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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 2:00pm EST
David Hussey, the Victoria batsman, may have been purchased for US$625,000 by the Kolkata franchise in the IPL auction, but his county side Nottinghamshire have insisted that he is contracted to play for them this season.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 1:10pm EST
A round-up of the fourth day of matches at the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers in Stellenbosch.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 12:27pm EST
Rahul Dravid has said that he was happy with the players the Bangalore franchise had procured in the IPL auction, adding that his side had the players who can handle pressure.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 12:26pm EST
Hampshire have secured Shane Bond, the former New Zealand fast bowler, as their overseas player for the first part of the 2008 season. He will cover for the absence of Shane Warne who will be taking part in the IPL.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 10:35am EST
Nottinghamshire will announce to members at the AGM on Monday that they have made a profit for the seventh successive year.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 10:05am EST
Needing to negotiate the tricky morning session at the Wankhede before they could win the Duleep Trophy, North Zone were looking for application and Shikhar Dhawan answered the call.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 9:42am EST
A round-up of the action from day six of the Under-19 World Cup .
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 8:49am EST
Paul Collingwood, England's captain, has said that drawing the one-day series against New Zealand would be one of the high-points of his young captaincy career. After the thrilling tie in Napier the final match in Christchurch offers England a chance to share the spoils.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 8:21am EST
Sri Lanka's varied spin attack, led by the left-arm spinner Navin
Kavikara, performed a slow strangle act that would have made their senior
team proud to set up a five-wicket win against Australia at the Penang
Sports Club.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 8:07am EST
The pitches that have been dished up throughout the CB Series have not helped either, and the slow MCG surface was particularly difficult. Michael Hussey, who was named Man of the Match for an unbeaten 64 that included one boundary, said it was one of the hardest ODI innings he has played.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 5:18am EST
Lancashire will begin the first stages of redeveloping Old Trafford next January with the initial work costing the club £12 million.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 4:49am EST
Their spot in the Super League quarter-finals secured, top-of-the table India made a clean sweep of Group B with a 50-run win over West Indies at the Kinrara Oval.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 4:43am EST
Alfonso Thomas, the Dolphins and South Africa fast bowler, has joined Somerset as a Kolpak player subject to obtaining a work permit.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 4:40am EST
Sussex have signed Ryan Harris, the South Australia allrounder, who holds a British passport after beating off interest from other counties. Harris is South Australia's highest wicket-taker in the Pura Cup with 33 scalps and is the fourth highest in the domestic season.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 1:29am EST
Adam Parore, the former New Zealand wicketkeeper, has joined the ICL after signing a two-year contract with the Chennai Superstars, the winners of the unofficial league's inaugural competition.
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Posted: February 17th, 2008, 3:11am EST
Jamaica, led by a fine all-round performance by Marlon Samuels, who top-scored with 47 and took a brace of wickets, claimed a convincing eight-wicket win over Nevis to enter the semi-finals of the Stanford 20/20.
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Posted: February 17th, 2008, 3:05am EST
Lisa Sthalekar played the Test innings of her life, and she's not done yet, to hold off a strong England threat in Bowral and leave Australia with a 105-run lead heading into a prospectively thrilling final day.
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Posted: February 17th, 2008, 2:34am EST
New South Wales and Victoria will play in the Pura Cup final after they each earned a point by finishing their first innings level on 394.
