Star English cricketer Andrew Flintoff has successfully had a surgery on his right knee recently and is aiming to recover from the surgery in time to take part in World Twenty20 starting from June 5 in
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Star English cricketer Andrew Flintoff has successfully had a surgery on his right knee recently and is aiming to recover from the surgery in time to take part in World Twenty20 starting from June 5 in
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BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in
Well, this is a good initiative taken by BCCI to ensure financial safety for the players. However, I am not sure what kind of jobs will be handed to the cricketers and if the salaries will be enough to assure the financial security of the players. Winning team of the tournament will be awarded with Rs10 million prize money, while Rs5 million will be given to the runners up team in the 16-team tournament. Two semi finalists of the 50-over competition will receive Rs2.5 million each.
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You already know that ICC World Twenty20 2009 kicks off from 5 June in
Indian women’s cricket team will be led by star pacer Jhulan Goswami who also led
Jhulan Goswami (captain), Amita Sharma (vice-captain), Mithali Raj, Anjum Chopra, Rumeli Dhar, Sulakshana Naik (wk), Anagha Deshpande (wk), Priyanka Roy, Reema Malhotra, Gauhar Sultana, Harman Preet Kaur, Poonam Raut, Babita Mandlik, Latika Kumari, Diana David.
It has been reported that Brett Lee could be available for selection for the remaining two ODI matches against
However, Trefor James, Australian team doctor, has recently revealed that the bowler has recovered very well during his fortnight stay in
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NZC has asked
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A book titled If cricket is a religion, Sachin is God has been released on the occasion of 36th birthday of legendary cricket Sachin Tendulkar recently. Written by two students of IIM-Ahmedabad (Indian Institute of Management)- Vijay Santhanam and Shyam Balasubramaniam- the book was official launched in Mumbai by famous billiards player Geet Sethi and former captain of Indian test team Nari Contractor. Both of them were full of praise about Sachin Tendulkar who turned 36 recently. Sachin is currently leading Mumbai Indians in IPL 2009 in
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Andrew Flintoff has been ruled out for
Andrew Flintoff is an injury prone player who missed lots of cricket actions during his career so far due to injury problems. Keeping his past history of his injury in mind,
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Pakistani bowling great Imran Khan has also spoken of highly regarding this new stadium, stating that the beautiful stadium and its innovative lights will add to the attraction of the game. Mr. Khan has also said that the condition is very similar to
Former
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After suffering an 8-wicket humiliating victory to Deccan Chargers in their first match, Kolkata Knight Riders have bounced back with full swing, winning the second match against Kings XI Punjab. Kolkata clinched a 11-run victory on D/L method today thanks to excellent bowling performance from former skipper Sourav Ganguly and thrashing batting performance from opener Chris Gayle. Kolkata Captain Brendon McCullum won the toss and elected to field first.
Punjab did not have a very good start as they lost opener Goel for a duck, but the second wicket partnership between Bopara and Irfan Pathan started dominated the Kolkata bowlers. However, Sourav Ganguly dismissed both of them in one over, bringing Kolkata back into the match. Pathan played a blistering knock of 32 off just 17 balls, hitting five 4s and a 6. Then Sangakkara’s 24-ball 26, Yuvraj Singh’s 28-ball 38 and Jayawardene’s 31 from 19 balls guided Kings XI Punjab towards a fighting total of 158, losing 6 wickets.
Kolkata Knight Riders started off very well to their innings thanks to two openers McCullum and Gayle as the openers put on 57 runs on the board within 5.2 overs before McCullum got dismissed by Vikramjeet Malik for 21. However, Gayle remained not out on 44 off 26 balls during which the
First of all, I am not that impressed. When BCCI announced that they would shift the event to
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International Cricket Council (ICC) has already decided that
ICC said that it was less likely international cricket would be back in
The decision of dropping
ICC, on the other hand, has taken the decision pretty early in order to avoid any last minute uncertainty and postponement of the tournament as it happened for last year’s ICC Champions Trophy, which was supposed to take place in Pakistan last September, but was later on postponed to September this year and the tournament was shifted from Pakistan to South Africa due to the same security reasons. Well, there is no doubt, it is a big blow for
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South African team management has decided not to feature the team’s prime spinner Johan Botha in the fifth match of the five-match ODI series which
Johan Botha was instrumental behind
Now, ahead of world Twenty20, starting from 5 June 2009 in England, South African cricket fans are pretty much disappointed with Botha being reported on suspicion bowling action. Now, the spinner will go to
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You know that IPL 2009 is going to take place in
First of all, about 40,000 hotel rooms have been booked in the cities which will host IPL matches. Summer is not a rush season for the tourists, but due to IPL, hotel business will see a boom for the next one month. It has been reported that IPL will add $150-200 million to the local economy. Most importantly, it is a big chance for
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Harbhajan Singh reacted strongly against the allegation that the Indian star off-spinner missed the Padmashri award ceremony for shooting a commercial in
Regarding reasons of missing the Padmashri award ceremony, Harbhajan Singh indicated family problem. He said that he had felt bad for not being able to present at the award giving ceremony, but he was left with no other option as there were some serious family commitments.
