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Thursday, January 28, 2010, 3:45 am
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East London (S.Africa), Jan.27 (ANI): Outgoing South African cricket team coach Mickey Arthur today said that he resigned because his vision for the national squad was at cross-purpose to the plans being decided by Cricket South Africa.

“I am disappointed, because when I started there I said I wanted to get [...]

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:34 am
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The last time these two teams met in a tournament final, Sachin Tendulkar produced a match-winning century that saw India win with relative ease. Not many people remember though, that there were other vital contributions too – Yuvraj and Dhoni both scored fifties, while Harbhajan Singh picked up 5/56. For Sri Lanka, Dilshan started off [...]

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:29 am
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Karachi, Jan 12(ANI): A former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official has asked the top hierarchy of the board to understand the seriousness of the threats of outside interference and advised it to immediately revive its link with the Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).
Arif Ali Khan Abbasi, who served as secretary of the former BCCP [...]

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:28 am
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Melbourne, Jan 12 (ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting handed his baggy green cap which was with him for previous 117 tests to maker Albion so that it can undergo makeover and be with him on time for the Hobart Test.
The baggy green cap was falling apart at the seams, and required the urgent restoration.
The Australian [...]

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:27 am
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London, Jan 12 (ANI): England cricketer Tim Bresnan is eyeing a deal to play in the Indian Premier League.
Bresnan is one of nine Englishmen vying for a place in the lucrative IPL, having been nominated for a place in the player auction on January 19.
“I’ve had an interesting couple of weeks since I got back [...]

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:26 am
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Sydney, Jan 12 (ANI): Australian opening batsman Simon Katich has been cleared to play in the third and final Test against Pakistan, starting on Thursday at the Bellerive Oval.
Katich, who missed the second Test victory with a badly bruised forearm, proved his fitness at a lengthy training session in Hobart on Tuesday morning.
NSW batsman Phillip [...]

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:25 am
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Hobart, Jan 12(ANI): Pakistan vice-captain and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal will have a vote in deciding his own fate for the third Test against Australia, starting from Thursday in Hobart.
Kamran is part of a four-man selection committee that picks the teams on tour, alongside captain Mohammad Yousuf, team manager Abdul Raqeeb and coach Intikhab Alam.
“Before the [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:08 am
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Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Australia’’s star-studded domestic Twenty20 competition begins on Monday and big hitting West Indies captain Chris Gayle will lead the international charge.
Gayle has joined forces with Western Australia, while fellow international stars Shahid Afridi and Kieron Pollard (South Australia), Dwayne Bravo (Victoria), Daniel Vettori (Queensland), Sohail Tanvir (Victoria), Dwayne Smith (NSW) and [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:04 am
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New Delhi, Dec.26 (ANI): Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has expressed hope to wrap up the series with another win in the fifth one-day international match against Sri Lanka on Sunday, as the spinners will be in action at the national capital’s Ferozeshah Kotla ground.
While addressing a news conference here Dhoni said that the [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:04 am
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Durban (S. Africa), Dec. 26 (ANI): Cricket South Africa’’s decision to zero in on Graeme Smith as captain in March, 2003, when he had just turned 22, has proved to be the most inspired choice ever made.
At that time, the selection looked an odd fit. Smith was unworldly, but grew up quickly.
According to the Courier [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:03 am
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Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has said he was unfairly treated for testing positive to steroids.
The controversial quick has vowed to “tell everything” about his drug dramas.
Banned for a year for testing positive to the steroid nandrolone during the inaugural Indian Premier League in 2008, Asif has only just returned to [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:02 am
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Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Australian openers Shane Watson and Simon Katich fell agonisingly short of centuries, but their side was in a commanding position against Pakistan on the first day of the first Test of the series at the MCG here.
Australia were 3-305 at stumps on the first day after Watson and Katich posted a [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:02 am
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Durban, Dec. 26 (ANI): England off-spinner Graham Swann has said that the past 12 months have been a dream.
“In my first year of Test cricket, I””ve taken 53 wickets and averaged 36 with the bat. And I have an Ashes winner”’’s medal. I wouldn””t swap it for the world,” he says in a column for [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:01 am
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Lahore, Dec. 26 (ANI): Former Pakistan Test opener Saeed Anwar would be organising a special training camp for the opening batsmen of the national squad soon after the team returns from Australia.
Anwar said he is keen to share his experience with the younger players through which he can contribute something the Pakistan cricket.
“I will hold [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 5:00 am
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Durban (S. Africa), Dec. 26 (ANI): Captain Andrew Strauss has warned England’’s players to focus on today’’s crucial Second Test against South Africa here, and not to over-indulge in the Christmas spirit.
England’’s party has grown to more than 60, with players, management, wives, girlfriends and children.
The team practised yesterday at the Kingsmead ground before a [...]

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Sunday, December 27, 2009, 4:58 am
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Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting urged Pakistan to bring on a bouncer war as he declared himself an almost certain starter for his 13th Boxing Day Test.
According to the Courier Mail, Ponting will wear an arm guard to protect his sore left elbow – but insists he has no fear about [...]

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Friday, December 25, 2009, 3:46 pm
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Australia vs Pakistan, 1st Test
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, December 26-30, 2009
Match starts at 23:30 GMT
Ground Reality and Pitch: Melbourne Cricket Ground or the MCG as it is more popularly known, is a premier cricket ground located in Yarra Park in inner Melbourne. The MCG, which is the largest stadium in Australia, is traditionally known to [...]

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Friday, December 25, 2009, 3:45 pm
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Melbourne, Dec. 25 (ANI): The Australian batting line up is expecting a flurry of short pitch deliveries from the Pakistani pacers in the wake of West Indian captain Chris Gayle’’s  disclosure that Aussie captain Ricky Ponting  is weak against short-pitched balls.
The Kangaroos are waiting for the final call on Ponting’s fitness, who was hit on [...]

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Friday, December 25, 2009, 3:44 pm
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Sydney, Dec. 25 (ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has revealed his preferred Test XI for 2009, and it includes three Indians – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar.
In an article for the Sydney Morning Herald, he says: “Choosing a Test team of the year can be hazardous. So far no lives have [...]

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Friday, December 25, 2009, 3:42 pm
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Dubai, Dec. 25 (ANI): Australia will need to beat Pakistan comprehensively in the three-Test series starting in Melbourne on Saturday if it is to retain its third position in the Reliance Mobile ICC Test Championship table.
Australia starts the series with a difference of 33 rating points relative to sixth-placed Pakistan and this gap means it [...]