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Posted: February 17th, 2008, 2:30am EST
India Under-19 kicked off their World Cup campaign with a strong, if not spectacular, batting performance against East Asia Pacific qualifiers Papua New Guinea at the Kinrara Oval.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 10:15pm EST
Andrew Symonds says the loyalty of Australia's best players will be tested over the next couple of years as they weigh up representing their country with accepting huge payments to join Twenty20 competitions.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 10:10pm EST
Yet another sterling new-ball performance from Ishant Sharma, and some good support acts from the rest of the seamers, rattled Australia's top order on a belter of a pitch in scorching Adelaide.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 4:38pm EST
Charlotte Edwards fell six short of a deserved century, but her innings kept England on track for an Ashes-retaining victory in Bowral.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 2:42pm EST
The Cricket Association of Bengal, where matches of the Kolkata franchise will be played, believes the present ticketing plan has not taken into the account the usual match-day arrangement with its members and fears legal complications arising out of it.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 12:22pm EST
It's not a tag you would want to hand any young cricketer, but Stuart Broad's success in the early days of his international career is already getting him dubbed as Andrew Flintoff's successor.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 9:07am EST
The latest intake for South Africa's high performance programme includes a number of players with international experience as the selectors continue to assess the depth of talent available.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 6:45am EST
A quirky Cricket Australia regulation has provided a last-minute hitch in negotiations to allow its contract holders to take part in the Indian Premier League.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 6:35am EST
Western Australia ended a six-game losing streak as they benefited from Queensland's kamikaze batting in a failed bid to remain in contention for the FR Cup final.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 5:00am EST
Mahela Jayawardene has urged his side to adopt a smarter approach following Sri Lanka's 63-run loss to Australia in the sixth CB Series match in Perth.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 2:57am EST
Victoria removed the huge threat of Simon Katich to complete another strong day as they battle for the two points that will seal a spot in the Pura Cup final.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 2:21am EST
Indian batsman Sourav Ganguly has revealed that he had planned to continue playing one-dayers for another seven to eight months before taking a call on his future. Dropped for the ongoing CB Series in Australia, Ganguly said he had informed the selectors he intended to continue for a few more months.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 1:13am EST
Tired of being ignored by national selectors, Tino Best, who plays for Barbados in the domestic circuit, said he needed the money offered by the ICL to take care of his family.
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Posted: February 16th, 2008, 12:16am EST
Jonathan Carter and Ryan Hinds stitched together their second successive match-winning partnership as Barbados booked their place in the semi-finals with a 54-run win against Grenada in Coolidge.
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Posted: February 15th, 2008, 11:29pm EST
The outpouring of emotion at the WACA on Friday made Adam Gilchrist realise the end of his record-breaking career was near.
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Posted: February 15th, 2008, 8:47pm EST
Jesse Ryder, the opening batsman, is in a race to be fit for the fourth ODI against England after injuring his left ankle in Friday's six-wicket loss.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:29pm EST
New Zealand coach John Bracewell has been approached by Gloucestershire, where he was such a success between 1998 and 2003.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:00pm EST
Fast bowler Iain O'Brien has been drafted into the New Zealand squad as cover for Michael Mason ahead of the third ODI against England at Eden Park in Auckland on Friday.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 11:10am EST
A power-packed performance from Punjab, propelled by Salman Butt's 290, helped them finish day three of their match against Federal Areas with the bright prospect of earning a win.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:51am EST
Australia's tour to Pakistan, scheduled for March-April, is looking increasingly doubtful following last week's meeting between the chairmen of both boards in Dubai.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:51am EST
Australia and West Indies got their Under-19 World Cup campaigns off to winning starts on day two of the warm-up matches .
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:45am EST
Rahatullah, a right-arm seamer who played for Pakistan under-19s, was shot dead by unknown assailants in Peshawar while he was on his way to join the North West Frontier Province squad for a domestic tournament.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 9:28am EST
Denmark have won the 2008 European Indoor Championship in Finland, beating old foes Portugal in a thrilling encounter. Denmark scrambled a two-wicket win off the penultimate delivery, overhauling Portugal's total of 132.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 8:25am EST
MCC have raised over £650,000 to fund recovery projects in Sri Lanka following the devastating tsunami in December 2004. Representatives from MCC visited Sri Lanka recently to witness the region's regeneration, and a short video has been released to promote the achievement.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 8:02am EST
VRV Singh's five-wicket burst put North Zone in control on the second day of their match against East Zone in Rajkot. East were skittled out for 143, to give North a massive 213-run first-innings lead and put them on the brink of a place in the final.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 7:17am EST
Wasim Jaffer and Ajinkya Rahane led West Zone's strong reply to England Lions' 355 on the second day at the Moti Bagh Stadium in Vadodara. West ended the day on 187 for 1 with Jaffer and Rahane still unbeaten.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 6:30am EST
On a day in which the weather had a major role in proceedings at Canberra's Manuka Oval, Mahela Jayawardene credited the momentum handed to Sri Lanka's run chase by their openers as key to a first win in the CB Series.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 5:07am EST
Jesse Ryder received plenty of criticism for his less than svelte figure prior to this series, but in two games he has answered his critics in emphatic fashion. His thrilling 79 from 62 balls today, sharing in a record unbroken partnership with Brendon McCullum, took New Zealand to a 10-wicket thrashing of England with more than 17 overs to spare.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 4:32am EST
Sport has always drawn crowds, even in the most hostile conditions. Tuesday morning in Canberra was no different with dark grey clouds looming ominously from early morning. Rains lashed the Manuka Oval from between seven and half past ten, raising doubts if any game was possible in the first place.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 3:34am EST
Plays of the day for the match between India and Sri Lanka at the Manuka Oval, Canberra, February 12, 2008.
