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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 11:48pm EST
Ricky Ponting has been ruled out of the Twenty20 match against India in Melbourne as he continues to struggle with a back injury.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 6:10pm EST
Charlie Shreck and Steve Kirby shared seven wickets as England Lions completed a 30-run victory against a Mumbai Cricket Association XI in a warm-up match.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 6:10pm EST
The BCCI has organised a first-ever coaching course for women coaches at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore. Apart from sitting in interactive coaching classes, the candidates also had practical exercises on the field.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 6:10pm EST
At the MCG on Friday, the world champions will attempt to maintain their unbeaten run against a talented opposition boasting a number of fresh faces. But in a reversal of the usual trend in recent years, Australia are the challengers and India are out to confirm their status as the world's best Twenty20 side.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 6:10pm EST
Ricky Ponting says some of the Australia players are disappointed that Harbhajan Singh's penalty over the incident with Andrew Symonds in the Sydney Test was downgraded to 50% of his match fee.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 6:10pm EST
Malcolm Speed, the chief executive of the International Cricket Council, has said that the ICC accepts the blame for the database and human errors which played a part in Harbhajan Singh escaping a more severe penalty during his racial abuse appeal hearing in Adelaide. Harbhajan's three-Test ban for calling Andrew Symonds a monkey during the Sydney Test was reduced to a fine of 50% of his match fees by Justice John Hansen on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 6:10pm EST
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has urged his team-mates to respect the international guidelines for on-field behaviour in the wake of the Harbhajan Singh-Andrew Symonds controversy. He said there would be some allowance for "chit-chat" between players as long as there was nothing untoward being uttered. .
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 6:10pm EST
Stuart Clark is in line to play his first one-dayer since September after Australia recalled him for the CB Series in place of Shaun Tait, and this is the only switch in an otherwise unchanged squad.
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Posted: January 30th, 2008, 5:50am EST
Lack of sufficient evidence, a more rigorous judicial process and an inexplicable botch-up on the part of the ICC allowed Harbhajan Singh to get away with a 50% fine, it emerged after Justice John Hansen read out the reasons for his verdict.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 11:02pm EST
David and Michael Hussey could become the first brothers to play for Australia together since the Waughs after they were picked for the Twenty20 international against India at the MCG on Friday.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 11:02pm EST
Younger brothers often want to be like their older siblings, although the desire typically disappears before adulthood. But for the past four years David Hussey has craved the chance to emulate his big brother Michael and burst into the Australia cricket team. Finally, he has an opportunity to do so.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 11:02pm EST
Three Indians, two Sri Lankans and an Australian have been named as the winners in the inaugural Cricinfo Awards, which recognise the outstanding batting and bowling performances in all three forms of the game during 2007.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 1:08pm EST
Australia's cricketers believe their board has caved in to overwhelming pressure from the game's financial superpower.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 1:08pm EST
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan rates the Indians out of ten.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 1:08pm EST
Round-up of the fourth day of the Duleep Trophy match between West Zone and Central Zone.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 1:08pm EST
Munaf Patel will replace the injured seamer Rudra Pratap Singh and Manoj Tiwary has been selected as back up for Yuvraj Singh in the upcoming one-day tri-series in Australia.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 1:08pm EST
The racism charge against Harbhajan Singh was found to be not proven by Justice John Hansen, hearing the appeal. Harbhajan was instead charged with abuse and insult not amounting to racism and was fined 50 per cent of his match fees.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
The counsel for the Indian side, VR Manohar, said he would not oppose the use of additional evidence like the transcript of the stump microphone but would object to any embellished improvised material, which he said was "fishy" evidence.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
A round-up of the third day's play of the first-round matches of Duleep Trophy, 2007-08.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
Australia's home summer began with plenty of question marks but one has turned into an exclamation point after Brett Lee emphatically answered the query over whether he could replace Glenn McGrath as the team's spearhead.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
Adam Gilchrist's retirement from international cricket will be short-lived after he confirmed he would appear in the Indian Premier League in India during April. Gilchrist will step down from Australian duties in March, but will be back in action for the lucrative Twenty20 series.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
Barring a few months in the middle of 2005, it is India v Australia that's been the marquee series this decade and Anil Kumble felt India would continue to be the best challengers to Australia's supremacy.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
Rahul Dravid has been sidelined for two to three weeks following a hair-line fracture to his right middle finger, an injury that forced him to retire on the morning of the final day in Adelaide.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
Few would have imagined Virender Sehwag actually making the tour but fewer still could have imagined him batting close to six hours in the final innings of the fourth Test to earn his side a draw.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
Plays of the day for day five of the fourth Test between Australia and India in Adelaide.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
It was Adam Gilchrist's final day as a Test player and perhaps the last time that Australian crowds will watch Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman and Anil Kumble in a five-day game.
