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NEWS UPDATE : Asian Cricket Third Sri Lanka-Pakistan ODI abandoned due to rain COLOMBO: The third One-day International between Sri Lanka and Pakistan was abandoned due to rain here at the R Premadasa Stadium on Wednesday. The umpires made this decision after consulting ... Australia want to master all forms of game: Clarke SYDNEY: Australia's limited-overs tour of England and Ireland represents the start of a two-year campaign to make them the top nation in all three forms of the game, captain Michael Clarke said ... Bopara glad to be back for England SOUTHAMPTON, England: Ravi Bopara is eager to make up for lost times as he tries to revive his ... South Africa name unchanged squad for England series JOHANNESBURG: South Africa have kept faith with a winning formula by naming an unchanged squad for the three-Test series in England starting next month, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on ...


Friday, October 14, 2011

Six captains on this week's ICC Cricket World Radio Show

Cape Town : Hashim Amla, South Africa's stand-in captain, is one of the six captains to participate on this week's ICC Cricket World Radio Show as he looks forward to his side's series against Australia which starts today (Thursday) with a Twenty20 International (T20I) in Cape Town.Also, Zimbabwe and New Zealand captains Brendan Taylor and Ross Taylor preview their series which starts in Harare on Saturday with a T20I while India's Gautam Gambhir talks about his fitness and the ODI series against England which kicks off in Hyderabad tomorrow (Friday).Looking forward to the series in South Africa and India are former captains Kepler Wessels and Ravi Shastri while West Indies women's team's captain Merissa Aguilleira looks ahead to the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier 2011 which will be held in Bangladesh from 14 to 25 November.Amla says: "I am quite excited and it is a big honour for me. The injury to AB de Villiers is a big blow to the team."We are enjoying Gary Kirsten's coaching. It will take a little time to know Gary's ideas but so far it has all been positive."Both the teams are on similar stages in their development. Australia and South Africa have similar traits. It is going to be very competitive (series) and no doubt will be one of the contests to watch out for.The show can be used in whole or part by radio stations that want free cricket content for editorial use, while the public can also download it straight from www.icc-cricket.com or from iTunes.Gambhir, who is staging a comeback after missing the ODI series against England earlier this summer, says: "I don't know why people are talking about this being a payback series. I think it is just another series."There is no word in my dictionary called "payback". England deserved to win when we played them there."Winning is important for us whether convincingly or otherwise does not matter. They will come hard at us and we will go hard at them."Apart from these exclusive interviews, there is the usual round-up of cricketing news and an update of the Reliance ICC Player Rankings