Sourav Ganguly has been recalled to the Indian Test team for the forthcoming three-Test series against South Africa. VVS Laxman has replaced Virender Sehwag as the vice-captain of the Test side.

Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Mongia and Ajit Agarkar have missed out on Test selection. Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir and VRV Singh will join the side.

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Rahul Dravid (C), VVS Laxman (VC), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Wasim Jaffer, M S Dhoni, Sourav Ganguly, Dinesh Karthick, Munaf Patel, Zaheer Khan, S Sreesanth, VRV Singh, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble

Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf established a new record for the most test runs in a calendar year on the fourth day of the third and final test against West Indies on Thursday. Playing in his 73rd Test, Yousuf passed West Indian Viv Richards record of 1,710 runs in 11 matches set in 1976 when he scored his 47th run with a boundary through mid-on.

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With 100 days to go to the start of the 2007 World Cup, officials in the Caribbean are frantically putting the finishing touches to arrangements for the hosting of the event. International Cricket Council (ICC) and local organisers have just completed a crucial 'make-or-break' spin through the region to examine the stadia and assess the readiness of the nine countries hosting the matches.

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The vandalising of cricketer Mohammad Kaif's house here on Monday drew sharp criticism from all quarters, with his shaken father even threatening to leave their home town. "It is inevitable in any sport that you face defeat some time. How can a sportsman concentrate on his game amidst such hooliganism," Kaif's father Mohammad Tarif told mediapersons here.

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The Pakistan captain for the upcoming cricket tour of South Africa and the World Cup will be named on December 17 after a meeting of the cricket board's (PCB) advisory council in Karachi, a senior PCB official said yesterday.

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Glenn McGrath has emerged as an injury worry for Australia ahead of Friday's second Test after he was excused from bowling during the team practice session at the Adelaide Oval.

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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is all set to exonerate Mohammad Asif from doping charges but the other tainted pacer Shoaib Akhtar is not likely to get any reprieve, claims local media.

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Former Test middle-order batsman Hanumnant Singh died here this morning at a local hospital after a prolonged fight with complications arising out of dengue fever and a Hepatitis B infection.

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The meeting of the senior selection committee to choose the Indian squad for the three-Test series in South Africa would be held in Delhi on Thursday. The meeting has been shifted from Mumbai to Delhi and will be convened at 11.30 am (IST).

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Pakistan's batsmen will find the going difficult on their tour of South Africa after playing on slow tracks at home against the West Indies, the team's young paceman Umar Gul said on Tuesday. "The bowlers will not find it hard to adapt to the different tracks with more bounce in South Africa, but for the batsmen it will be a test after they have played on slow tracks in Pakistan," Gul said.

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England is looking to spin to wrest the momentum from Australia and prevent it from going 2-0 down in the Ashes series in Friday's second Adelaide Test. The Ashes holders hope to bounce back quickly from the 277-run hiding in last Monday's first Gabba Test, and team coach Duncan Fletcher wants to play both left-arm spinners Ashley Giles and Monty Panesar on the spin-friendly Adelaide Oval.

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India's stuttering form in the one-day arena may have an unlikely beneficiary: Sourav Ganguly is in line for a recall to the Test side, nine months after he was jettisoned followed the resounding 341-run defeat at Karachi.

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Legendary Pakistan bowler Wasim Akram has suggested Sachin Tendulkar to show the same aggressive approach to his batting as West Indies' great Brian Lara.

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Australian captain Ricky Ponting has achieved the fifth best all-time Test batting rating following his exploits in the first Ashes Test. The 31-year-old scored 196 and 60 not out in his team's 277-run rout of England in Brisbane, lifting him to 940 points in the International Cricket Council's rankings released on Tuesday.

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India`s disastrous tour of South Africa took a nightmarish turn on Monday with skipper and batting mainstay Rahul Dravid being ruled out of the remainder of the one-day series with a finger injury. V V S Laxman will replace injured Indian captain Dravid for the remaining two matches of the series.

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South Africa has rested six senior players for the pro-20 cricket match to be played against India at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Friday. Mark Boucher, Jacques Kallis, Andrew Hall, Andre Nel, Makhaya Ntini and Shaun Pollock would be rested, convenor of the selection committee Haroon Lorgat said in a statement today.

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Cricket Association of Bengal president Jagomohan Dalmiya on Monday demanded the immediate reinstatement of Sourav Ganguly in the Indian team saying the former Indian skipper's recent performances showed that he was fit and in top form.

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Australia have thrown out the possibility of using two spinners and asked for fast-bowling reinforcements as they search for a 2-0 Ashes lead in Adelaide from Friday. The national selectors met over two days to consider their options following Shane Watson's second consecutive withdrawal with a hamstring injury and Shaun Tait joined Mitchell Johnson in the 13-man squad.

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The 2008 Asia Cup cricket one-day tournament will be held at three venues in Pakistan in April-May, a top Asian Cricket Council official said today. ACC chief executive Ashraf-ul-Haq also said that the sport's regional governing body would be hosting a Twenty20 Cup tournament for its associate members next year.

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Board of Control for Cricket in India President Sharad Pawar has came out in support of Greg Chappell in the ongoing controversy triggered by the coach's remarks on Parliamentarians and accused television channels of 'instigating' MPs.

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Shane Watson, the Australia allrounder, has been ruled out of the second Test against England at Adelaide. Watson missed the first Test at Brisbane with a hamstring injury and, although he has undergone intensive rehabilitation, the next Test, which starts on Friday, has come too soon.

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group of people, claiming to be supporters of the Lok Janshakti Party, today vandalised the house of cricketer Mohammad Kaif after his poor show in the ongoing one-day series against South Africa.

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Ricky Ponting deciding against imposing the follow-on on England in the first Ashes Test may have been logic defying to former captains like Ian Chappell and Steve Waugh but it ended up earning Cricket Australia an additional one million dollar.

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India are in deep trouble. They did too many things wrong at Newlands: batting, bowling or fielding. If the opposition cannot be put away from a position in which India was in, then the hopes recede faster than the sum in your wallet in a club. This spells big time trouble.

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Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, Dr Nasim Ashraf has said that the doping issue of Shoaib Akhtar and Muhammad Asif was an internal matter of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). He said the verdict on the appeals of these fast bowlers was likely to be announced early next week.

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Members of Parliament on Monday came down heavily on Indian team coach Greg Chappell for his scathing comments about them. "I am not surprised. They (MPs) are paid to do so," Chappell said after India`s 106-run defeat in the third cricket one-dayer in Cape Town against South Africa.

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Australia v England, 1st Test, Day 5, Brisbane

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South Africa v India, 3rd ODI, Cape Town

India put up another spineless batting display to crash to a 106-run defeat against South Africa in the third cricket one-dayer after having the hosts struggle at 76 for six at one time. The Indians allowed the home team to wriggle out from the tight situation to post an imposing 274 for seven, built around Justin Kemp`s maiden ton.