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Posted: January 28th, 2008, 12:04pm EST
A new dimension has been added to the Harbhajan Singh's appeal case with
Justice John John Hansen, the judge who is scheduled the hear the appeal, suggesting that new evidence in the shape of recordings from the stump microphone could be used.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
Mohammad Kaif led Central Zone's reply to West's 411 with a fighting 96 while North Zone continued to hold the upper hand in their encounter against South Zone .
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
The Associates are up in arms over proposals to reduce their number from six to four at the 2011 World Cup.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
Michael Clarke has said his side would want to "win it for Gilly" and 3-1 has a more resounding ring to it than 2-1. The Sydney Test showed India's second-innings vulnerability and a fifth-day pitch would be expected to throw up some surprises.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
The Clarke-Ponting partnership allowed Australia to dream of a lead, which eventually stopped at 37, and they retain hope of repeating the miracle last-day win against England in 2006. Clarke raised a century in that match as well and his hard-working 118 today was a mixture of attacking bursts and considered play.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
Plays of the day for day four of the fourth Test between India and Australia in Adelaide.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
Centuries from Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke pushed the game towards a
stalemate, but the story of the fourth day was Adam Gilchrist, and most
likely the final innings of an exceptional career.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
Lalit Modi said that there will be Australian "casualties" when IPL franchise owners start recruiting players as the popularity of some Australian cricketers had fallen "dramatically" in India due to the controversies of the Sydney Test.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
While the BCCI-run Indian Premier League gathers steam, the second tournament of the unofficial Indian Cricket League (ICL) gets underway on Sunday.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
Yusuf Pathan's century put West Zone on top against Central Zone while Vikramjeet Malik's five wickets gave North Zone the edge against South Zone .
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Posted: January 26th, 2008, 4:22am EST
Australia Day celebrations in Adelaide, Ishant Sharma's perseverance pays off, and Irfan Pathan walks a thin line - Cricinfo presents the plays of the day .
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Posted: January 26th, 2008, 4:22am EST
Sachin Tendulkar, and Vishwanath Anand, the highest-ranked chess player in the world, are the first sportsmen to receive the honour in the awards' 44th edition.
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Posted: January 26th, 2008, 4:22am EST
Matthew Hayden made history by getting to 30 Test centuries faster than anyone else, but the overall theme on the third day was slowness, with a usually dominant Australian batting line-up stymied by some disciplined and committed bowling from the Indians.
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Posted: January 26th, 2008, 4:22am EST
Mike Procter says dealing with the Harbhajan Singh-Andrew Symonds hearing in Sydney was even harder than handling the 2006 Oval Test.
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Posted: January 26th, 2008, 4:22am EST
In a setback to India's chances in the final Test in Adelaide, RP Singh, the left-arm seamer, has been rendered out of action for the next two weeks.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:40pm EST
A timeline of the racism row involving Harbhajan Singh.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
It has been revealed that Mike Procter, the match referee who found Harbhajan Singh guilty of calling Andrew Symonds a "monkey" during the Sydney Test, relied on the evidence of four Australian players in reaching his decision.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
Plays of the Day for the second day between Australia and India at the Adelaide Oval .
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
The story of the day was India's spin duo of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. They didn't break through with the ball, but a 107-run partnership with the bat helped push India past the 523 they made in their last Test here.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
The configuration of the BCCI-backed Indian Premier League became clearer with the announcement of the eight cities and franchisees to be involved in the tournament.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
Sachin Tendulkar said he was happy to have notched up his first hundred at the Adelaide Oval, one where he hadn't made much of an impact earlier. Returning to the city where he met Don Bradman in 1998, he brought up his sixth hundred in Australia and second of the series.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
Plays of the day from the first day of the fourth Test between Australia and India.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
It was less than two years ago that a small minority booed him off at the Wankhede Stadium in his home town. On Thursday at the Adelaide Oval, Sachin Tendulkar replicated his feats as an 18-year-old, scoring his second century of the series as India endeavoured to take advantage of winning the toss.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
The Indian Premier League, the BCCI-backed Twenty20 league, continues to gather steam - the eight cities in which the teams are to be based will be revealed when the bids for the franchises involved are opened on Thursday.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
"I love the spotlight. The Aussies should be worried I am coming." Meet the quote-a-minute, bold and brash Sreesanth. He even refers to himself in the third person. "Sreesanth's way is to be aggressive. Sreesanth will always remain Sreesanth." .
