A cricket tribunal in Australia's Geelong city is looking into an accusation that 10 local cricketers racially abused a team with six players of Indian descent, a media report said on Thursday.

Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke, speaking publicly for the first time since abruptly quitting the ongoing tour of New Zealand and the subsequent break-up with fiancee Lara Bingle, hoped the episode will not distract him from the upcoming Test series.

Australia has been in and out of the news with unfailing regularity for quite a while.

Australia middle-order batsman Michael Hussey has given a thumbs up to the security measures put in place for the Indian Premier League III, saying the water-tight arrangements has made it easier for him to decide his participation in the Twenty20 event.