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  • Ponting flounders while Harbhajan Singh is at it again…

    mohankaus
    30 Oct 2009 | 5:56 pm
    Harbhajan Singh and Australia have a history. It was Harbhajan Singh’s hattrick in Kolkata — which came before VVS Laxman’s 281 — that started the self-belief ride in that epic series between these two sides in 2001. Lest we forget, he hit the winning runs in that nail-biting and tense finish to the Chennai Test, [...]

  • Now we yearn for “The Dhoni of Old”… Duh!

    mohankaus
    28 Oct 2009 | 6:18 pm
    Forget the present. Forget the future. It seems Indians want to continue to live in the past! Chairman of selectors, Kris Srikkanth, pronounced that we had seen “the old MS Dhoni” after India beat Australia by 99 runs in the 2nd ODI at Nagpur last night. In the recent past, we have had many a [...]

  • India Vs Australia :: Seven exciting ODIs are here…

    mohankaus
    21 Oct 2009 | 7:11 pm
    As the Champions League draws to a close (yawn!), we have the exciting and thrilling prospect of seven — Yes! Not one. Not two. But seven… woo hoo! — ODI’s between India and Australia! Yawn! Australian captain, Ricky Ponting, has already made his views known on meaningless and long-drawn-out bilateral ODI series. But unfortunately for him, it [...]

  • Indian team for Oz ODI’s announced

    sanjaysub
    15 Oct 2009 | 7:50 am
    The selectors have announced the Indian team for the 7 match ODI series against Australia. The squad is MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Sudeep Tyagi, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra. The big news of course is that Dravid [...]

  • Some observations on the Champions League T20

    mohankaus
    13 Oct 2009 | 10:02 am
    If Lalit Modi and Dean Kino had added the word “International” to the Champions League T20, the tournament that is currently taking place in India could have replaced the now defunct ICL. Players from the now dead-and-buried ICL have scattered to different teams. Some ICLers, like Shane Bond, are back playing for club and country. [...]
 
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  • Indoor fielding drills, lions and a Mongoose

    Alison Mitchell (BBC Sport)
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:30 am
    There's never a great deal of free time on cricket tours these days but the England team bonded with a visit to Lion Park in Johannesburg on Wednesday, taking the opportunity to get close to some cubs, even stroking a couple of the cute youngsters. Once they take to the cricket field though, they'll find South Africa somewhat less submissive than those playful purring cats. Although, it must be said that for the first one-day international to take place at the Wanderers at all, the rain storms of the last two days have to stay away. The forecast isn't good and England were forced to practise…

  • England hoping to sparkle

    Alison Mitchell (BBC Sport)
    8 Nov 2009 | 4:03 am
    In Kimberley I've been in South Africa for a few days now and am getting into the swing of the England tour. One warm-up match has already been won convincingly and the second is taking place in Kimberley, a former mining town with an intriguing history, as it was central to the country's diamond rush in the late 19th century. Having driven the two hours west from Bloemfontein, across wide red-earthed plains, and past a myriad of termite mounds as well as the odd ostrich, the attention of producer Louise Sutton and I was soon focused on Stuart Broad, after he got off the team bus with his…

  • Fletcher to guest on Test Match Special

    Adam Mountford (BBC Sport)
    5 Nov 2009 | 7:59 am
    With the opening match of England's tour of South Africa already under way, I thought it would be a good time to let you know some more details of BBC Radio's coverage of what promises to be a really exciting next few weeks. BBC Radio 5 live will have regular updates from England's warm-up games, starting with the match against Diamond Eagles in Bloemfontein on Friday. Then the Test Match Special team will be in action from 13 November with ball-by-ball commentary on the two Twenty20 Internationals, the five match ODI series and the four Test matches, which get underway at Centurion Park on…

  • The rise of the English South Africans

    Oliver Brett (BBC Sport)
    5 Nov 2009 | 7:48 am
    In the middle of October I saw this thread on the 606 message boards: "Not a wind-up attempt, but as your side is half full of South Africans, if you had to choose an English XI, who would be in it? "I was about to do my own XI but when I checked Stephen Moore for Strauss's spot I found out he's from Jo'burg. So I thought about Ed Joyce, and he's born in Dublin! Can't find an opener." Of course this might simply be light-hearted banter, but there remains an undercurrent of xenophobia from some England fans directed at certain England players, and in my view it is very much misplaced. Surely,…

  • Welcome to BBC iD

    BBC Sport blog editor (BBC Sport)
    29 Oct 2009 | 9:28 am
    Early next week, there will be a change to how you leave comments on this blog - we're upgrading our current registration system to a new and improved one. When you log in to the new system, you will be prompted to upgrade your existing account, and you should be able to do that with a minimum of fuss. More details on this can be found on the BBC Internet Blog.
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  • Martina Hingis Not Returning to Tennis