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BCCI Supremo Sharad Pawar on Sunday said it was important to improve quality of home pitches to avoid the repeat of recent Durban debacles in future. Pawar said the team might be excelling at the "tailor-made" pitches on home soil but finds it difficult to adjust to situations on their foreign tours drawing criticism.

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The Asian Cricket Council has approved special development projects to promote cricket in China, officials have said. "The ACC development committee meeting has approved a budget of 5.6 million dollars for the next fiscal year and we have special development programmes for China, where the interest is growing fast," acc chief executive Ashraful Huq told reporters.

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Injured paceman Munaf Patel was on Saturday ruled out of India`s third cricket one-dayer against South Africa, compounding the miseries of the visiting team. Munaf has been laid low by a sore left ankle and captain Rahul Dravid said the bowler was not fit enough to take the field in Sunday`s outing.

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Bill Lawry has weighed in to the debate on how history will view Ricky Ponting, describing the Australia captain as "Bradman-like". It comes after Steve Waugh called Ponting Australia's best batsman since Bradman and predicted he would finish his career with more than 50 Test centuries.

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Sourav Ganguly completed a three-wicket haul and contributed 43 runs as Bengal were 113 runs ahead of Punjab with six wickets in hand in their second innings on the second day of the Super League B match in the Ranji Trophy championship at the PCA stadium on Friday.

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West Indian captain Brian Lara is threatening to soon displace his Indian counterpart Rahul Dravid from third place on the ICC ranking for the Test batsmen by jumping four places up to be just one point clear of him.

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The beleaguered Indian team was dealt a fresh injury blow today with paceman Munaf Patel being laid low by a sore ankle just two days ahead of the third cricket one-dayer against South Africa.

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Carlton Baugh, the wicketkeeper-batsman, has been dropped from the West Indian one-day squad for five-match series against Pakistan starting December 5. The selectors have decided to retain Denesh Ramdin, who is part of the Test team, instead.

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West Indies skipper Brian Lara has backed Ramnaresh Sarwan as a star of the future after he was dropped for the second Test in Pakistan.

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The way South Africa went off the blocks was tremendous. If that's the standard they are going to set, it's going to be the trend in the Tests as well.

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Steve Waugh believes Ricky Ponting will go on and make 50 Test centuries and be rated Australia's best batsman since Sir Donald Bradman. Ponting joined Waugh as Australia's leading century-maker on 32 Test hundreds when he hammered an unbeaten 137 against England on day one of the first Test at Brisbane on Thursday.

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Pakistan have recalled pace bowler Mohammad Sami to a 15-man squad for the third Test against West Indies. Sami, who replaces uncapped left-arm spinner Abdul Rehman, was dropped after taking just eight wickets at an average of 58.25 against England in the summer.

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Members of Parliament on Thursday expressed disappointment over India`s humiliating loss to South Africa in the second cricket one-dayer in Durban, with some of them demanding coach Greg Chappell`s removal and an explanation from BCCI chief Sharad Pawar.

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Pakistan v West Indies, 2nd Test, Day 5, Multan

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India's meek surrender in the second cricket one-dayer against South Africa today came in for sharp criticism from Indian-origin fans, who said, the players behaved like "sheepish lapdogs" and allowed themselves to be bullied.

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Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are set to add two unofficial Tests to the tour which starts next week, according to sources close to the Bangladesh board. Sources in Dhaka told Cricinfo that the Zimbabwe board requested two four-day matches to be fitted in after completion of the original itinerary, which begins with a warm-up match in Dhaka on Saturday.

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The Indian squad for the three-Test series against South Africa will be chosen on November 30. "The selectors are going to meet in Mumbai on 30th morning," Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Niranjan Shah said on Wednesday.

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With next September's ICC Twenty20 world championship in South Africa in mind, the cricket board has decided to initiate the country's players into the new form of instant cricket by conducting a domestic tournament in March-April, 2007.

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South Africa v India, 2nd ODI, Durban

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New Zealand's first-class players will earn a pay rise after the revenue for New Zealand Cricket was forecast to increase by nearly NZ$10 million over the next four years.

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The waiting is almost over -- with the much-hyped Ashes cricket series between Australia and England finally getting underway here tomorrow after 14 months of mounting expectations.

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Australia on Wednesday released Shaun Tait from its 13-man squad, leaving Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson to fight it out for the third pace bowler's spot in Thursday's Ashes opener against England at the Gabba.

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The Pakistan Cricket Board has changed its selection policy, giving more powers to the selectors in picking the team for each match and effectively clipping the wings of coach and captain. Under the new system, which began with the current Test against West Indies at Multan, a touring selector will finalise the playing eleven after consulting the team management.

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Suspended South African off-spin bowler Johan Botha has been cleared of the charge of illegal bowling action by the International Cricket Council and is now available to play for the national team in the series against India.

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Judgement day for Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Asif could be as soon as the end of this week. The Pakistan Cricket Board appointed appeals committee is due to announce its verdict on both the bowlers. The duo, who tested positive for nandrolone, have appealed against their bans.

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Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town will host the first Twenty20 world championship in South Africa next year, the International Cricket Council said Tuesday. Durban's Sahara Stadium, Liberty Life Wanderers in Johannesburg and Sahara Park in Cape Town will host the 12-team event next September.

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Ashes-winning captain Michael Vaughan will be with the England squad during the first Test as he continues his recovery from knee surgery.

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West Indies skipper Brian Lara hit his 34 Test century against Pakistan on the third day of the second Test against Pakistan. West Indies have not won a Test series in Pakistan since 1981. In the first Test in Lahore, Lara scored a defiant 122 runs to score his 33rd Test hundred.

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Coach Greg Chappell has admitted that the Indian team was hurt by the sharp criticism back home, but insisted that his policy of bringing young talent into the side was the key to improvement.

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England suffered an injury scare with two days to go until the start of the Ashes series, when Ian Bell, their designated No. 3 batsman, was struck a painful blow on the left wrist while batting against James Anderson in the nets at Brisbane. He was given ice treatment and taken away for a precautionary X-ray, which revealed heavy bruising but no fracture, and his condition will be assessed tomorrow.

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DIRECTV, the leading provider of cricket programming in the United States, on Tuesday launched the nation’s first 24-hour cricket channel dedicated to in-depth coverage of the sport.

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Fanie de Villiers, former South African fast bowler, stated his interest in coaching India's fast bowlers on their current tour of South Africa. "In the absence of a bowling coach, they need local help," De Villiers, who worked with the Indian bowlers in 2001, was quoted as saying in Deccan Herald, the Bangalore-based daily.

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Former India paceman Javagal Srinath has been appointed match referee for Sri Lanka's tour of New Zealand beginning next month. ICC officials informed that the former India fast bowler has been appointed to oversee a two-Test and five-ODI series between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

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Aamir Sohail who has the distinction of being the skipper of the only team from Asia to have beaten South Africa in their own den has said that India must have fixed batting slots if they are to taste success on the bouncy South African pitches.

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England coach Duncan Fletcher has been accused of backing his favourites and unwittingly helping Australia's Ashes campaign by making public his inner thoughts in his book after the ashes win last year.

