Australia captain Ricky Ponting said Tuesday his team was satisfied with security arrangements for the upcoming Test series in India following recent blasts in the country.

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Australia skipper Ricky Ponting said Tuesday his team will try their best to make Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar struggle for his world record in the upcoming Test series.

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Australia captain Ricky Ponting vowed Tuesday to make amends for his past failures in the upcoming Test series in India.Ponting, one of the seven batsmen to have completed 10,000 Tests runs, has averaged a dismal 12.28 in eight matches in India since his maiden visit with Mark Taylor's side in 1996.

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World's leading Test wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka will play for Bengal in India's premier first-class domestic competition this season, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

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Michael Vaughan could tour India later this year as part of the England Performance squad, according to national selector Geoff Miller.

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South African batsman Martin van Jaarsveld was voted Professional Cricketers' Association player of the year on Monday after a season of outstanding performances for Kent.

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Owais Shah and Graeme Swann have been named in England's 15-man squad for the forthcoming two-Test tour of India.

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Top batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Monday played down security concerns for the Test series against Australia, saying cricketers will never be targeted in India.

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Batting ace Sachin Tendulkar said on Monday Australia would be tough to beat in the upcoming Test series in India despite their lack of experience.Only four Australians -- skipper Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Michael Clarke and Simon Katich -- have played a Test in India but Tendulkar said the new players had a lot of first-class experience.

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India's newly-appointed chief selector Krishnamachari Srikkanth said on Monday he has set his sights on building a winning team for the 2011 World Cup.

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Former Bangladesh captain and the country's most successful wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud has retired from international cricket, the cricket board said on Sunday.

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Rookie bowlers Doug Bolligner and Jason Krejza picked three wickets each as the Australians drew their two-day warm-up match against a local side here on Sunday.

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Security measures for the Australian team on tour in India will be increased in the wake of the latest bomb blast in New Delhi, a cricket board official said Sunday.

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Durham won their first Championship title on Saturday as English cricket's newest county held their nerve on the final day of the season.

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Shashank Manohar was on Saturday named as new president of the Indian cricket board while former Test opener Krishnamachari Srikkanth was elected as the chief selector.

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Simon Katich top-scored with 73 as the Australians were all out for 218 in a two-day practice match against a local side here on Saturday.

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Michael Vaughan will be left out of England's Test squad to tour India, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) national selector Geoff Miller confirmed on Saturday.

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Former India coach Greg Chappell on Saturday laughed off speculation that he was passing on secret information about the Indian team to Australia.

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Sri Lanka Saturday named a 15-member squad Saturday for the inaugural four-nation Twenty20 tournament to be played in Toronto next month.

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Resilient Australian wicket-keeper Brad Haddin said Friday he would bank on former great Ian Healy's tips to achieve success in the upcoming Test series in India.

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Pakistani leg-spinner Imran Tahir dented leaders Nottinghamshire's hopes of winning the English County Championship on Thursday's second day of this season's final round of matches.

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Grant Flower, the former Zimbabwe all-rounder, has extended his contract with Essex, which will keep him with the English county until the end of next season.

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Pakistan will play cricket in the Gulf as part of a nine-million dollar deal, officials said Thursday, providing foreign experience to a side struggling to find teams willing to come to their country.

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Indian seamer Zaheer Khan fired the first salvo ahead of the Test series against Australia, saying on Thursday that rival captain Ricky Ponting was rattled by the task ahead.

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India's cricket chiefs are not pleased the touring Australians are being provided top-grade private training facilities at the start of their Test tour, a report said on Thursday.

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Fit-again Australian Shane Watson said Thursday he was determined to play a key role with both bat and ball in the upcoming Test series in India.

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India's three leading cricket centres, Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai, will host the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League in December, organisers said on Thursday.

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Pakistani leg-spinner Imran Tahir has signed a new contract with Hampshire which will keep him with the southern English county for another two years, it was announced.

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Reliable batsman Michael Hussey said the inexperienced Australian side were capable of rising to the occasion in the demanding Test series soon to start in India.

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Darren Pattinson, the Australia-raised quick who received a shock call-up to the England Test side in July, starred for Nottinghamshire as the leaders closed in on the County Championship title.

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Donald Bradman's first Test cricket bat sold at auction here late Wednesday for a record 145,000 dollars (121,938 US), the auction house said.

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Bangladesh cricket captain Mohammad Ashraful denied Wednesday that he was behind the mass exodus of top cricketers to a rebel Indian Twenty20 league.

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New Zealand fast bowler Chris Martin has withdrawn from the one-day series against Bangladesh next month because of a hamstring strain.

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Pakistan cricket authorities said Tuesday that controversial paceman Shoaib Akhtar can play in a domestic cricket tournament -- just one week after barring him from the same event.

