Archive for October 3rd, 2007
Retired cricketer Warne denies romance with Jemima Khan
SYDNEY (AFP) – It was the story the cricketing world found too good to be true — retired Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne was romancing the Jemima Khan, the former wife of Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan.
And it was just that.
In a front page story on the cover of Woman’s Day magazine, Khan was named as [...]
Sri Lankan players cleared for IPL
The Sri Lankan cricket authorities on Wednesday cleared seven of its eight players to play in the BCCI backed multi-million Indian Premier League (IPL) scheduled to begin from April 2008.
Captain Mahela Jayawardene and spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan are among the players to sign up to play in the inaugural season of the IPL.
“We have approved the names of [...]
McGrath set for another Sydney farewell
October 3, 2007
Glenn McGrath might wear New South Wales colours one more time © Getty Images
Glenn McGrath could make one last appearance in a Twenty20 match for New South Wales this season. The Age reported that the Blues were talking to McGrath about playing Queensland at Sydney’s Telstra Stadium on January 8.
That [...]
India: Truth, Facts & Cricket
W hereas, the craze for the games like Football & Tennis is getting momentum in American & other European countries, the cricket fever is in full swing in the Asian countries. Especially, the cricket is everything in South Asian countries. The countries like Bangladesh & Sri Lanka have not only organized their cricket teams but [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Interview: Matthew Hayden : Older, wiser, hungrier
October 3, 2007
Purple patch: five of Hayden’s ten ODI hundreds have come this year, and he isn’t slowing down any
Damien Martyn retired at 35. He confessed that the challenge of international cricket called for “people who are more than 100% committed, dedicated, disciplined and passionate about the game”. Matthew Hayden is fast [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Symonds and Haddin set up big Australia win
KOCHI, India (Reuters) – Andrew Symonds and Brad Haddin powered to 87 runs apiece to set up Australia’s convincing 84-run win over India in the second one-dayer on Tuesday and avenge last month’s Twenty20 World Cup semi-final defeat.
Australia, playing their first full one-dayer following their long break after claiming a World Cup hat-trick in April, [...]
Format gets shakeup with addition of Twenty20
The increasingly popular form of Twenty20 cricket is about to hit the Southland club competition.
Southland Cricket officials have given the format for the 2007-08 club season a shakeup, which includes scrapping the two-day competition in an attempt to boost interest in the sport in the south.
The longer form of the game had become tiresome [...]
Twenty20 format has come to stay: Pawar
The rapid fire Twenty20 format has not only caught the imagination of people but will receive due importance for its promotion and proliferation all over the country, opined the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sharad Pawar.
Speaking at the prize distribution of the maiden Symbiosis Super Shield T20 Corporate cricket tournament, [...]
‘We’ll play aggressive cricket too’ – Gilchrist
Adam Gilchrist: “I also saw a few things that I wouldn’t expect from my son, Harrison, in a backyard game of cricket”
In the end, Australia won by the proverbial mile, but much of the talk afterwards was of some heated scenes in the middle involving Andrew Symonds, Harbhajan Singh, Michael Clarke and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IPL signs eight Sri Lankan cricketers
BCCI’s ambitious Indian Premier League (IPL) Monday pulled off a coup of sort with the big time signing up of eight current Sri Lankan cricketers including Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya and Muttiah Muralitharan for the inaugural season.
The signing up of the star players from the emerald island — Jayawardene, Muralitharan, Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Lasith Malinga, [...]
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