Australia batsman Michael Hussey is braced for England to come out fighting in the final Ashes Test as they seek to avoid a humiliating whitewash. He expects the tourists, 4-0 down in the series, to battle hard as they seek to salvage some pride in Sydney, with the match starting on 2 January.

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Dennis Amiss, chairman of the ECB's international management committee, has said that Duncan Fletcher's position as a tour selector could be reviewed before England leave Australia. The long-term future of Fletcher is set to be discussed after the World Cup but his part in picking the team during the Ashes trip has come under scrutiny.

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Having been spanked to most parts of McLean Park in Napier during the first ODI against Sri Lanka, New Zealand's bowling attack are looking to improve on a bowling performance that saw them give up a hefty target 285 with ten overs to spare.

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England off-spinner Jamie Dalrymple says he wants the chance to break up Australia's retirement parties in the final Ashes Test if he can earn a place in the tourists' team.Dalrymple is in line to bowl in spin tandem with Monty Panesar at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), which has a reputation as a spin-friendly pitch.

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Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar failed to make it in the 17-member squad announced for next month’s South African safari, because of the negative vote from his skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq during the selection process.

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Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq believes Australia will be a much weaker team when Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath retire next year. "Everybody in cricket will miss them but more importantly I think Australia will miss them a great deal because they are big performers and take most of the team's wickets," said Inzamam

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Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer is a strong contender to take over from Duncan Fletcher as England coach after the World Cup. Woolmer could replace Fletcher who has slowly lost his reputation and influence with the England team, sources said.

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Dope-tainted speedster Shoaib Akhtar today failed to make it to the Pakistani squad for the upcoming Test series in South Africa with the selectors citing lack of match fitness and form as the reason for his exclusion.

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If it is not bad enough for England that they are staring at an Ashes whitewash, they have now suffered the ridicule of being asked to bring their best game to Sydney by Australia's coach. As Australia named an unchanged 12 for the fifth Test starting on Tuesday, John Buchanan said he wanted the visitors to give his side a proper contest instead of competing for only short periods.

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BCCI president Sharad Pawar filed his nomination on Friday to succeed South Africa’s Percy Sonn as the International Cricket Council (ICC) chief. The decision to nominate Pawar was taken by Asian Cricket Council.

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The Kerala Cricket Association is eagerly awaiting India pacer S Sreesanth's arrival to felicitate him for his stupendous performance in the ongoing Test series in South Africa.

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A top official of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board to immediately suspend fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif from playing in national or international competitions. The PCB should conduct fresh dope tests of the two bowlers and until a decision is reached by WADA on the issue both players should be suspended from playing national or international cricket, Dr Waqar Ahmed, WADA's representative in Pakistan, told a news channel tonight.

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Paceman Irfan Pathan returned here early this morning from South Africa. The left arm pace bowler was sent back by the Indian team management before the conclusion of the ongoing test series against the host to rediscover his bowling form in domestic cricket.

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Will it be Warne or McGrath? The Ashes might have gone in favour of the Aussies, but the fifth Test in Sydney will decide who among the two will end his career with the second highest number of test ducks in the history of the game.

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It is a stroke which has fetched him runs by thousands and it is the one which is now threatening to cut short his career when it should logically have been in its prime now.

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Pakistan's fast bowling resources might hold the key to a tough series in South Africa, according to Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach. At their disposal, as the squad is finalised, will be the likes of Umar Gul, Shahid Nazir, Mohammad Sami, Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan and the returning trio of Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Asif and Shabbir Ahmed.

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Matthew Hayden says he intends to bat on as retirement announcements sweep through the all-conquering Australian cricket team. The 35-year-old opening batsman, playing in his 88th Test, claimed his 27th Test century to join Allan Border as Australia's fourth-highest century-maker as the Australians turned the screws on hapless England in the fourth Ashes Test here Wednesday.

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Shane Warne has committed that his charitable foundation will pay dollars 20,000 to Sri Lanka's Galle Club for its reconstruction efforts at the cricket ground devastated by tsunami in 2004.

