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| KKR to appoint Whatmore as their coach
Finally, the Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders, have a coach
who seems to change the fate of the team in the next IPL season. Director of the
National Cricket Academy (Bangalore), Dav Whatmore has finally been zeroed in
for the position of the head-coach in the next IPL season a....
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| Oram considering to quit Test
Do we have another Andrew Flintoff in the making? Maybe yes, as New
Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram is reportedly considering his retirement
from the Test cricket owing to an injury-ridden show for almost all his career.
This time it was his latest problem, hamstring injury, that forced....
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| Watson ton powers Oz to Champions Trophy victory
It was a hearty site as James Hopes leaped on Shane Watson to give him
a bear hug as the winning runs came off Watson's bat as he hit two consecutive
sixes, in chase of a meager 201 target posted by New Zealand in the Champions
Trophy final.
It was Australia once again who lifted the Champi....
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| Australia crush England and march into finals of Champions Trophy
Australia marched in to the finals of the Champions Trophy after defeating
England by nine wickets with 49 balls still remaining, at the Centurion on Friday
night. And the feeling to lose to Australia in an ODI was not new to England,
though worse this time, given the fact that it was Champion....
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| Injury ridden players to miss Champions League
The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 starting from October 8 will miss
more than one players who are nursing injuries picked up by them during or before
the currently happening Champions Trophy that ends on October 5.
The list starts from the South African skipper, Graeme Smith who has
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| How will India go through to the semi finals
India's match against Australia was rained off in the 43rd over of the
Australian innings at Centurion. This meant that both, India and Australia
got one point off the game. Australia is now at 3 points from two games after
getting two points from the match against West Indies, whereas India h....
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| Sehwag says Gambhir could be next Indian captain
The
issue of captaincy and Virender Sehwag just does not seem to die down! Talking
to the media Sehwag said that he thought that his Delhi and India team mate, Gautam Gambhir was good enough to be the captain of the Indian side in the future.
Sehwag has said that Gambhir was the leading member....
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| IPL warns franchisees over meddling with internal affairs
The BCCI chief, Shashank Manohar has warned the IPL franchises which sent
a letter expressing dissatisfaction on the sacking of IMG from being the sports
management company handling the IPL. Manohar has said that the franchise had no
right to meddle with the internal affairs of the IPL and tha....
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| Younus Khan fractures finger and will miss WI game
The captain of the Pakistani side, Younus Khan, has been ruled out of the
clash against West Indies. This, after he had sustained an injury during the warm-up
game versus Sri Lanka while fielding in the slips and going for a catch. As it
turns out, Younus Khan's little finger has been fracture....
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| Butt says India may play Pakistan on neutral venues
The Pakistan Cricket Board President, Ijaz Butt has said that there
was a chance that the bilateral series between India and Pakistan will be revived
on neutral grounds. He said that the Indian side had agreed to playing the Pakistanis
on the neutral venues, and the ICC has agreed to factor th....
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| Bungee jumping was cause for Flintoff contract rejection
Andrew Flintoff's manager cum agent Andrew Chandler, has said that it was
not the money that made Andrew Flintoff reject the Wales and England
Cricket Board (ECB) contract, but the fact that there was a clause within
the contract which disallowed cricketers from going ahead with playing dang....
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| Tendulkar feels that Compaq Cup century was his best
Sachin Tendulkar has said that the century he hit against Sri Lanka in
the finals of the Compaq Cup tri-series was one of the best ever in his
career in the fifty overs format. Tendulkar scored 138 in 133 balls to propel
the Indians to a resounding win against Sri Lanka. It helped India to get....
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| Flintoff says no to ECB contract for IPL etc
Andrew Flintoff has become the first ever international cricketer to have turned
down a national contract, to be able to prolong his career as a T20 cricketer,
both at the international and the club level. This would mean that Flintoff may
also end up missing international tours in order to pl....
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| Asia Cup to be played in June 2010
The next version of the Asia Cup will be played next year in the month
of June. This was announced by the Asian Cricket Council, and it has been said
that the tournament will be contested by four teams only. These four sides are
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The venue
for the to....
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| Sehwag wants out of vice captaincy role
Current India vice-captain, Virender Sehwag has asked the selectors to
not consider him for the captaincy of the Indian side. He has also requested them
to discontinue with him as the deputy skipper to M.S.Dhoni, and get in a vice-captain
who could probably be groomed into the role of a captai....
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