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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 ...


Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Cricket Ireland consider legal action after ICC World Cup snub

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Ireland are considering legal action in attempt to fight the International Cricket Council’s decision to exclude associate nations from the next World Cup. Their humbling of England in Bangalore and the fact they have been ranked at number ten in the ICC world rankings for most of the last four years - ahead of full member nation Zimbabwe - has increased the sense...

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PCB fails to name squad for West Indies tour

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Updated at: 2147 PST,  Tuesday, April 05, 2011 LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) selection committee on Tuesday failed to select team for West Indies tour, Geo News reported.The meeting of PCB selection committee, under the chair of Chief Selector Mohsin Hassan Khan, was held in Gaddafi Stadium here. The meeting was attended among others by selector Muhammad Ilyas,...

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Coach Kirsten bids goodbye to India

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Updated at: 1843 PST,  Tuesday, April 05, 2011 MUMBAI: India's outgoing coach Gary Kirsten on Tuesday admitted he found it very hard to say goodbye to the World Cup-winning team and the country's "special" cricketers."It has been one of the hardest goodbyes I have had to say," the former South African batsman told reporters at his farewell press conference in Mumbai...

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Afridi wants Miandad as batting coach

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Updated at: 1814 PST,  Tuesday, April 05, 2011 LAHORE: Pakistan cricket team one-day international captain Shahid Khan Afridi said that senior players including Kamran Akmal should be given rest on the tours of West Indies and Zimbabwe.He said that he wants to acquire services of Javed Miandad as batting coach.Talking with media in Lahore, Afridi said that he has no...

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Sangakkara quits as Sri Lanka captain

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Updated at: 1558 PST,  Tuesday, April 05, 2011 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara said on Tuesday he was resigning from the job three days after his team lost to India in the World Cup final.Sangakkara said he told the national selectors that he would quit as one-day and Twenty20 captain with immediate effect, but offered to continue as Test captain...

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Cup dream born of disaster, says Tendulkar

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Updated at: 1533 PST,  Tuesday, April 05, 2011 NEW DELHI: India's victorious, record-breaking batsman Sachin Tendulkar said on Tuesday he started dreaming of the World Cup after a humiliating first-round exit in the last edition in the Caribbean."That (winning the World Cup) was my dream after we lost in 2007. I took up that challenge," Tendulkar told the Mumbai-based...

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