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Feb 5, 2012, 7:12 am
Bangalore: The Indian Premier League (IPL) will facilitate auctioning of unsold players online to the franchises through open trading from Monday."Franchisees which have slots to fill in the foreign quota of 11 players can bid online for the unsold ones from Monday through the open trading sessi... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 6:52 am
Australia's mix of youth and experience worked to great effect at the MCG, where the debutant Matthew Wade scored an impressive half-century to set up a 65-run victory over India. The selectors had consciously chosen a squad that blended fresh faces with veterans and while Wade top scored, David ... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 6:46 am
India Innings 30th over: India 151 all out, lose the match by 65 runs.AFP26th over: Dhoni out! Holes out to David Warner at long-off. Doherty gets his second wicket. India 129/9.Dhoni c Warner b Doherty 29 (38)24th over: Rahul Sharma and Ravichandra Ashwin also return to the pavilion. It's all bu... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 9:05 am
Melbourne: The emphatic triumph in the second Twenty20 match against Australia has lifted India's morale and the struggling tourists are now looking forward to the one-day tri-series with renewed enthusiam, said batsman Suresh Raina.The tri-series, also featuring Sri Lanka, gets underway on Sunda... Comment - Like
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inShare Share on Tumblr Melbourne: Australia captain Michael Clarke on Saturday declared his team as the favourite to win the ODI tri-series but conceded that it will have to produce its best to nail down world champions India in the opening game on Sunday.The series features Sri Lanka ... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 9:01 am
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inShare Share on Tumblr India will have a lot to prove when they take on Australia in the tri-series opener at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Though they will be upbeat following their 8-wicket win over the Kangaroos in the second T20 on Friday, the world champions can't really ... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 8:59 am
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Australia: Michael Clarke (captain), David Warner, Ricky Ponting, Peter Forrest, Daniel Christian, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Matthew Wade, Brett Lee, Ryan Harris, Mitchell Starc, Xavier Doherty, Clint McKay, Mitchell Marsh
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Feb 4, 2012, 6:00 am
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Feb 4, 2012, 5:51 am
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Jan 31, 2012, 12:10 pm
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Jan 31, 2012, 12:04 pm
NEW DELHI: Sunil Gavaskar feels Mahendra Singh Dhoni is still the best bet for India's captaincy and wants the BCCI to wait for some time ... Gavaskar feels there is nothing to hurry and Dhoni is still the best bet for the job. "Dhoni obviously must have felt deeply the 4-0 loss ... told 'ND... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 12:00 pm
SYDNEY: Facing severe criticism for his unimpressive captaincy and performances in Test cricket, under-fire Mahendra Singh Dhoni has offered to quit the leadership role in the longer format of the game if the BCCI feels there is a better replacement waiting in the wings.
Dhoni said if so... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2011, 12:15 pm
Kolkata: Indian spinners sparked an England collapse after skipper MS Dhoni's fireworks with the bat to hand the visitors a 5-0 bashing by winning the fifth ODI by 95 runs here at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday.
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Oct 16, 2011, 1:20 pm
Mumbai: Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has started training after a month he was ruled out of action due to a toe injury during the One-Day International series in England.
Tendulkar visited the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai on Friday, where he was seen joggling lightly on the sidelines of ... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2011, 1:18 pm
New Delhi: India's middle-order batsman Virat Kohli finds the new ODI rules introduced by the ICC confusing and feels that the playing condition, which allows for a run out if a batsman is deemed to have obstructed the field, is "vague".
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Oct 16, 2011, 1:17 pm
New Delhi: By ending their 10-match win-less streak against England in the first one-dayer at Hyderabad, Team India once again exhibited their invincibility at home, to the dismay of the opposition. The depleted Team India, which is without the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharm... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2011, 7:21 am
HYDERABAD: The India-England series has been billed as a 'revenge series' but Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni chose to play down the issue after his stellar show in the first ODI against England.
"I believe revenge is a very strong word. If you look at the England series especially the ... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2011, 7:19 am
Hyderabad: England captain Alastair Cook credited India for their comprehensive 126-run win and said the home team completely outplayed the visitors in the first ODI here on Friday.