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Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif said Tuesday he was anxiously waiting for a hearing before an Indian doping tribunal so he can get a chance to clear his name.

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Test discard Yuvraj Singh gets a chance to return to the Indian team after being picked on Tuesday to lead the hosts in a warm-up match for the touring Australians.

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Ricky Ponting's Australia are looking for inside knowledge from former India coach Greg Chappell to help the tourists win the upcoming four-Test series on Indian soil.

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Paceman Brett Lee said on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming Test series that Australia would not be intimidated in cricket-mad India despite the lack of experience in the touring squad.

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Former Australia batsman Justin Langer will this week attempt to do something that was beyond the likes of Somerset stars Greg Chappell, Ian Botham and Vivian Richards by leading the west country side to their first English County Championship title.

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Former England fast bowler Darren Gough's first-class cricket career came to an end Monday after he was left out of the Yorkshire squad for their final County Championship match of the season.

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Lancashire County Cricket Club announced plans Monday for a major redevelopment of their Old Trafford home which they hope will see it once again become a regular Ashes venue.

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Bangladesh has called up six rookies in a list of 24 probables to shore up its depleted national team for next month's home series against New Zealand, officials said on Monday.

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Ricky Ponting's Australia arrived in India on Monday for a four-Test tour, setting aside security worries following deadly bomb blasts in the country and in neighbouring Pakistan.

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Ricky Ponting's Australia arrived in India on Monday for a four-Test tour, setting aside security worries following deadly bomb blasts in the country and in neighbouring Pakistan.

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Batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar will be available for India's upcoming Test series against Australia despite racing against time to be fit, an official said on Monday.

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A selection dispute has hit the announcement of the Sri Lankan national team for the 20Twenty competition in Canada, officials said Sunday.

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Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Sunday he was hopeful next month's four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit.

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Cricket Australia said Sunday it hoped the security situation in Pakistan would calm down so that international cricket could again be played there, following a massive bomb blast in Islamabad.

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Former England paceman Darren Gough hinted on Saturday that he may have played the last match of his career.

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Jacques Rudolph has claimed an awards double for a second consecutive year at Yorkshire.

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Showbusiness and cricket have long been passions in India. Now the two are joining forces in a new television show that pairs well-known stars with their sporting counterparts in a dance contest.

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Sri Lanka will re-admit players aligned with the unauthorised Indian Cricket League into domestic cricket, officials said on Friday, in a move that defies the world cricket establishment.

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Australia's late-blooming leg-spinner Bryce McGain faces a massive challenge bowling to India's spin batting masters on next month's tour of the subcontinent, Test paceman Stuart Clark said Friday.

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Batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar said that India's rivalry with Australia was now even more intense than with long-time arch-enemy Pakistan.Ahead of Australia's four-Test tour to India, which opens on October 9 in Bangalore, Tendulkar said he expected a fiercely competitive series between two teams who have battled for superiority over recent years.

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the International Cricket Council's world player of the year, scored an unbeaten 130 as Durham kept up their pursuit of the English First Division County Championship title.

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Former Bangladesh captain Habibur Bashar was stunned by the 10-year ban imposed on him and 12 others for joining the unauthorised Indian Cricket League, reports said Thursday.

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Bangladesh cricket chiefs said on Wednesday that 13 players who opted to compete in the unauthorised Indian Twenty20 league will be banned for 10 years.

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Cricket South Africa president Norman Arendse resigned on Wednesday, citing differences with chief executive Gerald Majola.

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Graeme Hick's cricket career came to an abrupt end Wednesday as his final season before retirement was cut short by injury.

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Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting Wednesday said he wanted Andrew Symonds back in the team "sooner rather than later" and there were positive signs the troubled all-rounder would return.

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Bangladesh's cricket coach on Wednesday denied the sport was in crisis after 13 players quit to play for a rebel Indian Twenty20 league, but said officials must prevent any more from leaving.

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The unrecognised Indian Cricket League took a swipe at the sport's governing body on Wednesday after signing 11 Bangladesh internationals for their second season.

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'Unfulfilled promise' has often been a phrase used to describe Graeme Hick's career so it may be cruelly apt if his final season before retirement is cut short by injury.

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Troubled fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar will remain barred from all Pakistani cricket until he pays an outstanding fine, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) legal adviser said Tuesday.

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India's cricket encounters with Australia are so closely fought that they are challenging the Ashes for prominence back home, retired Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist said on Tuesday.

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Australia decided Tuesday to go ahead with their upcoming tour of India despite security concerns following a series of deadly bomb attacks in New Delhi, drawing scathing criticism from Pakistan.

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Australia decided Tuesday to go ahead with their upcoming four-Test tour of India despite security concerns following a series of deadly bomb attacks in New Delhi.