    Jeanne Dupuis
    27 Oct 2009 | 1:06 pm
    At 29 years old, Martina Hingis is hanging up her tennis racket and has announced that, when the two-year ban she incurred after testing positive for cocaine in 2007 is lifted, she will not be returning to competitive tennis. "I’ve got a nice house, my four horses," Hingis said. "On the tour, I had no life.  If I had won the four Grand Slam tournaments, maybe I would have continued.  But I was on downslope. And I was suspended for two years, and that was it." "I didn’t have the right to play any competition, even in another Olympic sport,"…

  • Nadal and Roddick Say Tennis Season Too Long

    Jeanne Dupuis
    21 Oct 2009 | 7:02 am
    Tennis stars, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick feel that the off-season is not long enough for players to rest and recover from competition. “It’s impossible to play 1st of January and finish 5th of December,” said Nadal. “It’s impossible to be here playing like what I did the last five years, playing a lot of matches and being all the time 100 per cent without problems.” image: Zuma Press After pointing out the fact that Federer skipped the Shanghai Masters due to fatigue, Roddick added:  “It’s ridiculous to think that you have a professional…

  • Stosur Wins Japan Women’s Open

    Jeanne Dupuis
    18 Oct 2009 | 11:36 pm
    Australia’s Samantha Stosur claimed the title at the Japan Women’s Open yesterday after defeating Italy’s Francesca Schiavone 7-5, 6-1.  This is Stosur’s first WTA singles title so I’m sure she’s very excited. Stosur advanced to the finals after eliminating top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki on Saturday. image: Zuma Press The pairing with Schiavone was pretty good since Stosur was the third seed and the Italian was fourth but, really, there wasn’t much competition here.  Stosur dominated for most of the match and was able to seal the deal in just one hour and eight minutes.

  • Del Potro Eliminated in Shanghai

    Jeanne Dupuis
    14 Oct 2009 | 7:49 pm
    Juan Martin del Potro stunned Roger Federer and won the U.S. Open but he was eliminated from the Shanghai ATP Masters.  The third-seeded player lost to Jurgen Melzer after a wrist injury led him to quit early. image: TSN Meanwhile, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic both advanced to the next round.  Nadal took on James Blake and walked away with a 6-2, 6-7 (4-7), 6-4 victory on the hardcourts at Qi Zhong Tennis Center.  This was a virtual repeat of the pair’s meeting in Beijing last week.  Nadal will next face fellow Spaniard Tommy Robredo. Meanwhile, Djokovic easily beat Fabio Fognoni…

  • Serena Promotes Tampax Tampons

    Jeanne Dupuis
    11 Oct 2009 | 12:27 am
    Tennis star, Serena Williams, has endorsed a lot of different things but I do have to admit that I was surprised to see her Tampax Tampons commercial.  It was funny and creative but a little gross – and I’m pretty open about natural body processes! image: Zuma Press In the ad, Serena takes on Mother Nature (they each hold a press conference to talk about Serena’s impending period) and I’m guessing the tennis great is triumphant since she not only is shown wearing white but menstruation clearly doesn’t slow her down. Honestly, you just have to see it to believe it. Post…
 
 
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  • Athers and Kapil are only partly right

    19 Nov 2009 | 11:51 pm
    On the occasion of Sachin Tendulkar completing 20 years in international cricket, Kapil Dev opined in 'The Asian Age' that Tendulkar had under-achieved. It depends on how you look at it. For someone who started off playing so aggressively and making bowlers scared of bowling to him, Tendulkar most definitely doesn't strike fear in bowlers any more. But that's true for pretty much every player who has been around for any length of time. I'm sure that towards the late 80s and early 90s, bowlers were queueing up to bowl to Viv. Murali hasn't been too good over the past year or so and there are…

  • Twenty years of Tendulkar

    18 Nov 2009 | 12:04 pm
    When I think of Sachin Tendulkar having played international cricket for 2 decades, I feel really old. It's been that long? Why, just the other day he was caning that Pakistani leggie wizard all over the park! A few days ago, he almost scored a test hundred, aged 16. After that, he was outscoring the rest of the batsmen on his first tour of Australia, aged 18. In fact, very early on, I used to feel a bit stupid. Here was a chap just about 2 years older than me, playing test cricket when I didn't even get a chance to bowl in an intra-school cricket tournament although I'd been picked as a…

  • Harbhajan is shaping up as an extra batsman

    26 Oct 2009 | 1:24 am
    I felt like laughing when the news channels were going ga-ga on the Indian lower order (actually, make that just Harbhajan & Praveen) nearly dragging India to an improbable win yesterday. The reality was that India were pathetic in batting, bowling, running and fielding for almost 90% of the game. Hauritz had 1/15 from 7 overs at one stage! While Praveen Kumar has, in the last dozen times he has batted, given absolutely no reason to believe that he is ever capable of anything more than a fluke edge down to third-man while aiming to smack the ball over mid-wicket, Harbhajan has been…

  • Packed calendar, or taking audiences and spectators for granted?