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Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 6:10am EST
Gatorade Pacers' second edition came to a successful finale in New Delhi, with ten young fast bowlers chosen for a six-week training camp at the MRF Pace Foundation under Dennis Lillee and TA Sekhar, the foundation's chief coach.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 6:10am EST
Terry Jenner, Shane Warne's former coach and mentor, reckons India should play both Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh in the Adelaide Test.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 6:10am EST
South Africa face a demanding task of three Tests in three weeks after the itinerary for their tour of India was announced.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 6:10am EST
The final Test in Adelaide offers India a chance to draw level but also promises to be the last time the five members of the golden generation will play in a Test match in Australia.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 6:10am EST
Ricky Ponting will keep India guessing about Australia's bowling attack until the last minute, refusing to say that Shaun Tait will be replaced by Brad Hogg.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 6:10am EST
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India's vice-captain, says his bowlers did well to exploit Australia's frailties against swing and feels his side achieved a moral victory by competing on equal terms with the opposition.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 6:10am EST
Burdett thinks India should contemplate playing two spinners on this track, only because the track offers spin and bounce. "The pitch will take turn. The important thing is there will be bounce and carry. Tim May played for South Australia and he always spoke about better angles he got here compared to Sydney, where it turns slow. Anil Kumble is a class player and will do well. He bowled beautifully in Perth on a pitch not supposed to turn."
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Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 1:56am EST
Phil Jaques will put his first taste of Test defeat to positive use, declaring that Australia will be "fiercely competitive" and "as aggressive as possible" in a bid to ram home the series win.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 12:12am EST
Robin Singh, India's fielding coach, has revealed the logic behind shuffling around the close-in fielders and trying to put senior players close in when the new batsman walks in. He also admitted that a young one-day side selected for the forthcoming CB Series would field with a higher intensity.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
John Buchanan says Australia will head into the Adelaide Test with "clearer minds" after their record-equalling winning streak ended at the hands of India in Perth.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
David Morgan, the president-elect of the ICC, has voiced his concern over Sunil Gavaskar's recent critical comments on Mike Procter and also suggested technology is the next logical step.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
Michael Hussey had taken a typically level-headed view of Australia's defeat in Perth, saying they had to lose at some point and that the players have taken it in their stride.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
Shaun Tait concedes he has little chance of playing his first Test at his home ground in Adelaide after a disappointing performance in Australia's loss to India at the WACA.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
Venkatesh Prasad, the former India new-ball bowler who is currently the team's bowling coach, has revealed his chat with Dennis Lillee, the former Australian fast bowler, played a part in India's historic win in Perth.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
Ishant Sharma says his nine-over spell on the fourth morning of the Perth Test, one where he dismissed his "favourite batsman" Ricky Ponting, was undoubtedly his best in all forms of the game.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
India have dropped Sourav Ganguly from their 16-member squad for the tri-nation CB Series which starts on February 3. Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman miss out while Suresh Raina has been recalled to the side and Piyush Chawla gets the nod ahead of Murali Kartik.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
A hurt Stuart Clark believes the Australians will use the pain of defeat as a spur for the series-deciding Test in Adelaide on Thursday. He also says that Australia are trying hard to improve their swing bowling.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
The selectors, while picking the one-day squad for the forthcoming tri-series, could face a dilemma between choosing from the present and planning for the future. Conditions in Australia might tempt them to pack their side with experience, but they will also know that it's the best time to throw in a few rookies in the deep end.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:20am EST
It was not new for Pathan to prove a stumbling block once again as he had done on his debut four summers ago, when as a 19-year-old arriving midway into the Test series, he made some of the best batsmen in the world wobble against his swing
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Posted: January 18th, 2008, 12:00am EST
India rattled along on the third morning, scoring at nearly five an over, but their fabled batting line-up came apart at the seams as Brett Lee and his cohorts made good use of often overcast conditions.
