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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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  • 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.

  • Trophy ends in blazer of glory

    Alison Mitchell (BBC Sport)
    6 Oct 2009 | 2:58 am
    As soon as news filtered through that Daniel Vettori wasn't fit to the play in the Champions Trophy final, hearts began to sink at the prospect of Australia marching to victory in a one-sided contest. The Aussies were already overwhelming favourites and New Zealand, without their captain, simply couldn't match them with bat or ball. A total of 200-9 was always too few on a decent batting pitch and despite the fine efforts of Kyle Mills and Shane Bond with the new ball, Shane Watson showed that his match-winning, unbeaten century against England was no fluke. Following consecutive ducks at the…

  • Champions Trophy surpasses expectations

    Alison Mitchell (BBC Sport)
    1 Oct 2009 | 3:51 pm
    We're on the verge of the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy, and this tournament has by far exceeded expectations. From a domestic point of view, it has helped that England have somehow turned their fortunes around with their unexpected win over Sri Lanka and their unbelievable innings against South Africa, but being here at the event is incredibly exciting. The 50-over game has come in for a fair amount of criticism as the Twenty20 game becomes ever more popular, but whilst it must be pointed out that crowds here have been very disappointing (except for South Africa matches and the…
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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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  • 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…

  • Are 50-over ODIs in danger actually?

    8 Sep 2009 | 11:30 am
    Asking if the 50-over game is in danger sounds timely considering the following: I, and I suspect several others, yawned after realizing that two 50-over ODI tournaments will be in progress simultaneously (the 7 ODIs between Australia & England and the 4-match tri-series involving New Zealand, India & Sri Lanka. Sachin Tendulkar has a proposal to save the format from becoming irrelevant. The ECB announced that domestic games would be 40-overs a side from the 2010 season. The ICC keeps bleating about how it is proud that there are 3 viable formats of the game, and that all three can…

  • Rahul Dravid's selection just doesn't make sense

    19 Aug 2009 | 11:27 am
    I'm a huge fan of Rahul Dravid. Anyone who has talked cricket with me, and anyone who has followed this blog over the past 5.5 years, would have realized it.Yet, I really believe it was totally stupid to get Dravid to dust off his blue gear. The very fact that he was named in the list of 30 probables for the ICC Champions Trophy obviously meant that he was always going to be in the final 15. On Sunday, he was picked for the tri-series in Sri Lanka and the Champions Trophy.There are various reasons bandied around for his selection, including the inability of India's young batsmen to cope with…
 
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  • India vs Australia, 2009 – 3rd ODI (Full Highlights)

    Nanda
    31 Oct 2009 | 5:38 pm
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  • India vs Australia, 2009 – 2nd ODI (Full Highlights)

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

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    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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  • England beat Diamond Eagles by 185 runs

    Jonathan Calder
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:07 pm
    As far as I am concerned, it serves them right for giving themselves a silly name like “Diamond Eagles”. Jonathan Calder blogs at Liberal England

  • AB fluffs his lines

    Rich Abbott
    5 Nov 2009 | 12:56 pm
    Despite all the evidence to the contrary (no yearly Test bowling average below 34 since 2004, an overall away Test bowling average in excess of 36, a Test average in South Africa of 73.22), high quality opposition players are usually the most vocal supporters of Steve Harmison at times when his selection is called into question. ‘He’s a difficult guy to face’, we are told, ‘one of the best, when he gets it right’, we hear. I’ve often wondered how accurate those assessments are: do these players really fear post-2005 Harmison? Or are they trying to trick Geoff Miller into thinking…

  • Till the Cowdreys come home

    Jonathan Calder
    5 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    Congratulations to Angus and Grant for supplying the correct answer to my question. The other father and son, besides Frank and George Mann, to have captained England are Colin and Chris Cowdrey. Hywel, see me afterwards. If you are really clever you will now be able to tell me who played in an England test side with both Colin and Chris Cowdrey. Jonathan Calder blogs at Liberal England

  • Swann: rent a gob, but what a brilliant gob

    Will
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:31 pm
    Quote of the week from Graeme Swann. “I would walk Strictly [Come Dancing]. Honest, you should see me move, I am absolutely brilliant. Cricketers are the most natural sportsmen going – footballers are the lads who couldn’t count at school and rugby players are the accountants and bullies who couldn’t get into the cricket team.” Swann is Phil Tufnell with brains and confidence. A slice of Darren Gough’s lust for limelight and Rob Key’s air of indefatigability and swaggeringly self-deprecating dry wit. Long may he speak in public.