    21 Oct 2009 | 11:46 am
    Are cricket administrators taking TV audiences and ground spectators for granted? The Champions League Twenty20 final is on a Friday. The 2008 2009 Champions Trophy final was on a Monday. The Ind-SL-NZ tri-series final was on a Monday. How do you explain 'grand' finals being held on week-days? It perhaps makes sense to have the final on a Saturday, with the Sunday being the spare day in case it rains on the parade. But Mondays? Is it because TV channels don't want to have too many sporting events over the weekend, thereby risking advertisement revenue? But this is cricket, and when India is…

  • BCCI demands that ICC stop multi-team events

    12 Oct 2009 | 11:16 am
    In a dramatic development following India being knocked out from the 2008 2009 Champions Trophy last month, it is learnt that the BCCI has served an ultimatum to the ICC to stop conducting multi-team ODI events, especially those involving 4 or more sides. It is believed that the ultimatum also includes a clause whereby ICC members would also not be allowed to conduct such tournaments. The BCCI has also imposed a gag order on media outlets that use the words 'chokers' and 'Indian team' in the same sentence / paragraph / story / site. The BCCI has evidence that India's "performance" at such…
 
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  • India vs Australia, 2009 – 3rd ODI (Full Highlights)

    Nanda
    31 Oct 2009 | 5:38 pm
    India take a 2-1 lead beating Australia by 6 wickets at Feroze Shah Kotla in Delhi. Yuvraj Singh was given man of the match. Part 1 Click here to view the embedded video. Powered By Wordpress Tabs And SlidesBusby SEO Test Part 2 Click here to view the embedded video. Powered By Wordpress Tabs And SlidesBusby SEO Test Part 3 Click here to view the embedded video. Powered By Wordpress Tabs And SlidesBusby SEO Test Part 4 Click here to view the embedded video. Powered By Wordpress Tabs And SlidesBusby SEO Test Part 5 Click here to view the embedded video. Powered By Wordpress Tabs And…

  • India vs Australia, 2009 – 2nd ODI (Full Highlights)

    Nanda
    31 Oct 2009 | 5:27 pm
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  • India vs Australia, 2009 – 1st ODI (Full Highlights)

    Nanda
    25 Oct 2009 | 2:32 pm
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  • Champions League 2009,Trinidad & Tobago vs New South Wales Highlights

    Nanda
    16 Oct 2009 | 8:18 pm
    T&T continue their unbeaten form winning the match by 4 wickets. New South Wales Innings: http://www.hostingcup.com/dox26mvw8bo7.html Trinidad & Tobago Innings: http://www.hostingcup.com/t5h82qh5iz0y.html K. Pollard Innings: http://www.hostingcup.com/p10ojp659w6w.html 4’s in Trinidad & Tobago Innings: http://www.hostingcup.com/5bh0htha101z.html

  • Champions League 2009, Royal Challengers vs Victoria Highlights

    Nanda
    15 Oct 2009 | 2:29 pm
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  • A tangle of tactics

    Kartikeya
    16 Nov 2009 | 10:43 pm
    Gideon Haigh observes that Australia's defeat in the 2009 Ashes was not considered to be the defining event in the cricket world that it ought to have been, in part because there are now three formats which have nothing in common, and which compete for the attention of the same spectators, and which produce only endless confusion.Money quote:Administrators keep insisting that the three forms of cricket are cosily complementary. Actually Test cricket, one-day cricket and Twenty20 hang together like an Italian political coalition: because of slight momentary convenience rather than innately…

  • Tendulkar and Cricket

    Kartikeya
    14 Nov 2009 | 5:34 pm
    "The greatest Indian alive!"Thus did India's greatest left arm bowler of any kind acclaim Sachin Tendulkar. This will be among the many notable comments and events from 20 illustrious years that we will relive this November. All his great innings; his near solitary championing of India's cause through most of the 90's, to his role as a wise elder in Dhoni's current side; his stunning equanimity in the face of fearsome pressures and expectations on and off the field; his seemingly unquenchable enthusiasm even at age 36. We will hear profound and beautiful words about each of these. From his…

  • Writing about Tendulkar

    Kartikeya
    14 Nov 2009 | 10:22 am
    On November 15, 1989, Sachin Tendulkar made his Test Match debut for India against Pakistan at Karachi. He batted in his first innings on the second day of that game. India were in trouble at 4/41 replying to a Pakistan score of 409 all out. Twenty years later, that tentative debut bat has blossomed to the tune of nearly 30,000 international runs and 87 international hundreds. Those who write about Cricket have written about the man for most of those twenty years. This milestone presents yet another challenge to writers about cricket - to say something about the most talked about cricketer of…

  • Graeme Swann and orthodox off-break bowling

    Kartikeya
    24 Aug 2009 | 11:10 pm
    Graeme Swann is an underrated spin bowler. I haven't watched Swann in every innings of the Ashes, but i did watch him against India towards the end of 2008, and i watched some of his recent Ashes bowling.What was striking about Swann's bowling was how much control he had over both flight, turn and most interestingly, pace. Michael Hussey might as well have been blindfolded playing him, for he wasn't picking the flight when Swann bowled round the wicket. Ponting in contrast was able to pick the flight much more quickly. Ponting is a superb player of spin bowling (notwithstanding his struggles…

