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| • How Bob Wyatt's revelations blow a raspberry at history of bodyline | Mike Selvey | Sport |
Yesterday, while searching for something else, I found a book for which I had been looking for a year. Immediately, as sometimes happens with these things, it sparked a flash memory, of my grandfather.
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| • www.wisdencricketer.com » Blog Archive » Alex Bowden: Wickets need to be the new runs |
Pit the same two teams against each other in different places or in different weather and you'll get a different match. It's what makes Test cricket more intriguing than the upside-down picture of a crow with human legs in my local pub.
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| • England v Pakistan: Power break may come to haunt Steven Finn - Cricket |
Six weeks ago Steven Finn was on cloud nine. His name had been inscribed on the honours board at Lord's, alongside the greats such as Trueman, Botham, Bedser and Willis, for his five-wicket haul against Bangladesh. Bowling with great rhythm and confidence he had finished with 15 wickets in two Tests and was named England's man of the series.
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| • The big story is cricket but the news is all football | Martin Kelner |
With most of the big free-to-air sport - World Cup, Wimbledon, the Open - finished, we now enter a kind of pending period before football starts again, a two‑week hiatus that enthusiasts and terminal nostalgists like to call the cricket season.
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| • Pakistan see off Australian challenge to win second Test and draw series - Cricket |
Australia almost became the first country for 103 years to win a Test match after being dismissed for below 100 in their first innings. On this same Headingley ground England, after a similarly poor start, had beaten South Africa in 1907.
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| • Cricket Blogs - Alison Mitchell: Panesar hunting Ashes berth |
In the first two weeks of the Phil Tufnell Cricket Show (Wednesday nights at 2000 BST on BBC Radio 5 Live), we have learnt that James Anderson does a great Alan Hansen impression, Alastair Cook had a secret crush on a girl called Tina at school, and Tuffers' retirement from cricket was hastened by a slice of processed ham.
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| • Pakistan v Australia: Ricky Ponting's fightback shows mark of a 'true champ' - Cricket |
It took only two words from Shane Watson to sum up whether righting a mistake and batting in adversity bring out the best in Ricky Ponting.
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| • Asif, Aamer and Gul ask you if you enjoy fun - Cricket Blogs |
If you actually enjoy cricket, you can't help but have enjoyed watching Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer and Umar Gul bowl yesterday. It was better than spoon meat and carbonated dipping jam.
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| • Muttiah Muralitharan reaches 800 wicket milestone on final day of Test career | Cricket |
Retiring Sri Lanka spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan has become the first bowler to take 800 Test wickets.
The 38-year-old spin maestro - who needed eight scalps at the start of the match to reach 800 - reached the historic landmark with the wickets of Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Ojha on the final day of the first Test against India in Galle.
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| • Pakistan v Australia: media reaction - Telegraph Cricket |
Skipper Ricky Ponting's decision to bat first met with disastrous results for Australia in the second Headingley Test against Pakistan was roundly condemned by the Australian press on Thursday.
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| • keecricket Blogs - Want to make a fortune in marketing? |
Then a chronic inability to spell people's first names shouldn't hold you back:
"England cricketers Andrew Strauss, Alistair Cook and Eion Morgan put the Jaguar XJ through its paces"
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| • Ashes to stay on Sky as government rejects free-to-air recommendations | Sport | The Guardian |
The government is expected tomorrow to reject a review panel's recommendation that an extended list of major sporting events, including England's home Ashes.....
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| • BBC Sport - Cricket - Ashes 2010/11 tickets go on sale to England fans |
Tickets for the Ashes became available to England fans on Tuesday, but Cricket Australia does not expect the same "tidal wave" of interest as in 2006.
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| • Cricket - Muralitharan bags Tendulkar as India toil in Galle Test |
India closed day three of the rain-hit first Test with Sri Lanka in Galle 380 runs adrift at 140-3.
Resuming on 256-2 after a day lost to rain on Monday, Sri Lanka declared on 520-8, with Rangana Herath and Lasith Malinga smashing maiden Test fifties.
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| • Middlesex v Australians match report - Cricket Blogs |
Ged Ladd writes:
I had been invited to a 30th anniversary reunion at school for this day. The thought of a formal school reunion horrified me, so I arranged to be at cricket during the day and at the theatre in the evening, to ensure my unavailability.
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| • Yousuf willing to return from retirement for England tour - Hindustan Times Cricket |
Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf has announced that he is ready to come out of retirement to bolster Pakistan's fragile batting lineup on its ongoing tour of England.
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| • BBC Sport - Cricket - Alec Gidman slams 'embarrassing' Gloucestershire |
Gloucestershire captain Alec Gidman has slammed his side and called their exit from the FP t20 "embarrassing".
A six-wicket home defeat to Surrey on Sunday saw the Gladiators finish bottom of the South Group.
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| • The Indian bowling defence - Cricket Blogs |
Well it isn't a bowling attack, is it? India have got a medium-pacer called Abhimanyu Mithun opening the bowling against Sri Lanka. We hadn't even heard of him until this morning.
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| • Bedi calls for ban on doosra after Murali retirement - Cricket - Sports - The Times of India |
GALLE: Even as Sri Lanka pulled out all the stops to orchestrate a grand farewell for national hero Muttiah Muralitharan on Sunday, former India skipper and legendary spinner Bishan Singh Bedi raised a lone voice of dissent, lashing out at the International Cricket Council (ICC) for refusing to wake up to the menace of suspect actions.