  • Simon Mann and inhumanity

    Jonathan Calder
    3 Nov 2009 | 2:38 pm
    The release of Simon Mann from Equatorial Guinea reminds us of a little cricket history. For Simon Mann is the son of George Mann, who captained England on their 1948-9 tour of South Africa and also against New Zealand the following summer. George was the heir to a brewing fortune (think Watney Mann) and the subject of a famous John Arlott witticism. Back in the 1950s Arlott was commentating on a match in which George was being bamboozled by the South African leg spinner “Tufty” Mann. “What we are watching here,” he remarked, ”is a clear case of Mann’s…
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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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  • Brilliant Finch guides Victoria home

    7 Nov 2009 | 3:25 am
    Aaron Finch delivered a remarkable last-over win for Victoria, who made the third-highest successful chase in Australian domestic one-day history

  • Rejuvenated Australia target series victory

    7 Nov 2009 | 2:51 am
    Only once have India won a bilateral series against Australia, and are winless since 1986. Unless they win on Sunday, that trend is set to continue

  • Haddin not feeling threatened by Paine

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:10 pm
    Brad Haddin is looking forward to the first Test against West Indies, confident that his position as Australia's No. 1 wicketkeeper hasn't been threatened

  • Calm McKay enjoys the ride

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:22 pm
    Ricky Ponting was a relieved man at the end of a gripping game in Hyderabad, with Australia taking a 3-2 series lead after Sachin Tendulkar threatened to chase 351

  • Warriors take points despite Katich ton

    5 Nov 2009 | 11:12 pm
    A Simon Katich century was not enough for New South Wales as Western Australia took first-innings points in a drawn match at the SCG
 
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  • Rainford-Brent helps England level series

    7 Nov 2009 | 2:17 am
    Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent posted her first ODI half-century to help England set up a series-levelling 13-run victory over West Indies

  • Trott at ease with homecoming

    7 Nov 2009 | 1:30 am
    Jonathan Trott is in relaxed mood about his return to South Africa following a confident start to England's tour with 85 in a comprehensive victory against the Eagles at Bloemfontein

  • Trott guides England to warm-up victory

    6 Nov 2009 | 11:02 am
    Jonathan Trott marked his return to the country of his birth with a composed 85 in England's opening warm-up match against the Diamond Eagles at Bloemfontein

  • Flintoff admits comeback may be delayed

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:54 am
    Andrew Flintoff has a three-year Lancashire deal under his belt, but is unsure when he will be able to return to the cricket field as he continues a slow recovery from post-Ashes knee surgery

  • Sussex target Monty Panesar

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    Sussex have expressed interest in signing Monty Panesar, whose career is now at a crossroads after a barren season
 
 
 
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  • Gritty Aussies hail 'outstanding' Sachin

    7 Nov 2009 | 1:43 am
    Hyderabad, India: Australian captain Ricky Ponting yesterday lauded Indian master Sachin Tendulkar even as the injury-plagued world champions celebrated a brilliant one-day win.

  • McCullum's hundred props NZ to commanding total

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:19 pm
    Opener Brendon McCullum returned to form with a brilliant hundred to guide New Zealand to an imposing 303-8 in the second day-night international against Pakistan at Abu Dhabi Stadium here on Friday.

  • Fine return for Trott

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    Jonathan Trott made a successful return to South Africa in the colours of England with his half-century helping his adopted country make a winning start to their tour with a convincing 185-run victory over the Diamond Eagles in Bloemfontein.

