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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 11:40pm EST
Karen Rolton won the toss and chose to bat in the Twenty20 international against England at the MCG, but the huge crowd the women's teams had been hoping for was yet to filter in.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 9:51pm EST
Australia and England meet at the MCG today in what promises to be a tight encounter after both were beaten by Australia Under-21s this week.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 8:43pm 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, 8:00pm 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, 1:46pm EST
Central Districts batsman Andrew Dodd has been drafted in New Zealand's squad for the ICC Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia as a replacement for Jeet Raval.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 1:40pm EST
New Zealand batsmen Peter Fulton and Michael Papps have been included in the Canterbury squads for the two back-to-back 50-over practice games against England on February 2 and 3.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 9:02am 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, 8:57am EST
Six Bangladesh bowlers have been banned from taking part in the upcoming Premier and First Division Leagues after their actions were reported.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 8:54am EST
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, the Pakistan quick bowler, has been passed fit to take up his contract with Yorkshire for the 2008 season after recovering from a serious shoulder injury.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 8:47am EST
Pakistan have tried out a few newcomers already in the ongoing series against Zimbabwe, and a 4-0 advantage has further emboldened the selectors to test more players for the fifth and final ODI in Sheikhupura .
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 7:41am 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, 6:54am EST
A remarkable double hundred by Gerrie Snyman provided the platform for Namibia to move top of the Intercontinental Cup table with a 105-run win over Kenya in Sharjah.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 6:31am EST
Malik Mohammad Qayyum, Pakistan's attorney general, has attacked the Pakistan Cricket Board for its firm stance against players who have signed up for the Indian Cricket League (ICL), saying it restrains them from earning a livelihood.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 5:34am EST
Mark Vermeulen, the former Zimbabwe batsman, has been cleared of arson due to mental illness after being on trial for burning down the Zimbabwe Cricket Board's headquarters and academy in Harare.
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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 3:38am EST
Brad Haddin has asked people not to compare him to Adam Gilchrist when he takes over full-time as Australia's wicketkeeper when Gilchrist retires following the CB Series.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:59pm EST
Montserrat earned a place in the final 16 of the Standford 20/20 courtesy a nine-wicket win over rookies Turks & Caicos at the Stanford Cricket Ground in Coolidge, Antigua.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:51pm 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, 10:41pm EST
Shaun Tait's former coach Wayne Phillips says the fast bowler is capable of returning to his peak if he rediscovers a simple approach to the game.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:29pm 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, 10:03pm EST
New Zealand have drafted in the uncapped Jesse Ryder and Tim Southee and recalled Paul Hitchcock for the forthcoming Twenty20 and one-day series against England.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 9:13pm EST
Australia's depth is being closely analysed in the wake of another international retirement and the next tier did not do much to ease the immediate worries as the Prime Minister's XI were dismissed in 38 overs.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 8:11pm EST
Ian Healy has joined Adam Gilchrist in supporting the rise of Brad Haddin into Australia's Test and one-day teams.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 7:22pm EST
Brad Hogg should not be written off at Test level after a disappointing series against India, according to Shane Warne.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 7:20pm 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, 5:55pm EST
Resistance from the lower order helped England Lions recover from a shaky start to end the opening day of their Duleep Trophy warm-up match against Mumbai Cricket Association President's XI at the Brabourne Stadium at 311 for 8.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 3:28pm EST
Michael Holding, former West Indies fast bowler, is confident that the Stanford's initiative, not just the game of Twenty20, will help in the development of West Indies cricket.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 2:54pm EST
Tawanda Mupariwa, Zimbabwe's fast-medium bowler, will miss the fourth
ODI against Pakistan in Faisalabad on January 30 after spraining his left ankle
during a training session.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 2:44pm EST
Civil unrest in Guyana, where 11 people have reportedly been killed on Saturday, could hamper the team's preparations for the Stanford 20/20 tournament. Albert Smith, the coach, fears the violence could affect the players mentally, especially those with families near the troubled areas.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 11:08am EST
Three of Bermuda's squad who should have appeared in their side's Stanford 20/20 campaign are facing lengthy bans after failing a drugs test.
