian Open final.

India were lurching towards defeat and a 4-0 series humiliation against Australia after another batting collapse in the fourth Test in Adelaide on Friday.

Australia were 50 for three in their second innings at stumps on the third day of the fourth and final cricket Test here on Thursday.

Batting great Ricky Ponting was within sniffing distance of his 41st Test century as Australia seized control in the second session of the opening day of the final cricket Test against India here on Tuesday.

The Perth Test beginning on Friday assumes a deadly kind of significance for India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. If his team so much as lose it and go down 3-0, the cry that Dhoni be replaced as Test captain will pick up steam.