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Warne makes the game interesting for his players
As captain, he makes every ball worth watching. He empowers his players and makes them want to contribute to the team every time Shane Warne will retire as a player at the end of this IPL season. He’ll leave with only one regret: that he didn’t captain Australia on a long-term basis. When he did [...]
Zimbabwe has massive influence in world cricket
ZIMBABWE might be struggling to transform itself into a competitive Test team once again but the little Southern African nation still exerts massive influence in world cricket with two of the game’s superpowers now under the guidance of coaches from this country. Duncan Fletcher, who captained Zimbabwe at its maiden appearance at the World Cup [...]
2011 Cricket County Championship, Division 2, Round 3
Middlesex have 41 points after their second win of the season, a three-wicket win over Derbyshire at Derby. Derbyshire could only manage 154 the first time around as No. 9 Ross Whiteley top-scored with 28. Gareth Berg (4-18) and Tim Murtagh (3-36) did the main damage; Steven Finn claimed 1-42. Middlesex replied with 270, helped [...]
Sri Lanka paceman Malinga quits Test cricket
Injury-prone Sri Lanka paceman Lasith Malinga on Friday quit Test cricket in a bid to prolong his career in one-day internationals and Twenty20 matches. Malinga is playing for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and had recently made himself unavailable for Sri Lanka’s tour of England, attracting criticism that he had chosen to play [...]
Gayle: I was left with no choice
Swashbuckling opener Chris Gayle on Thursday said the ill-treatment from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) forced him to skip the home series against Pakistan and join the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL). The 31-year-old former West Indies skipper was left out of the initial part of the Twenty20 and one-day series against Pakistan due [...]
Australia can’t waste talent like India: Greg Chappell
Greg Chappell, Cricket Australia’s national talent manager, has said, on returning from a “reconnaissance exercise” to the US, that Australia do not have as large a talent pool for cricket as some other countries, and hence have to be careful not to waste any of the talent they have. He said the key for Australian [...]
Kumar Sangakkara Quits ODI and T-20 Captaincy
Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara has quitted the ODI and T-20 matches captaincy. He led his team to two consecutive world Cup finals and lost both times. Kumar Sangakkaraa has decided to step down from captaincy. He will now lead the team in test matches only. Kumar Sangakkara said that he will continue to play [...]
India Won Cricket World Cup 2011 By Six Wickets
India beat Sri Lanka to win the Cricket World Cup for the first time in 28 years, with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni guiding the run chase on Saturday to deliver the great Sachin Tendulkar his first title in six attempts. Dhoni scored an unbeaten 91, sharing a 109-run stand with Gautam Gambhir (97) and finishing [...]
Pakistan star Shoaib Akhtar eyes ‘dream’ win over India
Shoaib Akhtar feels it is critical that Pakistan beat India in Wednesday’s World Cup semi-final to help draw a line under a difficult couple of years. Pakistan have endured a series of setbacks since the attack on Sri Lanka’s team bus in Lahore in 2009. And the veteran paceman told BBC Sport: “Pakistan need victory [...]
Sri Lanka beat New Zealand – Enter ICC World Cup 2011 Finals
Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 5 wickets to enter ICC World Cup Finals: SLanka bundle out NZealand for a modest 217 in 48.5 overs despite Scott Stryis’s fighting half-century, in the first semi-final of the cricket World Cup in Colombo on Tuesday.Pace spearhead Lasith Malinga and spinner Ajantha Mendis, with three wickets each, were [...]
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