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Oct 15, 2011, 7:16 am
Hyderabad: Back in form with a match-winning knock against England, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the unbeaten 87 in the opening ODI here was one of his most "precious and well-calculated" knocks.
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Aug 1, 2011, 4:11 am
Nottingham: A magnificent 159 by Ian Bell and some uninspiring bowling by the Indians allowed England to march to an imposing total of 441/6 at the end of day three of the second Test at Nottingham on Sunday.
At stumps, Matt Prior was sitting pretty on 64 while Tim Bresnan was giving him compa... Comment - Like
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Aug 1, 2011, 4:09 am
Nottingham: After being at the centre of the run-out drama, England batsman Ian Bell admitted that it was "naive and stupid" on his part to walk off the crease, assuming that the tea break had been called on day three of the second Test against India here on Sunday.
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Aug 1, 2011, 4:06 am
NOTTINGHAM: If England are at the receiving end, can Vaseline be far behind? Late on Saturday afternoon, when India were just about effecting a strong but eye-pleasing fightback, it inevitably made its appearance.
VVS Laxman, on 27, jabbed at a swinging delivery and missed it; the bowler, Jam... Comment - Like
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Aug 1, 2011, 4:03 am
London: A generous but illogical gesture - this is how the English media and former players described Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision to call back Ian Bell after he was controversially run out in the ongoing second Test here.
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Aug 1, 2011, 4:00 am
Nottingham: The ICC on Sunday ruled that the run out decision of Ian Bell on the third day of the second cricket Test here was correct and applauded Indian team's fine gesture to recall the England batsman by withdrawing their appeal.
ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat praised India, the Englan... Comment - Like
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Jul 4, 2011, 11:59 am
Dominica: Team India have a 'Save Dhoni' campaign ahead of them if they want to pre-empt a ban on their skipper in the Lord's Test against England, beginning July 21.
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Jul 4, 2011, 11:56 am
London: Dinesh Chandimal's swashbuckling century anchored Sri Lanka to a convincing six-wicket win in the third one-day international at Lord's on Sunday, as England captain Alastair Cook's career-best knock of 119 proved in vain.
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Jun 30, 2011, 12:40 pm
Dubai: The ICC on Thursday confirmed that an error by the host broadcaster during first day's play in the second Test between the West Indies and India in Barbados led to the wrong replay being shown to the third umpire that caused Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's dismissal.
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Jun 30, 2011, 12:38 pm
New Delhi: Defending champions Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians have been drawn in Group A of the 2011 Champions League T20 tournament that will be held from September 23 to October 9, it was announced on Thursday.
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Jun 29, 2011, 12:33 pm
London: An inspired spell of pace bowling by James Anderson helped England dismiss Sri Lanka for just 121, sealing a convincing 110-run win in a rain-affected first match of the one-day series at The Oval on Tuesday.
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Jun 29, 2011, 12:31 pm
Hong Kong: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has deferred until October a proposal to abolish the rotational policy on appointing the governing body's president.
"The board ... decided to defer the proposed constitutional amendment to the nominations process for election of president," t... Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 12:28 pm
Bridgetown: Indian batsman Suresh Raina was fined 25 per cent of his match fee for a Level I breach in ICC's Code of Conduct on the first day of the second cricket Test against West Indies on Tuesday.
According to a release issued by the ICC, the batsman was found to have breached Article 2.1.... Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 12:27 pm
Barbados: India reduced West Indies to 82/5 on day two of the second Test at the Kensington Oval on Wednesday. Shivnarine Chanderpaul (12) and Marlon Samuels (15) were at the crease at lunch.
Ishant Sharma gave India the sort of start the visitors were looking for at the beginning of second da... Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 12:24 pm
Dubai: In what can be termed as a moral victory for the Indian team touring the West Indies, Australian umpire Daryl Harper withdrew from standing in the third and final Test after being criticised for making dubious decisions in the first Test.
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Jun 16, 2011, 1:39 pm
Islamabad: Sacked Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi was on Thursday slapped with a hefty fine of 4.5 million rupees by the PCB disciplinary committee after he pleaded guilty of breaching the Cricket Board's Code of Conduct at a hearing here.