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Pakistan are considering sending an extended 17-member squad for next month's tour of South Africa, according to Iqbal Qasim, who is standing in for chief selector Wasim Bari. The team is due to be announced on December 29.

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On a day of flip-flops, the Cricket Board today said teenager Ishant Sharma would fly to South Africa to reinforce India`s fast bowling resources, only to retract the announcement later.

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Team India's Mumbai lads Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Jaffer and Zaheer Khan will turn up for their Ranji team during the last round of the elite competition after the team returns from its South Africa tour.

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The mid-way pull back of Irfan Pathan is increasingly seen as a tough and controversial approach of the BCCI's new regime. The message is loud and clear that there is no place for under performers. Considering Indian cricket history players have never been recalled from a tour for reasons other than injury or indiscipline.

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Former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya has resigned as the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal on Wednesday, sources said. With pressure building up on him following his life expulsion from the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Dalmiya was expected to resign as the president before a crucial meeting of the CAB's working committee that was scheduled to discuss the issue of his continuance at the helm of affairs.

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Shoaib Akhtar once again attracted controversy when he was fined by the organisers of the Twenty20 Cup for refusing to wear a sponsors' logo during the event.

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West Indies batting legend Brian Lara has said that Australia will inevitably come back to the field when Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath are gone after the current Ashes Series.

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The Pakistan Cricket Board has started consulting its legal experts although it is yet to receive an intimation from the World Anti-Doping Agency which has challenged the overturning of bans on fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd. Asif in the Court of Arbitration for Sports.

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Sachin Tendulkar survived an injury scare on Tuesday when X-rays revealed just a bruise on his right thumb which he sustained while attempting a catch on the opening day of the second cricket Test against South Africa here.

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Ishant Sharma, the 18-year-old Delhi medium pacer, is likely be sent to South Africa ahead of the final Test at Cape Town. Sharma, currently playing in only his fifth first-class match, is likely to join the squad before the final Test. With Irfan Pathan being sent back to India to play domestic cricket, and Munaf Patel yet to regain full fitness from an ankle injury, Sharma may be asked to step in and fill the breach in the squad, should the need arise, through another injury.

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Retirements might be in vogue, but West Indies batting legend Brian Lara appears in no mood to hang his boots now, saying he wants to play Test cricket for as long as he can. The 37-year-old batsman however might consider quitting one-day cricket after the World Cup in his homeland in March-April next.

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Now that Australian champion spinner Shane Warne has announced his retirement, Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan said he would set his sights on taking 1000 Test wickets before he calls it quits.

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The growing inclination of Pakistani cricketers towards religion has led to an increased number of former and present players leaving for Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Yousuf are leaving for Jeddah on Tuesday, while former cricketers Rashid Latif and Jalaluddin have already gone for the holy trip. Many of them left after playing in the domestic Twenty-20 competition.

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"We felt the right thing to do was bat and I think we still feel that," said the opener, who top-scored with 50. "We got to 100-2 and if you get 250-odd you have done pretty well on a wicket like that. Unfortunately we lost wickets at crucial times.

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New Zealand vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Twenty20 International, Auckland

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Irfan Pathan, who wasn't expected to play any part in the Test series, will be heading back to India later this week to play two Ranji Trophy matches in a bid to regain some semblance of bowling form.

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Shane Warne became the first bowler in history to take 700 Test wickets, bowling England opener Andrew Strauss on Tuesday on the opening afternoon of the fourth Ashes Test.

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Pakistan vice-captain Younis Khan on Monday said the return of pacers Shoaib Akhtar, Mohammad Asif and Shabbir Ahmed to the national team would give them the strongest bowling attack in the world.

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James Packer has launched a $10 million foundation to help former cricketers with financial difficulties, as well as promising young players looking for their big break. The announcement came on the first anniversary of the death of Packer's father Kerry, the man responsible for World Series Cricket.

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Opener Herschelle Gibbs is expected to be moved down South Africa's batting order for the second Test against India after recording a pair of ducks in first match, captain Graeme Smith said on Saturday.