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Posted: January 29th, 2008, 9:58am EST
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan rates the Indians out of ten.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:35pm EST
Robin Brown, the Zimbabwe coach, felt his team's inexperience led to the loss to Pakistan after having reduced them to 78 for 5.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:18pm EST
South Africa coasted to a seven-wicket win over West Indies in Port Elizabeth, securing the series 3-0 with two to play on the back of Jacques Kallis's controlled hundred. On the evidence of the first three matches, it will take something remarkable if they are not to go on to a five-nil whitewash. .
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:25pm EST
Pakistan wrapped up the Mobilink Cup with a comfortable 37-run victory over Zimbabwe in what was, ultimately a dour, lifeless encounter in Multan. The only spark was provided, inevitably, by Shahid Afridi, who lit up the affair with a 52-ball 85, in the process rescuing Pakistan from a perilous 78 for 5.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 11:30am 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, 7:48am 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, 7:21am EST
The Lions are at the bottom of the Super Sports Series points table and haven't won a single game of the tournament so far. If Fletcher joins them this season, he will take charge of the side for the MTN Domestic Championship and the Standard Bank Pro20 Series.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 6:10am 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, 4:52am 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, 4:32am EST
Victoria completed a set of four victories against South Australia in both state competitions with a four-wicket win in the FR Cup.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 4:25am EST
Simon Katich's fourth Pura Cup century of the season gave second-placed New South Wales a handy lead and then four cheap Western Australian wickets put them in a strong position heading into the final day.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 4:17am EST
Scorching centuries by the openers Jimmy Maher and James Hopes boosted Queensland to a stylish win against the leaders Tasmania.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 4:11am EST
Sri Lanka are back on Australian soil, ready for the CB Series of ODIs with Australia and India and Trevor Bayliss has played down talk of any worries.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:34am 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, 2:00am EST
Feelings for Gilchrist were still raw after the retirement announcement the previous day and as he emerged from the dressing room the noise grew as quickly as when a teenager has charge of the stereo.
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Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:17am EST
Paul Collingwood believes Nasser Hussain, the former England captain, has missed the point in labelling the current squad as "soft" ahead of the tour of New Zealand.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 1:16pm EST
Players who took part in the unofficial Indian Cricket League (ICL) will not be allowed to represent Pakistan internationally or play domestically, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
Adelaide has hosted two thrilling come-from-behind victories over the past five years and Adam Gilchrist looked back at them as Australia chased India's first-innings 526. The series-deciding Test took a similar path to the Ashes contest of 2006-07 and the India game of 2003-04, which gives the home team some hope of securing a 3-1 result.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:52am EST
Misbah-ul-Haq has been appointed Pakistan's vice-captain while Shoaib Akhtar has been demoted from the top category to a retainership as the PCB announced new central contracts.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:46am 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, 11:30am EST
Namibia ended the third day of their Intercontinental Cup tie against UAE in Sharjah in a commanding position after reducing the home side to 44 for 2 after setting them a target of 337.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:08am EST
On paper, the margin of South Africa's win over West Indies in the second ODI at Newlands was considerable, but even that doesn't give a clear idea of how much West Indies lacked intent and never even tried to win.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 10:30am EST
John Aaron, a senior administrator, says the USA Cricket Association needs a fresh start with more openness and a new and dynamic management team.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 9:20am EST
Pakistan have stuck to the same squad that they had announced in October last year for the Women's World Cup, which they were initially supposed to host. The tournament was shifted to Stellenbosch in South Africa due to political unrest.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 7:50am EST
An unbeaten 93 from Ben Brown helped rebuild England's innings and steered them to a 16-run win over Pakistan in the Under-19 triangular tournament in Colombo.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 6:49am EST
Not only is there a divide between the haves and have-not counties, if Leicestershire chairman Neil Davidson is to be believed, but there is also disagreement between the chairmen themselves.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 4:42am EST
The pain of being labelled a "backstop" has helped drive Adam Gilchrist from a gloveman who had to swap states to get regular first-class games to the world record holder for dismissals.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 4:00am EST
A bottle of champagne is usually the gift for a world record holder, but Mark Boucher should save the postage after Adam Gilchrist became the game's most successful wicketkeeper. The two glovemen will play pass the parcel with the mark as they wait for the music to stop on Gilchrist's career.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:47am 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, 3:37am EST
Liam Davis outshone his more-fancied top-order colleagues with a century in his second match but Doug Bollinger's five wickets helped New South Wales fight back late on the first day in Sydney.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:24am EST
Hurt by the pull-out of captain Chris Gayle with a broken thumb and hamstring injury, West Indies are contemplating promoting the experienced Shivnarine Chanderpaul to No.3 in their bid to square the five-match series after losing the opening game at Centurion on Sunday.
