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Cricket Black Caps bounce back after poor start
New Zealand's test cricket showed further signs of resurgence on the second day of the opening test against England as first Tim Southee, then Ross Taylor exhibited dominance. On a wicket where the English order and the New Zealand openers struggled, Taylor, and to a lesser extent Kane Williamson, made it look a different game. Yet to say the visitors had the advantage was a slight illusion. At ...
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County cricket – as it happened
Richard Rae reports The point at which artificial light is considered to have taken over from natural light is matter of opinion, but the only opinions that count in county cricket in that respect are those of the umpires. The result is that the players were off the field for around half an hour, but no overs have been lost, and after nightwatchman Luke Fletcher's entertaining little knock, ...
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Cricket Boult rises above gripes about pitch
Disappointment has been expressed about the state of the Lord's pitch despite the inclement conditions faced by the ground staff to prepare a test-quality strip. England No 3 Jonathan Trott was questioned on how it had played after the first day. He made 39 but his third ball saw a caught-and-bowled chance dropped by New Zealand spinner Bruce Martin. Trott was through the shot before the ball ...
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Cricket Police say players accepted thousands
Indian police say three cricketers, including test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, allegedly accepted tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing. Eleven bookmakers were also arrested in connection with the inquiry, said Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar, as he gave details of three games in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) at the centre of the corruption probe. Kumar said that ...
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Ton-up Yardy hits Derbyshire
Michael Yardy powered to an unbeaten century as Sussex ended day two of their LV= County Championship Division One match against Derbyshire 105 runs ahead with two wickets in hand at Derby.Yardy finished the day on 121 from 192 balls, leading his side to 328-8 in response to the home team's opening effort of 223 all out. Summer signing from Surrey, Chris Jordan, weighed in with 92 as the ...
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Bopara ton puts Essex on top
Ravi Bopara struck his first century of the season to put Essex in a strong position on the second day of their LV= County Championship Division Two clash with Glamorgan.Bopara, who returned to Essex colours after being on England Lions duty against New Zealand last week, was dismissed shortly before the close for 145 out of 343-9 - giving the visitors an overall lead of 112 at the SWALEC ...
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Hall the hero for Northants
Andrew Hall's first century in two years helped Northamptonshire reach 355 before Leicestershire closed day two at Wantage Road on 89-1.South African Hall hit 113 off 235 balls to make sure the hosts - who had reached 91-4 by the end of a rain-hit opening day to the Division Two fixture - claimed four batting bonus points. Rob Newton played his part in a fifth-wicket stand worth 143, ...
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Bowlers give Notts the edge
A disciplined performance with the ball gave Nottinghamshire the initiative on the second day of their LV= County Championship Division One match against Surrey at Trent Bridge.With all 10 wickets evenly distributed amongst five bowlers, the home side managed to dismiss their opponents for 207, a first innings deficit of 67. Samit Patel was the pick of the bowlers, taking 2-4 off his eight ...
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Somerset stunned by Murtagh
Somerset closed day two at Taunton on 112-5 in their second innings after being forced to follow-on by Division One rivals Middlesex.After being bowled out for 347 themselves, the visitors quickly seized control of the LV= County Championship clash by dismissing their opponents for just 152. Tim Murtagh was the man who did much of the damage, claiming 4-28 first time around and then adding a ...
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Dominant Yorkshire push on
Yorkshire continued their dominance of Warwickshire as they built a first innings lead of 190 on day two at Edgbaston.Having dismissed the injury-hit champions for 128, half-centuries by Gary Ballance and Adil Rashid helped the visitors to 318-7 at the close of play. Tim Bresnan's arrival from Lord's added to the Yorkshire feelgood factor. He began the day with his release from the ...
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Flipside Cricket hit wicket again
At 2:30 a.m. on May 16, when officers from the Delhi Police barged into an apartment in Mumbai's Carter Road to arrest fast bowler S. Sreesanth, an IPL fuse that was lit five years ago finally fizzed its way towards explosion. Ten hours later, a Freudian slip from the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) chief administrative officer and principal fire-fighter Ratnakar Shetty ...
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England limp along at Lords
England laboured to 160-4 from 80 overs before rain cut short the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.Not one of the home batsmen passed 50 as some disciplined bowling from the Black Caps coupled with a cautious approach led to a run-rate of two-an-over, meaning a hectic summer schedule started more with a whimper than a bang. The impressive Trent Boult claimed 2-29 ...
