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Nadir Shah issues mercy letter to BCB
10-year ban after a BCB investigation found him guilty of corruption after a Indian TV channel's sting operation in 2012. "I have submitted a mercy letter addressing the board president [Nazmul Hassan], and it [has been] received by the [acting] CEO [Nizamuddin Ahmed]," Shah said. "I have asked to lift the ban that the cricket board has issued against me as I have already ...
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Scotland to host Kenya in five-match series
Cricket Scotland has announced that Kenya will tour Scotland for a five-match series between June 30 to July 10. The teams will play two World Cricket League (WCL) Championship matches, two T20 matches and an Intercontinental Cup fixture. All matches will be played at the Mannofield ground in ...
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Steyn a doubt for semi-final
South Africa team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee has confirmed that Dale Steyn may be forced to miss his side's ICC Champions Trophy semi-final with England on Wednesday at the Oval.The Proteas have reached the semi-final stage after victories over Pakistan and the West Indies despite the absence of key players such as Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis, with fast bowler Morne Morkel also ...
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Cricket At Champions Trophy All Eyes Are on the Skies
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IPL 2013 IPL 2013 Away at home Virat Kohli strikes
Joginder Sharma to Misbah-ul-Haq: Sharma serves a length delivery, which the right-hander attempts to scoop it over the short fine-leg region. He gets bat on ball, but fails to get the connection, and plays it straight down the ...
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Champions Trophy 2013 Out of comfort zone India will have to deal with new ODI rules
Joginder Sharma to Misbah-ul-Haq: Sharma serves a length delivery, which the right-hander attempts to scoop it over the short fine-leg region. He gets bat on ball, but fails to get the connection, and plays it straight down the ...
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Clarke to continue recovery
Michael Clarke will stay in London and continue his recovery from injury ahead of this week's tour match against Gloucestershire.Michael Clarke will stay in London and continue his recovery from injury ahead of this week's tour match against Gloucestershire. Clarke, who suffered a back injury in his side's 4-0 Test series defeat by India, is confident he will be fit in time for ...
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Village cricket team forced out by health and safety fears
Bacton Cricket Club, which has played in the Norfolk village since 1934, was ordered to stop using proper cricket balls on its pitch despite no-one actually being ...
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Dad sues cricket coach over captaincy
Pietermaritzburg - The father of a KwaZulu-Natal high school pupil dropped from his school's cricket team is suing the coach, The Times reported on ...
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Spot-Fixing IPL spot-fixing Sreesanths friend Abhishek Shukla gets bail
Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said there was a possibility of involvement of an IPL team besides Rajasthan Royals in spot fixing but said no "breakthrough" has come in this regard so far."There is a possibility of involvement of another IPL team," Kumar said when asked on the involvement of more IPL teams in the spot-fixing scandal.He said Delhi Police were ...
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Spot-Fixing Arjuna Ranatunga IPL never gave anything to Indian cricket
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Spot-Fixing IPL spot-fixing If bowler was fixed what was batsman doing asks court
Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said there was a possibility of involvement of an IPL team besides Rajasthan Royals in spot fixing but said no "breakthrough" has come in this regard so far."There is a possibility of involvement of another IPL team," Kumar said when asked on the involvement of more IPL teams in the spot-fixing scandal.He said Delhi Police were ...
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Bad luck proved costly for Australia
Australia went down fighting in their campaign ending Champions Trophy loss to Sri Lanka, but ultimately their limp performance against England in the first match is to blame for one of their worst ever results at a world one-day tournament.Set a target of 254 to win after opting to field first, Australia needed to score at a challenging 8.7 runs an over and wrap up the chase in 29.1 overs in ...
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County cricket Adams shown door by Surrey after grim start
Chris Adams was sacked as team director by Surrey yesterday after a dire start to the season. The first-team coach, Ian Salisbury, was also relieved of his duties with immediate ...
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James Tredwell ready to be the understudy for Englands penultimate act
Thus, the likelihood is that Graeme Swann will miss his third match of the tournament when England play their semi-final. In his case, influential though he is, they have become almost sanguine when he is missing from their one-day side. The risk of playing him given the looming assignments is greater than the risk of not playing him. James Tredwell, his limited-overs understudy, has made that ...
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Winless Australia exit Champions Trophy
Sri Lanka sealed a semi-final place in the ICC Champions Trophy with a 20-run win over Australia - ending the campaign of the defending champions.Angelo Mathews' side struggled with the bat and were only able to set Australia 254 to win but a strong bowling display ensured their progression from Group A alongside co-hosts England.George Bailey's side needed to achieve that total in ...
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Bailey - Confidence is low
Australia stand-in skipper George Bailey admits confidence within the squad is low following their early elimination from the Champions Trophy.The Australians were knocked out of the ODI competition on Monday evening after a 20-run defeat to Sri Lanka at the Oval. Having already lost to England in their first Group A fixture, Australia then fell victim to the weather in their washed out draw ...
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Australias Michael Clarke on track for first Ashes Test says Bailey
George Bailey, Australia's stand-in captain, is run out by a direct throw from Nuwan Kulasekara during Sri Lanka's 20-run victory. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty ...
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Aussie spinner may make Ashes
Australia's chairman of selectors has hinted that Pakistan-born spinner Fawad Ahmed could feature at some stage during this summer's Ashes series.Fawad took refuge in Australia three years ago after he fled his native Pakistan because he claims he was being persecuted by the Taliban. Since then the 31-year-old leg spinner has gone on to forge a successful career in domestic ...
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Cricket Sri Lanka victory ends NZ hopes
In a surreal game-within-a-game scenario, New Zealand have missed a place in the semi-finals at cricket's Champions Trophy. They needed Australia to beat Sri Lanka by a narrow margin in the final round robin match at the Oval in London. Sri Lanka won by 20 runs after being asked to bat and making 253 for eight. Mahela Jayawardene top scored with 84 from 81 balls. Australia ...
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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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