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| Percy Sonn did his best to make cricket a better game
Cricket Australia Chairman Creagh O Connor today mourned
the death of International Cricket Council President Percy Sonn
and said the South African did his best to make cricket a better game.
O'Connor said Australian cricket was saddened by the death of 57-year-old Sonn,
who died yeste
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Javed Miandad open to coaching Pakistan cricket team again
Former Pakistan captain and coach Javed Miandad is ready to give a serious
thought to coaching the national team again if the Cricket Board offered him the
job.
Miandad, who has coached senior team on three separate terms but was removed acrimoniously
on all occasions, said he had always k
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| Dav Whatmore turns down PCB offer for being Cricket coach
The coach of Bangladesh cricket team, Dav Whatmore has turned down
an offer from the Pakistan Cricket Board to consider coaching its national
team.
A Pakistan Cricket Board official confirmed that negotiations with Whatmore had
failed to come through.
"He has rejected our offer to h
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Inzamam advices Pakistan players to avoid brushes with officials
Concerned about Pakistani players getting frequent reprimands for their on-field
conduct, former captain Inzamam ul Haq has advised his teammates to avoid
getting into skirmishes with match officials and rival cricketers.
Referring to the reprimand issued to pacer Mohammad Asif during the re
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| Cricket World Cup should last no longer than a month said MCC
The seven-week long World Cup in the West Indies courted sharp criticism
from the Marylebone Cricket Club, which said that the quadrennial event
should be played within a month's time.
Offering several recommendations for better conduct of the show-piece event, MCC
World Cricket Committee,
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John Wright to be head coach of Australian cricket team
Former India cricket coach John Wright is all set to take over as
the head coach of Australia's Centre of Excellence.
According to a report in the 'Sydney Morning Herald', Wright is set to fill the
post left vacant by Tim Nielson, who took over as Australia's coach after
the World Cup.
The
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| Pakistani Players termed Inzamam Ul Haq autocratic
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam ul Haq was preceived as an "autocrat"
by different players of his team, a member of the Performance Evaluation Committee
(PEC) that probed Pakistan's failure at the cricket World Cup said.
Various players, who had played with Inzamam, gave their feed
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Talismanic Anil Kumble ready for another Cricket battle
His partners may come and go, but Anil Kumble goes on forever.
The World Cup severely dented the reputation of many
an established player in the Indian team, but with the exception of Kumble.
The 35-year-old leggie has come through several crises in his
17-year-long playing career. Po
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| Pakistan Cricket team leaves for Abu Dhabi ODI Series
The new look Pakistan cricket squad prepared to fly out to Abu Dhabi
today to play a one-day series against Sri Lanka with new captain, Shoaib Malik exhorting his team to get back to winning ways.
Malik also made it clear he was not under any pressure leading the side for the
first time in a
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Indian Cricket League not meant to confront BCCI
Asserting that the Indian Cricket League was not meant to antagonise the
BCCI, former player and one of the directors on ICL's executive
board Kiran More said the planned series would contribute to the game's
growth in the country.
"We should see the ICL as an opportunity which will p
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| Indian Cricket Team targets clean sweep tomorrow Rahul Dravid
Unwilling to lose momentum after clinching the series, Indian skipper Rahul David today stressed that his team will stick to the target of making a clean
sweep of the three-match series to gear up for tougher challnges in the coming
months.
"We are very keen [to make it 3-0]. That was o
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Kapil Dev to head Executive Board of Team India Cricket League
Former India captain Kapil Dev will head the Executive Board of the breakaway
Indian Cricket League (ICL), it was announced here today.
The other members of the Board include former stumper and ex-chief selector Kiran More, former England captain Tony Greg and Australian cricketer-turned-commen
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| Senior players should back Shoaib Malik said Naseem Ashraf
Stressing on the importance of teamwork, Pakistan Cricket Board today called
upon senior players of the team to provide complete support to new captain Shoaib Malik.
In a meeting with the Abu Dhabi-bound squad today, PCB chairman Naseem Ashraf said he hoped the players had learnt their lessons
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni took victory away from us said Habibul Bashar
Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar today admitted that Mahendra Singh
Dhoni was responsible for denying the hosts victory in the opening game of
the three-match one-day cricket series.
Bashar said the dashing wicketkeeper-batsman made all the difference as the visitors
registered a five-wic
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| Bob Woolmer murder suspect could be named soon
A suspect in Bob Woolmer's murder may be named after a high-level meeting
between the officials of Jamaican Police and Scotland yard in London today, according
to a newspaper report.