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| • Cricket - Butt pleads for patience after inheriting the toughest job in the game |
LEEDS: By definition, a vice-captain must be ready to assume the main leadership responsibilities at any time. When the team you are vice-captaining has had two captains in its past two Tests and is being led by a Twenty20 devotee, and also happens to be Pakistan, the potential to be called upon is hardly remote.
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| • Australians flock to buy Ashes tickets as team's vulnerability points to a thriller - Cricket |
The same thing happened four years ago, only for England not to turn up apart from at Adelaide. Surprisingly, demand this time seems driven not by collective amnesia, or even the likelihood that England might be better equipped to win at the Waca or SCG.
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| • Cricket - Sussex defeated by Hampshire's Neil McKenzie |
Hampshire squeezed through to the quarter-finals of the FP t20 with a 45-run win over Sussex at The Rose Bowl.
With the hosts needing to win to progress, Neil McKenzie hit an unbeaten 67 in their 195-5.
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| • Cricket - Clint McKay called into Australia Test squad |
Fast bowler Clint McKay has been called into the Australia squad ahead of Wednesday's Test against Pakistan - with Ben Hilfenhaus an injury doubt.
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| • Cricket - Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi to quit Test cricket |
Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi is to quit Test cricket after the second game of their series against Australia.
The 30-year-old only confirmed his return to Tests after a four-year absence in May when he was named skipper for the tour to England.
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| • Cricket - North inspires Australia to Lord's win over Pakistan |
Part-time spinner Marcus North took six wickets as Australia beat Pakistan by 150 runs in the first Test at Lord's.
Chasing a world record fourth-innings target of 440, Pakistan collapsed from 216-4 at lunch to 289 all out.
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| • England set to continue their global domination, says James Anderson | Cricket |
Jimmy Anderson is confident England will follow up their success in the World Twenty20 by claiming the 50-over World Cup next spring.
After years of mediocrity, England's limited-overs cricket finally seems to be moving in the right direction.
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| • Pakistan vs Australia highlights, 1st Test, Day 4, Jul 16, 2010 |
Watch Cricket highlights: Australia vs Pakistan (Pak vs Aus), 1st Test Day 4 highlights July 16, 2010 played at Lord's. Watch Pakistan vs Australia 2010 cricket highlight online.
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| • County Championship diary 2010: Yorkshire face cuts if Pakistan v Australia sells short |
Yorkshire have admitted that they could be forced to make redundancies if next week's Test between Pakistan and Australia is not a financial success.
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| • Danish Kaneria outwits Mitchell Johnson - Cricket Blogs |
One thing we don't like about modern cricket is the long batting order. We want to see the best batsmen against the best bowlers and then we want the lower order to just fold so that we can get on to the next innings.
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| • Counties adamant that Test bidding system must be changed |
Bradshaw has been a quiet revolutionary at Lord's, taking the most famous name in cricket into new territory by exploring city franchises for Twenty20 competition, sponsoring the IPL, and now this one-off series, which is being played under the MCC's "Spirit of Cricket" brand.
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| • Pakistan vs Australia highlights 1st Test Day 2, Jul 14, 2010 |
Watch Cricket highlights: Australia vs Pakistan (Pak vs Aus), 1st Test Day 2 highlights July 14, 2010 played at Lord's. Watch Pakistan vs Australia 2010 cricket highlight online.
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| • Howzat? Dhoni signs $48m deal - Cricket |
Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has reportedly signed the richest marketing deal in the sport's history, earning him $US42 million ($48 million) over two years.
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| • Pakistan vs Australia highlights, 1st Test, Day 1, Jul 13, 2010 |
Watch Cricket highlights: Australia vs Pakistan (Pak vs Aus), 1st Test Day 1 highlights July 13, 2010 played at Lord's. Watch Pakistan vs Australia 2010 cricket highlight online.
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| • ODI- Cricket - England seal one-day series by defeating Bangladesh |
England took the one-day international series with Bangladesh 2-1 after a 144-run win in the decider at Edgbaston.
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| • Aussies plan to keep 'Boom Boom' quiet - Cricket |
Captain Ricky Ponting says Australia plan on knocking the wind out of Pakistan's sails by taking down his counterpart Shahid Afridi in this week's opening Test at Lord's.
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| • Cricket - Batsman Alexei Kervezee agrees new Worcestershire deal |
Worcestershire batsman Alexei Kervezee has agreed a new contract that will keep him at New Road until the end of 2015 season.
The Namibia-born Netherlands international, 20, joined the club in 2006 and will qualify to play for England in late 2011.
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| • Cricket Blogs - England finally lose to Bangladesh |
That's that out of the way then. Up until yesterday, England had won every match they'd ever played against Bangladesh. Not any more.
Is it a good thing that Bangladesh won? Unquestionably.
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| • MARTIN SAMUEL: Twenty20 cricket is a passing fad...like Pixie Geldof or the Lib Dems - Cricket |
This is where an overdose of consumer research gets you. There was always going to be a day of reckoning for Twenty20 cricket and now it has arrived. Attendances are down, the money is drying up and nervous county chairmen gathered at Edgbaston yesterday to plot the way forward.
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| • ODI Cricket - England suffer maiden defeat by Bangladesh |
Bangladesh secured their first ever victory over England, winning by five runs in Bristol to level the three-match one-day series at 1-1.
An extraordinary contest was settled when England, needing 237 to win, were bowled out as Jonathan Trott fell for 94 off the third ball of the last over.
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| • IPL Cricket - All players likely to be part of IPL auction |
NEW DELHI: According to a proposal mooted by Sunil Gavaskar ahead of IPL player auction, while the franchises will have the option of naming players they want to retain, this would not prevent those players from being put on the auction table.
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