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Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar was the only selection committee member who had opposed Greg Chappell's appointment as the national coach, ex-India coach Sandeep Patil made this startling revelation on Monday.

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A Pakistan court will hear appeals of banned Pakistani pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif.The duo had appealed against their doping bans before an appeals commission. Shoaib and Asif were banned from playing cricket after they tested positive for the banned steroid Nandrolone in the PCB's internal dope test before the ICC Champions Trophy.

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Shane Warne has hit out at England's decision to recall Geraint Jones behind the stumps in place of Chris Read, and believes that Australia will be handed a huge advantage if Ashley Giles is also named in the side that takes the field at Brisbane on Thursday at the expense of the up-and-coming Monty Panesar.

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They may not share the mentor-protégé relation anymore but Jagmohan Dalmiya and Sourav Ganguly seemed to have buried the hatchet as the Cricket Association of Bengal president met the Ranji captain in what was their first meeting in public after the acrimonious CAB poll.

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The issue of ball-tampering in Pakistan cricket was raised again on Sunday when Mohammad Khalil, the Pakistan left-arm seamer, was fined for the offence in a Patrons Trophy match between Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) and Pakistan Customs at Karachi.

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Kevin Pietersen will not bat at No.4 in the first Test despite the absence of Marcus Trescothick at the top of the order. Andrew Flintoff said Pietersen would fill the No.5 position even though he has a better record further up the batting list.

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Australia all-rounder Shane Watson will be given more time to prove his fitness to play in the first test against England starting in Brisbane on Thursday. Watson, who damaged his hamstring playing for Queensland last week, ran laps for around 45 minutes and bowled a few deliveries in the nets off a short run-up before undergoing further scans on Monday.

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Bangladesh have axed opener Rajin Saleh and middle order batsman Mohammad Ashraful from a 13-man squad hosting Zimbabwe in one-day series starting later this month. Batsman Tushar Imran has been recalled to the squad selected for the first three matches against Zimbabwe, who will play five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 match.

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South Africa v India, 1st ODI, Johannesburg

The first ODI of the series has been abandoned without a ball being bowled and there is no reserve day either to accomodate the game.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) is seriously considering the option of introducing FIFA-style rules in the gentleman's game to prevent racism from taking root. According to the Herald Sun , Britain's Sports Minister Richard Caborn has called on the ICC to consider tougher action against players and spectators indulging in racist comments against their opponents or visiting teams.

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Adam Gilchrist realises how unpopular the Aussies are outside their country and the swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batsman says he has seen fans willing to root for any team but the world champions during overseas tours and major multi-national tournaments.

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West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul today rated Pakistan's former captain Wasim Akram and Shane Warne as the two most difficult bowlers he has faced in international cricket.

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Sourav Ganguly, the former Indian captain, has said that Greg Chappell's coaching philosophy may not work in India. "They are saying process is more important than the results," said Ganguly at the Hindustan Times Summit in New Delhi. "I don't know how long it will work in India."

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The good news is that it isn't as dusty as it often is in Multan. The bad news is that it is considerably colder, the clouds looked threatening in the morning and locals mutter that rain is not far away.

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Rahul Dravid today got a vote of confidence from his predecessor Sourav Ganguly who said it was important for fans to be patient and give the Indian captain more time to handle the toughest job in world cricket.

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The Ranji Trophy is set to kick off from November 23 the Elite Groups teams in bunches of three. Here's a glance at the team's prospects, the form guide and the men to watch out for.

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Hugh Jackman, one of Australia's best-known film stars, upped the Ashes ante Friday, unveiling a reality TV series in which an Australian infiltrates the ranks of England's notorious Barmy Army.

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Darrell Hair has been given a public show of support by the New South Wales Umpires and Scorers Association. They took out a full page advert in a Sydney newspaper to describe Hair's sacking from the elite Test umpiring panel as a "travesty of justice".

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Battered by poor performances of late, a lacklustre India go into the five-match One-day cricket series against South Africa here on Sunday with their batting and bowling still in disarray

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West Indies spinner Dave Mohammed is hoping to be given more opportunities in test cricket after struggling to force his way into the side since his debut two years ago.

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Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq believes his counterpart Brian Lara has the charisma and batting form to inspire West Indies to a series levelling win in the second test in Multan from Sunday.

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PCB is learnt to have sent written instructions to skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq and coach Bob Woolmer that the playing eleven for every match would be selected in the presence of at least one selector.

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Sourav Ganguly led the Indian team for five years and much more when it came to leading West Bengal, his domestic team. After losing the Bengal captaincy to Deep Dasgupta for a while, Ganguly is again back at the helm. And he doesn't feel that captaining the side for a second time will add to his pressure while batting, as he is fighting to make a comeback in the national side.

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Amol Muzumdar, the 32-year-old middle-order batsman, has been named captain of the Mumbai team for the forthcoming Ranji Trophy season. Muzumdar replaces Nilesh Kulkarni, the left-arm spinner, who led the side last season.

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So much has been written about those likely to feature in the forthcoming Ashes that it is inconceivable that anyone who takes part will not already be a known quantity.

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What defines greatness in a batsman? Is it the weight of statistics or the ability to score runs in all conditions? In the concluding part of this Round Table discussion on modern batsmen, Sanjay Manjrekar asks John Wright, Tony Greig, Ian Chappell and Ravi Shastri to pick their greatest.

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Michael Clarke was added to Australia's first Test squad as cover for injured Shane Watson, the allrounder. Watson is still to be assessed by Alex Kountouri, Cricket Australia physiotherapist, but the selectors indicated they would not replace him with another allrounder if Watson is ruled out of the Ashes opener.

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England may have their problems ahead of the Ashes series against Australia but former captain Nasser Hussain believes their hosts are in even more turmoil. England have lost top batsman Marcus Trescothick from their squad and have been beset by injuries over the past year.

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India's tour of South Africa got off to an inauspicious start with Virender Sehwag, their vice-captain, sustaining a cut on his middle finger, an injury that made him a doubtful starter for the first one-dayer at Johannesburg in a couple of days' time.

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Captain Rahul Dravid was the one batsman to shine as the Indians lost out by 37 runs to the Rest of South Africa on Thursday in their only warm-up match before the one-day international series. India were chasing 256 for victory but slid to 218 all out, Dravid top-scoring with

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As he prepares to lead the Bengal squad against Punjab in a Ranji match at Mohali in a week's time, former India captain Saurav Ganguly has found a supporter in former South African speedster Allan Donald, who believes Ganguly still has a lot to offer to Indian cricket.

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Pakistan's prolific batsman Mohammad Yousuf on Friday said he owed his batting success to his conversion to Islam -- and support from his captain Inzamam-ul-Haq. "The maturity and discipline in my batting is because of Almighty Allah's blessings and I have been more mature and disciplined since I started offering prayers five times a day," Yousuf said.

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Glenn McGrath has his doubters heading into Ashes battle after what has been his most challenging year on and off the cricket field. Test cricket's greatest wicket-taking paceman is rising 37 and detractors have been questioning his form after coming back from eight months out of the game to care for his ill wife.