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Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:17am EST
Johmari Logtenberg has revealed she quit cricket for golf.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 12:58am EST
A round-up of day four of the third round of Carib Beer Series.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 12:23am 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 21st, 2008, 11:46pm EST
The Pakistan-Australia series scheduled to start in March could be relocated to Australia if player safety cannot be guaranteed in Pakistan, according to a report in a Sydney newspaper.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 10:56pm EST
Aaron Bird is in line for his first state match since clearing his name over a suspect bowling action.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:37pm EST
Zimbabwe were always likely to be up against it, no matter what side Pakistan turned out, but to win the toss and field on a pancake-flat Karachi track was surely not going to help their cause. Still, Prosper Utseya, the quiet, young captain, had his reasons for doing so.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 1:18pm EST
Worcestershire have revealed that last summer's devastating floods cost the club in excess of £1m in lost revenue, clear-up costs and replacement of damaged assets.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:33am EST
Kenya's have retained the same squad who featured in the first two Intercontinental Cup matches against Bermuda and Canada in Nairobi last year, for their forthcoming matches against Namibia and UAE.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:22am EST
The Oval has become the first ground to charge more than £100 for a non-corporate seat for an international in England.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 10:22am EST
Chris Gayle will fly home to the Caribbean after admitting that his injured thumb and hamstring will not heal in time for him to play in any of the four remaining ODIs in South Africa.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 9:48am EST
South Africa have named an unchanged squad for the second and third one-dayers against West Indies. The hosts lead the series 1-0 with the second ODI getting underway on Friday in Newlands.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 8:46am EST
Saudi Arabia won the ACC Under-19 Challenge Cup, but the tournament was marred by six of the ten participants withdrawing.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 8:35am 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, 7:37am EST
Malaysia, the hosts of the Under-19 World Cup, have announced a 15-member squad for the tournament, with batsman Ahmed Faiz being handed the captaincy.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 7:36am EST
Johmari Logtenberg is the only prominent name missing from South Africa women's squad announced to participate in the ICC World Cup qualifiers at home in February.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 6:23am EST
Karachi is scheduled to host a match when Australia visit Pakistan in March - their first tour of the country in ten years.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:21am EST
Pakistan will consider the toll county cricket takes on its players before
deciding on whether or not to allow their bowlers, in particular, to take
up future contracts.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 4:42am EST
Money is never an obstacle for Allen Stanford and with the second instalment of Stanford 20/20 beginning later this month his ground in Antigua has undergone some extensive work.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 4:12am EST
Nasir Jamshed smashed 61 off 48 balls on debut to give Pakistan a blazing start after Zimbabwe chose to field in the first ODI at the National Stadium in Karachi.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:37am EST
A round-up of the third day's play of the third round of matches in the Carib Beer Series.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:34am EST
A round-up from the latest domestic action in South Africa as the SuperSport Series nears its conclusion.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:23am 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, 3:03am EST
Centuries to Daniel Marsh and George Bailey set up an imposing total for Tasmania at Bellerive Oval after the hosts initially slumped to 2 for 0 against Queensland.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 2:50am EST
Graham Manou's magnificent escape plan helped South Australia ensure a genuine fight after the Bushrangers initially hijacked the Redbacks' first innings in Melbourne.
