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| Muralitharan out of World T20 while Raina scores a century
Sri Lanka were hit by a huge injury blow when their ace off-spin bowler, Muthiah Muralitharan was ruled out of the ICC World T20 tournament due to a groin
injury. Muralitharan has been advised for two to three weeks, and it remains to
be seen whether or not he participates in the three match T20....
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| Warne makes radical suggestions for fourth edition of IPL
The captain of the Rajasthan Royals, Shane Warne has made some rather surprising
suggestions for the next edition of the Indian Premier League, which he
says is to ensure that there is transparency in the tournament. This, he also
adds will ensure that there is no favouritism to any franchises....
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| Lee out of World T20 as Australia lose to Zimbabwe
Brett Lee would have been thinking of making a comeback to international cricket with the ICC World T20, but the same was stalled when he declared injured
and will need to miss the ICC World T20 in the West Indies.
Lee suffered from a muscle strain in his right forearm and will mean that by
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| IPL Governing Council to have Chirayu Amin as interim chairman
The meeting of the Governing Council ended today at the BCCI office in Mumbai and a decision was taken to appoint Chirayu Amin as the new chairman
of the interim Governing Council. This interim committee will meet again in
a time span of around one month to decide on the course of action for....
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| Chennai Super Kings lift IPL after beating Mumbai Indians
Chennai Super Kings have won the third edition of the IPL by beating Mumbai Indians
in the finals of the tournament played at the Dr. DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
The Chennai Super Kings won the match by 22 runs, in a clinical display
that saw the Mumbai Indians being totally outplayed.
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| A tribute to Tendulkar on 37th birthday
Sachin
Tendulkar celebrates his 37th birthday on the 24th of April, and the tributes
have flowed in from various quarters.
Harbhajan Singh, who is Tendulkar's very good friend, said that the age is
just a number for Sachin Tendulkar and that he can continue playing in
the manner that h....
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| Taxmen visit the IPL offices in connection with Kochi franchise
The IPL controversy around the franchise of Kochi have continued unabated.
The latest to be added to the issue was the visit of the officials of the Income-Tax
department to the IPL offices in Mumbai on Thursday. It was described as inquiry
and not as a raid, but it only adds spice to the spec....
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| Ownership of Kochi franchise causes friction between Modi and Tharoor
Lalit Modi has strongly defended his actions about revealing the names of the
stakeholders of the Kochi IPL team on the social networking website, Twitter.
Modi had earlier tweeted about the people who owned the franchise and who were
the hidden stakeholders who held the free stake.
There we....
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| Australia announce their 25 contracted players for next season
The Aussie selectors have chosen their list of 25 players who would be awarded
the contracts for the next season. Despite dropping the senior guys like Stuart Clark and Nathan Bracken, there were contracts for some of the fresh talents
like Doug Bollinger and Ryan Harris for 2010-11.
Some of t....
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| Shoaib Malik says he was cheated into marriage with Ayesha
Shoaib Malik has finally admitted that he was indeed married to Ayesha, but he
also said that he cheated into the marriage by Ayesha. Malik, who is in Hyderabad,
for his own marriage with Sania Mirza, released a press statement that
spoke about how he was cheated into marrying Ayesha when he t....
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| Gambhir reprimanded by Lalit Modi for calling Rajasthan ordinary
Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir was reprimanded by the IPL chief Lalit
Modi for calling Rajasthan an ordinary team. This happened after the game between
the Delhi Daredevils and Rajasthan Royals during the post match conference.
When asked whether he was worried about the opposition winning th....
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| England and South Africa announce their squad for ICC World T20
England announced their 15-member squad for the ICC World T20. There were a couple
of surprises in the side including that of the inclusion of the wicket-keeper
Craig Kieswetter, who will replace Matt Prior in the side.
Kieswetter is a South African born wicket-keeper and a very hard hitter of....
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| Afridi appeals to PCB to pardon his fine of 3 million rupees
Shahid Afridi has requested the Pakistan cricket board to re-look into
the fine that was imposed on him by the PCB. Afridi was fined Rs. 3 million along
with a few other Pakistani cricketers for ball-tampering.
The other cricketers who were penalised were Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf,
b....
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| Strange to see Piyush Chawla in the Indian team for ICC World T20
The Indian team for the ICC World T20 was chosen by the Indian selectors.
And there was many question marks surrounding the same, especially in the wake
of some performances and fitness issues.
Gautam Gambhir and Ashish Nehra are the two players who have generated
much noise givent hat the....
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| Indian team for ICC World T20 to be chosen today
The Indian selectors will be meeting today to select the Indian team for the ICC
World T20 that happens in the West Indies from the end of April. They have some
interesting decisions to make as they sit to select the 15 players who will be
on that flight to the West Indies.
Batsmen:
There....
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