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Posted: January 18th, 2008, 12:00am EST
Meher Baba, the former Andhra and South Zone allrounder, died in Hyderabad on Wednesday after a prolonged battle against cancer. He was 58.
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Posted: January 18th, 2008, 12:00am EST
A year back you wouldn't have thought RP Singh will get a Test. Ditto Irfan Pathan, who seemed to have lost his way after a fine arrival. At the same time Ishant Sharma was taking his first steps in domestic cricket. Here they were, like rookies in a bullring, against the most formidable batting line-up. Australia's batsmen probably thought they were facing India's ODI attack - their innings lasted exactly 50 overs.
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Posted: January 18th, 2008, 12:00am EST
India hold a 170-run lead after two days and the vice-captain Adam Gilchrist was trying to avoid thinking of the potentially huge numbers that the home batsmen could face in the second innings.
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Posted: January 18th, 2008, 12:00am EST
Plays of the Day for the second day of the third Test between Australia and India in Perth.
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Posted: January 18th, 2008, 12:00am EST
When Anil Kumble picked up his 500th Test wicket, against England in Mohali in 2006, Adam Gilchrist, then in Bangladesh, had hunted down his number to give him a call. Kumble hadn't forgotten the gesture, when he became only the third bowler to break the 600-wicket barrier, and was to jokingly tell Gilchrist: "It would have been great if you had been my 600th victim.".
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Posted: January 18th, 2008, 12:00am EST
Charged by a triple-strike from Praveen Kumar, Uttar Pradesh appeared to be in control of the game but Delhi rallied through an unbroken 160-run partnership between Aakash Chopra and Rajat Bhatia to reduce the deficit to 146 runs, with six wickets intact, at close of play on the second day.
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Posted: January 18th, 2008, 12:00am EST
Anil Kumble timeline .
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Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:52am EST
It's been more than four years since Australia lost a home Test and coming into this match they were prohibitive favourites to record a 17th successive victory. But after a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell, 10 of them Australian, India can dare to dream of victory.
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Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:52am EST
Yuvraj Singh has been cleared of serious injury after twisting his left knee during a practice session on the second morning of the Perth Test.
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Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:52am EST
One common thing binds the two stars of the day. Uttar Pradesh's Tanmay Srivastava, who cracked a fine ton, and Delhi's Pradeep Sangwan, the best bowler on view, had just returned from the India Under-19s tour of South Africa.
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Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:52am EST
As a young bowler Brett Lee did not understand why it was necessary to pace himself, but over the past two years he has worked on picking the moments to go flat-out.
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Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:52am EST
Plays of the day from the opening day of the third Test in Perth.
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Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:52am EST
It's been a tumultuous week but the events on the first day of the Perth Test, for most of the morning at least, were disconcertingly slow.
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Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:52am EST
Tanmay Srivastava, who cut short his under-19 tour of South Africa to
play the Ranji final, chose the occasion to script his maiden
first-class hundred and pushed Uttar Pradesh to 292 for 7.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:30am EST
Sachin Tendulkar appeared on course to replicate his achievement as an 18-year-old, when he made centuries at Sydney and Perth. But a poor decision from Asad Rauf, and three poor strokes from the Indian batsmen redressed the balance as Australia fought back tigerishly in the final session
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:30am EST
Mark Ramprakash, the former England batsman, says he only ever experienced serious racism on the cricket field when playing Australia.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:30am EST
Anil Kumble has insisted on 'taking the pitch and conditions out of the equation' and urged his side not to get too worked up about the WACA pitch too. Of the current batch only Sachin Tendulkar has played a Test on this ground but Kumble hoped the rest would draw on their experience to counter the challenge.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:30am EST
Ricky Ponting and Anil Kumble hope Australia and India would renew their healthy rivarly in the third Test in Perth and promised fans a memorable contest.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 10:06pm EST
Chris Rogers will make his Test debut at his home ground the WACA in Perth while Shaun Tait has earned a recall as Australia opt for four quicks.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 10:06pm EST
Steve Bucknor has arrived home in Jamaica disappointed at being sacked but respecting ICC all the same.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:30pm EST
Harbhajan Singh's appeal over his three-Test ban will be heard only after the ongoing Test series between Australia and India.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:30pm EST
Virat Kohli, the Delhi middle-order batsman, has been named captain of the India Under-19 squad for the World Cup in Malaysia next month and Dav Whatmore, the former Sri Lanka coach and current director of operations at the National Cricket Academy, will coach the party.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:30pm EST
Sony Entertainment Television has secured a 10-year rights deal for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the officially-sanctioned Twenty20 league, for more than US$1 billion.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:30pm EST
Ricky Ponting and Anil Kumble, it is learnt, have decided to scrap the catching agreement that was agreed upon before the series.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:30pm EST
India have dropped their charge of racial abuse against Brad Hogg, Australia's left-arm spinner, who was accused of making an offensive remark to Anil Kumble and Mahendra Singh Dhoni during the second Test in Sydney.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Gary Kirsten, soon to take over as India's Test coach, says he personally feels Rahul Dravid is better suited to the No.3 position.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Adam Gilchrist said that Australia have moved on from the controversies of the Sydney Test and are eager to break the Test record for most successive wins .