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Posted: January 21st, 2008, 2:49am 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, 2:32am 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, 12:29am EST
Cameron White will captain the Prime Minister's XI for the second consecutive season as they take on the touring Sri Lankans in Canberra next Wednesday.
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Posted: January 20th, 2008, 10:52pm 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 20th, 2008, 8:20pm EST
With the uncertainty surrounding Australia's tour to the country, the Pakistan board have taken financial cover in order to avoid big losses in case it is cancelled or shifted to a neutral venue.
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Posted: January 20th, 2008, 12:45pm EST
A bustling unbeaten 79 from JP Duminy helped South Africa to a six-wicket win in the opening game of this five-ODI series at Centurion.
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Posted: January 20th, 2008, 8:32am EST
Zimbabwe cricket has been in turmoil for some time now. They voluntarily
gave up Test status in 2006, having lost almost their entire first team
during the player revolt of 2004. Brown admits that it greatly affected the
side, but quickly adds that no player goes on forever in any case, so
backups should have been in place. .
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Posted: January 17th, 2008, 12:53am EST
Having suffered a dramatic collapse of their own after a dogged opening hour, India fought back magnificently just before lunch to prise out three Australian wickets for next to nothing.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 10:02pm EST
Yuvraj Singh has twisted the same knee which he had injured during the Champions Trophy in October 2006, an injury which ruled him out for close to three months.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:24pm EST
Nasser Hussain, the former England captain, says the current squad needs to be mentally tougher if they want to improve in the Test arena.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:13pm 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, 11:25am EST
Zimbabwe may be facing certain defeat in their four-day match against
Patron's XI at Karachi, but Ray Price, the veteran left-arm spinner,
believes there are still positives to be drawn from the game.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:10am 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 16th, 2008, 10:31am EST
Shoaib Malik's chances of being fit in time for the first ODI against Zimbabwe may be improving, but it is still not apparent who would take over as captain should he fail to overcome his ankle injury.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 9:16am EST
The ICC have announced the fixtures for the Women's World Cup qualifiers that will take place in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from February 18 to 24.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 7:18am 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 16th, 2008, 7:18am 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 16th, 2008, 7:15am EST
Simon Jones fears for the future of his former club Glamorgan as they plough huge amounts of money into hosting the 2009 Ashes Test in Cardiff and says he didn't feel valued enough to extend his career in Wales.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 5:26am EST
Plays of the day from the opening day of the third Test in Perth.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:09am EST
The 2009 Ashes Test at Headingley is set to be played on a building site after delays to building work at the ground. A new pavilion behind the bowler's arm at the Kirkstall Lane End, which will also include changing rooms and a press box, was due to be finished in time for Australia's visit .
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:51am EST
The Patron's XI fast bowlers Samiullah Khan and Sohail Khan left the Zimbabweans staring at defeat; the tourists finished the third day at 111 for 6, requiring another 159 to avoid an innings defeat after the home team declared at 479 for 6.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:20am EST
Back in 1991-92, an 18-year-old Sachin Tendulkar scored centuries at Sydney and Perth. All these years later, he threatened an encore as India dominated the afternoon session on the opening day at the WACA.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:56am EST
Saqlain Mushtaq, the former Pakistan offspinner, has said he would jump at the chance to represent England if the call came his way. Saqlain has a British passport through his marriage and qualifies in April as he begins another season with Surrey.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 12:40am EST
Victoria have recalled Peter Siddle to their one-day squad to take on Tasmania at the MCG on Friday.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 12:09am EST
Bangladesh have announced their squad for the Under-19s World Cup in February, adding batsman Amit Majumder to the squad which completed a tour of South Africa in January.
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Posted: January 15th, 2008, 11:46pm EST
New Zealand left-arm seamer James Franklin has targeted the tour of England in May to mark his return to international cricket after being sidelined for several months with a knee injury. Franklin, who underwent surgery in November, said he would take things step by step, suggesting that he may return for his state side Wellington purely as a batsman first.