  • England win the Ashes, do better than they did 4 years ago

    Kartikeya
    24 Aug 2009 | 8:50 am
    England have repeated their performance from 4 years ago in the 2009 Ashes and i must confess that the outcome of the Oval Test was not what i expected. In fact, as Australia reached 1/86 in their first innings in response to England's first innings of 332, i and most other people felt that England's effort up until that point had been expected sub-par. They had underperformed with the bat, and Australia seemed to have negotiated the new ball.Stuart Broad changed all that by dismissing Ponting, Hussey and Clarke in the space of 14 balls. If ever there was a match winning spell, that was it.
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  • Porky Patel’s battle against fat

    Will
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:46 am
    Samit Patel, the allrounder discarded by England’s selectors for being unfit more than seven months ago, has set himself a target of returning next county season a trimmer man. “I’ve got to come back with a totally different body shape,” he told the Times. “I want to look like a different cricketer next season. People are going to judge me on how I look. It’s not a nice way to be judged, but it’s about time I put in some hard graft in the gym. It’s got to be done.” Well, you know what they say about leopards and their spots. That said,…

  • Dravid passes 11,000

    Rich Abbott
    16 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm
    The website, HowStat, does a very good line in upcoming milestones. Hidden inbetween ‘Broad is four drinks breaks away from a double century of Powerade stops’ and suchlike, are some real gems. ‘Rahul Dravid needs another 173 runs to reach the 11,000 runs [in Tests] milestone’, was one such entry. I noticed this last night, and by the time I woke this morning, it was redundant. Dravid ended the first day of India’s Test against Sri Lanka unbeaten on 177. On the face of it, it seems strange that Rahul Dravid is the Indian batsman who’s captivated me most…

  • UWMBCA Welegedara

    Will
    16 Nov 2009 | 1:14 pm
    Good job I’m no longer on Cricinfo comms. I’d have had a field day today. “And here comes Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanga Welegedara from the pavilion end, but he offers a stray on Dravid’s pads who flicks Welegedara – that’s Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanga Welegedara, not the other one – through midwicket for four more.” What an exhausting mouthful of a name.

  • Shock and awe

    Rich Abbott
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:32 am
    Shock and awe they promised. Shock and awe they have so far delivered. The new approach – designed for the 50-over format and aired with some success in the Champions Trophy – seems to have filtered down to the T20 side. Yesterday was pretty shocking - Friday, relatively awe-inspiring. With the bat, the signs are positive (in more ways than one). Morgan’s pyrotechnics, and the top seven batsmen recording 100+ strike-rates (for only the third time ever) yesterday, are steps in a necessary direction. Just the bowling to sort now… In the words of that well-known…

  • Mortimer Also by Jo Rice

    Jonathan Calder
    14 Nov 2009 | 2:57 pm
    Long ago, I heard a book called Mortimer Also read on Jackanory. Jackanory? It was a television programme in which someone sat down and read you a story. No animation. No special effects. Just a few illustrations if you were lucky.  “Mortimer Also” concerned a test match umpire and a mouse who lived in his cottage. The umpire did not want anyone to know his eyesight was failing, so the mouse would on his head, peer out through a hole in his panama and yank his hair to signal whether or not to give a close lbw appeal. I know would be too far-fetched for today’s children. Just imagine:…
 
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  • Numbers of Mass Distraction

    JP
    29 Oct 2009 | 5:16 pm
    2009 Is Record Year For UK Singles Sales Innovation boosts record label income as licensing and rights deals generate £195m in 2008 New business models boost income for British record labels: licensing and multiple rights deals net £122m in 2007 New BPI Stats show strength of digital music Just some of the headlines from a group of people not known for their progressive thinking when it comes to music and downloads and filesharing. But let’s not look at the headlines. Let’s look at the facts: 2009 has already become the biggest ever year for UK singles with more than 117m sold…

  • Musing about downloads in the UK

    JP
    28 Oct 2009 | 4:22 pm
    Some of you may have noticed that I like my cricket. And one of the things I like about cricket is the cricket story; the history of cricket is festooned with anecdotes and tales and apocrypha, filling a very large number of books. As with most other stories, over time, these stories gain a life of their own, with a series of embellishments and accoutrements; this is particularly noticeable when the story is about  larger-than-life characters, something that cricket’s cup runneth over with. One such story involves one of the largest of the larger-than-life characters: Freddie Trueman.