AB de Villiers is likely to open with Smith as South Africa reshuffle its batting line-up after a 123-run defeat in the first Test in Johannesburg.

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Brian Lara, the West Indies captain, has said that he could prolong his Test career till the age of 40, at the same time also indicating that his one-day career could end after the World Cup next year.

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Perhaps the only worry for the Aussie selectors is that Stuart Clark is already 31, which means the man tipped as the next Mcgrath will only have a few years to work his magic. The start may be good but replacing the pigeon is not going to be easy. Mcgrath missed two tests in the 2005 Ashes and not surprisingly those were the two tests that Australia lost.

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Former India cricket player Ravi Shastri is in trouble after reportedly eating beef in South Africa where he is a commentator for a sports channel covering the India-South Africa series.

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Spin-wizard Shane Warne could be sued by Sri Lanka`s Galle International Cricket Club for not honouring a pledge of dollar 50,000 for the reconstruction of a tsunami-hit ground where he took his 500th Test wicket. "We have not even seen a penny. I will give them three months to deliver. Otherwise I will sue," Club Director Jayananda Warnaweera said.

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Surrey coach Alan Butcher has hit out at England's decision to overlook Jon Batty for their one-day squad. Wicket-keeper Batty, 32, is four years younger than Leicestershire's Paul Nixon, who has been called up for the forthcoming series in Australia.

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Andrew Flintoff has been given injections in his left ankle to cure the discomfort which has plagued him throughout the Ashes series.The England captain did not bowl a spell of longer than five overs in the first three Test defeats.

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Adam Gilchrist is three firm, lofted strikes away from becoming the first player to hit 100 Test sixes.

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Stephen Fleming has been rested for the first two one-day internationals against Sri Lanka after New Zealand Cricket decided to adopt a rotation policy ahead of the forthcoming World Cup in West Indies. Daniel Vettori will lead the team in Fleming's absence.

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The BCCI will decide on Saturday whether to accept the proposal for inclusion of cricket in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The BCCI's working committee, which will meet in Mumbai, will discuss the issue and decide whether cricket will be a medal sport at the next CWG after having made its debut in 1998 at Kuala Lumpur, a Board source said.

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India ended day one of its two-day practice match against a Kwa Zulu Invitational XI at Durban on 271 for six. Gautam Gambhir sent a strong message to Chairman of Selectors Dilip Vengsarkar for a place in the side for the second Test in Durban with a 79 before he retired hurt to give another player the chance to bat.

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A day after refusing to confirm his retirement, Glenn McGrath has decided to walk away after the World Cup. McGrath will join Shane Warne in playing his final Test at his SCG home ground starting on January 2 to end a spectacular career that has been crucial in pushing Australia to the top of the Test and one-day trees.

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Australia captain Ricky Ponting wants to say goodbye to Shane Warne with a 5-0 whitewash against England. Leg-spinner Warne has announced that he will quit international cricket at the end of the series. Ponting said he had been "shocked" by Warne's decision but had used it as a way of reminding the players not to let up in the final two Tests.

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Pakistan's Abdul Razzaq has been ruled out of the first two Tests in South Africa with a calf muscle injury.

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Former general secretary of the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI), Jaywant Lele, has condemned the ruling on Jagmohan Dalmiya that expels him from the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB).

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The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has challenged the exoneration of Pakistani pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif from doping charges in the Court of Arbitration for Sports, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan said on Friday he would love to have his job back. Vaughan, replaced by Andrew Flintoff for the ongoing Ashes series against Australia, was named yesterday in the squad for the upcoming one-day series against Australia and New Zealand which begins January 12.

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New Zealand vs Sri Lanka, 1st Twenty20I, Wellington

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Australian bowler Shane Warne has taken the plunge but there are conflicting reports about Glenn McGrath's retirement plans. Reports suggest that the Australian pace spearhead could make the announcement on Friday or next week. There's also confusion on whether he will play the World Cup in 2007 or not.

