Pakistan allrounder Abdul Razzaq was robbed of his passport, and large quantities of gold and cash by burglars who broke into his house early this morning, the player said. Razzaq resides in the upmarket Defense Housing Society in Lahore. According to the FIR lodged with the police, Razzaq claimed to have lost 38 ounces of gold, $12,000 and documents. He said the incident took place around 5.00 am,...
McDermott and Richardson pulled from England tour game
The bowling attack England will face in the two-day tour match in Alice Springs this week has been weakened further, with the withdrawal of Alister McDermott and Kane Richardson. The two fast men will return to play for their states in this week's round of Sheffield Shield matches and have been replace by Victoria's Jayde Herrick and Western Australia's Simon Mackin. McDermott and Richardson would...
Pawar restrained from discharging MCA president duties
Sharad Pawar, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president, has been restrained from discharging his duties by a Mumbai court. Pawar, who is also the union minister for agriculture, was granted a week's time to appeal the decision in a higher court. The Mumbai city civil court's order came after a suit was filed by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde, who had been prevented from...
White 'desperate' to return to international cricket
Ten years ago, Cameron White was the next big thing, the youngest captain in Victoria's history and an allrounder of immense potential. Five years ago he was a Test cricketer asked to play an unfamiliar role as specialist spinner. Two years ago he was his country's Twenty20 captain. Now, he is none of those things and is fighting hard not to become the forgotten man of Australian cricket. And yet,...
Nov
26
Fun turns to fear for Jonathan Trott
A joyous debut century is now a world away for Jonathan Trott as the complexities of international cricket catch up with him A couple of weeks after Jonathan Trott's Test debut, he remarked that the experience of playing in the game, even before his match-defining century, had been "the most fun" he had ever had. But somewhere in the intervening years the fun has disappeared. Instead of fun, there...
Payment delay leaves Ervine and Williams stranded
Zimbabwean cricketers Sean Ervine and Sean Williams have been left stranded in a Dhaka hotel after Brothers Union, the team they represent in the Dhaka Premier Division, failed to pay the accommodation costs on time. The passports of the players have been confiscated by the hotel, Tropical Daisy, because of the unpaid bill, making it impossible for them to leave. Ervine and Williams are also awaiting...
Vettori unavailable for West Indies series
Daniel Vettori has ruled himself out of the forthcoming series against West Indies, stating that it was too early to guarantee his fitness given the months he had missed due to injury. "International cricket, and in particular, Test cricket, places enormous demands on the body and I simply haven't played enough recently to be confident of meeting those demands," Vettori said, in a press release....
'You just can't take any more' - Trescothick
Marcus Trescothick has urged the media and public to give Jonathan Trott the time and space he needs to overcome the stress-related illness that has forced him to leave the Ashes tour. Trescothick has first-hand experience of being in such a position having left the 2006-07 Ashes in the same situation after previously suffering on the 2005-06 tour to India. He has since been credited with helping...
Nov
25
BPL corruption hearing begins in Dhaka
The preliminary hearing into the alleged match-fixing and spot-fixing scandal in the 2013 Bangladesh Premier League began in Dhaka on Sunday. Legal representatives of eight of the nine people charged participated in the proceedings; the next hearing is scheduled for January 19, 2014. Noorus Sadik, the legal representative of Mosharraf Hossain and Mahbubul Alam, said he had put forward a statement...
Deeper problems than first-Test nerves for England
England's recurring first-Test failure may this time point to more ingrained issues Had you never seen England play Test cricket before this match in Brisbane, you would be forgiven for concluding that they had no hope of fighting their way back into this Ashes series. This defeat was as emphatic and complete as any in recent years. Indeed, only five times in history have England lost a Test by...
Dale Steyn fined for foul language
Dale Steyn has been fined 10% of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the second Twenty20 international against Pakistan in Cape Town on Friday. Steyn was booked under Article 2.1.4, which relates to "using language or a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting during an international match". The incident occurred at the end of Steyn's second over and he admitted the...
England unravelling through run drought
They have slumped from grinding sides down with mountains of runs to battling to stay in matches The 2011 series between India and England was supposed to be a heavyweight contest for the No. 1 Test ranking. But had England played Ravi Shastri on his own holding a microphone, they would have got stiffer opposition. England won 4-0. England were No. 1. Until today, England were unbeaten in their...
Nov
24
USACA forms governance implementation committee
The USA Cricket Association postponed any immediate action on remodeling its governance structure at last weekend's AGM and has instead opted to form a committee to review and explore the implementation of recommendations on governance from a report submitted earlier this year. USACA chief executive Darren Beazley had been pushing for changes to take place by the end of 2013, but a USACA press release...
Gibson wants better execution from WI as Gayle sidelined
West Indies opener Chris Gayle will miss the remainder of the India ODIs , as well as the Test-match-leg of tour of New Zealand that follows due to the hamstring injury he picked up in the first India game, in Kochi. He will need three to four weeks to regain full fitness, the West Indies physiotherapist confirmed. "Chris is returning to the Caribbean for injury management and subsequent physical...
Van Zyl, Hendricks star in Cobras' innings win
Cape Cobras 398 (van Zyl 167*, Kleinveldt 72, Subrayen 4-115) beat Dolphins 88 (Kleinveldt 3-15, Hendricks 3-21, Piedt 3-41) and 212 (van Wyk 52, Hendricks 6-54) by an innings and 98 runsScorecard Stiaan van Zyl recorded his 12th first-class century and scored almost twice the entire Dolphins total, while 23-year old seamer Beuran Hendricks' six-for sealed an innings win for Cape Cobras in Pietermaritzburg...
Cook fights, but England lose KP
England 136 and 3 for 98 (Cook 40*, Bell 20*) need another 463 runs to beat Australia 295 and 7 for 401 decLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details England's task to save the Gabba Test looked insurmountable, but if they could draw sustenance from anywhere it was from the Brisbane Test three years ago. They batted for ten-and-a-half hours, Alastair Cook made an unbeaten double hundred and the...
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