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Posted: January 15th, 2008, 10:11pm 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 15th, 2008, 10:30am EST
Shoaib Malik's ongoing battle with a troublesome ankle means he is still not a certain starter for Pakistan's first ODI against Zimbabwe in Karachi.
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Posted: January 15th, 2008, 8:49am EST
With the cricket world's attention on sledging after the controversial Sydney Test, Ian Chappell, Kumar Sangakkara and Sanjay Manjrekar said the problem could be tackled if more power was given to on-field umpires, and called for players to act with more responsibility.
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Posted: January 15th, 2008, 7:47am EST
The England selectors have named three replacements for the Lions tour of India with James Foster, Charlie Shreck and Steve Kirby being called up after injuries to Worcestershire pair Steven Davies and Kabir Ali.
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Posted: January 15th, 2008, 7:29am EST
Durham have confirmed their overseas signings for 2008 with Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Neil McKenzie and Albie Morkel completing an attractive line-up. Michael Di Venuto also joins on a three-year deal as a Kolpak player as he holds an Italian passport.
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Posted: January 15th, 2008, 6:45am EST
Cricket South Africa's chief executive Gerald Majola has admitted that the board made a mistake in allotting the Boxing Day Test against West Indies to Port Elizabeth instead of the traditional Kingsmead in Durban, owing to the poor spectator turnout.
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Posted: January 15th, 2008, 6:21am EST
Shane Bond has been included in Canterbury's domestic Twenty20 squad, but his playing hinges on whether he decides to annul his three-year contract with the Indian Cricket League.
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Posted: January 15th, 2008, 5:26am EST
Gloucestershire have posted a pre-tax profit of £283,000 for the year ending September 30, 2007 despite the appalling weather during the season.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 9:42pm 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, 8:56pm 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, 7:46pm EST
Australia have picked the tough 13-player squad they hope will be able to regain the Ashes next month, and also win the five-match ODI series.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 1:43pm EST
Aakash Chopra and Gautam Gambhir are the Delhi openers who are fighting for the spot in the Indian Test team. A freak shoulder injury ruled Gambhir out of the Australian tour and the vacancy was not filled by Chopra, who was in the probables, but by fellow Delhi batsman Virender Sehwag, who was not in the probables.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:24pm 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, 11:48am 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, 10:59am EST
Justin Ontong, the South Africa allrounder, has earned a recall for the Twenty20 international and the first of five ODIs against West Indies.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 10:08am 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, 9:50am 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, 9:29am EST
Sri Lanka have banked on pace for the CB Series in Australia after naming six fast bowlers in their 15-man squad for next month's tournament which also features India.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 9:18am EST
The Patron's XI openers put on an unbroken 65-run partnership after their legspinners grabbed seven wickets to bowl out the Zimbabweans for 209 on the opening day of the tour match in Karachi.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 7:53am 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, 6:21am EST
A round-up from the latest domestic action in South Africa as the Cobras recorded a thrilling win over the Lions.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 6:19am EST
Trinidad's Brian Lara Stadium should be completed before year end, according to Gary Hunt, Trinidad & Tobago's sports minister.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 5:51am EST
Chris Rogers has called it hellish and Adam Gilchrist thinks it has the fire to shock. Gary Kirsten, India's coach in waiting, has included it in the document he's prepared for the team. Dennis Lillie has ensured it regains some of its old glory and, going by all the chatter, Shaun Tait is obviously smacking his lips.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 5:43am EST
Rain was the ultimate winner in the Inter-Provincial Limited-Overs Tournament final between Kandurata and Wayamba which ended in a no result with only 35.3 overs being bowled in the entire match.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 5:15am EST
New Road, Worcestershire's home ground, has been hit by another flood just as it was on the path to recovery after twice being underwater last season. Although not as serious as the 2007 flooding the latest deluge has swamped the newly laid outfield.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:05am EST
Stephen Fleming, the former New Zealand captain, has denied that he is on the verge of retiring after rumours began circulating during the second Test against Bangladesh in Wellington.