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Posted: February 12th, 2008, 2:46am EST
Australia will host Bangladesh in three one-day internationals in Darwin in August and September, it has been announced.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 12:01pm EST
Lalit Modi, the chairman and commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL), has said Australian players may have to miss the tournament if Cricket Australia (CA) doesn't soften its stance on sponsor promotion.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 10:10am EST
The cream of the Pakistan's talent will take part in the Pentangular Cup, due to begin on February 10.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 9:12am EST
Jimmy Kamande's 62 bolstered Kenya's otherwise disappointing second innings 171 on the third day of their Intercontinental Cup clash in Sharjah, as UAE were set a challenging 274 to win.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 8:41am EST
The Pakistan Cricket Board have confirmed that Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan will host all matches during Australia's tour starting next month. The tour, though still in doubt due to security concerns, includes three Tests, five one-dayers and a Twenty20 international.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 8:17am EST
Fazeer Mohammed believes that Chris Gayle, once fully recovered from his injuries sustained in southern Africa, should be confirmed to lead West Indies in the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka and Australia.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 6:22am EST
Marlon Samuels will undergo independent analysis of his bowling action at the National Cricket Academy, at Loughborough University in England on February 11.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 5:44am EST
Brad Hodge celebrated his 100th one-day game with Victoria with a dominant century that virtually guarantees the Bushrangers a spot in the FR Cup final.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 5:23am EST
Ranadeb Bose and Tushar Saha shared six second-innings wickets between them to help East Zone register a 68-run victory against South Zone just after lunch on the final day at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:52am EST
Shivnarine Chanderpaul will miss Guyana's opening encounter against Bermuda in the 2008 Stanford 20/20 after informing national selectors of his unavailability due to a sinus problem.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:42am EST
Nevis leave for Antigua today with an injury-cloud hanging over several of their players ahead of their first Stanford 20/20 match against Montserrat on Friday .
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:36am EST
A patient century by Michael Carberry, backed by fifties by Ed Joyce and Michael Yardy guided England Lions to a comfortable five-wicket win against Central Zone on the final day in Vadodara.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:20am EST
Jacob Oram, the New Zealand allrounder, has been ruled out of the second Twenty20 international against England in Christchurch on Thursday after pulling a hamstring in the first game yesterday in Auckland. He will be replaced by Daniel Flynn, the 22-year-old Northern Districts left-hander.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 3:20am EST
Cricket Australia is likely to allow Adam Gilchrist to play in the IPL despite an agreement between organisers and boards forbidding players to join until two years after their international career is over.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 2:32am EST
The Indian Board has identified bowlers in the domestic circuit with suspect bowling actions, and is compiling a list of the same, and is likely to send them to the National Cricket Academy to rectify their actions.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 2:16am EST
Shoaib Malik has threatened to sue an Indian family for alleging that he married their daughter in a ceremony conducted over the telephone five years ago.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 2:07am EST
A round-up of the latest round of matches in the State Shield.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 12:40am EST
John Grogan, the Labour MP for Selby, has called for cricket - in particular the broadcasting of the Ashes - to return to terrestrial television.