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Pakistan all rounder Abdul Razzaq is a fitness doubt for next month's test series in South Africa. Scans have shown the 27-year-old tore muscles in his thigh during Saturday's final one-day international against West Indies, the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Thursday.

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Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove believes Australia's loss will prove his club's gain after leg spinner Shane Warne decided to quit test cricket.

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India selectors have revealed they may make changes to the opening batting slots for the second Test against South Africa in Durban on 26 December.

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Outgoing Australian spinner Shane Warne said India`s Sachin Tendulkar and the West Indies` Brian Lara were the toughest batsmen he played against.

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England fast bowler Steve Harmison announced on Thursday he was retiring from One-day cricket, three months before the World Cup.

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Veteran Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble entered the top-five, while S Sreesanth's eight-wicket haul in the Johannesburg Test against South Africa saw him move up 13 places to 35th in the latest LG ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers.

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Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, has called for the ICC to review Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling action, specifically the doosra - the delivery that leaves the right-handed batsman.

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Prasanna Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan Test wicketkeeper, is in a Wellington hospital owing to an emergency appendix operation. Jayawardene was admitted on Tuesday night after complaining of acute stomach pain and underwent surgery yesterday.

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Legendary spin bowler Shane Warne on Thursday announced that he will retire from international and Australian cricket at the end of the current Ashes series against England.

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India coach Greg Chappell is bracing for a fierce backlash from the wounded South Africans. He, however, also believes that his own players are in a much better state and position to cope with whatever they are likely to throw at them.

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England pace bowler Sajid Mahmood has expressed dismay at the way he was handled by captain Andrew Flintoff in the third Ashes Test against Australia during which he bowled only 17 overs.

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Dayle Hadlee, the former New Zealand fast bowler and brother of legendary allrounder Richard Hadlee, has been appointed as New Zealand Cricket's (NZC) head bowling coach. Hadlee had previously been in charge of New Zealand Cricket Academy programme and was a former coach of the New Zealand Under-19 side.

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England has refused to assure Andrew Flintoff of the captaincy for next month`s one-day tri-series in Australia as former skipper Michael Vaughan prepares for his comeback to international cricket.

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All-rounder Shane Watson has vowed not to let his latest hamstring injury keep him out of the Australian side for next year`s world cup in the West Indies.

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PAustralia named an unchanged 12-man squad on Tuesday for the fourth Ashes Test starting in Melbourne on Dec. 26. The selectors stuck with the same players who won the third test in Perth by 206 runs on Monday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series and regain the Ashes from England.

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Paceman S Sreesanth's war dance in the middle of the Wanderers track was a reflection of the passion and energy of the young blood in the Indian team, legendary all rounder Kapil Dev said here.

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Inzamam-ul-Haq will captain Pakistan at next year’s World Cup in the Caribbean, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Sunday.

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Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, in his hour of triumph, hoped his performance in one-day cricket would be noticed and he would "get an opportunity" to represent India in the next World Cup.

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Ashley Giles, the England left-arm spinner, has flown home to England and will play no further part of the Ashes following news that his wife, Stine, is suffering from a "potentially very serious illness".

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BCCI on Saturday imposed life ban on former president Jagmohan Dalmiya for embezzlement of funds. The decision was taken at a Special General Body meeting of the Cricket Board in Jaipur. BCCI also stated that Dalmiya would not be allowed to hold any position at the national or state level.

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Australia's Adam Gilchrist scored the second fastest century in Test cricket history when he reached a hundred off 57 balls in the third Ashes Test against England on Saturday.

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Pakistan v West Indies, 5th ODI, Karachi

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Irfan Pathan has not only missed out on playing in the first Test, he has also, by the looks of it, missed an appointment for sorting out his bowling problems with Pakistan legend Wasim Akram.

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England's Monty Panesar dominated the Australian media on Friday following the left-arm spinner's five-wicket haul on the opening day of the third Ashes cricket Test at the WACA Ground here. The Australian newspaper said that despite a nervous start in the field, Panesar was transformed when he came on to bowl.

