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One hour of madness cost us everything says Brendon McCullum
The New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum was left to rue "one hour of madness" that cost his side a chance of a famous victory at Lord's. A day that began with such promise ended with the visitors steam-rollered by England for just 68 runs. After three-and-a half Tests of near parity, there is now daylight between the two ...
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Hard work on beating left-handers should keep paying dividends
The England captain, Alastair Cook, admitted after the match: "We would have liked a few more, we were trying get 250 to 260 as a lead." But when Stuart Broad found himself at the crease before the first over of the day had been completed, England's lead was just 208 runs and Cook's target looked as distant as the speck of blue sky away to the east. Cook said: "That ...
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Broad best as England thrash NZ at Lords
Man-of-the-match Stuart Broad routed New Zealand on Sunday but insisted "attack leader" James Anderson was the man behind England's thumping 170-run first Test win at Lord's.Fast-medium bowler Broad took a Test-best 7-44 as New Zealand were dismissed for just 68 in pursuit of a target of 239 to give the home side victory with more than a day to spare.Anderson, set to be ...
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Stuart Broads best burst sets up key England win but all is not yet rosy
England won the opening Test of the summer on Sunday with a compelling exhibition of fast bowling. They dismissed New Zealand for a total of 68 to secure a 1-0 lead in the Investec series by 170 ...
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YB40 round-up Five-scalp Parry does for Surrey
Stephen Parry claimed his first five-wicket haul in one-day cricket to help Lancashire beat Surrey in the Yorkshire Bank 40 Group B at Old Trafford. The left-arm spinner claimed five for 17 as Lancashire, who at one point were 59 for 5, took a seven-run win, the county's first YB40 win of the ...
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Amol Rajan The loveliest place to play the game
Amol Rajan is Editor of Independent Voices, a comment, campaigns and community platform across print and digital. He was earlier Deputy Comment Editor, Sports News Correspondent and news reporter. He writes a restaurant column for the Independent on Sunday, and has a column in the Evening Standard (Mondays), Independent and i (Fridays). He used to work on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff, and ...
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Matt Butler Now Strauss is making history in the commentary box
History was made on Friday, with the first televised crap at Lord's. Sorry, history was made on Friday, with the first televised "crap" at Lord's. And it was uttered by none other than a former England ...
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Sawani committee to pursue match-fixing disrepute charges
three Rajasthan Royals players will press charges pertaining to match-fixing and bringing disrepute to the game under the BCCI's code of ...
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Carberry inspires Royals win
First ODI, Dambulla Sri Lanka 269-7 Innings Complete (D P M D Jayawardene 66) v England 150 (M F Maharoof 4-31). Sri Lanka beat England by 119 runsEngland are still without a one-day win in Sri Lanka for 25 years after slumping to a humiliating 119-run defeat in the first ODI in Dambulla.The hosts posted a respectable 269-7 on a surface which posed problems for batsmen - the average score on ...
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Trego too hot for Middlesex
Peter Trego smashed 81 to help Somerset ease past Middlesex by six wickets in the YB40 at Taunton.The hosts won the toss and asked their visitors to bat but Chris Rogers (29) and Dawid Malan (49) quickly set about building a solid opening partnership. Their stand of 73 for the first wicket allowed star man Joe Denly to stroll out to the middle with the score on 98-2 and the England ...
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Stuart Broads part-time brilliance leaves England hoping for more | Barney Ronay
Stuart Broad days from the moment, five overs into New Zealand's invertebrate second innings, that Hamish Rutherford's off stump was uprooted and sent spinning back in the direction of the pavilion like a dying catherine wheel. It was a lovely sight -- you don't see the cartwheel so often these days -- and a lovely ball from Broad delivered on that brilliantly challenging full ...
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Englands Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson as good as Ive seen – Cook
Alastair Cook said of England's Stuart Broad, above: 'Anyone who is 6ft 5in and bangs it in like he does when it's swinging is going to be very hard work,' after his seven for 44 in New Zealand's second innings. Photograph: Andrew Fosker/Rex ...
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Players to be asked for agents names
The BCCI's plan to regulate player agents, announced on Sunday, will begin with the centrally contracted players being asked to submit the names of their agents for the accreditation process. Sunday's announcement, three days after ...
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England v New Zealand 1st Test England win by 170 runs on dramatic fourth day
In the end it took England less than an hour to wrap up proceedings on Day Four and secure victory by 170 runs in the first Test with New Zealand at ...
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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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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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