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Cricket Batsmens latest strategy - footwork and patience
Footwork and patience have been watchwords for New Zealand's batting ahead of the second test at Headingley, starting tonight. Coach Mike Hesson described the team as "stunned" after their collapse for 68 against England at Lord's. The visitors have no doubt suffered a painful introspection. However, it was still a touch disconcerting to see balls disappearing into the stands or wafted into the ...
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Cricket Standing the test of time
Here's a topic when a long evening of pub contemplation beckons Who has contributed more to New Zealand test cricket, Stephen Fleming or Daniel Vettori?The natural fence sitting - but probably correct - answer is to say they have added equally in their own estimable ways. This is not about one-upmanship, it is about debate. The topic is valid tonight with Vettori on the verge of passing ...
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Cricket Standing the test of time
Here's a topic when a long evening of pub contemplation beckons Who has contributed more to New Zealand test cricket, Stephen Fleming or Daniel Vettori?The natural fence sitting - but probably correct - answer is to say they have added equally in their own estimable ways. This is not about one-upmanship, it is about debate. The topic is valid tonight with Vettori on the verge of passing ...
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Cricket Wagners war of words for English batsmen
Neil Wagner's candid responses have been refreshing since he graduated to cricket's international ranks in July 2012. His conscience seems to refuse to evade questions. Ahead of the Headingley test, Wagner admitted to being the team's sledging spearhead, saying some of his teammates are probably looking at him sometimes thinking: "shut up". "I like to seize any opportunity to ...
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Australias Ryan Harris looks forward to competitive Ashes – video
Australia's injury-plagued paceman Ryan Harris says he is ready for the Ashes. The 33-year-old pace bowler commands a bowling average of 23.63 despite missing nearly as many Test matches as he has played. Harris fractured his ankle in the fourth Test of the last Ashes series and, he admits, there have been moments in the long months of recuperation since that he thought it might be his only ...
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Troubled Rajasthan aim to continue fairytale
Big picture If Rajasthan Royals are able to produce two more good games, it will be a fairytale for them, according to their captain Rahul Dravid. In many ways, irrespective of what happens next, it is already a fairytale, one that has played out alongside a ...
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Glamorgan take total control
Jim Allenby hit an unbeaten 138 as Glamorgan dominated the second day of their LV= County Championship Division Two clash with Leicestershire at Grace Road.Following the visitors' declaration on 442-9, the Glamorgan attack skittled Leicestershire for just 142, with Michael Hogan and John Glover taking four wickets apiece. That left the home side 300 runs behind and facing the prospect of ...
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Late strikes boost Durham
The new ball proved more of a threat in the evening than the morning at Chester-le-Street as Division One leaders Middlesex replied to Durham's 259 by slipping to 11-2.Corey Collymore had taken two wickets in two deliveries with the second new ball to finish with 4-61 as Durham's last four wickets went down for 29. Then Graham Onions knocked back Sam Robson's off stump with the ...
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Kent make encouraging start
Kent's pace bowlers combined to dismiss Essex for 212 on the opening day of their LV= Country Championship Division Two match at Chelmsford.Darren Stevens returned figures of 4-36 while Mark Davies and Charlie Shreck each claimed three wickets before the visitors finished the day on 20-1 in reply. It could have been worse for Essex if not for a half-century from Graham Napier, who along ...
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BCCIs agent mandate evokes mixed response
Latika Khaneja and Lokesh Sharma, who were two of the most prominent figures in the industry 10 years ago, are not overjoyed by the BCCI's decision. Khaneja, director of Collage Sports Management, recently decided to give up managing cricketers, as she felt it was just another way for the BCCI to control things. "The BCCI feels it should only manipulate players and their ...
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Umpire Rauf stood down by ICC
Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf has been withdrawn from duty at next month's Champions Trophy after reports indicated he was under investigation by police in Mumbai.Dave Richardson, the ICC chief executive, said: "In the wake of reports that the Mumbai Police are conducting an investigation into Asad Rauf's activities, we feel that it is in Asad's best interests as well as those ...