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David Morgan has been re-elected as the chairman of England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for a two-year term commencing April 2007. Mr Morgan, who has been chairman of the ECB since 2003, was re-elected unopposed. He previously served as the deputy chairman of the board since its inception in 1997, the ECB said in a statement here.

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India would be boosted by the return of inspirational skipper Rahul Dravid as they begin their quest to redeem their pride in the three-test series against South Africa.

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Star batsman Sachin Tendulkar concedes that his body is not of a 17-year-old anymore but says he is brave enough to accept it and use it smartly

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Dean Jones has warned the Australia team not to concern themselves with the state of the country's Test pitches. The chorus of cricketers complaining about the uniformity of playing surfaces has continued to gain momentum, with Ricky Ponting, Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath and a variety of commentators all lamenting the trend.

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Vijay Dahiya, the veteran Delhi wicketkeeper who played two Tests and 19 ODIs for India, has retired from all forms of cricket after a 15-year career. In a sudden decision, Dahiya informed the Delhi District Cricket Association of his retirement just four days after he sat out Delhi's Ranji Trophy match against Baroda at the Feroz Shah Kotla.

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The controversy surrounding Muttiah Muralitharan's bizarre run out which hastened Sri Lanka's downfall in the first cricket Test against New Zealand flared again on Thursday on the eve of the second Test.

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India will have to back words with action if they hope to buck the trend and script a turn-around victory in the first cricket Test against South Africa starting at the Wanderers on Friday.

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West Indies captain Brian Lara is likely to retire from one-day internationals after the World Cup. Lara will lead his team on home soil in the 2007 tournament and will then concentrate solely on Test cricket. He said: "I don't think I'll be playing one-day internationals after the World Cup. The form has been sketchy.

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A police complaint has been filed against cricketer Yuvraj Singh for allegedly assaulting a woman and her son, at his birthday party in Gurgaon. The police, however, had reportedly not filed any first information report (FIR) in the case till Wednesday afternoon.

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The Cricket Board today maintained its tough stand on cricketers, saying it should not surprise anyone if non-performers are called back midway through a tour.

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Bangladesh is hoping to feature cricket in the in the 11th South Asian Games, which it will host in 2008. Cricket has not been part of an international multi-sport event since the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

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Opting to bat first on a bowler's track arguably cost Sri Lanka the first cricket Test against New Zealand, but they say they will do it again for the sake of Muttiah Muralitharan in the second.

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Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne starts the third match of the Ashes series just six wickets away from 700 in Tests and with his team mates gunning to deliver the knockout blow to England.

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The beleaguered Indian team was trying to draw inspiration from its Australian odyssey of 2003-04 before the daunting Test series against South Africa, master leg-spinner Anil Kumble said on Tuesday.

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All-rounder Abdul Razzaq is likely to captain Pakistan in Wednesday's one-day game against West Indies in Multan. They have been forced to turn to Razzaq because regular skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq, deputy Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf will all miss the game.

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India captain Rahul Dravid asserted on Monday that he will definitely play the first Test match in Johannesburg - no small boost for a batting line-up that is struggling to come to grips with South African conditions.

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Nicky Boje, the South African left-arm spinner, has decided to retire from international cricket to concentrate on his domestic career.

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Pakistan have called up Faisal Iqbal and Shahid Afridi as cover for captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Yousuf in their squad for the fourth One-Day International against West Indies on Wednesday.

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Australian batsman Justin Langer has said Damien Martyn's sudden exit may cause other senior players to put their retirement plans on hold to avoid the repetition of 1980's joint exodus which had hit the team hard.

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Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer has warned his team of a tough tour to South Africa but was optimistic that his players had the capability to cope with the difficult condition there.

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With their Ashes defence hanging by a thread, England selectors face some tough decisions for the third Test against Australia, starting on Thursday at the WACA Ground.

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Kevin Pietersen says England will take the attack to Australia the third Ashes Test at the Waca. "We'll be going out with all guns blazing knowing we've got to play positive cricket and we've got to win this Test match," said Pietersen.