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Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland today said he did not see ''too much'' racism in the 'Stupid Indian' remark hurled at English left-arm spinner Monty Panesar during a pre-Ashes warm-up match here.

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Brett Lee's prayers have been answered with his wife delivering the couple's first child a week before the opening Ashes Test starting November 23. The tearaway pacer was sure to miss the birth of his child if his wife, Liz, had delivered the baby on the due date which was just a day before the first day of the ashes opener in Brisbane.

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Greg Chappell, the coach of the Indian team, has sought to deflect criticism of the team's disappointing performance in the first match of their South African tour, saying the players had been pitted against quality opposition without adequate time to adjust to the local conditions.

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Richard Caborn, the UK sports minister, has called on ICC to stamp out racial taunts from spectators. He was reacting after Monty Panesar and Kevin Pietersen claimed they were subjected to abuse from the boundary while fielding during England's warm-up matches in Australia.

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Australia middle-order batsman Damien Martyn pulled out of his final warm-up match before the first Ashes Test with tendonitis in his elbow.

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Former Australian captain Steve Waugh has asked his successor Ricky Ponting to attack the ego of his English counterpart Andrew Flintoff, whose power batting can turn a game. "Being captain makes him the key target for the Aussies, who will endeavour to erode his impact by attacking him in the belief and its outcome will mirror on those in his team," Waugh said.

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Hanumant Singh, the former Indian batsman, continues to battle for life at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. Hanumant, popularly known as "Chotu" in cricket circles, was admitted to hospital soon after the Champions Trophy final, has been suffering from Hepatitis B and Dengue, and this led to his kidneys and lungs failing. He is in the intensive care unit on life support - ventilator and dialysis.

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Glenn McGrath believes he still has plenty to offer despite Australia's selectors looking to the future by choosing Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Tait alongside him in the first-Test squad. Speculation over McGrath's form after eight months out of cricket to care for his ill wife led some detractors to suggest his time was up.

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Rahul Dravid lost his second place to Pakistani run machine Mohammed Yousuf and the men in blue captain, only Indian in the top 10 list of batsmen, slipped to the third place in the latest LG ICC Test players' rankings announced today.

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Marcus Trescothick's enforced departure from the Ashes tour of Australia is a bitter-sweet outcome for team-mate Paul Collingwood.

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Former Pakistani pacer Sarfraz Nawaz says he is open to work as a bowling coach with Rahul Dravid's men as he has the pills to kill the ills that plague bowlers in India.

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Former Tasmanian opening batsman Jamie Cox was appointed as Allan Border's replacement as an Australian cricket selector, Cricket Australia said. Cox is one of Australian domestic cricket's most-decorated players, having played the most Pura Cup-Sheffield Shield games in the competition's history (161).

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Vinod Kambli, the former Indian middle-order batsman whose 664-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar in school cricket was recently bettered by a Hyderabad duo, has hailed the "incredible" feat, adding that he was "shocked" at the run-rate achieved by the two batsmen.

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Ace leg-spinner Anil Kumble is keen to take roots in India's one-day plans against South Africa but it can cause some serious selection headache for the team management on the present tour.

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Chief national selector Dilip Vengsarkar Wednesday said India needed more bouncy tracks in the domestic circuit to help players prepare for overseas tours.

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Sri Lanka have selected uncapped middle order batsman Chamara Silva and pace bowler Akalanka Ganegama for their two-test tour of New Zealand starting this month. Silva, 26, who has played 10 one-day internationals, takes the place of opener Michael Vandort.

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Bob Woolmer lauded Pakistan's all-round performance in the nine-wicket win over West Indies in Lahore, but warned that the going might not be as smooth in the second Test, due to begin on November 19 at Multan.

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The South Africa cricketers, who will play India in the upcoming one-day series, will meet their fans at a singing session here Saturday - an event that is unthinkable in India involving popular icons like Sachin Tendulkar.

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Inzamam-ul-Haq has renewed calls for Test matches in Pakistan to be extended to six days to reduce the impact of bad light and poor weather.

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The international flavour in Indian domestic cricket is getting stronger and stronger with Vikram Solanki and Kabir Ali being the two latest imports. They will turn out for Rajasthan in the Elite Group of the Ranji Trophy as well as in the domestic one-day competition.

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Sourav Ganguly has been named captain of a 14-man Bengal squad to take on Punjab in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group match beginning November 23 at Mohali. Ganguly would lead the side "as long he was available", Saradindu Pal, the Cricket Association of Bengal joint secretary, confirmed.

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Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Tait have been called into a bowler-heavy 13-man squad for the first Ashes Test at the Gabba next Thursday. The allrounder Shane Watson has beaten Michael Clarke in the race for the No. 6 spot while Stuart Clark was named alongside Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee.

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Two junior cricketers from Hyderabad created history when they added a world-record 721 runs in 40 overs to eclipse the 664-run stand between Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli set in 1987-88. The St Peter's School openers B Manoj Kumar and Mohammed Shaibaaz Tumbi, both 13, hit an unbeaten 320 and 324 respectively in the Hyderabad Cricket Association Inter-School Under-13 tournament on Wednesday.

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The anti-doping appeals committee hearing the cases of Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Akhtar has adjourned until next Monday after a preliminary hearing at the National Cricket Academy at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium.

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The South African cricket team has not asked for any special pitch preparation for the one-day series against India, who arrived here Tuesday for their fourth tour of the country since ties were resumed just over a decade ago.

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Sri Lanka cricketers Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Sanath Jayasuriya and Upul Tharanga are to be honoured by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) at a gala dinner at the Cinnamon Grand hotel on Sunday, November 19 for their recent achievements on the international fold.

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Kumar Dharmasena, the former Sri Lankan offspinner, has retired from competitive cricket to concentrate on a new career as an umpire.

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The Cricket Board (BCCI) sought to downplay the controversy over the unavailability of the team blazers and ties prior to the national squad's departure for South Africa on Monday, saying it had happened because of a miscommunication with their sponsors.

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Anil Kumble's return to one-day cricket and the pressure it brings on his bowling colleagues will be the focal point of India's day-night tour opener against a South African 'A' team at Willowmoore Park here tomorrow.

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West Indies umpire Billy Doctrove is keen to put the Oval Test controversy behind him after admitting it was the most difficult moment of his career.

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Middlesex batsman Ed Joyce is to replace Marcus Trescothick in England's squad for the Ashes series. The 28-year-old Irishman has only played three one-day internationals and a Twenty20 match for England so far.

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Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria will go back to the drawing board to restrict master batsman Brian Lara after the West Indies skipper reeled off his third successive hundred against Pakistan in the first test.

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Former Australian captain Mark Taylor has joined the argument over whether Ricky Ponting's men paid the price for niceties on the field during the Ashes defeat last year but Shane Warne dismissed the talk as a "load of rubbish".

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The Indian team arrived in Johannesburg earlier on Tuesday for the close to two month long tour.

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Marcus Trescothick suffered a breakdown during day two of the match against New South Wales and had to be cared for by the team doctor for two hours before asking for a release from the Ashes tour.

