Oct
20

Rain continues to follow the IPL sides

Auckland Aces v Delhi Daredevils Match abandoned without a ball bowledScorecard Rain seems to be following the IPL sides wherever they go. A third successive evening game in the Champions League Twenty20 was washed out today, in Durban. While some play had been possible in the previous no-results, even the toss could not take place at Kingsmead as a persistent, but not heavy, drizzle set in. It was...
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Lions one step away from semi-finals

Match facts October 20, 2012Start time 1330 (1130 GMT) Big Picture With two wins and a game to play, Lions are just one victory away from joining Sydney Sixers as the other team from Group B in the semi-finals. Lions play the opening game of the Wanderers double-header on Saturday and their match against Yorkshire will be closely followed by Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, who face...
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Piedt routs Western Province on debut with seven-for

South Western Districts 229 (McLaren 67, Muller 6-55) beat Western Province 141 (Barnes 31, McMillan 3-16) & 34 (Piedt 7-6) by an innings and 54 runsScorecard South Western Districts, who were given provisional affiliate status by CSA in August last year, pulled off a stunning coup when they beat Western Province by an innings and 54 runs inside two days in Oudtshoorn. Debutant fast bowler Marcello...
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USACA suspends executive secretary Williams

The USA Cricket Association has suspended executive secretary Kenwyn Williams and is investigating his role in a protracted and angry exchange with journalists and stakeholders on the official USACA Facebook page, which was taken down shortly before 11 a.m. EST on Friday. USACA president Gladstone Dainty confirmed the suspension to ESPNcricinfo pending a hearing at a board meeting on November 10 in...
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Oct
19

BPL yet to pay 54 players

Fifty-four players, including six foreigners, who played the first season of the Bangladesh Premier League are still without full payments from the six franchises, more than seven months after the tournament concluded. Cricketers Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB), the players' representative body in the country, has put together the updated list of unpaid BPL cricketers and this is the first...
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Bangladesh need to focus on Tests - BCB president

Nazmul Hassan, the new Bangladesh Cricket Board president, has identified improvement in national team's Test performance and spreading the game better in the country as the challenges for Bangladesh cricket. Hassan was appointed as the replacement to AHM Mustafa Kamal who was confirmed the vice president of the ICC, ending his three-year tenure as the BCB president. "We are weak in the longer version...
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USACA official seeks colleague's suspension

USA Cricket Association (USACA) treasurer John Thickett has asked president Gladstone Dainty and the board to consider suspending executive secretary Kenwyn Williams and investigate his role in a protracted and angry exchange with journalists and stakeholders on the official USACA Facebook page. Dainty, according to emails obtained by ESPNcricinfo, has asked other board members to give their input...
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Bond back in black as bowling coach

Beset by injuries and straddling the start of the Twenty20 era, Shane Bond's New Zealand career was all too brief. The lessons of it are not to be lost however, after Bond signed on to replace Damien Wright as the national team's bowling coach. Having retired from the game a little more than two years ago, Bond has spent the intervening time studying up as a coach, and will now bring his combination...
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Oct
18

Advice avalanche sent Lyon spinning

Entering a second summer as Australia's No. 1 spinner, Nathan Lyon has revealed his struggles to deal with the avalanche of bowling advice fired his way across the first 12 months of his time in the Test team. One of the side-effects of Lyon's rapid rise from obscurity to the national team was that many glimpsed his bowling for the first time in Test matches. A return of 42 wickets at 27.83 from...
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PCB to appoint batting coach

The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to appoint a full-time batting coach and has advertised for the post on its website. The role of batting coach is currently being handled by the head coach, Dav Whatmore, with the coaching staff also including Julien Fountain (fielding) and Mohammad Akram (bowling). The advertisement calls for candidates with at least Level III coaching accreditation, and at...
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