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 Madras High Court may take up for hearing today a petition of the Cricket Association of Bengal seeking a direction to restrain BCCI from convening any special general body meeting on December 16.

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With just over three months to go before the start of the 2007 cricket World Cup, much of Barbados is scarred by building cranes, road detours and construction sites.

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The final of the 2011 cricket World Cup will be held in Mumbai, representatives of joint hosts of the event, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh announced on Monday.

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Sourav Ganguly's comeback knock of 83 at Potchefstroom saw the Indians notch up a few firsts -- the highest score on tour so far, the first century, the first decent performance from the bowlers, and most importantly, the first signs of fighting back.

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England's former captain and wicketkeeper, Alec Stewart, believes that Steve Harmison has to be picked for Thursday's crucial Test at the WACA despite concerns about his form, because he is a proven matchwinner, and winning the match is what England have to do to have any hope of retaining the Ashes.

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With his hulking frame and that rare ability to belt the cover off a cricket ball, Andrew Symonds doesn't look like the sort of character to suffer from insecurity. After all, he's played 154 one-day internationals over the course of an eight-year career, and was an integral member of the 2003 World Cup-winning side as well.

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England captain Andrew Flintoff has said he was so dejected after the shock defeat in the second Ashes Test cricket against Australia that tears rolled down his eyes. "I was so upset, I have never experienced such a sense of loss after a cricket match and I hope I never feel that bad ever again," Flintoff said.

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Michael Clarke has vowed not to look too far ahead after his short-term Test future was sealed with Damien Martyn's sudden retirement. A century at Adelaide not only showed Clarke was ready for an extended stint in the side, but it also led to Martyn walking away from the game mid-series.

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John Buchanan feels no sympathy for his opposite number Duncan Fletcher after England's second consecutive Test loss. "That's a difficult thing to do in my position," Buchanan said in the Sydney Morning Herald. "He would not have felt that way towards me when the shoe was on the other foot last year."

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India's beleaguered batting stars today went through a vigorous net session under the watchful eyes of coach Greg Chappell as they tried to sort out their shortcomings and find form ahead of the first Test starting on Friday.

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The Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Nasim Ashraf, ordered an inquiry into a power failure that caused an embarrassing interruption of the third one-day international between Pakistan and the West Indies at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. A PCB spokesman said Ashraf would head the inquiry panel to find out who was responsible for the fault that stopped the match for over an hour.

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Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who has got entangled in a dope scandal, missed out on a four-day patrons trophy match for his employers KRL yesterday raising fresh doubts over whether the selectors would be willing to select him for the South Africa tour without testing his match fitness and form.

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New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming said his team were within their rights in the run-out of Muttiah Muralitharan that helped secure the first Test.

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Maybe India could take some heed, if not all, from their 96-run win over Rest of South Africa on Saturday, on how to battle in their rather disappointing tour to Protea land so far.

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Pakistan fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif will return to action in a Twenty20 Cup domestic tournament later this month after being cleared of doping charges, an official said on Saturday.

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ESPN-Star Sports have successfully bid to become the International Cricket Council's global media and production partner from late 2007 to 2015. "The decision was a unanimous one and the ICC will now seek to reach final agreement with ESPN-Star Sports," an ICC statement said on Saturday after the decision on the audio-visual rights was taken at a board meeting in Dubai.

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Pakistan fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif trained with the national team on Friday after being cleared of a doping ban this week by a Pakistan Cricket Board appeals tribunal. Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer did not see the pair returning to action in the current one-day series against West Indies but defended their return and said it was good for the team.

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The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Board is meeting in Dubai on Saturday to discuss the sale of audio-visual rights for ICC Events from late 2007 to 2015. This is the latest stage in the process of exploiting the ICC’s commercial rights for the eight-year period and follows the issuing of an Invitation to Tender (ITT) in October and the receipt of bids for those rights.

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A timid surrender once again by India's top order batsmen took the joy out of the good work on the field on the second day of the warm up cricket match against rest of South Africa.