  • Whatmore named KKR coach, Ganguly captain

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pm
    'Ganguly will be key driving force' Whatmore optimistic Former India captain Sourav Ganguly will return as Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper for next year's Indian Premier League, replacing New Zealand's Brendon McCullum.

  • Second New Zealand ODI in Abu Dhabi today

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:15 am
    Younis targets first one-day series win ABU DHABI: Pakistan captain Younis Khan targeted an unassailable lead against New Zealand when the two teams meet in the second day-night international here on Friday .
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  • Indian and Australian cricket teams arrive in Guwahati for 6th ODI - DailyIndia.com

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  • Henriques keen to be back playing cricket - Press Trust of India

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  • Patience is key to Flintoff comeback - The Bolton News

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  • Precautionary scan for Broad

    7 Nov 2009 | 4:27 am
    England bowler Stuart Broad has been sent for precautionary scans after jarring his right shoulder in fielding practice, the ECB has confirmed.

  • Enterprising Trott happy with start

    7 Nov 2009 | 1:44 am
    Jonathan Trott was pleased with his batting performance for England after his busy half-century helped secure a satisfying victory in the opening tour match against the Diamond Eagles.

  • Electric McCullum fires Black Caps

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:13 pm
    Opening batsman Brendon McCullum smashed a ferocious 131 to help New Zealand to a series-levelling 64-run win against Pakistan.

  • Trott helps England canter to victory

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:07 pm
    Jonathan Trott impressed for England as his half-century helped the tourists make a winning start in South Africa with a convincing 185-run victory over the Diamond Eagles in Bloemfontein.

  • National Conference 2010 details

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:28 am
    The ECB Coaches Association has announced details of the ECB CA National Conference 2010, entitled ‘Character, Captaincy & Leadership’.
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  • Singing Cockleys and Moises, alive-alive-oh

    Patrick Kidd
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:47 am
    There has been some consternation among my Australian friends, who are staggered that Australia have chosen some groundsman called Burt Cockley to replace Moises Henriques in their one-day squad (he's being sent home to have that ingrowing 'i' in his name removed). Cockley, a fast bowler whose main claim to fame is that he used to mow the grass at the North Sydney Oval, has played four list-A games for New South Wales. That's state games, not one-day internationals. He has taken five wickets, four of them on the pitch he used to tend last week. It is a bold selection. Jarrod,…

  • Our South Africans are better than your South Africans

    Patrick Kidd
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:11 am
    It was a happy homecoming for Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott today. Playing the Diamond Eagles in Bloemfontein, the Joburg-born Strauss made 72 and the Capetonian Trott got 85 to delight their many friends and relations in the crowd. Matt Prior, another Transvaal transplant, got 19, while Eoin Morgan, an Englishman via Dublin, made 67* as the touring side almost posted 300. Look, it's going to be a long winter tour so if there are any South Africans out there who want to whinge about this selection policy (or even any England fans who think the national side should be…

  • Ronercise

    Patrick Kidd
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:58 am
    There was a sketch on A Bit of Fry & Laurie some years back that featured Stephen Fry doing weird and amusing gyrations as part of a plan to lose weight. "A few years ago a friend put me on to dancercises," he explains to Hugh Laurie. "I won't tell you who this friend was, but if I dropped the hint that it was a prominent quantity surveyor, I'm sure you can probably guess. And the key to dancercise is the rather ingenious coupling of the word 'dance' to the word 'circumcise'." That came to mind when I stumbled on the video…

  • Tendulkar falls inches short

    Patrick Kidd
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:19 am
    I don't know if Four Weddings and a Funeral was big in India, but you can't blame Sachin Tendulkar if he starts doing an impersonation of Hugh Grant's opening speech in the film this evening. "F***. &$£%. *&£%.£(^@" It is not every day that you can make 175 in an international game of cricket and feel so thoroughly miserable. Tendulkar almost broke the record for the highest score in one-day internationals (19 short of Saeed Anwar and Charles Coventry's mark - and 11 short of his own personal best); he almost led India to what would have been the…

  • Beware the Banglas?