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Jun 16, 2011, 1:33 pm
A lively pitch made for the most exciting 25 overs of the series, and arguably the whole ODI season in the West Indies. The home fast bowlers asked the Indian batsmen plenty of tough questions, most of them fumbled, and while he didn't have all the answers, Virat Kohli was well above the pass mark a... Comment - Like
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Jun 16, 2011, 1:30 pm
Jamaica: Rohit Sharma was bowled by Anthony Martin and Yusuf Pathan followed suit a India lost their seventh wicket in the fifth and last ODI against the West Indies at Sabina Park on Thursday.Earlier, the needless run out of Virat Kohli and an irresponsible shot by India's skipper Suresh Raina allo... Comment - Like
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Apr 16, 2011, 11:23 am
New Delhi: Former India and Kolkata Kinght Riders skipper Sourav Ganguly may have lost a realistic chance of playing in this year's Indian Premier League, according to the IPL rule book.
It was learnt on Friday that the Kochi Tuskers Kerala had made an attempt to rope in Ganguly as a rep... Comment - Like
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Apr 16, 2011, 11:17 am
Chennai: Defending champions Chennai Super Kings rode on a blistering unbeaten 83 from Michael Hussey as they thumped Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs to bounce back after their last match defeat in the Indian Premier League on Saturday.
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Apr 16, 2011, 11:12 am
New Delhi: Mumbai Indians vs Kochi Tuskers Kerala should have been discussed for all the right reasons. There was an excellent exhibition of batting and of a fearlessness that defined the game. Sachin Tendulkar's first IPL and T20 hundred came in a trademark classy style and then Mahela Jayawa... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2011, 2:19 pm
Chennai: The IPL was off to the perfect start with Chennai Super Kings edging Kolkata Knight Riders by just 2 runs in a nail-biter. Jaques Kallis was superb with the bat scoring a classy 50 but it went in vain with some brilliant bowling and fielding by Chennai.
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Apr 8, 2011, 9:22 am
Chennai: It will be a classic case of 'friends turning into foes' when Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings (CSK) clash with Gautam Gambhir-led Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the opening match of the IPL on Friday, less than a week after the duo guided India to their historic World Cup t... Comment - Like
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Apr 6, 2011, 12:27 pm
New Delhi: By the beginning of 2008, Mukesh Ambani was the richest Indian in the Forbes list, he owned one of the enviest houses on one of the costliest cities on earth and by the end of the first month of that year, he also owned the mightiest players in the game of cricket too.
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Apr 6, 2011, 12:13 pm
Bangalore: New Zealand's Daniel Vettori was on Tuesday named captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League, starting April 8 in Chennai.
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Apr 6, 2011, 12:07 pm
Chennai: A new-look Mahendra Singh Dhoni, shorn of hair following the World Cup triumph, looked set for another conquest as captain of the Chennai Super Kings team who he believes has the firepower to retain the Indian Premier League (IPL) title.
The Super Kings, winners in 2010 along wi... Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2011, 11:52 am
NEW DELHI: The nation had its mouth wide open in indignation, ready to yell "BETRAYAL" just as the clarifications started to come in fast and furious. Breathe easy, they all said, MS Dhoni had lifted the right World Cup trophy, not a fake one.
Monday morning brought the chilling "news".... Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2011, 11:43 am
Karachi: After creating a furore by stating that Indians are not "large-hearted", Pakistan's ODI cricket captain Shahid Afridi did a volte-face, claiming that he was misunderstood and quoted out of context.
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Apr 5, 2011, 11:39 am
New Delhi: Colombo: Sri Lanka's cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara said on Tuesday he was resigning from the job three days after his team lost to India in the World Cup final.
Sangakkara said he told the national selectors that he would quit as one-day and Twenty20 captain with immediate ... Comment - Like
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Apr 5, 2011, 11:35 am
Mumbai: After taking India to the World Cup glory and many other winning moments in the past, Gary Kirsten on Tuesday officially called it quits as the coach of the World Champion side.
Terming the three-year stint with Team India as a tremendous experience, 'Guru' Gary, said he felt hon... Comment - Like
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