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Pakistan was aware of suspensions – Lorgat
The provisional suspension of three Pakistani players under the ACSU code of conduct on Thursday has sparked off a war of words between the ICC and Pakistan’s top diplomat in the UK. Reacting to the suspensions, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan’s high commissioner to the UK, claimed that the ICC had made a mistake and that the governing body was “playing to the public gallery.” Read the rest of this entry »
Kevin Pietersen apologised for the foul-mouthed Twitter outburst
Kevin Pietersen has apologised for the foul-mouthed Twitter outburst that followed his omission from England’s one-day squad for the forthcoming series against Pakistan, and has set his sights on rediscovering his form during a two-and-a-half week loan spell with Surrey that gets underway with a floodlit CB40 fixture at The Oval on Wednesday night. Read the rest of this entry »
Sakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal were offered for Fixing
Match fixing and spot fixing is not a new issue for cricket. It was quite invisible in last few years. But it is becoming more and more effective than before. Most of the cases Pakistani and Indian cricketers were among those controversial persons. Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal were approached by bookmakers ahead of an ODI series against Ireland in 2008, the Bangladesh Cricket Board has confirmed. The incidents were immediately reported to the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, BCB media committee chairman Jalal Yunus told Cricinfo. Read the rest of this entry »
Pakistani Cricketers’ Match fixing issue
The meeting in London between the three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of the spot-fixing scandal and senior administrative and diplomatic officials has been pushed back to Thursday, Pakistan’s team manager Yawar Saeed has said. Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir are scheduled to leave Taunton, where the team is currently staying, later on Wednesday to meet, among others, the Pakistan high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Read the rest of this entry »
Sakib smashed Somerset in pro 40 match | Worcestershire v Somerset
Worcestershire beats strong Somerset yesterday in a pro 40 match. Worcestershire made a respectful score of 255/9 from their allocated 40 overs. Shakib Al hasan played a cameo innings of 91 run from just 69 balls. He smashed the ball all over the ground but missed his first hundred for only 9 runs. Chasing a good total of 256 run strong Somerset was not upto the mark except Kieswetter who made a nice hundred. Read the rest of this entry »
England beats pakistan by innings and 225 runs
English demolished Pakistan completely in the last and series deciding match. Pakistan’s team management believe that their one-day series against England will go ahead as planned next week, despite allegations of spot-fixing during the Lord’s Test. England’s captain, Andrew Strauss, however, admitted to mixed feelings about the series of five ODIs and two Twenty20s that gets underway in Cardiff on September 5, and said that he and his team needed to come to terms with the current issue before turning their attention to the rest of the tour. Read the rest of this entry »
Record partnership gives England strong strength
England had already shifted themselves into a winning position after a world-record eighth-wicket stand between Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad, but even in a summer of batting collapses the way they blew Pakistan away for 74 on the third day at Lord’s took the breath away. For the third time in four Tests the visitors couldn’t emerge from double figures as they subsided either side of tea, with Graeme Swann and Steven Finn sharing the last seven wickets for 28 runs, before they slumped to 41 for 4 in the follow on. Read the rest of this entry »
Sri Lanka smashed India in final
Host Sri Lanka becomes champion in the tri-nation series beating India.
These two have binged on each other since July 2008, but what promises to be the one for the road went Sri Lanka’s way, ending a run of losses in big home matches for Sri Lanka. On the best batting track of the tournament, still not quite a flat belter, Tillakaratne Dilshan’s risk-free yet urgent century, and Kumar Sangakkara’s delightful half-century, set a target never achieved under Dambulla lights. When Virender Sehwag left the rest of the side – 288 runs between them before the start of the final – with 262 to get, it was all but over. Read the rest of this entry »
India facing Sri Lanka in Final today
After a great struggle through out the tournament India reached at final and facing Sri Lanka today. At long last, the seemingly interminable run of India-Sri Lanka matches, starting from the Asia Cup in 2008, will come to an end on Saturday. However, the bowler-friendly conditions in Dambulla have made it difficult to predict how even these most familiar of opponents will match up.
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Australian Prime Minister is ICC Vice President! | Sri Lanka Denied Howard
The nomination of John Howard, the former Australian Prime Minister, for the ICC’s vice-presidency has taken another hit with Sri Lanka saying it would not support his candidature. As first reported by Cricinfo, South Africa and Zimbabwe are leading a move to prevent Howard from being nominated to a post from where he will, in two years’ time, graduate to heading the ICC.
Howard is the nominee of Australia and New Zealand and, under the ICC’s region-based nomination system; his entry into the ICC would normally have been a formality. However, the signs of trouble have been evident since the last ICC meeting in Dubai about two months ago where, Cricinfo understands, South Africa and Sri Lanka voiced their opposition to his nomination. Howard needs seven votes from the ten Test-playing countries to be accepted and, with three countries already opposing him, one more negative vote would rule him out.
Sri Lanka Cricket’s interim committee chairman Somachandra de Silva told Cricinfo that on principle his board would not support Howard’s candidature because he lacks a cricketing background.”On principle it is the wrong thing to do to bring someone from outside for the vice-presidency,” de Silva said.”We would support any of the directors from Australia and New Zealand who are representatives of the ICC, but not anyone from outside.
“At the last ICC meeting in Dubai about two months ago, it was mentioned that Howard’s name was being put forward for the vice-president’s post, and I was of the opinion that it was wrong. Anyone coming forward for ICC posts should be currently involved in cricket and not be a total outsider. In that respect we would not be supporting the candidature of Howard for the vice-presidency,” de Silva said.
As prime minister, Howard had, in 2004, attracted heavy criticism in Sri Lanka when he questioned the bowling action of Muttiah Muralitharan. He made the comments twice, once at a function organized by his Liberal Party, and then, several days later, on a radio programme when he was questioned on his statement. The comments came before Sri Lanka were scheduled to tour Australia – a Test series that Murali eventually skipped.
When news of the nomination became public last March, Murali said he had forgiven Howard for his comments but added that, should his nomination succeed, he would have to convince the sub-continent of his intentions.
