January 22nd, 2010
The decision taken by franchises is based on political grounds rather than cricketing sense. They should be ashamed as they have hurt image of cricket as sport. At first, Indians made the fuss about visa clearance and then the security issues were raised. The IPL commissioner Lalit Kumar Modi is trying to deflect attention away from this issue. He claims that each team was having their own strategy during the auction. The key factor involved in the auction was availability of the players. The franchise owners have also agreed with Modi that the decision to snub Pakistani players was based on availability for the entire IPL season.
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Tags: abdur razzaq, Indian Premiere League, IPL, ipl 2010, ipl auction, ipl players auction 2010, pakistan protest ipl auction, pakistani cricketers, rana naveed, shahid afridi, t20 champions, T20 Cricket, umar gul
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January 13th, 2010
India and Sri Lanka will continue their battle for ODI supremacy when they clash in the final match of the Tri- nations Trophy in Dhaka. They have already played against each other twice in this event as well as faced off for nearly two months before that there are no secrets between the two teams. They know strengths and weaknesses inside out and so will be prepared for any contingency. The ODI series in India showed that the team that keeps concentration on the day will end up holding the trophy.
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Tags: Dhoni, Dilshan, final match, Gambhir, Harbhajan, India, Jadeja, Jayewardene, Kohli, mishra, odi, odi supremacy, Perera, Raina, Samaraweera, Sangakara, Sehwag, srilanka, Tharanga, tri-nation series, Yuvraj, Zaheer
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December 31st, 2009
The DRS allows each team to make three unsuccessful challenges within a match. Note that a successful challenge (call for a review) does not count which is fair enough since it’s an umpiring mistake. The umpire’s supremacy over the proceedings is ensured by the fact that it is the umpire who has to give the final decision. Also there is this ruling that in case of very close decisions, the on field decision is held supreme.
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Tags: DRS, icc decision review system, icc rules, test cricket decison review system, umpires decision review system, umpires decisions
Posted in ICC | 1 Comment »
December 21st, 2009
The squad included the 11 players who played in the first Test at Centurion plus batsman Alviro Petersen, all-rounder Ryan McLaren and fast bowler Dale Steyn
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Tags: cricket, england, second test, south africa, South Africa announces squad of 14, South Africa vs England, south african test squad, squad, test series, test squad, third test
Posted in Squad Announcement | 1 Comment »
December 11th, 2009
The Pakistan cricket team is regarded as the most inconsistent team in the cricketing world. But I want to go one step further to say that not only the performance of the national team has been unsteady but the affairs of the cricket authorities have also left a lot to be looked-for.
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Tags: developing team culture, key to success, Pakistan cricket team, professional cricket, team culture
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December 1st, 2009
The post looks at the Pakistan squad for the current test series against New Zealand from a selection point of view.
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Tags: pakistan cricket board, pakistan selection, pakistan team
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November 13th, 2009
There is no guarantee that Yousaf will continue to lead Pakistan if the results of New Zealand Tests are not in favour of Pakistan. It is also obvious that the PCB would fall back on Younis given the swiftness of Ijaz Butt’s actions naming Yousuf as his successor. In the given scenario, yet another captain is likely to emerge on the surface for the Australia tour which follows immediately after the NZ series. The name of Misbah-ul-Haq can not ne ruled out in this context.
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Tags: cricket politics, pakistan team conflicts, PCB problems, player power politics, younas khan captaicy conflict, yousaf as new captain
Posted in Disputes and Problems | 9 Comments »
November 11th, 2009
On Tuesday 10th November, BCCI announced a 15 member Indian cricket squad for home test series against Sri Lanka. The squad is led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and it includes batsman Subramaniam Badrinath and left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha. The selectors kept faith in trusted veterans Venkatsai Laxman and Rahul Dravid in an experienced batting line-up that features world-record holder Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh. The selctors also called fast bowlers Zahher Khan and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.
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Tags: Cricket Squad For Home Series 2009, India vs Sri Lanka 2009, Indian Cricket Team, Indian Test Cricket Squad, Sreesanth back to cricket, Zaheer Khan Recalled
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November 10th, 2009
The schedule for the 2011 world cup has been announced by ICC. The first match of the world cup would be played in Dhaka between India and Bangladesh. The world cup would be co hosted by India , Bangladesh and SriLanka. All matches that were earlier scheduled to be played in Pakistan are now moved to SriLanka.
Group A: Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada, Kenya
Group B: India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands.
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Tags: world cup 2011, world cup 2011 schedule, world cup schedule
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November 9th, 2009
Pakistan captain Younus Khan finds himself under pressure as his team heads into the series-deciding third and final one-day against New Zealand. Under Younus, Pakistan lost the one-day series against Australia in the UAE and against Sri Lanka while touring the Island Nation earlier this year. Pakistan, who have not won a one-day series since beating the West Indies last year, achieved a thumping 138-run win in the first match thanks to efforts of Afridi, Latif and Kamran Akmal. However, they could not produce the same in the second match and ended up letting the Kiwis level the series. They now would now have to comeback hard to clinch the 3-match series.
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