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...
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