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Pakistan's newspaper has reported that as many as 41 players appearing in Pakistan's domestic cricket have been reported for 'chucking' in the current season.

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West Indies captain Brian Lara has urged his players to shake off their "one-day fever" and knuckle down to playing five days of Test cricket after Pakistan crushed them by nine wickets in the first Test on Tuesday.

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England opener Marcus Trescothick is returning home from England's Ashes tour to Australia after suffering a recurrence of a stress-related illness. The announcement comes just nine days before the start of the five-match series in Brisbane.

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With the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup in mind, Pakistan will host its third edition of the instant version of the game in December carrying prize money of Rs 1 million to woo its top players. The first two editions of the Twenty20 Cup have been unqualified success stories for the Board with both tournaments drawing huge crowds in Lahore and Karachi.

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South African all-rounder Shaun Pollock will rethink his Test career after the series with India so that he could concentrate on the shorter version of the game which beckons him with a unique double of scoring 3,000 runs and taking 300 wickets.

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Zimbabwe's selectors have named a 15-man squad for their forthcoming tour of Bangladesh, but injuries have robbed the side of much-needed experience. The emphasis is on slow bowling. In addition to Prosper Utseya, who retains the captaincy, three other slow bowlers - Sean Williams, Ryan Higgins and Keith Dabengwa - have been picked "especially for the subcontinent conditions" according to the board.

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Ricky Ponting may be the first Australian skipper to lose the ashes in 20 years but he has still been rated as the best Ashes captain in the past 30 years by the legendary Richie Benaud.

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Amidst reports of disagreement between the Pakistani and Indian cricket boards over allotment of 2011 World Cup matches, it has emerged that former PCB chief Shaharyar Khan may have paid the price for not working out a deal to the liking of President Pervez Musharraf.

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Mohammad Ali Asghar has resigned as president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board after six years in charge.

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After the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced on Sunday the venues for the forthcoming home series against West Indies and Sri Lanka, Cricket Association of Bengal is still clueless for Kolkata's Eden Gardens being ignored once again as a venue to host at least one of the eight scheduled games.

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India's highest wicket-taker Anil Kumble will surely provide the much needed bite to the Indian bowling attack when they begin their gruelling tour to South Africa.

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Banned fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif may not get repreive from the Pakistan Cricket Board's new appeals committee, which starts its hearing today, with the World Anti-Doping Agency closely monitoring the case.

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There was no plan to invite renowned sports psychologist Dr Rudi Webster to South Africa to interact with the Indian team during its nearly two-month long tour, coach Greg Chappell said yesterday.

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New Zealand's Scott Styris is set to miss the first Test against Sri Lanka next month because of a back problem.

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Hours before embarking on a gruelling tour of South Africa, Indian captain Rahul Dravid advised his teammates not to be weighed down by their past failures but treat the series as a challenge and an opportunity to excel.

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Nasim Ashraf, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, has sparked confusion over the choice of venue for the final of the 2011 World Cup to be jointly held in the four subcontinent cricketing countries.

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Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh will undergo a fitness test in the capital on Monday under the guidance of team physio John Gloster and BCCI's orthopedic consultant Dr Anant Joshi. Yuvraj suffered a cruciate ligament damage in his right knee during the ICC Champions Trophy.

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The Pakistan Cricket Board is striving to get paceman Shabbir Ahmed’s banned bowling action cleared by sending him to Australia for expert biomechanical testing, the board’s chief said Sunday.

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South Africa have won the Hong Kong Sixes title after beating Pakistan by 12 runs in the final at the Kowloon Cricket Club. Nicky Boje was the star and claimed the Man-of-the-Match award after hitting 32 off 14 balls.

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England's cricketers under Douglas Jardine resorted to attacking the bodies of Australian cricketers in the infamous 'Bodyline' series of 1932-33, and now there is talk going around Australia that Ricky Ponting's boys may want to pay the Poms back in the same coin 74 years on.

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Ricky Ponting has conceded he is struggling for form less than a fortnight from the start of the Ashes. Ponting was out for 10 in Tasmania's Ford Ranger Cup loss to Victoria on Sunday, following on from his below-average performances in the Champions Trophy.

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Marvan Atapattu, the former Sri Lankan captain, has ruled himself out of the first half of the New Zealand tour starting later this month. Atapattu, 35, said that he was not ready to return to Test cricket and would concentrate on the one-day game until he felt confident.

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The Indian cricket board will decide on the venues and dates of two home ODI series to be played in January and February, 2007, at Nagpur on November 12. The BCCI's tours programmes and fixtures committee will meet under the chairmanship of Shashank Manohar to finalise the programme of the two limited over series, board sources said.

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India held on to fourth place, only a point behind Pakistan, in the latest LG ICC Test rankings. India, who have 111 rating points, will try to get back to winning ways on the tour to South Africa after recent disappointments in the shorter version of the game.

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Geraint Jones will be England's wicket-keeper in the first Ashes Test, coach Duncan Fletcher has confirmed. Jones lost his place this year to Chris Read this summer but Read had a poor Champions Trophy in India.

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The Indian board (BCCI) has given its players the go-ahead to give a percentage of their prize money to the Federation of International Cricketers (FICA) after Rahul Dravid reportedly wrote to the board last week seeking its permission to do the same.

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England vice-captain Andrew Strauss says he welcomes the prospect of facing a test-strength New South Wales bowling attack to help the tourists recover from a disastrous tour opener before facing Australia in the Ashes Test series.

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In a grim message ahead of the big engagements, including the World Cup, captain Rahul Dravid on Saturday sought to blame his "key players" for the Indian team``s slump and said it was high time they delivered.

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The Pakistan board will appeal to the ICC on behalf of Saleem Malik, the former captain, if he decides to contest the life ban imposed on him for match-fixing.

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Nicky Boje, the South African spinner, has said he did not have apprehensions about travelling to India for the Champions Trophy, insisting that his omission from the squad had nothing to do with the risk of being questioned by the Delhi police regarding match-fixing.

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The International Cricket Council rated Australian Darrell Hair the second-best umpire in the world before it sacked him for alleged incompetence, reports here said on Saturday, citing secret documents.

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The Ranji Trophy match between Maharashtra and Kathiawar in December 1948 has gone down in the record books for two things. One is that the result was a rarity in that one side - Kathiawar - forfeited the match as a result of boredom - and the other is that during it Bhausaheb Babasaheb Nimbalkar set what still remains the record for the highest first-class score by an Indian.

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India's master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has been elected as one of the top 60 influential personalities in Asia by Time magazine.

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Pankaj Dharmani has been appointed captain of Punjab Ranji team. A Punjab Cricket Associastion spokesman said that the selection committee had also short listed 18 probables for the next Ranji season.

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Raw pace and short-pitched bowling could be the undoing of England in the forthcoming Ashes series, said Australian Test hopeful Shaun Tait.

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Fast bowling great Courtney Walsh believes Jerome Taylor has the potential to carry forward West Indies'' glorious tradition in pace bowling. The 22-year-old Taylor impressed with his searing speed and sharp movement in the recent Champions Trophy as he emerged the highest wicket-taker in the competition with 13 wickets.