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Ricky Ponting has used the strong public reaction to his side over the past week to pin-point areas Australia need to improve.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Gatorade Pacers' Bangalore edition was successfully held at the National Cricket Academy ground.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
The Indian Under-19 team extended their domination in the limited-overs tournament against their South Africa and Bangladesh counterparts to the longer form as well, trouncing the hosts by seven wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Michael Clarke says he has cleared the air with Anil Kumble over two of the controversies that flared in the second innings of the Sydney Test.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Chris Rogers is one step closer to a dream international debut on his home ground after he was added to Australia's squad for the WACA Test as cover for Matthew Hayden, who has a hamstring injury.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Gary Kirsten, the former South Africa batsman who will take over as the Indian coach in March, feels it is a good time to join the Indian team, mid-way through an Australian tour marred by controversy.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Gary Kirsten believes the spirit of cricket was breached during the controversial Sydney Test and feels both the captains need to sit together and resolve the issue.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Australia's players will get together to address the issues that came out of the Sydney Test before they start their serious preparations for the Perth Test, according to the coach Tim Nielsen.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:22pm EST
The Indians came into their warm-up game in Canberra expecting a few solutions for their batting problems but will leave with a few riddles still unsolved.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:22pm EST
Tim Nielsen, Australia's coach, believes injured opener Matthew Hayden has a reasonable chance of making the third Test against India.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:22pm EST
Sehwag, who cracked a 73-ball hundred in the Indians' warm-up game against ACT Invitational XI in Canberra, was confident of earning a spot and was happy he had rediscovered his rhythm in this innings.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:32am EST
Virender Sehwag has shown support for Harbhajan Singh, saying he believed Harbhajan never said anything racist. Sehwag also said his team would respond if Australians start the sledging in Perth.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:32am EST
Ricky Ponting has called on the ICC to expand its elite umpiring panel and believes officials are as much at risk of burnout as players, if not more.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:32am EST
Virender Sehwag and Dinesh Karthik pushed the Indians to a comfortable 4 for 281 at tea, in a game consigned to a draw.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:32am EST
There is no possibility India will pull out of their tour of Australia even if Harbhajan Singh's three-Test suspension is not lifted, according to the BCCI president Sharad Pawar.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:40am EST
Indian batsman Sourav Ganguly has said that umpire Mark benson should have consulted Steve Bucknor in adjudicating on the catch which led to his dismissal in the second innings of the second Test against Australia in Sydney.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:40am EST
Chris Rogers has said he is ready to step into Test cricket if he was to replace Matthew Hayden in the third Test in Perth, starting on January 16.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:40am EST
Chris Rogers staked his claim for national selection but it was his namesake, John, who stole the show on the second day of the ACT Invitational XI match against the Indians. While Chris pushed his case with a timely 60, John, a 20-year-old Canberra local, thwarted the Indians with an assured 98.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:40am EST
Anil Kumble has revealed that Ricky Ponting, the Australian captain, was not willing to "listen" when he offered to diffuse the situation with an apology.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:40am EST
Anil Kumble believes Australia's behaviour will play a big role in the continuation of the catching agreement he had with Ricky Ponting.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:40am EST
Sharad Pawar, the BCCI president, has been handed the power to order India home from Australia without consulting the rest of the board.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:26am EST
Shaun Tait is trying not to get his hopes of playing his third Test despite growing speculation that he will be including as a fourth fast bowler in Perth next week.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:26am EST
Having endured one of his leanest patches in Test cricket Rahul Dravid feels his form is "slowly coming together".
