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ROSEAU: Mohammad Ashraful top-scored with 57 and Shakib Al Hasan stroked 54 as Bangladesh made 246 for nine from their 50 overs in the first one-day international against West Indies on Sun...
Sunday, July 26, 2009
BD look to keep winning at newest venue
Sunday, July 26, 2009ROSEAU, Dominica: Bangladesh hope to christen international cricket's newest venue with victories in the first three one-dayers against West Indies on Sunday (today) at Windsor Park here.The Tigers would have probably had low expectations prior to their arrival in the Caribbean, but fortune favoured them when the leading West Indies players chose to boycott the series.Their replacements were no match for the Bangladeshis, who convincingly swept the two-Test series to gain the boost of confidence that their appointed captain and leading fast bowler Mashrafe Mortaza set as one of their objectives.Sadly, Mortaza played only a minor role in the Test series triumph, following a fall which aggravated a previous right knee injury, and has sidelined him for the three ODIs and...
Presidency unhappy over PCB goof-ups
The Presidency has expressed its annoyance over the performance of the PCB since the taking over of Ijaz Bu...
ECB dismiss Pietersen IPL injury claims
Kevin Pietersen has been ruled out of the final three Ashes Tests due to his Achilles inju...
Australian tour of New Zealand cut short due to IPL
The early finish would allow players to play the final three weeks of the lucrative IPL before the Twenty20 World C...
Bell returns to England side for third Ashes test
The right-handed batsman, who has not played international cricket since February, replaces the injured Kevin Pieters...
Younis dwells on positives
Sunday, July 26, 2009COLOMBO: Despite being denied a win at the SSC, Pakistan captain Younis Khan believes there are positives his team can carry forward into the rest of the Sri Lanka tour."It would have been nice for Pakistan, if we had won," Younis said. "We can draw some positives from this match, especially in the second innings where we scored 400. There were special innings from Misbah [ul-Haq], Kamran [Akmal] and [Shoaib] Malik, and their hitting form is crucial for us. With the ODIs and the Twenty20 approaching, I'm relieved that they got runs."Play was called off on the final day at the SSC with the 15 mandatory overs to be bowled, and Sri Lanka 101 short of the 492-run target. Younis Khan though, was surprised that Sri Lanka did not press for a win."In the subcontinent you expect...
Langer says is ready to play for Australia if asked
SYDNEY: Former Test opener Justin Langer said he was prepared to play for Australia in the third Ashes Test if asked.Langer, who this week became Australia's highest first class runs record holder, has admitted to missing the thrill of Test cricket.The 105-Test veteran is currently playing for English county side Somerset."One of the boys in the Somerset changing room asked me 'if they asked you to play tomorrow, how much would it take?' and I said I would play the third Test for Australia next week for nothing," he said.Langer's comments came as current opener Phillip Hughes's form slump deepened on Friday, he made just ten in the first innings of Australia's tour match against Northamptonshire."When you have played that much, you miss the...
Indianapolis Tennis: Aisam-Querrey beaten in doubles semifinals
INDIANAPOLIS: The pair of Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq and America’s Sam Querrey after a sensational contest lost the men’s doubles semifinals in the Indianapolis Tennis Championship being held here in the United States.They were defeated by the pair of Litovia’s Gulbis and Russia’s Tursunov.Aisam and Querrey displaying brilliant game in the first set succeeded by 6-1 but they lost the second set by 2-6.However, both teams performed well in the third and decisive set but the Pak-US pair lost the match after being defeated by 8-10 in the final s...
Chennai applauds Pakistan
50 Magic Moments: It was heartbreak for India, but the crowd at the Chidambaram Stadium saw it differen...
The anonymous Mr Hauritz
Australia's key bowler in this Ashes is a no-hoper turned show stealer who now knows "300 times more" about his craft than he did scant months ...
ODI series between WI and BD begins today
DOMINICA: The three-match One-day International series between the West Indies and Bangladesh is beginning from today here at the Windsor Park while the hosts will play without their many senior players including captain Chris Gayle.Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Denesh Ramdin and Jerome Taylor had boycotted the Test series in protest after a financial row with the West Indian cricket board.However, they apologized before the One-day series but the board has decided to give one more chance to the new players.Thus, Bangladesh under Shakibul Hasan will take a weaker West Indies side also in the ODI series after beating them in Test series.The other two one-dayers will be played on July 28 and ...
Shoaib served notice for violating contract
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Director Cricket Operations Zakir Khan has served a notice on Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for violating central contract.The notice says that Shoaib Akhtar has criticized the team management in a TV interview.In a TV interview, some time ago, the Rawalpindi Express had termed the decision of dropping him out of the Twenty20 World Cup team as flaw...
England name squad for 3rd Ashes Test
LONDON: Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell is set to get a Test recall as England named Sunday a 13-man squad for next week's third match of the Ashes series at his Edgbaston home ground.Bell is set to replace Kevin Pietersen in the side that won the second Test against Australia at Lord's by 115 runs, to go 1-0 up in the five-match series, after the South Africa born batsman was ruled out of the remainder of the Ashes with an Achilles injury.Fast bowler Stephen Harmison and left-arm spinner Monty Panesar have also been added to the XI that played at Lord's, with Pietersen's absence the only change to the initial 14-man squad announced ahead of the second Test.Bell, 27, played the last of his 46 Tests against the West Indies in Jamaica in February...
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Legend Michael Phelps unbeaten
Olympic legend Michael Phelps returns to international action at the World Championships in Rome on Sunday looking to end a monumental 12 months positive...