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Posted: January 14th, 2008, 1:56am EST
Although still beset by general inconsistency and the technical deficiency of their batsmen, West Indies emerged from their third series in South Africa stronger than when it began.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:05pm EST
Brenton Parchment, the West Indies opener, has been fined 50 percent of his match fee after running into Dale Steyn, the South Africa fast bowler, during the second day's play of the final Test in Durban.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 10:50am EST
South Africa overcame the stout resistance of Marlon Samuels, who made his second Test century, to wrap up a comfortable innings-and-100-run victory on the third day at Durban.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 9:23am EST
Zimbabwe's eagerness to play will see them through some tough days for sure, but so will the attitude of Prosper Utseya, the only international captain younger than Shoaib Malik.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 7:40am EST
A round-up from the latest Inter-Provincial one-day matches.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 7:40am 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, 7:20am EST
Zimbabwe will look to the ICC to ensure that their future tour commitments
go ahead as planned.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 4:39am 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, 4:09am 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, 3:44am EST
A round-up of the first day's play of the second round of matches in the Carib Beer Series.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:04am EST
Brenton Parchment, West Indies' debutant opener, has been charged with a Level 2 breach of of the ICC's Code of Conduct regulations for running into Dale Steyn while batting during the second day of the third Test in Durban.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:29am 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, 1:28am EST
Western Australia and Victoria play off for the KFC Twenty20 title on Sunday but in reality the major award has already been handed to both teams.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:11am EST
New Zealand's dominance on the first day at the Basin Reserve bore strong similarities to the opening day of the first Test in Dunedin. On that occasion, Bangladesh were bowled out for 137 and New Zealand finished the day on 156 for 4. Today Bangladesh collapsed for 143 and the home side were once again poised to take the lead, ending on 134 for 3.
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Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:55am 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, 12:36am EST
After their small, but significant, steps forward in the first two matches, West Indies continued to take giant strides back towards their recent inglorious past on the second day of the third Test at Kingsmead.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:48pm EST
Stuart MacGill could be playing club cricket as soon as next weekend as he aims for a late-January comeback for New South Wales following surgery on his right hand.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 8:45pm 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 11th, 2008, 8:00pm 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, 3:59pm EST
Cricinfo has learned that the new USA Cricket Association constitution has been approved by 74% of clubs which voted, although the turnout was disappointingly small.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 12:48pm EST
Ramnaresh Sarwan will lead defending champions Guyana in the Stanford Twenty20 tournament, starting in Antigua on January 26.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 11:59am EST
Shaun Pollock has announced his retirement from international cricket following the second day's play against West Indies in Durban.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 11:50am EST
A timeline of Shaun Pollock's career as he announces his international retirement.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:38am EST
South Africa's march towards series victory continued unhindered on the second day at Kingsmead, compiling a daunting 556 for 4 to further depress an already demoralised West Indies, whose performance with the ball lurched from the dire to the farcical.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:26am EST
Mohammad Yousuf will have legal counsel representing him at the next arbitration hearing in Mumbai examining his pull-out from the Indian Cricket League (ICL). The representation will be arranged by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the hearing on January 24.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:57am EST
Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) claimed the 50th edition of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy by virtue of a first-innings lead, as their final against Habib Bank Limited (HBL) ended in a draw on the final day in Karachi.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:43am EST
Mohammad Hafeez, SNGPL's captain, credits a young team and the experience of Misbah-ul-Haq as key to his tean's title triumph.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:06am EST
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the ICC to change the result of the Oval Test result against England, played in August 2006, which was officially awarded as a forfeit to England. The ICC cricket committee will consider an application from Pakistan in which they want the result of the Oval test overturned at their next meeting.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 8:30am EST
The MCC are busy installing a new scoreboard and replay screen system at Lord's Cricket Ground during the close season.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 8:11am EST
Cricket Kenya might delay shortlisting candidates for the vacant national coaching position in the aftermath of the unrest inside the country following December's presidential elections.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 7:41am 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, 7:08am EST
Brian Lara has dismissed speculation that he might be considering a return to international cricket.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 6:31am 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, 6:31am 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, 5:16am EST
Cricinfo can reveal that the violence that followed the disputed presidential elections and which cost almost 500 people their lives has caused a number of cricket tours to Kenya to be scrapped.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 4:30am EST
Zimbabwe's selectors have not sprung any surprises in their 15-man squad for the five-ODI series in Pakistan.