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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 12:11am EST
Chris Gayle, the West Indies and Jamaica captain, will miss Jamaica's first match of the Stanford 20/20 on February 6 against Bahamas since he is yet to recover from the injuries he picked up on West Indies' tour of South Africa.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 11:43pm EST
Barbados will be concerned about their batting ahead of their next match against Grenada on February 15. Only two players reached double figures and Ryan Hinds top scored with an unbeaten 37 as Barbados got 103 in their 20 overs.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 8:00pm EST
Nathan Bracken hopes to fend off increasing competition and gain a recall to Australia's Test side knowing that no matter what he does in the one-day arena it's his first-class results that count.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 12:12pm EST
Morne Morkel, the South Africa fast bowler, has signed for Yorkshire as cover for Rana Naved-ul-Hasan for the early part of the season.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 11:16am EST
The tenth ICC European Indoor Championship take place this weekend in Kuortane, Finland. This will be the first tournament to take place in Finland and Kuortane will become the most northerly venue ever to be used for an official international cricket championship.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 10:52am EST
A superb bowling performance helped South Zone crawl their way back into their match against East Zone in Mumbai. After an eventful third day, the game was evenly poised with South needing another 160 runs to win with seven wickets in hand.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 9:58am EST
Thomas Odoyo cracked his second first-class hundred to boost Kenya's first innings up to 326 on the second day of their Intercontinental Cup clash against UAE in Sharjah. But it was the slow-left-arm spin of Hiren Varaiya which swung the match in Kenya's favour.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 8:21am EST
For the second match running, a faithful Brisbane crowd was denied a full day of cricket as further inclement weather washed out the second match of the CB Series, this time between India and Sri Lanka.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 8:00am EST
Jack Simmons, the chairman of Lancashire, has been appointed as the ECB chairman to succeed Dennis Amiss.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 7:40am EST
The participation of Australia's star cricketers in the forthcoming Indian Premier League could be in doubt, after Cricket Australia warned that it could still exercise the power of veto over its contracted players if competing sponsorship issues arise.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 7:09am EST
Rain stole a second game in Brisbane with the situation delicately poised and both India and Sri Lanka claimed the advantage after the match. Kumar Sangakkara felt a chase of 268 was achievable while Gautam Gambhir was convinced his team had scored enough.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 6:51am EST
Rohit Sharma was fined 10% of his match fee for dissent after being incorrectly judged caught behind for 0 off Muttiah Muralitharan at the Gabba.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 6:11am EST
Dimitri Mascarenhas pummelled Jeetan Patel for four consecutive sixes in an over, to set England on their way to a comfortable 32-run victory in the first Twenty20 at Auckland.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 6:10am EST
Lord's and The Oval have been nominated as two of the main venues to host next year's ICC World Twenty20, with the ECB also recommending Lord's to host the final.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 5:47am EST
South Africa have received yet another blow to their preparations for the ICC World Cup qualifiers with batsman Mignon du Preez withdrawing from the squad less than two weeks before the start of the tournament. Du Preez has been replaced by left-arm spinner Charlize van der Westhuizen.
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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 12:35am EST
Five emerging men have been recalled to the Centre of Excellence as part of the 2008 intake, which includes a string of fringe national players on short-term deals.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:24pm EST
John Emburey has left Middlesex to continue his career in coaching.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:20pm EST
Geoff Miller, England's newly-installed chief selector, has hinted that any England player who signs up for the rebel Indian Cricket League could go the same way as New Zealand's Shane Bond.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:39am EST
Thomas Odoyo hit an unbeaten 79 to help Kenya recover from 126 for 5 to close the first day of their Intercontinental Cup tie against UAE in Sharjah on 255 for 6.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 9:25am EST
Leicestershire have released the 23-year-old seamer Nick Walker from his two-year contract.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 8:39am EST
A four-wicket haul by Tushar Saha, the left-arm spinner, helped East Zone bundle out South Zone for 204 on the second day at the Wankhede Stadium, in the process gaining a first-innings lead of 109.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 7:41am EST
A round-up of the third round of the Tier B matches of the Premier League Tournament that ended on February 3.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 5:56am EST
Gloucestershire's coach, Mark Alleyne, will leave the club in February, prior to his contract ending in September 2008, after the club decided it was time for a shake-up in their structure.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 5:15am EST
