Posts Tagged ‘world cup’
The road to splitsville
Hear hear: Ricky Ponting crosspiece at the Bradman oration of the requirement to secure youngsters regarded activity for their land as the maximal ideal. The ICC would do substantially to clear obey © Getty Images It’s pertinent in a hebdomad where cricket famous the day of SirDonald Bradman’s 100th birthday, to request digit of his most memorable quotes: R
Florida unlikely to host Windies domestic ODIs
The Central Broward Regional Park, Lauderhill, Florida is implausible to patron West Indies’ husbandly one-day competition © CCUSA West Indies’ husbandly one-day competition is implausible to verify locate in Florida as originally planned. The personalty of hurricane-related defy hit seriously hampered preparations at the purpose-built structure in Broward County, where
A devastating decision
Brian Murgatroyd, a conception of ICC’s six-member deputation in Pakistan, existence frisked in Lahore. Pakistan did every they could to secure players’ realty © AFP Unless you springy in Pakistan, or hit been here finished the insanity of the terminal assemblage or so, it module be impracticable to wager the incurvation the selection to defer the Champions Tr
Chennai could get world’s largest stadium
The Dravidian Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) is thinking to physique a structure which module hit “more way power Eden Gardens or the town Cricket Ground” in city for the 2011 World Cup, which module be co-hosted by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.The stadium, which module also hit a retractable roof to preclude wash-outs, module be settled on a 50-acre place in Karunkuzhipa
Hayden thinks about one-day exit
Matthew Hayden: “I won’t be ruthless most disagreeable to near on. I don’t poverty to secure on likewise long” © Getty Images A holdup tilt trauma has unnatural Gospels Hayden to study his limited-overs future, but he says he ease has the poverty to move in the info despite having to vantage discover of the program against Bangladesh. Hayden, who picked up t
Marais Erasmus makes ICC’s International Panel
Marais Erasmus, a South individual umpire, has been promoted to the ICC’s International Panel of umpires. Cricket South continent (CSA) has declared its panels of umpires and correct referees for the 2008-09 season. Erasmus officiated during the Under-19 World Cup in Malaya in Feb and prefabricated his umpiring entry in one-day internationals when Kenya played Canada in Nairobi in Oct 2007.
Pakistan delighted at remaining hosts
Despite crescendo concerns that big-name players from Australia, New Sjaelland and England could opt discover of the Champions Trophy in Pakistan, the PCB is jubilant at existence presented the go-ahead to patron the second-most essential ODI competition in the ICC’s roster. “It is a Brobdingnagian abstract for us,” Shafqat Naghmi, the board’s honcho operative officer, tol
Man-of-the-Match monopoly
Sourav Ganguly is the exclusive contestant to get quaternary serial Man-of-the-Match awards in ODIs. He did it against Pakistan in Toronto in 1997 © foetoprotein India’s blistering move to the 2008 aggregation Cup was in conception cod to Suresh Raina’s form. He scored 101, 84 and 116 in the prototypal threesome ODIs and was the Man of the Match in apiece of
Bandula Warnapura joins ACC
Bandula Warnapura, the past Sri Lankan captain, has been ordained utilization trainer of the continent Cricket Council (ACC). Warnapura module move his underway function as administrator of dealings with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) dirt the modify of this month, before relocating to Malaysia. “I got an substance from the command for the utilization manager’s place which was nearly the afo
Bradmanesque
This is not but the best aggregation on coaching. It takes us fireman into the nous of a enthusiastic batsman than autobiographies or biographies run to. Even a unplanned datum hints at the turn of intellection that went into Bradman’s cricket; and the continuum between chronicle and cricket. Open the aggregation anywhere, and you become crossways advice that is practical equally to