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Posted: January 11th, 2008, 3:10am 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, 12:02am EST
The wide, original gap between the teams, so efficiently and unexpectedly closed in the first Test before it began to open again in the second, developed into a familiarly yawning chasm on the opening day of the final, decisive Test at Kingsmead.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:23am EST
Ranjan Madugalle, the ICC match referee who has been appointed as a mediator to ensure good on-field relations between Australia and India, is confident he will succeed in his brief.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:20am EST
After the opening day of the third Test in Durban it is hard to believe that these two sides were all square heading into the contest. South Africa dominated proceedings from start to finish, removing West Indies for a paltry 139 before Graeme Smith's unbeaten 122 led a thumping reply to put South Africa 74 ahead by the close.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 9:44am EST
A round-up of the latest matches in the KFC Twenty20.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 8:50am EST
Misbah-ul-Haq rescued Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) from 14 for 3 with a fluent, unbeaten half-century and drove home the advantage at close on day four of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 8:42am EST
Fifteen from the 21 probables have been picked for the Pakistan Under-19 squad to play a tri-nation tournament in Sri Lanka this month and then the World Cup in Malaysia in February-March.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 8:38am EST
Tony Frost has been brought out of retirement by Warwickshire to cover for the potential absence of Tim Ambrose on England duty next season.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 8:26am EST
The first trial of a pink ball has been rated favourably by Queensland women who made history by using one in an exhibition Twenty20 match.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 8:25am EST
Geoff Lawson arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday night and said the situation in
Pakistan after next month's elections and a security assessment will
decide whether or not the Australia tour will go on as scheduled in March.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 8:21am 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, 5:16am 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, 5:04am 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, 2:03am EST
Mark Gillespie, the New Zealand fast bowler, has been ruled out of the second Test against Bangladesh after he aggravated the shoulder injury which forced him to miss the first Test while playing for Wellington against Auckland.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 12:31am EST
West Indies have included Guyana batsman Sewnarine Chattergoon and Trinidad and Tobago fast bowler Ravi Rampaul in their 16-man squad for the ODI series against South Africa.
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Posted: January 10th, 2008, 12:21am 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, 12:12am EST
It might have been a deliberate deception designed to confuse the South Africans but West Indies announced that they would not decide until just before the toss this morning whether captain Chris Gayle and fast bowler Fidel Edwards would play in the third, final and decisive Test.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 11:41pm EST
Wasim Jaffer notched up a stylish 92 to lead the Indians to 3 for 211 at tea on the first day of their warm-up match against the ACT Invitational XI in Canberra.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 4:04pm EST
Asad Ali has helped SNGPL take a big step towards the Quaid-e-Azam trophy title.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 3:44pm EST
A round-up from the latest Inter-Provincial one-day matches.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:30pm EST
Five players have been added to the South Africa Under-19 squad that played the tri-nation tournament for the two three-day games against India in Durban.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 10:53am EST
The president of the West Indies Cricket Board has attacked the ICC's decision to remove Steve Bucknor from umpiring in the Perth Test as being an "extreme" reaction.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 10:47am 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, 10:42am EST
Bermuda's Under-19 players could have a chance to put themselves in the frame for pro contracts when they compete at the youth World Cup in Malaysia next month.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 10:41am EST
A star-studded Habib Bank Limited (HBL) batting line-up crumbled against
the pace of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited's (SNGPL) opening bowlers on
the third day of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 6:08am 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, 4:55am 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, 4:34am EST
Shane Warne, the former Australia legspinner, has committed his immediate future to Hampshire but will not be available for the club's Twenty20 Cup campaign due to a poker tournament in Las Vegas.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 3:47am 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, 1:16am EST
Courtney Walsh, for one, isn't surprised by the surprising West Indies' performance in their current Test series against South Africa.