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:26am EST
The Indian team manager Chetan Chauhan has said that Andrew Symonds broke a "pact" when he instigated the confrontation with Harbhajan Singh during the Sydney Test, which led to Harbhjan being charged and later found guilty of racist abuse for calling Symonds a monkey.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 1:54am EST
Malcolm Speed has insisted the ICC will not bow to India's demands on the Harbhajan Singh issue and they will have to accept any ruling on his case.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 1:54am EST
In what was truly a batsmen's paradise, the Indians were kept down to 9 for 325 dec on the first day of their warm-up match against ACT Invitational XI in Canberra.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:42pm EST
Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, has defended the decision to replace Steve Bucknor with Billy Bowden for the third Test in Perth, saying it was done for the better of the game and not to please India.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:42pm EST
New Zealand judge John Hansen has been appointed as commissioner Harbhajan Singh's appeal against the finding that he made racist comments during the second Test against Australia.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:42pm EST
On a thrilling final day Railways, led by Sanjay Bangar's six-wicket haul, fought hard but Gujarat hung on for a one-wicket win to become the Ranji Trophy Plate League champions.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:42pm EST
Cricket Australia (CA) today threw its weight behind Ricky Ponting and his team-mates against accusations of unsporting behaviour and said sparks are bound to fly when the game is Test cricket and not "tiddlywinks".
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:42pm EST
India Under-19 continued their impressive form with a whopping 137-run defeat over Bangladesh Under-19 in the final of the triangular tournament in Pretoria.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:42pm EST
Anil Kumble has revealed that he had approached Australian captain Ricky Ponting, after the third play's day of the Sydney Test, requesting him to not press the charge of racism against offspinner Harbhajan Singh.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:00pm EST
The crisis surrounding the Indian tour of Australia seems to have blown over, if temporarily, with the Indian board, whose top brass met in New Delhi on Tuesday night, saying the tour would continue "for the present".
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:00pm EST
At lunch on the final day, the match was tantalisingly poised with Gujarat needing 19 more to win while Railways needed three wickets to clinch the Ranji Trophy Plate title.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:00pm EST
Brad Hogg, the Australian chinaman bowler, has been charged under Level 3 of the ICC Code of Conduct following a complaint by Indian team manager Chetan Chauhan. Hogg was accused of making an offensive remark to Anil Kumble and Mahendra Singh Dhoni during the second Test in Sydney.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
Allan Border and Steve Waugh, both former Australia captains, have suggested that cultural misunderstandings could have contributed to the race row boiling over .
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
India have done what many Australians do when they are under extreme stress and headed to the beach to relax.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
Mike Procter, the ICC match referee who had handed Harbhajan Singh a three-Test ban for alleged racist remarks against Andrew Symonds, has defended his decision to punish the Indian offspinner.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
Ramesh Nagdev, the former Gujarat player, died in the United States on Sunday aged 60.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
India's players have often been criticised for not standing up when it counted but on a day of high drama, they seemed to have done just that. They refused to leave Sydney until there was more clarity on the ban handed to Harbhajan Singh and decided to stick together through this crisis.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
Gujarat, overnight on 140 for 2, doubled that total on the third day to take a first-innings lead of 20 against Railways at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. In reply, Railways were at 14 for 1, still trailing by six runs.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
On a day of rapidly shifting events and wild rumours, which began early in the morning with the fallout of the previous day, the focus shifted from the umpiring in the Sydney Test to the three-Test ban imposed on Harbhajan Singh for racial abuse.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
Praveen Kumar and Sudeep Tyagi nabbed four wickets each to skittle out Saurashtra for 113 and book Uttar Pradesh's place in the final of the Ranji Trophy .
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
James Sutherland, the chief executive of Cricket Australia, is confident India's tour will continue as planned and he has called on Anil Kumble and Ricky Ponting to get together and sort out their differences in the next few days.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:04am EST
The Indian team has remained in Sydney, instead of leaving for Canberra on Monday morning as scheduled until they receive further instructions from the Indian board.