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Englands Anderson claims 300th test wicket
England's James Anderson (right) celebrates after reaching 300 test wickets on dismissing New Zealand's Peter Fulton during the first test cricket match at Lord's cricket ground in London May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Philip ...
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Sunrisers bat Trivedi back for Royals
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and decided to bat on what looked like a dry Hyderabad surface. They have been winning chasing on their home track, but went against the norm this time. Sunrisers made no change to their side. Hit by corruption charges against three of their players, Rajasthan Royals hoped adversity would only help their side come back stronger. They made two changes to their ...
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England-New Zealand Test series Fit-again Graeme Swann Tim Bresnan return to England Test squad
Paceman Tim Bresnan and off-spinner Graeme Swann have returned from elbow surgeries to join the England squad for the first test against New Zealand, starting at Lord's on Thursday."Both Graeme Swann and Tim Bresnan have worked hard to regain fitness following elbow surgery and have demonstrated through their performances for their counties that they are ready for the challenge of ...
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IPL 2013 Bhuvneshwar Kumar lone Warrior in a defeated army
Over the course of the season, the Pune Warriors have tried several pacers. Ashok Dinda, Kane Richardson, Wayne Parnell, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Mitchell Marsh and Angelo Mathews make a long list of new-ball bowlers who have made it to the playing XI but failed to cement their spot. Cutting a lone figure of consistency is this fluid cast happens to be Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who happens to be Indian ...
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Russell Domingo replaces Gary Kirsten as South Africa coach
Russell Domingo will take over as coach of South Africa's cricket team from Gary Kirsten, Cricket South Africa announced on Saturday.Domingo had served as Kirsten's assistant for the last two years and been in charge of the country's Twenty20 team since December.Kirsten announced on Friday he would not be taking up an offer to renew his contract when it ends in August, sending ...
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Indian Premier League IPL 2013 We still have a fair chance says Gautam Gambhir
His team is virtually out of the play-offs race having lost eight of their 13 matches, but an optimistic Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir today said they still have a "fair chance" of making the cut in the ongoing Indian Premier League."At the moment, the competition is pretty open. We still have a fair chance of reaching the play-offs. For me what matters is the ...
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You Write the Caption - 170513
Go on, make us laugh. What might they be saying? Post your caption to this picture using the comment form below and our favourite will win a bottle of ...
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Mangongo admits to pushing player
Stephen Mangongo, Zimbabwe's interim coach during their series against Bangladesh, has admitted to pushing one of his young players in a moment of rage. Mangongo told Zimbabwe's Herald newspaper that he shoved 22-year ...
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Royals sponsor withdraws ads featuring Sreesanth
arrest of three Rajasthan Royals players on allegations of spot-fixing have had their first off-field fallout, with one team sponsor reported to have withdrawn advertisements featuring ...
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BCCI get Asian countries backing over Sivas appointment
Even as the controversy over Laxman Sivaramakrishnan's appointment to the ICC Cricket Committee raged on, the BCCI today received support from its Asian allies Sri Lanka and Pakistan who claimed allegations of the Indian Cricket Board forcing a re-vote were baseless.The furore over the appointment seemed to have created a rift in the cricket world with the Asian countries throwing their ...
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ICC offers support in IPL case
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has promised to assist the investigation of a spot-fixing case after Rajasthan Royals trio Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan were arrested on Thursday.The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have suspended the players and ICC chief executive David Richardson has offered their support in the matter. "The ICC will provide full support ...
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Strauss signs for Sky
Sky Sports has added Ashes-winning England captain Andrew Strauss to its commentary team for the next two series against Australia.Strauss, who retired from cricket in August 2012, will link-up with Sky Sports for the summer Investec Ashes series, beginning in July, and the winter tour to Australia, which starts in November. The 36-year-old - who guided England to two Ashes series victories, ...
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Spot fixing is like murder of cricket Karsan Ghavri
Former cricketers and fans around the country are livid with the involvement of Rajasthan Royals players - Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila in the spot fixing charges. Karsan Ghavri, a former Indian cricketer told this citizen journalist, 'The BCCI should take such action that upcoming players will not dare to become involve in such ...
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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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