    Patrick Kidd
    4 Nov 2009 | 7:41 am
    It must be pretty grim to be a Zimbabwe fan at the moment. The state of the national side has got so desperate that even an ODI win against Bangladesh, chasing a target of less than 200 last week, is described as "an upset". Bangladesh have been getting better of late - with five wins against higher-ranked opponents in ODIs in the past two years and a first Test series win away from home, albeit against the West Indies second XI - but it is more a reflection of Zimbabwe's weakness that their win in the first ODI was seen as a surprise. Normal service has since been…
 
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  • 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…

  • Pardon NWG - What Did You Say?

    26 Oct 2009 | 8:03 am
    James Anderson as captain of England.What?Did NWG wake up in the twilight zone this morning?If NWG was feeling a bit charitable, she could probably just about see it, but it would like Prince Harry being King. A lot of stuff would have to happen to get to that point.Where would Andrew Strauss go? Is James really up to it, or has April Fools come a bit early?

  • Cricket Trumps: Andrew Strauss vs Ricky Ponting

    22 Oct 2009 | 1:56 pm
    Ricky:Height: not that tall. Weight: quite spindly.Age: pretty old.Skill: being a captain. Pretty handy batsman. Also quite useful slip catcher. Best known for: Being moody. Having a scar on his face inflicted by Harmison. Complaining. Losing the Ashes. Twice. Winning the Ashes a couple of times. NWG forgets how many.Andrew:Height: not that tall.Weight: solid.Age: thirtyish.Skill: great batsman. Excellent captain. Slip fielder. Best known for: sportsmanship. Smiling. Being happy. Winning the Ashes. Not being Knighted. Not being captain for a ridiculous amount of time given how great he is.

  • Cricket Trumps: Ryan Vs Matthew

    20 Oct 2009 | 7:07 am
    Ryan:Height: insignificant.Weight: podgy.Age: irrelevant.Skill: debatable. Supposedly a bowler.Best known for: shouting at fielders. Looking moody. Having ridiculous hair. Being dropped from the England team.Matthew:Height: perfect in every way.Weight: Just the right amount.Age: Erm. Thirtyish.Skill: bowler. Excellent. Best known for: great hair, calm demeanor, having a son called Ernie, being unceremoniously dropped by England and then sacked by Yorkshire. So very wrong.Who wins?Well this may come as a huge surprise to all, but NWG thinks that Matthew has just tipped this one.
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  • Ponting hopes luck holds against Sehwag

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:56 am
    Sydney: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting hopes that luck will continue to favour him against dangerous Virender Sehwag, who has not been so successful in the ongoing seven match series so far. Australia have escaped lightly in their dealings with Sehwag so

  • McCullum ton crushes Pakistan

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:25 am
    Abu Dhabi: Brendon McCullum starred with bat and Scott Styris with the ball as New Zealand beat Pakistan by 64 runs in the second day-night international here on Friday. ScorecardMcCullum smashed131 to help New Zealand to post a challenging

  • Security beefed up for Guwahati ODI

    6 Nov 2009 | 10:57 pm
    Guwahati: Security has been tightened for the sixth one-day international between India and Australia to be played here on Sunday.Police and sources said that a three-tier security blanket has been thrown in and around the Nehru Stadium, the venue of the

  • Dada leads, Whatmore coaches for Riders

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:38 am
    Kolkata: Replacing New Zealand's Brendon McCullum, former India skipper Sourav Ganguly today returned as the Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper for the next edition of Indian Premier League.Dav Whatmore who coached Sri Lanka to World Cup victory in 1996 and was also

  • Sarfaraz wants to meet Tendulkar

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Mumbai: Sarfaraz Khan, 12 year wonder boy who created a school cricket record on Wednesday, wants to meet Sachin Tendulkar in person to achieve his long-cherished dream. Sarfaraz hit 439 runs in the Harris Shield to break Tendulkar's
 
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