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Singapore-based Nimbus Sports International has won live coverage rights for cricket matches in Bangladesh till 2012 for a record 56.88 million dollars, an official said. Nimbus's offer beat its nearest rival Zee Telefilms' bid by over US 23 million dollars, according to details of the bidding revealed by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). "We will sign a contract with Nimbus within the next two weeks. All we need now is the government's seal of approval," Mahbub Anam, the BCB general secretary said.

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Graeme Smith, South Africa's captain, feels that left-arm spinner Monty Panesar will face an "unbelievable amount of abuse" - some of it racist - from the vociferous Australian crowds as England defend the Ashes over the next two months.

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Sachin Tendulkar on Friday embarked on a new partnership with ITC''s food division to promote a new brand of health food in his name - Sunfeast Sachin''s Fit Kit. "I know the importance of sustaining energy levels throughout a day''s play. Based on my experience of playing for 17 years, I intend to give inputs to ITC to develop a range of products that will not only help sportspersons but also growing children," Tendulkar said at the launch function here.

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England's batsmen will face the toughest possible pre-Ashes test when they take on New South Wales in a three-day game, starting on Sunday.

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Returns loom large over a muggy Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. West Indies are back in Pakistan after nine years and Brian Lara to the ground of his debut for the first time - for a Test - 16 years after he made 44 against an attack comprising Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Abdul Qadir.

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The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has barred 13 bowlers in domestic cricket for illegal bowling actions, a BCB official said on Friday. The barred bowlers included Faisal Hossain and Jamal Babu, former members of the national team.

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The Pakistan Cricket Board is prepared to support a renewed attempt by former captain Salim Malik to have his life ban from the game lifted.

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The runs might have dried up for Virender Sehwag but the birdies haven''t and the Indian vice-captain is regularly putting them. On Thursday, Sehwag was found getting his putting techniques corrected at a golf clinic organised by leading golf accessory company TaylorMade at the DLF Golf Course in nearby Gurgaon.

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Cricket Australia has ruled out taking any action against Damien Martyn after he apologised for pushing BCCI chief Sharad Pawar during the Champions trophy presentation ceremony in Mumbai.

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India's Zee Telefilms Ltd. and ESPN-Star Sports will bid for the global telecast rights of the International Cricket Council's matches from 2007-15, officials from the two firms confirmed on Friday. Dubai-based Taj Television's Ten Sports and India's Nimbus Communications may also submit a bid for the cricket rights in Dubai on Friday, industry officials said.

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National chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar was in a jovial mood on Thursday evening. He had a good reason to. Medium-pacer Ajit Agarkar had just been declared fit to tour South Africa with the Indian team for the One-day series starting on November 19.

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Stunned by sensational allegations about Shoaib Akhtar's behaviour, Pakistan Cricket Board decided to investigate his conduct during the Champions Trophy but threatened to lodge a protest with the ICC against the Indian Security Officer who made the charges.

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After trying more than a dozen times on Wednesday Australian captain Ricky Ponting finally got the opportuntiy to apologise to BCCI chief Sharad Pawar on the phone on Thursday over the incident during the presentation of the Champions Trophy last Sunday.

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Billy Bowden and Steve Bucknor will be the umpires for England''s first match of their Ashes defence against Australia later this month, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed on Thursday. New Zealander Bowden and Bucknor from the West Indies will stand in the first Test in Brisbane starting on Nov. 23.

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Former India cricket captain Kapil Dev Thursday said all that opening batsman Virender Sehwag needed to come out of his slump in form was self-introspection.

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The new Zimbabwe selection panel of Kenyon Zeal, Vumindaba Moyo, Steyn Kombayi and Jackie Du Preez gets its first assignment when it meets in on Friday in Harare to pick the final squad to tour Bangladesh.

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Shoaib Akhtar has once again pleaded innocence in the doping scandal, saying one, or a combination, of the nutrition supplements he has been taking could have caused the Nandrolone levels to go up. He also argued that the supplements were not banned, hence his ban be overturned.

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Australian cricket great Richie Benaud believes that England are capable of overcoming the string of injury problems to defend the Ashes. Benaud feels that in England's Ashes campaign, the onus will be on the pace attack, who have the firepower to rattle the Australians.

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Sharad Pawar, the BCCI president, has described the behaviour of Ricky Ponting Damien Martyn during their Champions Trophy victory celebrations as "totally uncivilised". Pawar, who was the chief guest at the prize-distribution function, was first asked by Ponting to leave the podium and was gently pushed by Martyn.

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South Africa have retained for the first of the five one-dayers against India the 14-man squad that lost the Champions Trophy semi-final. Graeme Smith, under fire for indifferent form and tactics, will continue as the skipper. The first one-dayer will be played in Johannesburg on November 19.

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Ricky Ponting has said his team will be targetting Andrew Flintoff during the Ashes. Ponting said Australia believed containing Flintoff could spark a collapse among other English players. "He's such a vital part of their side, if you happen to keep him down for a few Test matches in a row or a few performances here and there, it might drag a couple of their other players down with him," Ponting said.

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Despite Brian Lara's lean form, he was still the spearhead of West Indies' batting in one-day cricket internationals, says former chairman of selectors Mike Findlay. Lara, who collected just 127 runs in seven innings during the Champions Trophy in India, needed to bat higher, Findlay said. "No matter what his form is Brian Lara is still our best batsman,'' he added.

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Damien Martyn, the man at the centre of the controversy where he pushed BCCI chief Sharad Pawar off the podium after Australia beat West Indies to win their first Champions Trophy title, has apologised for his actions.

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Australia have warned they will be taking a tough approach on fans whose sole intention during the Ashes is to spoil the fun for everyone else.

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English umpire Peter Loader will wear a black armband in a second-grade cricket match this weekend to protest against the sacking of Darrell Hair. "They introduced the spirit of cricket into the laws and then when an umpire applies it, they murder it by sacking him," the former Test bowler said.

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Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan hopes he may be able to play in the final three Ashes Tests, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Vaughan has not played for England since last December because of a knee injury but had been targeting the fourth Test against Australia, starting in Melbourne on Dec. 26.

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An NCP leader today served a legal notice to the Australian High Commission seeking an apology from Australian cricketers and authorities for the nudging of party president and Indian cricket board chief Sharad Pawar during the Champions Trophy prize distribution ceremony.

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Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is out to spoil West Indies' skipper Brian Lara's last tour of the country by winning the upcoming Test series. Woolmer recalled today how Lara joked with him before West Indies upstaged South Africa in the quarter-final of the 1996 World Cup in Karachi.

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A retired Indian Army officer attached to the Pakistani team during the Champions Trophy has told NDTV that Shoaib Akhtar had slapped coach Bob Woolmer on the team bus and also misbehaved with Indian coach Greg Chappel's wife.

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West Indies are hoping that Chris Gayle, their opening batsman, recovers quickly from a stomach bug after he was forced to miss his side's warm-up game on the Pakistan tour.

