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- Kent will let Ford take up England job
Rediff |
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- Tipped to be the next England cricket coach, Graham Ford will have no problem leaving his current employers county side Kent, which has promised not to come in the way if its director of cricket gets the high-profile job. The South African is the bookies' favourite to replace current England coach Peter Moores, who has fallen out with skipper Kevin Pietersen.
- India may tour Zimbabwe
Yahoo News - Indian Cricket |
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- Zimbabwe's cricket board has asked India if it could play in a limited-overs tri-series in Harare this year.
- England '05 Vs South Africa '08
Cricket365 | south africa
- South Africa '08 are being compared to England '05 after success over Australia, but Peter May expects Graeme Smith and co to do rather better than that.
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- Shukla, Parvinder lead UP fightback
- Shivkant Shukla (103) and Parvinder Singh (93) led Uttar Pradesh fightback, sharing an unbeaten 190-run stand for the fourth wicket, to take the score to 253 for three on the penultimate day of the four-day Ranji Trophy semi-final match against Tamil Nadu in Nagpur on Tuesday.
- PCB awards new central contracts
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- Pakistan awarded new central contracts to 26 players on Tuesday.
- Saurashtra trail Mumbai by 390 runs
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- Mumbai appeared to be on course to their 38th Ranji Trophy title as Saurashtra failed to live up to their promise of making a match of their rivals and were trailing by 390 runs in their first innings on the third and penultimate day of their semi-final match in Chennai on Tuesday.
- Malik remains captain for indefinite period
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- Shoaib Malik has been retained as Pakistan's captain for an indefinite period. The decision was made by PCB chairman Ijaz Butt
- Cricket: Second Test, fourth day. Yuvraj Singh gives India the impetus to secure the series against England
- Yuvraj Singh enlivened the dreariest day of England 's tour of India with half-an-hour's strokeplay on the field and then stepped up his attack off it as he responded cheerily to Kevin Pietersen 's rubbishing of him as a pie-chucker among Test bowlers and a purveyor of left-arm filth . India, protecting a 1-0 lead in the series, held a virtually unassailable advantage at the end ...
- Shoaib and Kaneria earn top contracts
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- Shoaib Akhtar is the main beneficiary after the PCB announced their latest central contracts, while Mohammad Asif has been dumped altogether
- Gritty stand gives Uttar Pradesh the edge
- Shivakant Shukla and Parvinder Singh came up with the best performances of their careers to keep Uttar Pradesh in the advantage in their semi-final against Tamil Nadu
- Pakistan award new cricket contracts
- KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan awarded new central contracts to 26 players on Tuesday. Saleem Altaf, chief operating officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board, told a news conference in Lahore that all the players had been recommended for the annual contracts by the national selection committee.
- Lancashire begin coach debate
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- Lancashire will begin assessing the applications for their new first-team coach this week and are hopeful of having the position filled in time for the successful candidate to play a significant role in pre-season training
- Chittagong Test: Sri Lanka destroy Bangladesh by 465 runs
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- Sri Lanka crushed Bangladesh by 465 runs in the second Test on Tuesday, recording the fifth highest run margin to sweep the series 2-0.
- Maiden wicket at last for Bolly
Daily Telegraph |
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- HOMETOWN hero Doug Bollinger celebrated his first Test wicket yesterday, almost assuring Australia had ended any hopes of a South African whitewash.
- Slater says celebrate Hayden's career
- MICHAEL Slater is leading calls for a celebration of Matthew Hayden's career as pressure mounts on selectors to give the Test legend a tap on the shoulder.
- Proteas haven't ruled out skipper
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- SOUTH African coach Mickey Arthur last night says he will have to chain injured skipper Graeme Smith to the dressing room if today's third Test goes down to the wire.
- Warner stars as NSW beat SA
- DAVID Warner knocked South Australia senseless as NSW notched a four-wicket victory over the Redbacks in the Twenty20 match at Adelaide Oval.
- Day for rookies to make a stand
Fox Sports |
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- AUSTRALIA'S generation next has the chance to carve a slice of history by bowling the ailing world champions to a consolation victory over South Africa in the third final Test in Sydney.
- 'Dreadful' pitch gets slammed
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- TEST greats have given the crumbling and cracking SCG pitch a stunning blast, with former England captain Tony Greig lashing out and saying it was dreadful.
- Siddle's earned his spot: McGrath
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- GLENN McGrath believes Peter Siddle's breakthrough five-wicket haul during the Sydney Test will cement the rookie a regular starting spot in Australia's new-look pace attack.
- Ton next on Hussey's list
- MATTHEW Hayden has had a bad trot, and gained attention for it, but Michael Hussey has had it worse. I feel I have been a little bit out of luck at times, Hussey says of his summer.
- Ponting must lead with imagination
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- RICKY Ponting finally might consider using the left-arm wrist spin of Simon Katich, which just might make a difference if Australia's front-line attack cannot make the expected impact.
- Champagne time for Bollinger
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- DOUG Bollinger was uncorked in the third session on Tuesday, handed the assignment of breaking the scratch pairing of Neil McKenzie and Morne Morkel 90 minutes before stumps.
- Fifth-day SCG pitch so intriguing
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- WHAT a joy it is to see a cricket pitch starting to fall apart, and to hear radio commentators proudly promoting photos of the pitch as if they have captured a tsunami on film.
- Selectors must axe Hayden
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- THE official demise of Matthew Hayden as an international cricketer should begin with selectors leaving him out of Australia's one-day and Twenty20 squads.
- Slater celebrates Matt's stellar career
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- MICHAEL Slater is leading calls for a celebration of Matthew Hayden's career as pressure mounts on selectors to give the Test legend a tap on the shoulder.
