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Cricket McCullum reflects on where it all went wrong
A chance to leave a plaque on the New Zealand cricket hall of fame escaped the class of 2013 overnight at Lord's. The contagion of a dressing room filled with flying pads, gloves, bats and boxes as wickets fell was too much for the team to stomach as their batting collapsed. Unlike their 1999 predecessors, the New Zealanders failed to secure victory at the Marylebone Cricket Club. They were all ...
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Cricket Losing Black Caps bowled out for 68
If New Zealand's second innings capitulation was a classified ad it might read something like this: "For sale. 2013 New Zealand second innings at Lord's. Promises much, but runs out of gas in a shade under two hours on the brink of history. Dial 196058 for disappointment. " 1, 9, 6, 0, 5, 8 reads like the makings of a telephone number but is actually the individual scores of the New ...
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Funeral Held for Slain Pakistani Politician
Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed late Saturday after being approached by two unknown gunmen outside her home in Karachi. Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, blamed Saturday's slaying of Zahra Shahid Hussain on the rival Muttahida Qaumi Movement party, or MQM. The party has denied any ...
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Englands Stuart Broad shoulders task to destroy New Zealands dream
Stuart Broad found the edge of Peter Fulton's dangling bat, New Zealand nursed grand thoughts of winning the first Test.They had clung on to England's coat-tails tenaciously; Tim Southee had produced a 10-wicket performance to send his opponents wickets tumbling and the Kiwis required 239 runs to take a dormie lead into the second Test.An hour later, as the players trooped off the ...
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Lords proves a treacherous place for New Zealands batsmen | Vic Marks
So Lord's is the new Headingley. OK, the pavilions do not have much in common and the maroon trouser with cheeks to match are seldom in evidence at Leeds. But Lord's is a place where mystical forces can suddenly coincide to make batting seemingly impossible. Now it can be a more treacherous place than Yorkshire's ground, where the two sets of players, surprisingly well-rested, ...
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Zaheer eager to regain India spot
Zaheer Khan , the India fast bowler, has said he is eager to reclaim his spot in the Indian team and that he will utilise the time after the IPL to work on his fitness and form. Zaheer was out of action for four-and-a-half months before playing two matches for Royal Challengers Bangalore earlier this week. "I'm definitely feeling much better but I know I've still got a long ...
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No play in Edinburgh
Scotland's second one-day against Pakistan was abandoned without a ball being bowled after the umpires ruled the waterlogged surface in Edinburgh was not fit for play.The match was due to start at 10.45am this morning but heavy downpours in the capital in the preceding 24 hours had left the outfield sodden. Match officials Mark Hawthorn and Ian Ramage ordered five pitch inspections while ...
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Southee keeps NZ in touch
Yet another spell of late collapses left the first test evenly balanced after the third day at Lord's with England closing on 180-6 and leading by 205 runs.A vastly improved bowling display from England helped skittle the Black Caps out for just 207 after they emerged on their overnight score of 152-4, helping the hosts to a narrow first innings lead of 25. Alastair Cook's men then ...
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McCullum focuses on positives
New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum attempted to focus on the positives despite seeing his side bowled out for 68 as they lost the first Test with England at Lord's.Day four began well enough for the Black Caps, as they dismissed Alastair Cook's side for 213 in their second innings. That left the tourists chasing 239 for victory but they suffered an embarrassing batting collapse, ...
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KKR bat Ishant out with illness
Cameron White lost the toss in the last league game of IPL 2013, a match Sunrisers Hyderabad need to win to take the final playoff spot ahead of Royal Challengers Bangalore. Gautam Gambhir immediately decided to bat, with White saying he would have done the same. He put up a brave face saying that Sunrisers had also chased and won at their home ground, but Rajasthan Royals struggled too much in ...
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Cricket Triumph to tragedy as NZ batsmen lose the way
Tim Southee knows how to steal a scene. He chose Lord's to secure his first test 10-wicket bag and underline his status as New Zealand's premier strike bowler on the fourth morning of the first test. That's where the bouquets ended for the visitors. England stole the rest of the ...
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Dinda returns Warriors choose to bat
In the battle of the bottom-placed teams, Pune Warriors chose to bat on a track that had a bit of grass on it. They made one change, bringing back seamer Ashok Dinda for Ishwar Pandey. Delhi Daredevils also made one change, picking Bharat Chipli in place of Unmukt ...
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Rajasthan Royals to file police complaint against trio
Rajasthan Royals will file a police complaint against three of their players arrested earlier this week on allegations of spot-fixing. The decision was revealed by BCCI president N Srinivasan following an emergency working committee meeting of the board in Chennai to discuss the ...
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Warner charged after outburst
David Warner faces a disciplinary hearing following his Twitter outburst against two senior Australian journalists.The left-handed opening batsman criticised News Limited journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn in an expletive-filled tirade. The 26-year-old has been charged with breaking the code of behaviour. Cricket Australia said in a statement that Warner had been charged because of ...
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Live updates - BCCI meeting on IPL spot-fixing crisis
Jayaditya Gupta: Gauging from the official broadcast of the IPL you'd be hard-pressed to guess there has been a spot-fixing scandal over the past few ...
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Cricket Black Caps fighting fit
The sight of New Zealand fielding the same test XI for a fourth consecutive test is rare. In fact, a look at the archives suggests it has never happened. What a change for a country used to seeing players hobbling from the field, teams jury-rigged until the ends of tours and terms like ``stress fracture'' and ``medial ligament strain'' becoming part of the common vernacular. Chris Donaldson, ...
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Cricket Can NZ make history with the bat
The big imprints look like something Neil Armstrong might've left on the moon but if the New Zealand batsmen can negotiate the Lord's pitch footmarks it'll be one giant leap for the Mike Hesson/Brendon McCullum regime. A second New Zealand victory at the Marylebone Cricket Club in 16 attempts (the other came in 1999) remains a moon landing-type longshot. England have a lead of 205 runs and there ...
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IPL Game-changing cops of Delhi Police who busted cricket scandals
Betting is illegal in India, but Indians are compulsive gamblers, willing to wager thousands of crores on anything from the outcome of cricket ...
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Anderson tears through New Zealand
James Anderson completed a five-wicket haul as England dominated the morning of day three of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.Resuming on 4-154, the visitors added just 53 runs to their overnight total as they were bowled out for 207.The breakthrough came almost immediately for the hosts, as in just the second bowl of the day Brendon McCullum edged a Stuart Broad delivery to ...
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Kohli stars in Challengers win
A Virat Kohli half-century fired Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 24-run win over the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL on Saturday.Victory in the match - which was affected by heavy rain, with both sides reduced to eight overs - means RCB's play-off hopes are still alive, with the franchise sitting fourth in the table.They will watch Sunday's match between the fifth-placed Sunrisers ...
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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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