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The Spin | Indias Shikhar Dhawan the most watchable player in Champions Trophy | Rob Bagchi
The only dampener during a breezy swansong for the Champions Trophy has been the rain. Pessimistic forecasts for Thursday's semi-final in Cardiff and Sunday's final at Edgbaston are pregnant with the threat that at best Duckworth-Lewis will have a significant bearing on the tournament's denouement and at worst we may have to resign ourselves to an anti-climactic repeat ...
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ACSU report may delay Dhaka league
BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said he is unsure whether Bangladesh's domestic one-day competition, the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, will start on time. He admitted to an underlying anxiety around the possibility of finding more names in the BPL corruption report to be submitted by the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) later this ...
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Our favourite things this week the best sports journalism from around the web
Welcome to the first of our weekly compilation articles, which will pick out our favourite writing, galleries and features from around the web. This page is an opportunity to celebrate the best online journalism from around the globe and we want to hear what you think of our choices.We would love you to contribute to this series by posting your own suggestions below the line. If you're a ...
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Cricket mentor Denis Brien has runs on the board
DENIS Brien mentored cricket great David Hookes and has been a long-standing servant and pioneer of the sport in South Australia. But perhaps the 72-year-old's biggest achievement has been helping to secure a brighter future for an unlikely pair of cricketers. Six years ago, while playing for Uganda in a tournament in Darwin, Jimmy Okello and Patrick Ochan fled the team and headed to SA. A ...
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Ind vs Pak M S Dhonis valiant ton go...
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Mr Cricket is now Mr Family Hussey ca...
Michael Hussey will play his final Test against Sri Lanka next week and retire from international cricket at the end of the Australian summer, the veteran batsman said, citing a desire to spend more time with his family.The rugged 37-year-old, known affectionately ...
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CA rejects 9 cricket selection influence
Cricket Australia has rejected suggestions from the Nine Network that the broadcaster could have input into team selections over the summer.Jeff Browne, managing director of the Nine Network, told a business luncheon in Sydney on Wednesday the network had to have the best players playing all the time in order to attract television ratings.CA consistently rotated its players last summer to keep ...
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Ashes 2013 Odds lengthen on Australia calling up spinner Fawad Ahmed
Pakistan-born leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed has been named in Australia's A squad to tour Africa during the Ashes. Photograph: Mal Fairclough/AFP/Getty ...
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Pakistan cricket board ordered to name new chief
Zaka Ashraf speaks at a press conference in Dubai last year. A Pakistani court Wednesday ordered the government to appoint an interim head of the cricket board, after the current chairman was suspended over a legal challenge to his ...
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Wimbledon draw Andy Murray could face Rafael Nadal Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic on way to Wimbledon title
Andy Murray was confirmed as the second seed for the Wimbledon men's singles today and French Open champion Rafael Nadal is a potential quarter-final ...
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Cricket dad wants R2m from coach
Durban - A Pietermaritzburg father has served a letter of demand on his son’s school cricket coach for R2.1 million, claiming that the boy suffered damage to his dignity and reputation after being axed from the captaincy of the first team at the start of the school ...
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Ahmed added to Australia A
Pakistan-born spinner Fawad Ahmed has been named in the Australia A squad for their forthcoming tour of Africa.The 31-year-old was added to the 15-man squad on Wednesday for the July and August tour, despite also being in contention for the Ashes series against ...
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Well help pick cricket team - Nine
Channel Nine Entertainment CEO David Gyngell (left) and Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland at the recent announcement of the new cricket TV deal in Melbourne. Picture: Mark ...
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Former Vidarbha captain coach Vijay Telang dies
Vijay Telang has died aged 61. Telang, who played first-class cricket between 1970-86, scored 2724 runs in 50 games and also took seven ...
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Indian father sues sons cricket coach for racial discrimination
Durban: A South African lawyer has sued his son's school cricket coach for 2.1 million rand (about 1.23 lakh rupees), alleging that his son was not allowed to become the captain of any age group sides till he was playing in under-15 category because of his Indian origin.Pranesh Indrajith served legal papers on Dave Karlsen, the coach of the first X1 team at St Charles College, an elite ...