  • Musing about culture and customers and choice: the eBaying of “content”

    JP
    11 Oct 2009 | 4:12 pm
    I have the privilege of spending time with many startups, in a variety of guises: as incubator, as advisor, as investor, as chairman, as well-wisher, friend and supporter. The startups differ widely and wildly: they range in size from a handful of people to hundreds;  they have annual burn rates in the thousands and in the millions; they have different strategies and different ways of executing them; the motives that drive them are different, the things that keep them awake at night differ as well. They make different types of products and services, for different markets, with different…

  • Musing gently about choice in the enterprise

    JP
    1 Oct 2009 | 2:59 pm
    [Photo credits: guitars: fotobicchio and shoes: Orin Zebest] For some time now, phrases like “the customer’s in control” have been floating around the marketplace, yet “enterprise people” haven’t taken a blind bit of notice. You can’t expect them to. Many of them can’t understand what choice means in the context of the services they receive. And what they don’t experience they can’t express to others. But it’s all changing, and changing fast. As consumerisation drives innovation from the consumer to the enterprise, and as the…

  • Swiftly going West: Digital parody comes of age

    JP
    17 Sep 2009 | 3:04 pm
    I know my readership is “old” but most of you are not as old as I am. So that means you’re more than likely to have heard about the Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident a few days ago. I heard about it, found it at least mildly distasteful, despite Kanye’s apology; I was therefore glad to hear about Beyonce’s touch of class later. But that’s not the point of this post. Why would I write about two people I don’t listen to, on a programme I don’t watch, and whose lives I have no interest in? Simple. I write because of this video: Chris Messina tweeted…
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  • Get a Hundred Part 1

    Our summer club season just began last week. Now at the beginning of each season, I set myself some sort of goal. Two seasons ago, I began an experiment to reinvent myself as a front-line legspinner/tailend batsman. It failed miserably. Last season, I adopted Aloof Theory. While it was one of my better seasons, the whole nature of Aloof Theory is to not set goals so, well, it was all a bit wishy washy really. So this season, I'm taking a leaf out of Get A Hundred and setting myself the goal of scoring a maiden club century. Already after one week, I think I may have bitten off more than I can…

  • Why Australia lost the 2009 Ashes

    When Australia lost the 2005 Ashes, the scapegoating and finger pointing was immediate, fierce and frantic. Billy Bowden. Ricky Ponting. Breath mints. WAGS. God. John Buchanan. Gary Pratt. The loss was such a shock, there was plenty of blame to go around too. However, and despite the fact that the pain of this Ashes loss is still fresh, I think it's possible to offer a dispassionate and logical analysis on where blame lies in our 2009 Ashes loss. I don't think Ricky Ponting's captaincy was a contributing factor. Sure, he's defensive and unimaginative. But his conservative captaincy was…

  • 2009 Ashes, 5th Test, Day 4: Daring to care...

    When you get hurt in a relationship, it's tempting to close yourself off to prevent future pain. Similarly, the human reaction for any Australian fan given the state of the 2009 Ashes is to give up hope that we can somehow chase a further 466 runs over the next two days without losing ten wickets. It would be a world record run chase on a wicket that already looked like a 5th day pitch on day 2. It's impossible. Can't be done. But Australia made it to stumps without loss, knocking up 80 runs off 20 overs. Time isn't an issue. There will be no batting for a draw. All that matters is runs. Or…

  • 2009 Ashes, 5th Test, Day 3: Are Australia the new England?

    The 2009 Ashes has swung backwards and forwards so many times, you can get whiplash if you're watching too closely. Australia dominated in Cardiff but couldn't close the deal. England led in Lords and the first half of the 3rd Test. Australia regained the balance for the next one and a half Tests. But now at the moment of truth, Australia had one session so disastrous, we may have just handed the Ashes to England. It was a batting collapse so complete and insipid, it made England's 4th Test debacle almost respectable. Australia are so far behind, it's hard to see them coming back from here.

  • 2009 Ashes, 5th Test, Day 2: Crunch time for the 2009 Ashes

    You get the feeling England just let the Ashes slip through their fingers yesterday. At 1 for 100, they were poised to set an imposing first innings total. Instead, all their batsmen got starts then threw their wickets away. At stumps, they were 8 for 300, a well under par total for such a flat wicket. Their only hope lies in taking lots of Aussie wickets today. If they can dismiss Australia cheaply and achieve a first innings lead, they're still in with a sniff. If Australia bat out 4 or 5 sessions, it's all over. The next two days will decide the Ashes. Bat on, boys!
 
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  • Bangladesh complete clean sweep

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:46 am
    Zimbabwe proved no match to Bangladesh in Bogra, losing by 121 runs and conceding the series 0-5

  • Middlesex sign Gilchrist for Twenty20s

    19 Nov 2009 | 2:12 am
    Middlesex have signed a contract with Adam Gilchrist, and are in talks with Sachin Tendulkar, to play Twenty20 cricket for the county during the 2010 domestic season

  • Worcestershire sign Shakib Al Hasan

    17 Nov 2009 | 10:51 pm
    Shakib is the first Bangladesh player to be signed by a county will join the team in 2010 following the completion of the tour of England, subject to completion of visa arrangements