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Pakistan are offering to play a one-day international in England next year by way of compensating them for the lost revenue from the forfeited Oval Test. England demanded £800,000 from the PCB after the final Test ended in farce on the fourth day after Pakistan's refusal to take to the field in protest. The PCB has refused to pay compensation because it believes umpire Darrell Hair was to blame for the forfeiture.

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Australia spinner Shane Warne believes England have become stronger because of the inclusion in their Test side of Monty Panesar and Chris Read.

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People often ask me about the differences between coaching Pakistan and coaching South Africa or Warwickshire. Naturally there is a broad difference in cultures, the East-West divide. But in others way also the experience is different.

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Shoaib Akhtar, banned for two years for having tested positive for Nandrolone, has filed an appeal against the ban. "We have lodged an appeal to review the ban with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) through our lawyer Abid Hasan Minto and hope to hire some foreign experts to contest the case," said Tauseef Razzaq, Shoaib's doctor.

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Ricky Ponting has offered to apologise to any Indian officials who felt insulted by his team's victory celebrations after the Champions Trophy final at the weekend. Ponting said the Australians intended no offence and admitted the flak they had received for allegedly manhandling Sharad Pawar, the Indian board's president, off the presentation stage had marred their first successful Champions Trophy campaign.

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The countdown has begun and the places are hotting up, but Australia's starting line-up for the first Test at Brisbane is far from a done deal. Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne and Brett Lee may be guaranteed their places in the Aussie bowling attack, but the coveted fourth slot is turning into a bit of a dogfight. Time, then, for an oft-underrated mongrel to start baring his teeth.

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Yuvraj Singh, who suffered a knee injury during the recently concluded Champions Trophy, is not worried by news reports that he could probably miss next year's World Cup in the Caribbean countries. "The World Cup is far away," Yuvraj told the media, "and it is too early to say anything about my inclusion either in the team for the Test series in South Africa or the World Cup."

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The new players' annual contracts are likely to be delayed and are unlikely to be ready to be signed by the Indian players before they depart for South Africa to take part in a five match ODI series there, the Board of Control for Cricket in India stated on Tuesday.

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Former New Zealand allrounder Chris Cairns believes Sourav Ganguly has become a victim of cricket politics and says India might have a rough ride in next year's World Cup in the absence of experienced players. "I feel there is internal politics working against Ganguly," Cairns said that on the sidelines of a promotional event organised by FMCG major Hindusthan Lever.

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India have slipped one spot to fifth in the latest LG ICC ODI rankings following their lackluster display in the Champions Trophy cricket tournament. The Indians were tied fourth with Pakistan on 110 but were piped to fifth after points were calculated to three decimals.

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An outstanding showing in the Champions Trophy has seen Chris Gayle move up to the second place in the latest ICC player rankings for ODI batsmen. He was the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 474 runs at an average of 79.00 and a strike-rate of 92.94. He hit three hundreds and took eight wickets to end up as the Player of the Tournament.

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Nyron Asgarali, the former West Indies batsman, has died at the age of 85, just seven weeks short of his 86th birthday. Asgarali, who was getting ready to go out with his family on Saturday, fell and hit his head and was taken to the hospital where he passed away just after midday on Sunday.

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Polly Umrigar, the former Indian captain who played 59 Tests between 1948 and 1962, has died in Mumbai. He was suffering from lymph cancer and lost the battle at 8:30 this evening at his residence.

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Former India cricket captain and current senior national selection committee chairman Dilip Vengsarkar and master batsman Sachin Tendulkar today paid glowing tributes to polly umrigar, who died tonight, describing him as a "great cricketer" and a "perfect gentleman".

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In what could come as a major blow to Team India's chances at next year's ICC Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, all-rounder Yuvraj Singh's injury is serious enough to keep him out of the side for four to five months. According to the former physio of the team Andrew Leipus, the southpaw's cruciate ligament injury in the left knee will take a long time to heal.

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Amongst the cricket playing nations it is very clear that Australia is rated as the most superior side. If one gives a deep thought as to why they are regarded as "Numero Uno" ODI side the reasons are a plenty.

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Brian Lara hopes West Indies can exploit the absence of Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif in their first Test series in Pakistan for nine years.

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England coach Duncan Fletcher admits he is concerned about captain Andrew Flintoff's bowling fitness ahead of the first Ashes Test against Australia.

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Allan Donald, a member of the five-man selection panel of the ICC World XIs, has expressed displeasure over the teams announced at the ICC awards in Mumbai last week. Despite there being four South Africans in top ten of the ICC Test and ODI rankings, only Makhaya Ntini features in the Test team with none in the ODI team.

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England are considering playing five bowlers in the opening Ashes Test, starting on November 23 at Gabba, amid fitness concerns over skipper Andrew Flintoff.

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Guyana's new cricket stadium for next year's World Cup will be officially opened by India vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday. India provided a $6 million grant and $19 million in loans for the 15,000-seat Providence Stadium, which will host Super 8 matches during the World Cup next March and April.

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Australia have been described as "rude and arrogant" by the Indian media following unsavoury incidents after their Champions Trophy win. Ricky Ponting's men were taken to task for pushing Sharad Pawar, the BCCI president and an Indian government minister, off the presentation dais after their eight-wicket win over the West Indies in Sunday's final in Mumbai.

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Digital imaging company Canon India Pvt Ltd, which today signed up cricketer Sachin Tendulkar as its corporate brand ambassador, will undertake a Rs 40 crore communication and marketing campaign in a bid to become the number one player in the camera and digital copier segments.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is examining whether the punishment imposed on Pakistan pacemen Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif meets the international anti-doping code, an official said on Monday.

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The last remaining general public tickets for the Ashes Tests at the Gabba and the MCG will go on sale on Wednesday. There are 950 tickets remaining for day two at the Gabba Test, 2000 for day three and 3500 for day four. About 950 tickets are still available for day two of the MCG Test, 4000 for day three and 15,000 for day four.

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Kevin Pietersen says his close friendship with Ashes nemesis Shane Warne doesn't do him much good at the crease. Pietersen has become good mates with Warne through their time at Hampshire but even though some former Australian Test players frown on them being too 'pally' with each other, he says the friendship doesn't work to his advantage.

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Sourav Ganguly was undoubtedly the star of the third day of the Duleep Trophy match between East Zone and North Zone at Guwahati, as his undefeated 118 lifted East Zone to 215 for 4. Ganguly shared useful stands with Abhishek Jhunjhunwala and Deep Dasgupta to frustrate the North Zone bowlers, who managed just two wickets in the day.

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Yasir Hameed, the opening batsman, has been recalled to Pakistan's squad for the first two Tests against West Indies while Samiullah Khan, the young left-arm paceman, has also been included.

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The Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has filed an appeal with his lawyer challenging the one-year ban imposed on him by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for failing a drugs test. His appeal will be reviewed by the two-member appeal committee formed by the board, consisting of Justice Fakhruddin Ibrahim and Hasib Ahsan, a former Test cricketer.

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England opening batsman Marcus Trescothick has admitted he "fell out of love" with cricket last season. The 30-year-old returned early from the tour of India and continued to struggle with a "stress-related illness" before opting out of the Champions Trophy.

