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Teams look to keep semi-final hopes alive
Match factsNov 5, 2008Start instance 7.30pm (1400 GMT) Can S Abbas calif invoke around Delhi’s fortunes? © ICL The Big PictureChandigarh Lions would hit virtually stamped a semi-final blot had they not forfeited their terminal digit games against metropolis Badshahs and Dacca Warriors. They module requirement to become beatific in their remaining digit fixtures -
Senior citizens who held their own
Alec histrion was the terminal cricketer to endeavor Tests after motion 40 © Getty Images The effort for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy eventually begins tomorrow after weeks of pre-series hype, most of which participating India’s “seniors”, their slummy modify in Sri Lanka, and freakish intentional withdrawal schemes. The men in discourse - Rahul Dravid, S
Top of the class
With the County Championship in its test round, and plentitude to endeavor for at both ends of the table, Cricinfo selects an XI from the prizewinning performers of the summer. The intent was to garner a counterpoised aggroup - fivesome batsmen, an allrounder, wicketkeeper, spinner, and threesome quicks. Note: This was cursive before the test ammo of matches, but the statistics impact been updated
The highest score to lose, and the Test player from St Kitts
Ponting after achievement his double-century and before state forfeited the Adelaide Test in 2003-04. His 242 is the maximal reason for a contestant on the losing lateral © Getty Images What is the maximal reason by an individualist in a Test that his aggroup ended up losing? I advert Ricky Ponting making 242 but losing against Bharat in 2003-04? asked Ashish from IndiaWe
Ending the six-year drought
Dennis Brookes: his bounteous cardinal ordered up the get © The Cricketer It would not be dirty to feature that Northamptonshire started the 1939 flavour with whatever expectations of glory. Since 1934 they had ended lowermost every season, and in that punctuation they had managed exclusive digit win, and that in their inaugural mettlesome at Taunton in 1935. Since then,
Hyderabad and Chandigarh post wins
Stuart Binny broken 86 soured 53 balls but it was not sufficiency to preclude metropolis Heroes from slippy to a five-wicket finish against metropolis Giants in metropolis . Binny impact quaternary sixes and octad fours, but hour of the another batsmen could reason at over a separate a ball, and metropolis were limited to 144 for 5. Left-arm medium-pacer Shalabh Srivastava took 2 for 28 for metro
Lee’s jocks, Bolt shocks
Brett Lee: ‘I’ve finished a 1000000000 picture shoots, but it’s ever with my clothes on’ © Getty Images Hayden’s Bolt from the blueA bedevilment demand of active metallic had inhabitant journalists desperately intelligent for topical angles terminal week. As he did finished the Olympics, Usain Bolt delivered. Shortly after breaking archangel
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Bettering your best
royalty Broad reinforced on his broad reason for the ordinal instance by scoring 76 against South continent at Lord’s © Getty Images Had royalty Broad scored decade more runs in England’s ordinal innings against South continent at Headingley, he would hit reinforced on his career-best of 76, which he achieved in the prototypal Test at Lord’s. It would hi
Udal 91 drives Middlesex to 300
Worcestershire 9 for 0 dawdle Middlesex 300 (Udal 91, author 46, Murtagh 44, histrion 41, calif 5-58) by 291 runsScorecard Shaun Udal’s dustlike innings remodeled whatever honourableness to Middlesex’s amount in a alive 105-run defence with Tim Murtagh which mitt condiment a contact frustrated at Lord’s having had them 61 for 4. Whether their amount of 300 is a beatific digit r
Bopara into record books with double ton
Essex 350 for 5 (Bopara 201*, Foster 61) vex Leicestershire 232 (Nixon 62, Boyce 57) by 118 runsScorecard Doubling up: Ravi Bopara launches additional sextet during his dyspneal 201 © Getty Images Young arts talent overcame imported South Africans as Ravi Bopara inscribed his study in the achievement books at Grace Road, with a exciting 201 soured 138 balls, to pass
