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| Jadeja apologises to BCCI but says Indian players not guilty
India's cricketer, Ravindra Jadeja has said sorry to the Board of Control for Cricket in India for being involved in the incident in the pub in St. Lucia,
shortly after the Indians had exited from the World T20. However, he has also
said that none of the Indian cricketers, who were in the pub at....
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| Younis Khan says he was banned without giving him chance to explain
Former Pakistan captain Younis Khan, who was one of the seven Pakistani
players to have received a penalty by the PCB after the tour of Australia and
was banned indefinitely by the PCB has said that he was not at fault and that
he was banned without a second chance. Younis also said that he wa....
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| Leaked video reveals player calling Shoaib Malik as negative influence
A video that was recorded during the investigative probe around why Pakistan lost all their games in Australia, has been leaked and found its way to a Pakistani
TV channel. The video reveals the kind of discontentment that there was in the
Pakistan team on the tour.
Shoaib Malik has been accus....
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| England win ICC World T20 by beating Australia
England beat Australia in the final to win their first ever ICC World T20 at Bridgetown in Barbados. In doing so, they won their first ever World Cup tournament
after 35 years since the World Cups first started in cricket.
In the final, the Aussies were simply outplayed, as they managed to score....
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| Waqar Younis expresses shock at semi-final loss to Australia
The coach of the Pakistan cricket team, and former pace bowler, Waqar Younis has said that he was still shocked at the way his side lost the semi-finals of
the World T20 to Australia despite being in the position of great strength.
Australia needed 48 runs off 17 balls and 18 off the last over b....
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| Kumble and Shastri criticise Indian performance in World T20
India's loss to Sri Lanka in the last Super Eight stage game meant that they had to return back to the country without any win to their name in the second round.
This has brought out many cricketers to criticise the Indian team's performance
in the tournament so far, with the likes of Anil Kumbl....
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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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