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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-Warner to face disciplinary hearing over Twitter rant
Sun May 19, 2013 2:23am EDT May 19 (Reuters) - Australia opening batsman David Warner will face a disciplinary hearing for his Twitter outburst against two senior Australian cricket journalists, the country's cricket board said on Sunday. The flamboyant left-handed batsman criticised News Limited journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn in an expletive-filled tirade, which grabbed ...
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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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Surrey must learn to be consistent says Chris Adams
Chris Adams, the Surrey team director, acknowledged that it was time his side moved on from "fleeting moments of ability" and performed over four days if a season of high expectations in the Championship is not to fizzle ...
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Round-up Alan Richardson rolls back years as Kent create horrid history
Yet he remains capable of exploiting an early-season pitch to deadly effect, as Kent found to their cost as they were skittled for 63 - their lowest total in 31 years - on the way to a two-day, 10-wicket defeat at Canterbury. In the 158th first-class match of a career that began in 1995, Richardson grabbed 7 for 22, his best figures since he took 8 for 46 for one of his three previous counties, ...
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On The Front Foot Will Andrew Strauss spill the beans on Kevin Pietersen in his new autobiography
Andrew Strauss, England's admirable former captain, is well on the way with his autobiography. It is to be published in late summer and it is certain that the first place to which most readers will turn is the index, to check under the letter P for Pietersen, ...
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The Calvin Report Nick Compton left facing the cruellest of cuts
History casts an intimidating shadow at Lord's, even on the greyest day. It invites evaluation, demands respect and recognition. As Nick Compton trudged disconsolately back to the venerable Victorian pavilion, the mind's eye envisaged a friendly ghost, striding alongside him. Denis, his grandfather, scored a typically carefree 69 on his last international appearance at cricket's ...
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James Anderson calls early tune against New Zealand on day when swing was king
Cricketers will do just about anything - within the laws, naturally - if they believe it will cause those five-and-a-half ounces of red leather to deviate while moving through the air. Even a Nasa scientist, Rabindra Mehta, has devoted more than 25 years of study to the subject.The debate will continue, but we can all agree that there are few more enjoyable sights in cricket than watching an ...
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Woman political leader killed in Pakistan
Imran Khan 's Movement for Justice in Pakistan was gunned down Saturday outside her Karachi home, police said. Investigators said the killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain, carried out by two men on motorbikes, was a robbery gone wrong, The (London) Guardian reported. But Khan, the cricket star turned politician, suggested the United National Movement or MQM party, which dominates politics in ...
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The Bouncer Englands run machine Joe Root charms the Lords crowd
charmed Lord's with 71, the Test's top score so far, and the statistics were flowing. He has 757 runs in six first-class innings this season at 126.17. As he reached his 50 he passed 3,000 career runs. And when he bats with Trott their combined surnames use only three letters of the alphabet. What's not to ...
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Member of Pakistani cricket stars party killed
Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in ...
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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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