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Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:06am EST
Pink balls will be used for the first time on Thursday, as trialled by two women's state teams, will on Friday another two sides will also make history in the first women's day-nighter .
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 11:31pm EST
The criticism of Australia's behaviour at the SCG has spread to other sports with three members of the country's Hall of Fame calling for the team's "moral compass to be returned".
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 11:22pm 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 8th, 2008, 6:41pm EST
Clare Connor has been appointed as the European representative to the ICC Women's Committee.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 1:57pm 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, 12:44pm EST
Hartley Alleyne, the former first-class player turned coach, has been given permission to remain in the UK for another three years after he had faced the threat of deportation.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 9:17am EST
A strong bowling performance put Gujarat on course for victory in the final of the Ranji Trophy Plate League at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. Gujarat ended the fourth day requiring just 120 more to win with all ten wickets intact.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 8:30am 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, 8:01am EST
A round-up of the final round of matches of the National Cricket League in Bangladesh.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 7:23am EST
Kenya's Intercontinental Cup match against Namibia has been switched from Nairobi to Sharjah as a result of the ongoing violence in Kenya which has claimed more than 600 lives.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 5:18am EST
Andrew Strauss's arrival in New Zealand has been delayed after flight problems at Johannesburg airport. He was due to make his debut for the Northern Knights on Thursday, but that has now been pushed back to the clash against Otago on Sunday.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:58am EST
Cricket South Africa (CSA) has responded strongly to Daryll Cullinan's involvement in the Indian Cricket League (ICL) by withdrawing his accreditation as a television commentator for SuperSport for the recently-concluded second Test against West Indies in Cape Town and for the third Test in Durban
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:51am EST
Bermuda have announced their squad for the Under-19 World Cup which kicks off in Malaysia in February.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:43am 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, 3:42am EST
The Indian cricketers, especially the seniors, are enraged at the manner in which Mike Procter handled the ICC hearing and are upset about the official document which he prepared after the hearing.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:41am EST
The Indian board has welcomed the removal of umpire Steve Bucknor from the third Test against Australia in Perth but has said the bigger issue is the three-Test ban on Harbhajan Singh.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:41am EST
The Women's World Cup qualifiers have been switched to South Africa in mid-February following the political turmoil in Pakistan in November .
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:16am EST
India have had a win in their battle over the umpiring in Sydney, with Steve Bucknor sacked from officiating in next week's Perth Test and replaced by Billy Bowden. The BCCI later confirmed that they will continue the tour as planned after appealing Harbhajan Singh's three-Test suspension.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 2:17am EST
No play was possible on the second day of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final between Habib Bank Limited and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited due to rain and subsequently a wet outfield.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 2:14am EST
The Australia opening batsman Matthew Hayden is in doubt for the third Test against India in Perth after injuring his right thigh in Sydney.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 1:45am EST
Whoever pulls the cricket strings from above has set severe challenges for West Indies on their tour of South Africa. They have met them with a welcome tenacity, if not all successfully, and, after the humiliations on their two previous visits, they have salvaged much of the respect their great players and teams earned from afar in the days when apartheid kept them apart.
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Posted: January 8th, 2008, 12:47am EST
A round-up of the fourth day's play of the first round of matches in the Carib Beer Series.
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Posted: January 7th, 2008, 11:50pm EST
A round-up of the third set of matches in the state shield.
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Posted: January 7th, 2008, 9:55pm 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 7th, 2008, 4:54pm EST
The foreign secretary David Miliband has given the strongest hint yet that the British government does not want Zimbabwe's planned tour of England next year to go ahead, but he left the door open for Zimbabwe to be allowed to participate in the ICC World Twenty20 later in 2009.
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Posted: January 7th, 2008, 1:29pm 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.