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Magoffin runs through Somerset
Sussex's Steve Magoffin took 8-20, the best bowling performance of his career, as Somerset were routed for just 76 on the opening day of the County Championship game at Horsham.By the close of a first day in which 19 wickets fell, Magoffin was back in the middle and undefeated on 21 as Sussex closed on 298-9, a lead of 222. The 33-year-old Australian took five wickets in 13 balls at one ...
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Father of Afghan cricket captain kidnapped by unknown gunmen
Sydney, May 23 : The father of the captain of the Afghanistan cricket team has been abducted by unknown gunmen from his car from the outskirts of the city of Jalalabad in the eastern province of Nangarhar, according to ...
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England bubbling ahead of second Test after weathering New Zealand storm | Mike Selvey
Neil Wagner and New Zealand had England pinned down for much of the first Test at Lord's, but still ended up losing. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty ...
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Cook targets series whitewash
England captain Alastair Cook says it is "vitally important" his side complete a clean-sweep series win over New Zealand in the second and final Test at Headingley. Cook's side produced a devastating bowling display, led by Stuart Broad's 7-44, last Sunday to wrap-up a 170-run victory at Lord's. The match had been delicately poised a 12.30pm on the fourth day with New ...
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Cricket Australia batsman David Warner apologies for Twitter rant
Australia opening batsman, said on Thursday he regretted not keeping a lid on his outrage but maintained he had to defend himself after his image was used in a report condemning ...
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Mumbai police in Chennai operations
The IPL crisis took a twist today with officials of the Mumbai Police reaching the house of Gurunath Meiyappan, chief executive of the Chennai Super Kings. It was not immediately clear why they were there, and there has been no official statement by either the police or the ...
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Indians protest over cricket corruption scandal
Indian activists of Youth Bhagwan Valmiki Mahasangh Punjab hold photographs of Indian actor Vindu Dara Singh during a demonstration in Amritsar on May 21, 2013. Indian actor Vindu Dara Singh has been arrested by Mumbai police as part of the spot-fixing investigation of the IPL cricket tournament. (AFP/Getty ...
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Rajiv Rajendra novel about a fixed cricket league hits uncomfortably close to home
The reissue of Rajiv Rajendra's slim sports crime thriller arrives complete with a book publicist's eye for an opportunity. Chennai's Springboard imprint, which first published the book last year, has chosen to market Rajendra's fiction just as the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) season rumbles towards its troubled conclusion on May 26. ...
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Cricket and its exquisite sadness
Somewhere within it, cricket has a deep, maybe unending, payload of sadness. It's there in its history, in its psychology and perhaps more than that, it's part of what the game actually is.By sadness, I don't mean melancholy or unhappiness: they are something different. It's not about tragedy, although the game has had its share of those. Rather, it's an emotion that ...
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Father of Afghanistan cricket captain abducted near his home
KABUL - Gunmen kidnapped the father of Afghanistan's national cricket team captain near his home in an eastern city, officials said Thursday. There has been no ransom demand since Mohammad Nabi's 60-year-old father Khobi Khan was abducted from his car in the city of Jalalabad, cricket board president Shazada Masoud said. Police are searching for Khan, but there have been no leads or ...
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Indias sports bill draft to be ready by June 30 says minister
alleged spot-fixing in the IPL, has said the sports bill that is currently being drafted should be ready in full by June 30. Speaking to television channel CNN IBN, Singh said: "I feel it's very important for a very strict law, that processes are implemented not only in cricket but in other sports also. Cricket has just been exposed, but there might be things happening in other sports ...
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IPL Cricket 2013 Rajasthan to meet Mumbai for final against Chennai
Cricket News: IPL Cricket 2013: Rajasthan Royals will meet Mumbai Indians in the Qualifier 2 for a place in the final against Chennai Super ...
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20 great Ashes moments No8 Allan Border no more Mr Nice Guy 1989
Allan Border was friendly with England captain David Gower during the losing 1985 tour but the Australian vowed to 'show the bastards' four years later. Photograph: Adrian ...
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Warner apologises after fine
David Warner has apologised for his Twitter outburst against two journalists, a rant that earned him a hefty fine.The Australia batsman had blasted News Limited cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn, after he took offence to an article by the former on the nightlife during the rich Indian Premier League tournament, which carried a picture of Warner. The opener, who was fined 5,750 ...
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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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