Damien Martyn

Kanishkaa Balachandran looks back at The Week That Was

After trying more than a dozen times on Wednesday Australian captain Ricky Ponting finally got the opportuntiy to apologise to BCCI chief Sharad Pawar on the phone on Thursday over the incident during the presentation of the Champions Trophy last Sunday

Damien Martyn, at the centre of the controversy where he pushed aside BCCI chief Sharad Pawar off the podium after Australia beat West Indies to win their first Champions Trophy title, has apologised for his actions

BCCI president Sharad Pawar has termed the actions of Australian captain Ricky Ponting and batsman Damien Martyn during their Champions Trophy victory celebrations as "totally uncivilised"

Australia have been described as "rude and arrogant" by the Indian media following unsavoury incidents after their Champions Trophy win

Damien Martyn has told Dennis Lillee to shut up with his "Dad's Army" criticisms of the home side ahead of the Ashes

The staff at Cricinfo pick their Champions Trophy Dream Team

Damien Martyn hardly ever looks ruffled. Not when arching his back leg to dissect two gullies or when sipping a freshly ordered coffee. Not even when answering his thousandth question about the 1993-94 SCG Test

Three of Australia's headaches eased as they dumped the hosts and moved into Wednesday's semi-final against New Zealand

Australia thrashed India by six wickets to emphatically move into the semi-finals of the tournament

Michael Hussey craves another opportunity to bat higher up the order but admits it is unlikely he will win regular elevations in the near future

Dennis Lillee believes England's fast bowlers will be licking their lips at the prospect of rattling an ageing Australian top order

Ricky Ponting insists Damien Martyn is under no pressure to hold the Test spot he won back in South Africa for the Ashes

It's been over a year since the historic Ashes series and Damien Martyn, the birthday boy and Man of the Match, admitted that Australia had been waiting for this game for quite a while

Andrew Symonds and Shane Watson hit entertaining half-centuries and the bowlers got some useful practice as the Australians defeated the Maharashtra Cricket Assocation

Mathew Hayden hopes that playing well in the next two games of the DLF Cup will be some good preparation for the Ashes

John Buchanan's mysterious pre-season boot camp has started with the players donning khakis and being split into groups of six with army rations and survival exercises

The wonder of Test cricket in Darwin, as Dr Johnson might have said, is that it is there at all

Stuart Clark was Australia's undoubted star as they wrapped up the series clean sweep and a nail-biting two-wicket success in the third Test