Well, I think, it is not fair to take a charge against anybody without having enough proof. One simple thing is that no body would like to miss a ceremony where he or she will be awarded with the country’s one of the highest civilian awards. So, it is pretty much understandable that Harbhajan Singh could not attend the ceremony due to some serious family bindings and problems.
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South Africa has clicnhed the five-match ODI series winning the fourth ODI against Australia and this is definitely good news for the South Africans. However, there is bad news too as their prime off spinner Johan Botha has been suspected by match officials for illegal bowling action. So, he will now undergo a bio-mechanical test of his bowling action, but he will be able to play the fifth ODI. In fact, he will be eligible to represent
Three umpires of Monday’s fourth ODI match: Brian Jerling and Rudi Koertzen from
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Following a historic victory over tournament favorite
In reply,
Well, Afghanistan may have been ruled out of 2011 world cup, but the kind of performance they showed in the tournament this time, it is pretty much certain that the South Asian team will be seen among the elite members of cricket very soon, and I think, Afghanistan should not have any reason to be frustrated for not having been qualified for the next world cup cricket which is due to take place in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Virender Sehwag has been award the Wisden player of the year award for his excellent performance last year. However, the hard hitting opener has recently said that playing for India and helping India to win games are most prestigious than Wisden award.
Virender Sehwag went through a very tough time during which he was struggling for form. However, the Indian opener got his form back during
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Recently, Justin Vaughan, the New Zealand Cricket chief executive, has indicated that they would offer
Well, UAE is one of the major venues where
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has recently revealed that it has received offers from
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You already know that the performance of
Scyld
Scyld
Overall, it seems that the 2009 Wisden Almanack will feature some of the problems that the ECB officials should take into account and should focus on working out those problems.
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Michael Vaughan has been handed a new central contract as he has been recalled to 25-men performances squad. The former captain stepped down from English captaincy following defeat to
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You know that
Hussain has also added that the former
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There are five uncapped players in the 30-men probable including Joe Denly, Eion Morgan, all rounder Graham Napier, who plays for Essex, Chris Woakes and Yorkshire spinner Adil Rashid who was in England’s trip to
Here, I am giving the full list of 30-member preliminary squad of
England squad:
Kevin Pietersen, Kabir Ali, James Anderson, Gareth Batty, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Stephen Davies, Joe Denly, James Foster, Andrew Flintoff, Stephen Harmison, Rob Key, Sajid Mahmood, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Eoin Morgan, Graham Napier, Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Matt Prior, Adil Rashid, Owais Shah, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, Chris Tremlett, Shaun Udal, Chris Woakes, Luke Wright.
At the end of the third day, it seems
In the first of the five-match ODI series,
Along with Ferguson Hussey added 53 runs for the fifth wicket which came to an end when
Chasing a challenging target of 287,
Following their dismissals, no South African batsmen could show enough resistance against Australian bowlers. Specially, off spinner Nathan Hauritz appeared with his top form and picked up 4 South African wickets. Mitchell Johnson and James Hopes got 2 wickets each, while Bracken and debutant pacer Ben Laughlin took one wicket each. For excellent batting performance of Michael Hussey, he was awarded the man of the match award.
ICC president David Morgan has recently put some hopes in the future of
After the bloody terror attack on Sri Lankan team bus on 3 March near
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Selectors of Australian cricket team are going to announce the preliminary Australian squad for the twenty20 world cup due to take place in June in
Andrew Symonds started making newspaper headlines for wrong reasons since last August when he went for fishing in stead of attending an important team meeting and the incident led CA to send him back to home from
The good news for Symonds fans is that there has been a considerable prospect in his behavior of late. Though he is struggling with bat, his bowling has been very useful to his state team
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