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Troubled Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds expressed remorse Tuesday over the "gone fishing" scandal and said he wanted to play for his country again.The 33-year-old was axed from Australia's upcoming tour of India after opting to go fishing rather than attend a compulsory team meeting during their one-day series against Bangladesh in Darwin last month.

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Ravi Bopara was named as the Young Cricketer of the Year for 2008 by the British-based Cricket Writers' Club at an awards ceremony in central London on Monday.Bopara has enjoyed several fine performances since making his Test debut for England in Sri Lanka in December.

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Bangladesh's cricket chiefs were Monday scrambling to save the sport's future in the country after reports that six top players had signed with a rebel Indian Twenty20 league.

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Cricketers from Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan took the field in India on Monday, shrugging off security concerns following deadly bomb attacks in New Delhi.

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Shane Warne is backing late-bloomer Bryce McGain as Australia's best leg-spinner despite being set to make his Test cricket debut in India next month at the unlikely age of 36.

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Former England captain Michael Vaughan has admitted he has been lucky to be awarded a new central contract and hopes it will be springboard for him to have one last crack at Test cricket.

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Bangladesh's struggling cricket team faced a major threat to its future on Sunday after the head of the sport's governing body said several players would join a rebel Indian Twenty20 league.

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West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul was named as the 2008 International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricketer of the Year at an awards ceremony here on Wednesday.

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Pakistan's chances of hosting the Champions Trophy next year improved Sunday after the Indian cricket board said it was willing to adjust its calendar for the sake of the crisis-hit tournament.

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India's cricket chiefs were Sunday hoping Australia's Test tour would begin as scheduled next week despite security concerns following a series of deadly bomb attacks in New Delhi.

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Pakistan's cricket-starved side finally got some good news on Saturday when organisers confirmed a four-nation Twenty20 tournament to be played in Canada next month.

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Hampshire went to the top of English county championship on Friday with an innings and 122 runs victory over Surrey which left The Oval giants looking doomed to relegation.

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Pakistan pondered another low-point for the country's cricketing fortunes on Friday, when the shelved Champions Trophy had been due to kick off.

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Australia on Friday left out all-rounder Andrew Symonds for disciplinary reasons and chose 36-year-old leg-spinner Bryce McGain for next month's four-Test tour of India.

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Big-hitting Jesse Ryder has been recalled to the New Zealand squad for next month's tour of Bangladesh, seven months after the cricketer with the "wild child" image injured a hand in a bar incident.

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The Australian squad named by Cricket Australia on Friday for the four-Test cricket tour to India next month.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) will not make a decision on the new dates for the postponed Champions Trophy tournament until October at the earliest, it was announced here Thursday.

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West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul was named as the 2008 International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricketer of the Year at an awards ceremony here on Wednesday.

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Twenty20 cricket's brand value rose to new heights on Thursday after pan-Asian ESPN-STAR network agreed to pay 900 million dollars for the proposed T20 Champions League.

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India one-day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2008 one-day international player of the year here on Wednesday.

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West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul was named as the 2008 International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricketer of the Year at an awards ceremony here on Wednesday

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Australia's Simon Taufel was named as the International Cricket Council's Umpire of the Year for the fifth year in a row on Wednesday.

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Sri Lanka's new spin sensation Ajantha Mendis was named as the International Cricket Council (ICC) emerging player of the year at an awards ceremony here Wednesday.

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Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has said there should only be one major Twenty20 cricket event a year so as to strike a balance with the Test game and ensure a fairer spread of the sport's riches.

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Murali Kartik is set to feature for Middlesex in the upcoming Stanford Super Series and the inaugural Champions League after the Lord's-based county announced Tuesday they'd re-signed the India spinner.

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Former England captain Michael Vaughan was one of 12 players awarded a 12-month England central contract by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) here Tuesday.

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England pace bowler Ryan Sidebottom will have to prove his fitness before being given the chance to earn one million dollars (500,000 pounds) in the winner-takes-all Stanford Twenty20 clash in November.

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Stephen Harmison's transformation from international exile to a key member of all England's cricket teams was confirmed when the fast bowler was included in the squad for the cash-rich clash with Allen Stanford's Superstars in Antigua in November.

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Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar took a wicket for Surrey on his debut for the county but southern rivals Hampshire had the better of a rain-affected first day at The Oval here Tuesday.

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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly may quit international cricket sooner rather than later with him facing the axe for the upcoming home series against Australia, a report said Tuesday.

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A hearing on fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar's appeal against an 18-month ban was postponed Tuesday because the judge was not available, a lawyer for the Pakistan Cricket Board said.

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Some of England's leading cricketers will be one step nearer winning one million dollars (500,000 pounds) each when the selectors name their squad later on Tuesday for the clash with Allen Stanford's All Stars.