The 'Jamaican Observer' said the highly complex case could come closer to conclusion
after the meeting.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni describes match winning knock as one of his best innings
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who defied cramps to fashion an Indian victory in the first
of the three-match one day cricket series against Bangladesh, today
termed his unbeaten 91 as one of the most memorable innings of his career.
Dhoni fought a cramped right hamstring to take his team home with a
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| Adam Gilchrist is a highly principled man Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia has shot back at its Sri Lankan counterpart for terming
Adam Gilchrist's squash ball tactic as "unethical" and defended
their vice-captain as a "highly principled man".
CA Spokesman Peter Young refused to admit that Gilchrist gained an unfair
advantage
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Brian Lara takes another dig at West Indies Cricket Board
Batting great Brian Lara, who has often been on a collision course with
the Caribbean cricket stablishment, has taken another potshot at the West Indies
Board by questioning their integrity and efficiency.
Lara made the remarks against the WICB at a function to inaugurate a cancer
treatmen
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| John Buchanan calls squash ball row a fuss
Irked by the "unethical" charge levelled at Adam Gilchrist for
using a squash ball in his gloves in the World Cup final, outgoing Australian
coach John Buchanan said people should not make fuss over this "non-issue".
More than a week after the final in which Gilchrist bel
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Dhaka awaiting the arrival of Prince of Kolkata Sourav Ganguly
Disappointed at Sourav Ganguly being kept out of the coming ODI
series, Bangladesh cricket fans are now eagerly looking forward to see
the former Indian captain in action in the two Test matches during the latter
half of the tour.
Ganguly, who has a huge fan following in Bangladesh, was dr
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| Kapil Dev wants Indian Team to be collective in facing Bangladesh
Legendary cricketer Kapil Dev today asked the Indian team to be collective
in standing up to Bangladesh's challenge rather than relying on the heroics
of any one player in the upcoming away series.
"There are some individual players whose performance is matchless but they
are not bigge
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Bangladesh Cricket Team ready to stretch India says Ashraful
As the Indian cricket team reached here aiming to avenge their World Cup loss, Bangladesh vice captain Mohammad Ashraful said his
side had plans to stretch Rahul Dravid's men in the upcoming series.
"They will come hard at us as they probably lost out on a Super Eights spot
because of u
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| Muthiah Muralitharan wants no association with cricket after retirement
Sri lankan spin Wizard Muthiah Muralitharan has said
he won't be associated with the game in any other form after leaving it as a
player.
"I am not thinking about it (staying on) because I have played this game
since I was six or seven so when I retire I will retire properly," M
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BCCI climb down on cricket players contract
After flexing its muscles over the players' contracts, the Cricket Board today
made a tame climb down and said the Bangladesh-bound team members can sign
the contract even after returning from the tour if they were not happy with some
of the clauses.
"I don't have a feed back yet from
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| Adam Gilchrist feels he tested the patience of selectors
Had Adam Gilchrist been a selector, he would have long dropped himself from the
Australian ranks and the opener feels he really tested the patience of national
selectors with his stretch of poor run.
The Australian vice-captain produced one of the most memorable knocks of his spectacular
ca
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Australia ready to indemnify CA for pull out of zimbabwe Cricket tour
Even as the Australian government stepped up pressure on Cricket Australia
to boycott its tour of Zimbabwe in September, captain Ricky Ponting
said every player should be allowed to make an independent decision on the issue.
"There are some issues there and every individual player will
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| Farcical end took gloss off World Cup 07 triumph Ricky Ponting
Australian captain Ricky Ponting today admitted that the farcical finish
to the cricket World Cup took a bit of the gloss off his side's third consecutive
triumph.
Australia's win in the final against Sri Lanka was marred by some poor
officiating.
With the Sri Lankan batsmen accepting an
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Team India to play cricket Proteas in Ireland
India will play South Africa in a three-match limited overs cricket series
to be held in Ireland in late June and early July.
"The Irish Cricket Union (ICU) is proud that two such great cricketing
nations as India and South Africa are coming to Ireland to play each other
and against I
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| ICC policy of neutral umpires questioned for WC 07
The International Cricket Council has drawn flak from former cricketers Darren Lehmann of Australia and England all rounder Derek Pringle
for considering umpires' nationality over their "excellence" in big
games like World Cup final.
The duo believe the ICC must move beyond parochi
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Indian Cricket team think tank arrive to begin a new innings
With the World Cup disaster behind them, the Indian team think-tank assembled
here today to begin a new innings with a five-day conditioning camp from Wednesday
before embarking on the Bangladesh tour.
Newly-appointed cricket manager Ravi Shastri and skipper
Rahul Dravid flew in here to w
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