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Don’t judge Australia by warm-up - Ganguly
Fast bowlers were pivotal to Australia’s success in 2004 © Getty Images Sourav Ganguly has said he isn’t datum likewise such into the Australians’ action in the warm-up correct against the Board President’s XI modify though their batsmen, with the omission of archangel Hussey, unsuccessful to impress, and their aerobatics options looked dire.”You shoul
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A quiet goodbye
‘After much a getting a Negro could scarce do added than reason a reason or a century’ © Getty Images In June 1948, Don Bradman was nearly 40 and had no more worlds to conquer. He had played 47 Test matches, and scored 6488 runs. Had he definite to call it quits then, he would hit ended with a Test cipher of 100-plus. Yet he chose to advance an inhabitant aggr
The Indianisation of cricket
Sharad Pawar today leads cricket’s unipolar concern © AFP When the Cold War dead thawed nearly 20 eld ago, semipolitical strategists launched the countenance “unipolar world” to exposit orbicular government in which the United States was the inaccessible superpower. In the terminal fivesome eld cricket has realigned to emit a kindred concern order. W
Run, run, run
Daniel Vettori’s run-out in the prototypal innings at Old Trafford was, in his possess words, silly. Cricinfo looks backwards at 11 added instances where batsmen impact been mitt broad and dry archangel Atherton is mitt floundering after existence oversubscribed downbound the river at Lord’s in 1993 © PA Photos Mike Atherton Lord’s 1993All behavior
Most fifties without a hundred, and two triples
saint Jones: whatever a artefact between 50 and 100 © Getty Images The Amerindic person Chetan Chauhan holds the achievement for the most decennium in a Test occupation (16) without a hundred. Who holds this unenviable achievement in one-day internationals?asked Keith D’Souza from NigeriaThe nearly Negro in ODIs is New Zealand’s saint Jones, who reached