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West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene and South African Dale Steyn are set to dominate the fifth ICC awards night on Wednesday.

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The second edition of the Twenty20 Champions League will be held in September-October 2009, organisers said on Monday, dealing another blow to the crisis-ridden Champions Trophy in Pakistan.

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Australia's cricket stars said they were fit and raring to face India after their leisurely one-day clean sweep against Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh's batsmen again failed as they fell to another demoralising defeat in their one-day series against Australia at the TIO Stadium here on Saturday.

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Former England batsman Graeme Hick announced on Tuesday he will retire from county cricket at the end of this season.

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Bangladesh finally showed some fight against Australia, restricting their batsmen in the third and final one-day international at the TIO Stadium here on Saturday.

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Seamer Stuart Clark said Australia's lopsided one-day series against Bangladesh has been a worthwhile hit-out ahead of next month's tough tour against fierce rivals India.

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Former India coach Greg Chappell believes cricket's future lies in privately-owned Twenty20 club franchises around the world with Tests taking a back seat.

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Pakistan's fast bowling ace Shoaib Akhtarwas heading home Thursday after a visa glitch stymied his plans to launch a comeback with English county side Surrey, the player told AFP.Akhtar, who flew to London on Wednesday, said he was told by authorities at the airport that a working visa was needed for him to play in the English county side and his tourist visa was not sufficient.

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Sidelined Australian paceman Brett Lee has declared himself available for the upcoming Test tour of India.

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South Africa coach Mickey Arthur hinted that some of the senior members of his team may have played their last one-day internationals following the 4-0 one-day series defeat by England.

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Kevin Pietersen warned his England team that he won't tolerate them sliding into a comfort zone after wrapping up the one-day series against South Africa.

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England claimed the one-day series against South Africa 4-0 after only three overs of the fifth and final match were possible due to heavy rain here Wednesday.

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England won the toss and elected to field after rain delayed the start of the fifth and final one-day international by two hours here on Wednesday.

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A soaked outfield following heavy rain saw the toss delayed for the fifth and final one day international between England and South Africa here on Wednesday.

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Australia thrashed Bangladesh by eight wickets in their second one-day international here on Wednesday, as the visitors continued their miserable run of form with the bat.

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Former India coach Greg Chappell has been appointed as the new head coach of the Cricket Australia (CA) Centre of Excellence in Brisbane.

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Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat in the first one-day international against Australia at TIO Stadium here Wednesday.Despite the distraction of Andrew Symonds being sent home for a disciplinary breach, the home side won the first match on Saturday by 180 runs, with Bangladesh routed for just 74.

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Former England batsman Graeme Hick announced on Tuesday he will retire from county cricket at the end of this season.The 42-year-old Zimbabwe-born player, who last played for England in March 2001, was one of the most prolific batsmen of his generation and has scored 136 first class centuries.

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Troubled Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has been told by Cricket Australia to get psychological help and will not be a part of the upcoming tour of India, a report said Tuesday.

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Injury-plagued Australian all-rounder Shane Watson is set to return in the second one-day clash against Bangladesh at the TIO Stadium on Wednesday.Watson missed the first clash of the series on Saturday due to calf soreness as Australia were reduced to only 11 available players following the decision to send disgraced all-rounder Andrew Symonds home for missing a team meeting.

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Fit-again Shoaib Akhtar vowed Tuesday to use a short stint with Surrey to mount a comeback at international level, saying he would do his best to help the English county side avoid relegation.

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England coach Peter Moores believesAndrew Flintoff's desire to make up for lost time has helped his side demolish South Africa in the current one-day series.

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Australian coach Tim Nielsen has admitted he is preparing to tour India without star all-rounder Andrew Symonds.Symonds is considering his future at the top level after being sent home from the current one-day series against Bangladesh for going fishing last Friday rather than attending a compulsory team meeting.

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England captain Kevin Pietersen and all-rounder Andrew Flintoff are among seven players who have been made unavailable to their counties for the rest of the English domestic season.

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Australian all-rounder Cameron White,who took three quickfire wickets against Bangladesh, says he needs more experience of bowling under pressure.

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He may rank among the world's best batsmen, but Australian cricketer Mike Hussey Monday described staying at the crease as a "real battle."Hussey, who recently undertook a re-assessment of his batting, said he had often felt unable to hit the ball confidently during his time on the Australian team."To be honest I feel like my batting's been a real battle for two years," he said.

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England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff believes his promotion to number five has boosted his form with the bat.

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Andrew Flintoff starred with bat and ball as England won the fourth one-day international against South Africa by seven wickets at Lord's on Sunday.

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Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been targetted by English county Surrey who are fighting relegation from the first division of the county championship.

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