Havant woe after suffering relegation
Havant players wept tears of despair after a 3-2 defeat to Oxted saw them relegated from the premier division at the play-off tournament in Brist...
Buehrle pitches rare perfect game
Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle throws the first perfect game - retiring all 27 batters - in the major leagues since 2004....
New Pompey Stadium
Pompey are looking to strike a deal with Tesco over a new supermarket next to Fratton Park to fund the ground's redevelopment, The News can reveal....
7 SPORTS AIMS FOR OLYMPICS
Baseball and softball will launch their bids to return to the Olympics on Monday as seven sports federations attempt to make the 2016 Games. ...
ENGLAND WOMAN MISS OUT ON 5TH
England's campaign in the Women's Champions Trophy ends with a 7-0 loss to China in the fifth-place play-o...
Breeze left 'high and dry' by cut
Weightlifter Michaela Breeze says she has been left "high and dry" by UK Sport after her funding was cut. ...
Edgbaston groundsman Steve Rouse says he faces a tough battle to prepare the pitch for next week's third Ashes Test between England and Australia.
Heavy rain has hampered preparations and with more downpours forecast, the outlook for Rouse's team is bleak. "It's a nightmare," he told BBC Sport. "We've had two actual dry days in the last 10 and the wicket is like jelly. "It has to be ready a day before and I've got no chance of getting it solid, not with the weather coming in." Test pitches are normally hard for pace and bounce, or dry and dusty to aid spinners. Rouse suffered similar problems four years ago when a tornado in Birmingham and three inches of rainfall at the Warwickshire ground left him four days behind schedu...
England retain confidence in Bell
England batsman Ian Bell has been given a vote of confidence ahead of next week's third Ashes Test, with selectors unlikely to add any batting cover.National selector Geoff Miller said that the 13-man squad for Edgbaston, to be announced on Sunday, will include only extra bowling options. That paves the way for Bell to return to the team on his home ground in place of the injured Kevin Pietersen. The Warwickshire batsman was out for a duck against Hampshire on Friday. Bell also made only seven runs in the first innings of the drawn match at the Rose Bowl, but has been in good form for most of the season. Prior to his double failure against Hampshire, he had scored 640 runs in seven County Championship matches. Bell was axed following England's...
kumar helps srilanka in 4th test
Kumar Sangakkara unbeaten 130* helps Sri Lanka save the final Test as Sri Lanka win the 3-Test series 2-0, Colombo, 24 July 2...
cricket I made a big mistake by joining the ICL: Razzaq
LAHORE: All-rounder Abdul Razzaq Thursday said he was excited at the prospect of reviving his international career after he was cleared to join Pakistan as a replacement in the World Twenty...
Bangladesh look to keep winning at newest venue
DOMINICA: Bangladesh hopes to christen international cricket's newest venue with victories in the first three one-dayers against West Indies on Sunday at Windsor Park in Dominica.The Tigers would have probably had low expectations prior to their arrival in the Caribbean, but fortune favoured them when the leading West Indies players chose to boycott the series.Their replacements were no match for the Bangladeshis, who convincingly swept the two-Test series to gain the boost of confidence that their appointed captain and leading fast bowler Mashrafe Mortaza set as one of their objectives.Sadly, Mortaza played only a minor role in the Test series triumph, following a fall which aggravated a previous right knee injury, and has sidelined him for...
Rana Naved to feature in Yorkshire’s Twenty20 side
LONDON: England county Yorkshire were given a major boost with news that Pakistan’s Rana Naved-ul-Hasan is available for Twenty20 Cup opener against Leicestershire at Headingley, Leeds. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) brokered a deal with Lalit Modi, man behind Indian Premier League (IPL) and lucrative Champions League, which allows all rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) linked players to feature for their counties in domestic competition. But Naved, whom Yorkshire are pressing to sign release papers from the ICL, would not be able to play in the Champions League event until 2010. ‘Naved has to sign a termination of his ICL contract by May 31, but we want it done before start of our Twenty20. We have sat him down, and he is committed...
Stint with Surrey will help me regain form: Sohail Tanvir
KARACHI: Pakistan’s discarded paceman Sohail Tanvir said on Friday he was honoured to win a one-year contract with English county side Surrey, saying it could help him win back his place in the national team. The 25-year-old left-arm paceman, omitted from Pakistan’s five-match one-day series against Sri Lanka starting next week, said he would try to benefit from the opportunity. ‘I am very honoured and excited at getting a one-year deal with a renowned county like Surrey,’ Tanvir told AFP. ‘I hope a stint with Surrey will help me get fitter and regain my form, and with it I get my Pakistan place back.’ Tanvir has been off form since he was the leading wicket-taker for Rajhastan Royals in the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League last...
Decision to drop action against ICC is right: Abdul Qadir
ISLAMABAD: Former chief selector Abdul Qadir said that lawyer of the PCB Mark Gay has rightly advised to take back the case against the ICC because Pakistan will be saved from being left alone in the world of cricket.In an exclusive talk with Geo News, Abdul Qadir said that the Pakistan Cricket Board should have taken the same decision in the present circumstances as the current security situation of the country does not allow any foreign team to tour Pakist...
Aisam-Querrey in doubles semifinals of Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS: The pair of Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq and America’s Sam Querrey qualified for the semifinals in men’s doubles event of the Indianapolis Tennis Championship.They contested with Robby Ginepri and John Isner, both from United States, in the quarterfinals held here in the US.Displaying brilliant performance, the pair of Aisam and Querrey did not allow the opponents to show any resistance and won the match 6-4, 6-4 to reach the semifina...
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