English cricket will receive around £30 million from the ECB over the next five years to help improve facilities and boost club cricket.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 4:12am EST
A Tasmanian car containing a batch of egg throwers was fortunate to escape after pelting a small group of Sri Lankans in Hobart last week. Muttiah Muralitharan would have been in hot pursuit of the drive-by yolkers if he and his fellow tourists were not so shocked by the flying object, which hit a selector in the back.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 1:53am EST
Cricketers rely on "feel" and Australia's catching is currently badly out of touch.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 1:11am EST
Queensland have regained Michael Kasprowicz after a minor hamstring injury as they prepare to take on Victoria in a one-day match at the MCG on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 1:00am EST
Andre Fletcher's 70 helped Grenada post 177 for 6, the highest score of the season, which was enough for them to scrape past Anguilla by a 16-run margin.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:38am EST
West Indies Cricket Board president Julian Hunte says that the strategic plan of the board is "to re-establish the West Indies at the pinnacle of world cricket. That was one of the main points Hunte raised in a letter to former Windies pacer Ian Bishop explaining his replacement on the WICB Cricket Committee, along with Andy Roberts, Courtney Walsh and Desmond Haynes.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 11:23pm EST
Ingrid Cronin-Knight and Lucy Doolan will make their New Zealand debuts, while there was a recall after five years for Katey Martin.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 10:43pm EST
Australia's players must take Shaun Tait under their wing to make sure he avoids any recurrence of the problems leading to his indefinite break from the game, according to Michael Hussey.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 12:21pm EST
Herschelle Gibbs' bristling 102 and a classy 74 from Jacques Kallis took South Africa to their fifth win, whitewashing the West Indies who were soundly beaten by 8 wickets in Johannesburg, ending a miserable and wholly unsuccessful tour. With 26 needed from 34, out marched Shaun Pollock to see his side home for the last time and, with a flay past point for two, the fairytale was complete.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 9:29am EST
Half-centuries by Shiv Sunder Das and Halhadar Das lifted East Zone to 265 for 7 on the first day at the Wankhede Stadium. SS Das, the former Indian opener, scored a patient 82 at the top before Halhadar Das stepped in and led a lower-order revival after East lost half their side at 134..
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 7:45am EST
Brett Lee believes Australia's strong bowling depth will ensure they can cope without the fiery pace of Shaun Tait throughout the CB Series.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 7:44am EST
Australia dominated India for the majority of the duration of the tri-series opener in Brisbane but the monsoonal weather intervened and ensured that both teams left the Gabba with two points apiece.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 7:25am EST
Alastair Cook struck gold in the second practice match against Canterbury, blasting an unbeaten 138 off 140 balls, etched with 20 hits to the boundary and two beyond it, to take the England XI to a convincing seven-wicket win in Christchurch.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 7:23am EST
Desmond Haynes, Andy Roberts, Ian Bishop, and Courtney Walsh have been dropped from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) cricket committee and are at loss to know why
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 6:23am EST
Left-arm spinner Dave Mohammed had a dream debut, claiming figures of 5 for 8 to help dismiss St Lucia for 105, after which Trinidad and Tobago chased the target with ease to claim an eight-wicket win .
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 6:08am EST
Peter English presents the Plays of the day of the first ODI of the CB series between Australia and India in Brisbane.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 3:41am EST
Siphatisiwe Moyo, the Zimbabwe allrounder, has pulled out of next week's Women's World Cup qualifier in South Africa with appendicitis.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 3:05am EST
Matt Nicholson, the Australian fast bowler, will deputise for Mohammad Asif at Surrey for the first half of the season - and possibly the entire summer.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 1:55am EST
Jenny Gunn starred with bat and ball as England took a 1-0 lead in the five-match ODI series with a comprehensive 56-run win at the MCG.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 11:14pm EST
Daniel Vettori has been ruled out of both Twenty20 internationals against England after he failed to recover from an ankle injury.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 10:38pm EST
New Zealand's fragile batting order was left with even less depth with Scott Styris announcing his retirement from Tests and first-class cricket.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 7:48pm EST
Ricky Ponting says the Australian players were "flabbergasted" by Shaun Tait's decision to walk away from cricket indefinitely.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 4:56pm EST
A "vague" Indian Premier League (IPL) contract might be the reason why Shane Bond, the New Zealand fast bowler, opted to sign for the Indian Cricket League (ICL), a move that ultimately led to the end of his international career.
