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First-day washout in England-NZ cricket
Rain meant there was no play on the first day of the second and final cricket Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley on Friday.Heavy overnight and early morning rain meant the square was still fully covered when the captains should have been tossing the coin at 10.30am.And after several showers, the umpires abandoned play for the day shortly before 4pm.England lead the series 1-0 ...
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Unchanged Royals bat in delayed start
After evening showers in Kolkata delayed the start of the virtual semi-final by an hour, Rajasthan Royals decided to bat against Mumbai Indians. Royals didn't make any change to the XI that beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in the eliminator. Mumbai, who would have batted too despite possibility of more rain, were still without Sachin Tendulkar. They did make one change, though. Munaf Patel, who ...
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Spot-fixing NCP asks cricket board chief N Srinivasan to step down
New Delhi : With the spot-fixing probe widening and Mumbai Police likely to question Gurunat Meiyappan, the son-in-law of BCCI chief N Srinivasan, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has said that Mr Srinivasan should step down."N Srinivasan should immediately resign keeping morality in mind, until the investigation is complete," NCP leader DP Tripathi said today."Match fixing is ...
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India cricket boss faces grilling over spot fixing
(51 mins ago) The chief executive of the Chennai Super Kings is likely to be questioned by police in Mumbai later Friday as part of investigations into spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League. Gurunath Meiyappan, who is married to the daughter of Board of Control for Cricket in India president Narainswamy Srinivasan, is reported to have been in touch with Bollywood actor Vindoo Randhawa who ...
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Cricket bosss relative faces fixing probe
The son-in-law of the most powerful man in Indian cricket is likely to be questioned by police in Mumbai later on Friday as part of investigations into spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League.Gurunath Meiyappan, whose father-in-law is Board of Control for Cricket in India president Narainswamy Srinivasan, is reported to have been in touch with Bollywood actor Vindoo Randhawa.Randhawa is alleged ...
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Shukla meets law minister over anti-corruption law
Rajiv Shukla, the IPL chairman, and Arun Jaitley, the BCCI vice-president, have met the federal law minister, Kapil Sibal, in Delhi over the planned legislation to deal with corruption in sports. The two are also likely to meet the sports minister, Jitendra ...
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Cricket McCullums keeping duties a one-off
Brendon McCullum's decision to answer the New Zealand team's wicketkeeping SOS is his first test behind the stumps since playing Australia in March 2010. Opposition batsmen (and the television audience) will get used to his catchphrase "C'mon lads'', booming through the Headingley stump microphones as he leads New Zealand in search of their first win at the venue in 30 years. The 1983 ...
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Cricket NSW appoints former Cricket Australia executive
Sydney 2000 Cricket New South Wales has confirmed the appointment of former Cricket Australia head of strategy Andrew Jones as its new chief executive.Jones comes into the position during a tumultuous time for cricket in the state after former chief Brad Gilbert had stood down in January following 11 years in the role.The Blues firstly sacked coach Anthony Stuart last season but that led to ...
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Pakistan Ireland tie in Dublin
Pakistan and Ireland played out a thrilling tie in the first one-day international at the Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, Dublin on Thursday.A knock of 84 from Asad Shafiq and Mohammed Afeez's 122 not out set the tone for the tourists, as they posted 266 in an innings reduced to 47 overs by rain.The weather interruption left Ireland needing 276 to win by virtue of the Duckworth-Lewis method, ...
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Durhams Graham Onions takes five to cut Middlesex down to size
Nothing sharpens the focus for a cricketer with ambition like an Ashes series and its presence on the horizon has coincided with Graham Onions's return to top form.On a delayed second day punctuated by five stoppages for rain and hail, Onions completed the 18th five-wicket haul of his career to ...
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Dublin draw crushes OBrien
Kevin O'Brien was left distraught after Ireland were denied a famous one-day victory against Pakistan.O'Brien swept the final ball from Saeed Ajmal for four to level the scores and leave the hosts agonisingly short of a first-ever Dublin triumph against a Test-playing nation. "We're not here to tie the game, we're here to win it so that's why it feels a little bit ...
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Potent Graham Onions adds some flavour to Durhams Championship hopes
Of the counties occupying the top four places in the First Division table, Durham's title credentials are seen as the least convincing, yet so long as England do not decide to factor Graham Onions into their Ashes plans, they will remain at least dangerous ...
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County Championship round-up Joy for Sussex at the expense of Somerset
Sussex moved to the top of the Championship - temporarily at least - by piling more misery on Somerset, who have now suffered two crushing defeats in a row. Dismissed for 76 in their first innings, the Cidermen subsided with only marginal improvement second time around, bowled out for 108, with Jos Buttler's 29 their highest score in the match. The game, only in its second day, was over by ...
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Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned
An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The ...
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Glamorgan suffer day of rain and missed opportunities at Leicester
Glamorgan first team this season after graduating from Cardiff University with a degree in mathematics, has an action that brings the former Durham and England pace man very much to mind. The pace and bounce he obtains are not dissimilar either.That he did not bowl until 5pm was mainly down to the weather - only 41.2 overs were possible, and none at all in the afternoon session - but also ...
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Cricket Vettori ruled out of Leeds test
Daniel Vettori has been ruled out of playing the second cricket test against England at Headingley. Doug Bracewell has been picked in his place, meaning New Zealand will play four pace bowlers in a gamble to level the series. Vettori could not guarantee his fitness over five days of a test if he was required to exert himself under a heavy bowling workload. "We gave it our best shot, he didn't ...
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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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