  • Mominul and Abul help Bangladesh seal series

    16 Nov 2009 | 5:09 am
    Two standout performances, from Mominul Haque and Abul Hasan, ensured Bangladesh Under-19 clinched the series against Zimbabwe Under-19 with two games to go

  • Abul Hasan breaks Zimbabwe hearts

    14 Nov 2009 | 6:11 am
    Abul Hasan, in a superb all-round display, guided Bangladesh Under-19 to a thrilling one-wicket win against Zimbabwe Under-19 in Khulna
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  • Chris Nash suffers broken thumb

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:48 am
    Chris Nash, the Sussex batsman, has been forced to return home from the England performance squad in South Africa after fracturing his thumb during training

  • Heavy rain leads to opening washout

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:13 am
    The opening one-day international at the Wanderers was abandoned without a ball bowled after the heavy rain that has plagued Johannesburg in recent days continued

  • ICL owners serve notice on ICC, English and Indian boards

    19 Nov 2009 | 10:04 am
    Essel Sports Private Ltd, the ICL's owners, have served a notice on the ICC and the English and Indian cricket boards over what it claims was an unlawful ban on players associated with the unofficial league

  • Injured England brace for battle

    19 Nov 2009 | 7:41 am
    England and South Africa shared last week's Twenty20 series 1-1, but that scoreline disguises the staggering gulf that emerged between the sides

  • Durham to begin title defence against Essex

    19 Nov 2009 | 6:44 am
    Durham will launch their bid for a third consecutive County Championship title by taking on the newly-promoted Essex at Chester-le-Street
 
 
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  • Tendulkar, Gambhir, dead pitch frustrate Sri Lanka

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:08 am
    Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, and a dead Ahmedabad pitch (21 wickets and seven centuries in five days) put paid to Sri Lanka's dream of a first Test win in India

  • Gambhir keeps Sri Lanka at bay

    19 Nov 2009 | 6:26 am
    Sri Lanka gave themselves a minimum of 134 overs and an ample cushion of runs to try and register their first Test win in India, but the Ahmedabad pitch got deader and deader every passing minute

  • Classy Mahela Jayawardene leaves India clueless

    18 Nov 2009 | 7:21 am
    Mahela Jayawardene was a beautiful batsman to watch, one capable of playing every stroke in the book with real elegance. What he lacked, perhaps, was the touch of steel, that ability to put the boot in when on top of his game

  • Jayawardene double flattens India

    18 Nov 2009 | 6:34 am
    Mahela Jayawardene ground the Indian bowlers into Ahmedabad dust, almost ruling out a defeat for Sri Lanka

  • 'Game's pretty even' - Gary Kirsten

    17 Nov 2009 | 9:24 am
    Gary Kirsten wasn't about to push any panic buttons after a poor day, though he admitted that a slightly more vigorous wag from the tail would have been handy
 
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  • Activists trash Indian TV offices

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:49 pm
    Nov 20 - CCTV captures the moment right wing Shiv Sena activists launch an attack on the offices of television channel IBN Lokmat in India's western Mumbai.

  • Bulls batter woeful Windies

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:33 am
    DING dong, the summer of cricket is probably dead. Already. If the West Indies can't be competitive against a second-string Queensland outfit, there seems little doubt they will get flogged by Australia in the first Test at the Gabba next week.

  • Shoaib out of tour after liposuction surgery.

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:02 am
    All-round … Shoaib Akhtar in the nets last year showing the condition that led him to seek surgical intervention.

  • Test cricket nations could shrink to four says Greg Chappell

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:38 am
    The former Australia captain said that the growth in the Twenty20 game and diminishing public interest in the traditional five-day game could see test cricket marginalized to the fringe of the sport.

  • McGLASHAN Breaks Catches Record

    19 Nov 2009 | 8:15 pm
    Click here for Dave Tickner's Cricket365 blog Click here for latest cricket scorecards Click here for upcoming cricket fixtures Click here for more cricket news New Zealander Peter McGlashan took a world record 12 catches in the first-class match between Northern Districts and Central Districts which ended on Thursday.
 
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  • Ahmedabad pitch was unfit for Test cricket - Dreamcricket

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    Sydney Morning HeraldAhmedabad pitch was unfit for Test cricketDreamcricketHowever, while the Test ended in a stalemate, the game of cricket ended up on the losing side. Amidst all the talk of 'saving' the most sacrosanct version Tendulkar Sets Record With 30000 RunsNew York TimesI wouldn't play cricket on this wicket: DhoniIndian ExpressI won't play any cricket on this wicket: DhoniHindustan TimesSify -Reuters UK -Merinewsall 808 news articles »

  • 2 arrested in stabbing death of cricket player at Allen park - Dallas Morning News

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    Denton Record Chronicle2 arrested in stabbing death of cricket player at Allen parkDallas Morning NewsAllen police arrested two men today on murder charges in the death of a 21-year-old cricket Police arrest suspects in Allen murderStar Community Newspapersall 4 news articles »