Openers Virender Sehwag and Wasim Jaffer and Sachin Tendulkar in particular did little to ease the creases on the forehead of the team management as the Indians tumbled to 93 for seven in the second essay at the Sedgars Park.

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Australia have called up uncapped batsman Adam Voges and all-rounder Andrew Symonds for the third Ashes Test match against England in Perth starting on December 14, Cricket Australia said on Friday.

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Pakistan vice-captain Younis Khan will miss the third one-day international against the West Indies after the death of his brother, chief selector Wasim Bari said on Friday.   

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Aspiring musician Yuvraj Singh will soon make his debut in Bollywood. Singh's cine career will take off through Prakash Jha's 'Love Story' and is an Entertainment One production.

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The interest in matches involving India at the next year's World Cup in the West Indies was evident with an early sale of tickets for its league encounters. Local Organising Committee Communications Manager Janelle Penny Commission said all the tickets for India's league matches against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh had been sold off.

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Australian batsman Damien Martyn announced his immediate retirement from international and first class cricket on Friday. Martyn, 35, and a veteran of 67 tests from 1992, told Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland of his decision, reportedly after being dropped from the Australian squad for the third Ashes Test against England starting at Perth on December 14. Cricket Australia was due to name the squad on Friday.

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The countdown for the 2009 women's World Cup begins this Friday when four African countries will assemble in Nairobi, Kenya for the start of the World Cup regional qualifiers.

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Pakistan vs West Indies, 2nd ODI, Faisalabad

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Team India's dismal performance in South Africa has seen the critics sharpening their knives. The team ended on the losing side in all the fours One-Dayers and even came second best in a warm-up match against Rest of South Africa at Benoni before the ODIs.

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Fellow left-armer Ashley Giles has so far been preferred to Panesar because of his better batting ability. Reports have suggested coach Duncan Fletcher wanted to pick Panesar for Adelaide but he was over-ruled by captain Andrew Flintoff.

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Spin wizard Shane Warne has challenged Duncan Fletcher's claim that England team had sorted him out and asked the rival camp coach to come up with a plan to stop him from leading the Australians to another Ashes victory. .

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India will have the benefit of playing on one of the best batting pitches in South Africa as they warm up for a Test series against the host nation - but they will also have to deal with another battery of fast bowlers.

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Damien Martyn desperately needs a big score in the third Test to rescue his career, according to Mark Waugh. Waugh, who spent a decade as Australia's No.4, said there were similarities between himself and Martyn.

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The embattled Indian cricket team was offered a ray of hope today with batting mainstay Rahul Dravid stating that he should be fit for the first Test beginning next Friday.

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The Barbados government will invest another $13 million (euro10 million) toward the island's preparations for the cricket World Cup starting in March.

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The International Cricket Council today slammed the decision of Pakistani authorities to overturn the bans on pacemen Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif and asked its cricket board to "revisit" its doping regulations.

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At 10 past eleven on a hot and dry day at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom, a Mercedes minivan pulls up a few feet away from the outdoor nets. As soon as its doors open, the TV crews make a beeline there from their vantage points. Sourav Ganguly gets out quietly, picks up his kitbag from the boot, and wheels in into the practice area.

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An appeals tribunal appointed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has exonerated fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif of doping offences and lifted their long-term bans.

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Zimbabwe Cricket has pleaded guilty to making unauthorised payments to a foreign television company without the go-ahead from the central bank, in contravention of the country's strict exchange-control laws.

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Pakistani fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif will know on Tuesday if they can play in next year's World Cup when the appellate tribunal announces its decision on the appeals they have filed against their doping bans.

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South Africa's convincing 4-0 series win against India has pushed them up to within five points of the Australians, while the Indians slid back to sixth place in the latest ICC team rankings for one-day internationals.

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It was promising to blossom into a classic fight. On the one hand, Sachin Tendulkar was slowly regaining his confidence and delicate touch; on the other, Andre Nel was bowling as ferociously as ever. A couple of bouncers saw Tendulkar ducking and looking for cover. He stood up bravely when Nel made a few comments too.