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The final was a big let down after the West Indies started well. But not for nothing, these Australians have so much of self-belief and the ingrained sense of winners in them.

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Sacked Australian umpire Darrell Hair has not ruled out taking legal action against the International Cricket Council which banned him for his role in the ball-tampering issue involving Pakistan at the Oval.

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Sachin Tendulkar today rubbished media reports suggesting that he had lost a lucrative endorsement deal with a mobile telephone service provider, saying he had refused to compromise on their new contract.

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The South African tour could be the last chance for Suresh Raina and Mohammad Kaif to establish themselves in the Indian one-day team, said Venkatapathy Raju, one of the national selectors.

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Mahela Jayawardene will lead Sri Lanka at the World Cup in the Caribbean next March-April, chairman of selectors Asantha de Mel told reporters today. "Mahela has done a decent job since taking over from Marvan Atapattu and he will continue till the World Cup," de Mel said.

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Australian captain Ricky Ponting believes the Ashes pressure is fully on England because of fitness doubts over key players and its modest recent Test record. Ponting, fresh from leading the Australians to their first-ever Champions Trophy success with an eight-wicket victory over the West Indies in Sunday's final in Mumbai, claims Australia has form and fitness on its side.

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The BCCI's CK Nayudu Awards were held on Saturday and the function had attracted all the attention mainly due to the controversy surrounding the ICC's attendance at the event. The International Cricket Council did not confirm their attendance to the event till earlier this week as they had expressed concern over the former Indian Captain Mohamed Azharuddin being invited to the function.

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Zimbabwe will return to test cricket in November 2007, almost two years after it volunteered to withdraw from tests because it wasn't competitive. Zimbabwe coach Kevin Curran announced in September that the team would be ready in November next year, and that was "realistic" International Cricket Council President Percy Sonn confirmed on Saturday, the last day of the two-day ICC board meeting.

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Darrell Hair is waiting to decide whether to take legal action after his sacking from the ICC elite umpiring panel. Hair was dumped following a vote at the ICC's board meeting as part of the fallout from his role in The Oval Test abandonment in September.

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Pakistani doctors on Sunday rallied behind fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif describing their bans for doping as unjust, and offering to challenge the punishments in courts.

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Under pressure from the Asian bloc, the International Cricket Council is likely to withdraw controversial Australian Darrell Hair from its elite panel of umpires.

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Australian Captain Ricky Ponting was named ICC Player of the Year at the ICC Awards in Mumbai on Friday night.

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The West Indies are determined to cash in on their winning streak and retain the Champions Trophy when they clash with favourites Australia on Sunday.

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Captain Ricky Ponting expressed surprise at being named Test Player of the Year as Australia dominated the International Cricket Council awards here.

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Dope-tainted fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has met former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Tauqir Zia to seek his advice in filing an appeal against the tribunal's verdict of banning him for two years. 

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Controversies and poor form could take its toll on the Pakistani players as several of them might find themselves out of the Test squad for the upcoming home series against the West Indies.

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The MCC, the owners of Lord's, have announced plans to spend up to £20 million to refurbish the Mound Stand and install state-of-the-art scoreboards and replay screens.

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Brian Lara is glad his side will have the chance to play the reigning World Cup winners in the Champions Trophy final on Sunday. But he acknowledged it would be a different challenge to when West Indies defeated Australia in their opening group match at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium, which is also the venue for the final.

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Shane Watson must think carefully before trying one of his favourite pull shots in Sunday's Champions Trophy final against West Indies, according to John Buchanan. Watson has been out pulling three times from his four innings in the tournament, including against West Indies when Ian Bradshaw had him caught at mid-on attempting a pull before he had scored.

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Jaipur: West Indies skipper and batting genius Brian Lara may have scored only nine runs in his team's stupendous victory over South Africa in the ICC Champions Trophy 2006, but he reached a significant milestone as well.

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Former India captain Mohammed Azharuddin wants India coach Greg Chappell to stop carrying out any more experimentations in the team with the World Cup just a few months away.

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Rashid Khan, the former Pakistan fast bowler, has been appointed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to train young cricketers in China. The move is part of a joint effort by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to give a fillip to cricket in China.

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Pakistani pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, who were banned for positive dope tests, have a sympathiser in their captain Inzamam-ul Haq who said the duo would be missed by the team.

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Former captains Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar and Imran Khan will be among those who will present the third International Cricket Council (ICC) awards here Friday.

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Pakistan cricketers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif will appeal against the ban handed to them by the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday. Shoaib's doctor and a close relative of Asif told the media on Thursday that both the players would file the appeal within the stipulated seven-day period.

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Cricket's world governing body has welcomed Pakistan's decision to ban fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif for drug abuse, saying it set a "fine precedent."

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The Zimbabwe Cricket team lost its training kit and equipment in a suspected arson attack that also damaged offices at a training academy in Harare, the national governing body said today.

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Pakistan fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif have been banned from all international and domestic cricket for failing a drugs test. Shoaib, 31, will serve a two-year ban and Asif, 23, will be unable to play for 12 months after testing positive for nandrolone, a banned steroid.

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Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene said his team did not have any excuse for failing to make the semifinals of the ongoing Champions Trophy in India. "We made some crucial mistakes and paid for them by getting knocked out," Jayawardene told reporters here on Wednesday.

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There is perhaps not a single shot in the manual that Sachin Tendulkar doesn`t have in his repertoire. But when it comes to others, the little champion admires Virender Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman for their trademark shots.

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The annual player contracts are up for renewal but sources have said that Sourav Ganguly may lose the annual player contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India. They say that Ganguly does not fulfill the eligibility criterion for the contract as he should have played at least five Test matches or 15 One-Day International matches in the last contracted year, but he has played only three Test matches so far.

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Two former Australia spinners who saw Shane Warne bowl earlier this week said his flippers looked dangerous in the lead-up to the Ashes series beginning on November 23. Warne's shoulder injuries have made him reluctant to bowl the flipper - one of his most devastating deliveries - in recent years.

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The Punjab Cricket Association today faced a Rs. 200 crore damage compensation suit filed by the state government over the acquisition of the land on which the PCA cricket stadium in Mohali is sited.

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Ex-Pakistan captain Rashid Latif launched a scathing attack on Tuesday on foreign coaches working with Asian teams after his former side, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh all flopped in the Champions Trophy. "The Champions Trophy results lead one to question the wisdom of paying so much money to these foreign coaches who have produced no dramatic results, Latif told reporters on Tuesday.

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South African coach Mickey Arthur on Tuesday expressed confidence ahead of their semi-final match against the West Indies on Thursday and said they were not worried about their opposition. He, however, cautioned his team of Caribbeans' strength by saying that they have a lot of star players capable of turning a game.

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The former Australian coach Bob Simpon said England's ability to swing the ball could be the trump card that helps them retain the Ashes in Australia. Simpson believes a lack of quality swing bowlers around the world - including in Australia - has reduced batsmen's ability to counter the tactic.

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