The last twelve months have seen some spectacular highs, both on and off the field. There was Virender Sehwag’s ODI double-hundred, England’s ruthlessness in retaining the Ashes Down Under and Kumar Sangakkara’s stirring ‘Spirit of Cowdrey’ lecture. In the Guardian’s The Sport Blog, Mike Selvey recounts these and others in his XI highlights of 2011. We shall never see Dravid bat again in a Test match in England, but what a legacy he left. None of India’s travails last summer could be laid at his door, and to score at…
Written on December 29, 2011 | Posted in
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Tanzania women upset the formbook to go top of the Africa Cup by beating arch-rivals Kenya by nine runs at the Lugogo Cricket Oval in Kampala. Tanzania won the toss, chose to bat and stayed on top of their opponents for much of the game. Opener Monica Pascal piled on 56 as Kenya looked ordinary in the field, and was ably assisted in the middle of the innings by Mwanaiddi Ibrahim, Hadija Hassan and Hawa Salum as they made 109 runs after 20 overs. In reply, Kenya slumped to 17…
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CAIRO: Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood (MB), leading the field in parliamentary elections, said on Thursday it would sh
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LAHORE: kistan captain Jaffar Khan Wednesday said his team aims to win matches on the field and hearts off it duri
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The fact that more people turned out to watch a dead rubber in Mumbai than for the previous two Tests between India and West Indies proves that India is obsessed with Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th international century, Deepak Narayanan writes in the Mumbai Mirror. Tendulkar himself, though, Narayanan says, is used to pressure and won’t let it prevent him from reaching the landmark. Tendulkar is no stranger to pressure. On the field, there’s the pressure to score runs, to pick up the odd important wicket, to be a superhuman cricketer who’s…
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“Even cows and pigs have laws governing their transportation, so why can’t England cricketers?” is Daniel Brigham’s way of summing up England’s crazy schedule in the lead-up to and during the World Cup, in the Wisden Cricketer. It’s hard enough to do battle on the field, but the boards have introduced a great foe: boredom. Between them, the England players may well have downloaded the entire iTunes music library, exhausted their Dongles, thumbed Lance Armstrong’s autobiography to a dirty, messy pulp and clocked up 743,000 hours of PlayStation time….
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More than half a million dollars was raised for those affected by last month’s earthquake in New Zealand, as movie stars, cricketers and the New Zealand Prime Minister took the field in the Fill the Basin Twenty20 appeal match in Wellington on Sunday. Among the big silver screen names present were actor – and cousin of former New Zealand captains Martin and Jeff Crowe – Russell Crowe and Ian McKellen, who shares a close association with New Zealand as part of the Lord of the Rings cast. As for the…
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The Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium is a compact bowl of a stadium, built tightly around the field
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NEW DELHI: West Indies” World Cup hopes suffered a major body blow on Saturday when key all-rounder Dwayne Bravo was ruled out of the rest of the tournament with a knee injury. Bravo, a veteran of 110 internationals, suffered the injury while bowling in his team’’s opening defeat against South Africa at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi on Thursday. He was initially ruled out for the remainder of the league stage, but is now flying back to the Caribbean for treatment on the damaged left knee. A scan revealed the 27-year-old, who made 40 in the seven-wicket defeat to South Africa, had sprained his anterior cruciate ligament and torn his knee cartilage. “This is a blow for us. Dwayne is our vice-captain and one of the key members of our team,” said coach Ottis Gibson. “He has been showing good form with the bat and batted well against South Africa. “He is also a livewire in the field and a reliable bowler. We wish him a speedy recovery and hope he gets back on the field soon.” The West Indies lost opening batsman Adrian Barath and wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh to injury before a ball was bowled in the World Cup, with Kirk Edwards and Devon Thomas called in as replacements. Fast bowler Tino Best, who has played 14 Tests and 12 one-day internationals, is the third reserve on the West Indies World Cup list. But the 29-year-old is under a disciplinary cloud having been banned for Barbados’’s recent match against the England Lions following a training session bust-up with coaching staff. Former champions West Indies tackle the Netherlands in New Delhi in their next Group B game on Monday.
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In the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Roebuck looks back at past editions of the World Cup and analyses why the tournament began to lose its lustre with 1996. He predicts things could be different this time around. And yet this year’s Cup does have a few things going for it. Bangladesh will relish the opportunity to stage such a significant event, and might be inspired to great deeds on and off the field. India’s greatest players might seize this last chance to win a World Cup. Heck, the final is…
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