  • 'IPL will take cricket places' - Indian Express

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    WA today'IPL will take cricket places'Indian Express feels given its increasing popularity, the Indian Premier League would soon become a world event and take cricket to hitherto unexplored regions. Global News Agency Reuters Suspends Australian Cricket CoverageNew York TimesChina, US on the cricket menuHerald SunCricket nations urged to preserve TestsSydney Morning HeraldThe Australian -The Age -sportal.com.auall 121 news articles »

  • Testing Times for Traditional Cricket - Wall Street Journal

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    Times OnlineTesting Times for Traditional CricketWall Street JournalLord's looks set to keep its name after the Marylebone Cricket Club denied a report Wednesday that naming rights to the sport's most The Edge: Lords faces battle to remain home of cricketTimes OnlineMCC denies renaming rumours and ask for Lord's to be made a 'special case'guardian.co.ukIndia to sponsor Lord's cricket ground?Economic TimesMirror.co.ukall 232 news articles »

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    Lincecum's Early Dominance Making Baseball HistoryWall Street Journal (blog)Your Fixer isn't sure he has the stomach for a full-on five-day cricket test match, but there's something so arrestingly strange about the game to my and more »
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  • Wanderers ODI rained out

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:59 pm
    Rain has caused the abandonment of the first one-day international between South Africa and England at the Wanderers Stadium. After more than 20mm of rain on the day prior, steady rain on Friday led ...

  • Sussex's Nash suffers injury blow

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:40 am
    Sussex batsman Chris Nash has broken his right thumb while in South Africa with the England Performance Programme.Nash will return to the UK following the injury, which was sustained in training in Pr...

  • Plunkett pushing to play

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am
    Liam Plunkett is determined to make sure he isn't just carrying the drinks during England's one-day series with South Africa. The Durham seamer was drafted in as cover for the injured Stuart Broad,...

  • Root signs for Yorkshire

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:09 am
    Joe Root, the 18-year-old Sheffield-born opening batsman, has secured his future with Yorkshire. Root, who made his first-team debut against Essex in Yorkshire's final Pro40 game of the 2009 season, s...

  • Tendulkar record in Test draw

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:59 am
    (CNN) -- Sachin Tendulkar was unbeaten on exactly 100 and passed 30,000 international runs as India batted out for a draw in the opening Test against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad on Friday.
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  • New model Plunkett ready to fire

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:53 am
    Liam Plunkett is itching to show England just how much he has progressed since his last appearance in 2007. He will have to wait after the first one-day international at the Wanderers was washed out.

  • Injury forces Nash to leave EPP

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:57 am
    Sussex batsman Chris Nash is returning home from the England Performance Programme in South Africa after fracturing his right thumb in training. Nash will undergo an operation next week.

  • Bairstow among new Yorkshire deals

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:41 am
    Exciting Yorkshire batsman Jonathan Bairstow is one of six youngsters to sign contract extensions at Headingley Carnegie. The other five young players are Oliver Hannon-Dalby, James Lee, Gary Ballance, Ben Sanderson and Lee Hodgson.

  • Washout in Johannesburg

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:14 am
    The first match in England's one-day international series against South Africa was abandoned due to persistent rain at the Wanderers. A washout was formally declared at 3pm GMT after an inspection by umpires Marais Erasmus and Rod Tucker.

  • Durham chase hat-trick of pennants

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:40 am
    Essex’s aptitude for top-flight cricket will be severely tested when they provide the first opposition for Durham in the 2010 LV= County Championship. No county has won three successive titles since Yorkshire in the 1960s.
 
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  • Revolution's in the air

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    20 Nov 2009 | 9:42 am
    A wonderful letter in today's Times from Mr Francis Ingham, of Paddock Wood, Kent: Sir, Lord's does indeed plan great changes to cricket (report Nov 18). The artist's impression of how the MCC ground will look in the future depicted 13 fielders. Change indeed. Oh yes indeed, Mr Ingham. What is more, having just looked at the image myself to see if you were right, there also appears to be only one umpire, at the bowler's end. Either that or one of the fielders is really an umpire but is not wearing the same black trousers as his colleague. And that still leaves us one fielder…

  • Go third and multiply

    Patrick Kidd
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:43 am
    Line & Length is not always the most optimistic of blogs (I am English after all) but I took heart from the top line given to a press release sent out by the ICC ahead of today's first one-day international. "Clean sweep will send England to third place" That was the headline. And while third best in the world may be a fairly modest ambition, it is interesting that the ICC chose to focus on this point. Not "3-2 win will lift England to fifth" or "Good series for Graeme Smith could see him become No 1 batsman" or even "5-0 win for Proteas will…

  • Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2001

    Patrick Kidd
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:54 am
    Continuing our series of retrospectives on the past decade. Read the entry for 2000 here, where Andy Flower leads Glenn McGrath by a nose in the vote for your favourite player of that year, and vote on the player of 2001 at the foot of this post. Delighted to see that our last poll attracted votes from Romania and Belarus (both for Flower), Finland (Courtney Walsh) and Singapore (McGrath) as well as many other countries around the world. Welcome, everyone. 2001 The year in summary: England: Another familiar Ashes pasting is the main story of the summer. Steve Waugh's Australia need…