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Fawad Ahmed picked for Australia A cricket tour of Africa
Australia 's Ashes squad, has been named in the party for next month's A tour of Africa. The 31 year old claimed refuge in Australia three years ago after he fled his native Pakistan claiming he was being persecuted by the Taliban and has since gone on to forge a successful career in domestic cricket. A recent amendment to the Citizenship Act meant that Fawad would be allowed to ...
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Aussies see red after one-day failure
Australian batsman Phillip Hughes said his side must quickly switch their focus to the red ball with an admittedly 'low' morale, after a dismal ICC Champions Trophy campaign.The George Bailey-led one-day side failed to chalk up a victory in three group games - including one no-result - to leave the tourists void of momentum ahead of the much-hyped Ashes series beginning July 10.Hughes ...
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Clarke tipped for warm-up return
Australia's Ashes preparations have been boosted with the news that Michael Clarke is likely to feature in the warm-up game against Somerset.Clarke sat out Australia's campaign in the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, missing all three of his country's matches as they exited the tournament with a whimper.However, he is now on course to feature at Taunton next Wednesday in ...
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Inverarity wont put pressure on Ahmed
John Inverarity thinks playing Australia's emerging leg spinner Fawad Ahmed in the opening Tests of the Ashes may be too much pressure for the former Pakistani to handle.Ahmed was rushed to the UK after his citizenship was ushered through parliament this month and snared 1-25 in his first match in national colours - Australia A's 93-run win over Ireland in Belfast on Monday.The ...
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Hampshire cruise to easy win
Durham (20pts) beat Kent (4pts) by 8 wkts Durham have a chance of winning the County Championship after chasing down a victory target of 52 to beat Kent by eight wickets in their final game of the season.The result earns Durham 20 points to give them a final total of 197.5, which could yet be enough for a maiden title if Lancashire and Sussex both fail to win their final ...
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Adams defends Surrey record
Chris Adams has revealed his disappointment following his dismissal as Surrey team director.Adams and coach Ian Salisbury were shown the exit door following a poor start to the season - with the recruitment of South Africa skipper Graeme Smith and Australia's all-time leading run scorer Ricky Ponting failing to spark a revival in fortunes. "Clearly I am disappointed not to be able to ...
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Champions Trophy AB De Villiers stokes suspicions of England ball-tampering
The most significant aspect of ball-tampering scares is that they do not fade away easily. Once the finger of suspicion has been pointed it tends to stay pointed, which made it inevitable that it would be raised before the first semi-final of the Champions ...
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Champions Trophy Englands misfiring middle order must finally bridge gap
England have never won an ICC 50-over competition in 16 previous attempts, 10 World Cups and six Champions Trophies. Over a period of 38 years there have been, in all, four appearances in finals and three in semi-finals but none of the seven captains concerned has gone on to hoist aloft the silverware.At least South Africa, for all their well-chronicled reversals of fortune, have won one of the ...
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New injury setback for Khan
Sussex bowler Amjad Khan is unlikely to feature before August after fracturing bone in his wrist.The 32-year-old is yet to make a first-team appearance this season after a knee injury initially ruled him out at the start of the campaign. Sussex confirmed that Khan, who had returned to second-team duties earlier this month, had suffered a "further setback which looks set to keep him out of ...
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England v South Africa the key clashes
Amla had the Indian sign over the English last year, carrying his eye-catching form from a successful three-Test series (482 runs at an average of 120.50) into the drawn one-day contest that followed (335 at 111.66). There was a career-best 150 rattled up at the Rose Bowl, and an unbeaten 97 accumulated at Trent Bridge, with the opener irresistible and the home side rendered blunt. Anderson, ...
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Mumbai as a city must look to a progressive future
Homosexuality was only decriminalised last year in India, so it is natural that some old ways of thinking will linger, but the recent discrimination against a transgender individual in the city is an ugly reminder of the work yet to be done.
Mumbai is a massive city of over 11 million people, it is the capital of the world’s largest democracy, and is home to a cosmopolitan mix of people from all over the country and the world. Yet some in Mumbai remain, in many ways, social backward in many of their views toward traditional taboo issues such as homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender and cross-dressing. Read more
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