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After South Africa completely decimated Team India's hope of a single ODI victory in the just concluded MTN series at Cemturion on Sunday, skipper Virender Sehwag urged fans to repose faith on the team. Team India lost by nine-wickets, as AB de Villiers and Graeme Smith, chasing a target of 201 runs, drubbed Indian bowlers left and right.

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Speedster Zaheer Khan was today accused of assaulting a spectator during the fifth and final cricket one-dayer against South Africa. The team management categorically denied the incident.

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Despite the absence of Sarwan and Dwayne Bravo in the five-match ODI series against Pakistan, Bennett King, the coach of West Indies, was confident of his side coming good. "It'll test us as a team without two of our key one day performers over the past six to 12 months in Sarwan and Bravo," he told WindiesCricket.com.

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Former unorthodox spin bowler Paul Adams has been included in the South Africa team to play India in a four-day match starting Thursday at Potchefstroom, near Johannesburg. The chairman of the selection committee, Haroon Lorgat, announced this today after South Africa crushed India in the last one-day international in Pretoria.

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Sourav Ganguly's African Safari was pushed back by a day due to teething troubles, as the former Indian skipper's visa formalities were yet to be completed. BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said as Ganguly's passport reached Delhi only by Friday evening, his visa could not be made ready in time for the cricketer to take the flight from Mumbai to Johannesburg in the wee hours today.

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India vs South Africa, 5th ODI, Centurion

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A fitness crisis was brewing in the bowling department for India with Ajit Agarkar and Munaf Patel picking varying kinds of injuries on the tour of South Africa. Agarkar was most certainly out for a month after suffering a groin injury in the twenty-20 international at Johannesburg yesterday while Patel was hoping to recover from a sore ankle and be fit for the first Test starting on Dec 15, a team source said today.

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The Ashes continue to be the favourite cricket series for both Aussie and England's cricket fans. This conclusion could be drawn from the fact that the number of spectators present on the first day of the second Test, which began at Adelaide yesterday, was the maximum in the past 31 years.

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Kapil Dev, the former allrounder and captain of India, has said that though Rahul Dravid is a brilliant batsman, he is not commanding enough, adding that he tends to "go with the flow". Kapil felt that on the field Dravid looked like a captain from an altogether different era.

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Craig Cumming and Mathew Sinclair return to Test cricket after being picked in the 13-man squad for the first Test against Sri Lanka starting December 7 at Christchurch. Sinclair last played a Test against Australia in Adelaide in 2004-05. John Bracewell, the New Zealand coach, said that he had been picked on the basis on his performance in the last season.

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Former Indian cricket team captain Saurav Ganguly, whose 10-month long wait to get back in the Indian cricket team has finally ended after being recalled for the three-match Test series against South Africa, may start his new innings with a new bat.

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South Africa vs India, Only T20I, Johannesburg

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Pakistan vs West Indies, 3rd Test Match, Day 5, Karachi

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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday convicted cricketer-turned-MP Navjot Singh Sidhu for causing the death of a Patiala resident following a scuffle in 1988. A division bench, comprising Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and Baldev Singh, overturned his earlier acquittal by a lower court and found 43-year-old Sidhu guilty of culpable homicide, not amounting to murder, for the death of Gurnam Singh.

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Pakistan have left out Shahid Afridi from the 14-man squad announced for the first ODI against the West Indies. Shahid Nazir, despite impressing through the Test series, has also not been considered, alongside Faisal Iqbal and Samiullah Khan Niazi.

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The final of Ranji Trophy tournament should be played at neutral venues said Indian cricket board president Sharad Pawar here Thursday. "The final Ranji tournament should be played at neutral venues. The pitch should also be made fast and sporting," Pawar told reporters here at his residence.

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Out-of-form Virender Sehwag was today put on notice by the national selectors who stripped him of vice-captaincy for the upcoming three-test series against South Africa. "Absolutely. Nobody can take his place in the team for granted," shot back Chief Selector Dilip Vengsarkar when asked whether removing Sehwag from vice-captaincy was a message to him.

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