  • An evening with Athers

    Patrick Kidd
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:26 am
    Three months ago - gosh, was that all? - England won the Ashes at the Brit Oval, thanks to some brilliant bowling from Broad and Swann, a debut hundred by Trott and the second most memorable run-out of Ricky Ponting (sorry Freddie, Pratt still wins for me). On December 7, you can relive those memories with a special Times evening at the ground where the Ashes were won in the company of Mike Atherton and Christopher Martin-Jenkins. Your blogger will be there to stop our two recent cricket correspondents fighting. Apply by clicking here. Tickets are £32 and you get a free copy of…

  • Sponsoring Lord's

    Patrick Kidd
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:29 am
    Hallelujah to the news that MCC is to reject a plan to name Lord's after a sponsor. Watching England play India in the ToffeeCrispStadium @Lord's.org would have just felt wrong.  There is a certain poetry to the naming of cricket grounds. For more than a century, Test cricket has been played at Lord’s, Trent Bridge, Edgbaston and Old Trafford without the need to adorn the ground with a sponsor’s name. Co-naming rights may have been signed for The Oval and Headingley - and how the addition of Brit and Carnegie grates - but nothing jarred quite as much as when the…
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  • Be A Man

    17 Nov 2009 | 9:11 am
    Injuries happen to the best of us. We've all been there. Stubbed a toe. Hit a funny bone. Sprained an ankle on a night out....But the England team has had a horror attack of the injury train.Same thing has happened to the England rugby team. But that's rugby. It's meant for injuries. Huge men, running at each other, it's a given that people will get hurt. But cricket?There is no physical contact. All that's required is some running, a bit of throwing, holding a bat, avoiding being hit on the head (or face, no Ricky, NWG has not forgotten the state of your lip at the Oval) by the ball.James…

  • Questions Questions

    15 Nov 2009 | 8:12 am
    Can someone please explain to NWG how Cook came in before Trott, KP and Morgan? And why is he playing Twenty20 cricket?And why was he captain?And how come South Africa were able to score so many runs?And why was England's bowling so badly?

  • Matthew Has A Home

    10 Nov 2009 | 3:01 am
    A Hoggard is for life, not just for Christmas, Leicestershire. They've taken him in from the cold. He was all hungry and thin. And now he's captain (that's not meant to rhyme).And now there is happiness.What a Christmas present for the Hoggard family and NWG. She can rest easy now, despite not being able to talk because she has laryngitis. Her friends are very happy because she's never been so quiet.She would shout for joy for Matthew, but that's impossible for her. Only a little squeak. But that's ok, it's the sentiment that counts.

  • Michael Vaughan Is A Genius

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:55 am
    Yes it's true. Michael Vaughan and NWG had a bit of a pow wow over Matthew Hoggard and his shameful treatment by Yorkshire.Michael agreed with NWG. Yorkshire were mean.And you know what happens to mean people?They lose cricket games.

  • NWG Is Back

    2 Nov 2009 | 7:50 am
    Hello friends and enemies alike. NWG has returned after a little break. It seemed fitting after a long summer of cricket, she needed to change her scenery.And then the India v Australia series started. And now she's sucked in to the cricket world, once again.And it feels great to be back.NWG received a present the other day. The box set of the Ashes series on DVD. Oh how she passed the hours happily watching the Oval Test. And Lord's. And Cardiff. She still can't really understand how England escaped at Cardiff, even though it actually happened.Lord's was just as good as she remembered.But it…
 
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  • Ind vs SL - Match drawn

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:28 am
    India vs Sri Lanka - Match drawn

  • Gambhir, Tendulkar tons save India

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:32 am
    Ahmedabad: The first Test between India and Sri Lanka ended in a draw on the final day at the Sardar Patel stadium on Friday.Resuming the final day on 190 for two wickets, still 144 runs behind Sri Lanka''s first-innings total of

  • 'Khichdi' for Sachin Tendulkar in Kanpur

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:13 am
    Kanpur: Five star hotels usually serve their most deleicious dishes to the cricket stars whenever they get a chance. But, a star hotel in Kanpur will serve plain 'khichdi' to the India's biggest star Sachin Tendulkar as the Mumbai batsman

  • Tendulkar goes past 30,000-run milestone

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:05 am
    Ahmedabad: Sachin Tendulkar achieved another milestone in his career by completing 30,000 runs in his international career during the first Test against Sri Lanka at Sardar Patel stadium in Ahmedabad. Widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history

  • Warne to lead All Stars in T20 clash

    19 Nov 2009 | 10:48 pm
    Brisbane : Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne will captain an All Stars team against a Michael Clarke-led Australian XI in a Twenty20 exhibition clash at the Gabba on Sunday.The two squads were announced on Friday, with Test captain Ricky Ponting among
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