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India get another shot at top spot (05 January 11:10) |
| Despite the overwhelming sense of lethargy that is characteristic of this region, days generally begin quite early here... |
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Dilshan ton powers Lanka to 7-wkt win (05 January 11:10) |
| By the time the Indian team packed up their practice session on Monday morning, they had a large posse of star-struck locals waiting desperately to catch a glimpse of them. |
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Kotla pitch fiasco Jaitley rubbishes Azads claims (29 December 01:31) |
| DDCA President Arun Jaitley has responded strongly to the blame put up by former cricketer Kirti Azad that he was manhandled in a meeting. |
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ICC keen to form a Test Championship League (29 December 01:31) |
| ICC is working at various ways to rejuvenate this format, perhaps by creating some form of a Test Championship League. |
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Azad walks out of DDCA meet says insulted on Kotla issue (29 December 01:31) |
| DDCA mamber Kirti Azad walked out of the body's annual general meeting claiming that he was insulted for raising the issue. |
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ICC should stipulate minimum number of Tests per year Dhoni (29 December 01:31) |
| Indian skipper was all for popularising Test cricket and mooted the proposal of fixing a minimum number of Test matches per year. |
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Collingwood Cook give England first innings lead (29 December 01:31) |
| Alastair Cook ground out a century as he and Paul Collingwood took England to a first-innings lead on the against SAfrica at Kingsmead. |
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Watson puts Australia in control of first Test (29 December 01:31) |
| Shane Watson survived a fiery spell of fast bowling from Mohammed Aamer to end the day unbeaten on 64, guiding Australia to 111/3 in their second innings. |
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2009 was a good year overall says skipper Dhoni (26 December 04:05) |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni ruled out wholesale change in the playing XI and said the home team would go for the jugular in the final ODI in New Delhi. |
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Oz openers miss ton as home team holds sway at MCG (26 December 04:05) |
| Australian openers Shane Watson and Simon Katich fell agonizingly short of centuries, but ensured that Australia holds the edge on Day 1. |
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Delhi track back in focus (26 December 04:05) |
| India's stand-in skipper Sehwag already expressed happiness - not at the pitch, but at the fact that it wouldn't matter. |
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Yuvraj ruled out of last two ODIs against Sri Lanka (22 December 06:00) |
| Yuvraj Singh was ruled out of India's last two one day international matches against Sri Lanka because of his finger injury. |
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Karthik shouldve allowed Sachin to complete ton (22 December 06:00) |
| Dinesh Karthik clearly has not made himself popular by leaving Sachin Tendulkar stranded just four runs short of a century in the Cuttack ODI. |
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Siddle raring to face the mavericks from Pakistan (22 December 06:00) |
| Peter Siddle has said that he has completely recovered from the hamstring injury which had kept him out of the third Test match against West Indies. |
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After Ntini South Africa seek next black pearl (22 December 11:50) |
| Makhaya Ntini's 100th Test was tinged with concern about the shortage of obvious successors to take over as a black African standard bearer in cricket. |
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Modi threatens to terminate contract of Aussie players (22 December 11:50) |
| IPL chairman Lalit Modi has threatened to terminate contracts of Australian players and ban State sides from the Champions League if they fail to release their players for the third edition ... |
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Jadejas the unlikely hero as bowlers strike at last (22 December 11:50) |
| In a series in which bat has mercilessly dominated the ball, Ravindra Jadeja emerged as the unlikely hero for the Indians on Monday. |
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Hughes called up as cover for Ponting (22 December 11:50) |
| Ricky Ponting's elbow injury earned left-handed opener Phillip Hughes a call-up as cover for the Australian captain for the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan. |
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Smith admits to frustration after drawn Test (22 December 11:50) |
| South Africa captain Graeme Smith admitted that he was frustrated with his side's inability to seal a win in the opening Test. |
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BCCI relents asks SAfrica to play 2 Tests in India (11 December 06:35) |
| BCCI has requested South Africa to play a couple of five-day games when they visit the country early next year. |
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SA NZ players body seek window for IPL CL (11 December 06:35) |
| The players associations of South Africa and New Zealand feel there should be a separate window for the IPL and Champions league. |
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Oz reality show to unearth next Warne in offing (11 December 06:35) |
| Desperate to find a successor for Shane Warne, cricket authorities Down Under have discussed the idea of launching a reality show to unearth talent. |
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Nagpurs sloppy performance haunts Dhoni before Mohali T20 (11 December 06:35) |
| India have plenty of repair work to do as they go into the second T20 match against Sri Lanka in Mohali with the acute drop in fielding and bowling standards. |
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Indias No1 ranking must be seen with sense of history (11 December 06:35) |
| India have not set foot on the summit by stepping off a helicopter, they have got there after establishing several base... |
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Delhi HC stops ICL from filing suit against BCCI ECB in UK (08 December 12:21) |
| Delhi High Court barred unsanctioned Indian Cricket League from filing a suit against the BCCI in the United Kingdom courts. |
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Indias path to No 1 glory (08 December 12:21) |
| MS Dhoni and Gary Kirsten's coming together to turn the tide coincided with Australia's fall and South Africa's hard-fought rise. |
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Gayle century sets up exciting finish (08 December 12:21) |
| West Indies captain Chris Gayle scored an uncharacteristic century to set up an exciting finish in the second Test of the series. |
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Dhoni joins the party cracks ton Lanka cornered (04 December 04:56) |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni cracked an unbeaten century as India tightened the noose around a hapless Sri Lanka by taking an imposing 333-run first innings lead. |
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Sehwag falls 7 runs short of world record (04 December 04:56) |
| Virender Sehwag fell just short 7 runs of becoming the first batsman ever to score three test triple centuries. |
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At the Brabourne Sehwag chases the legend of the Don (04 December 04:56) |
| Sehwag's unbeaten 284 in less than a day was a kind of innings usually to be found only in old Australian scoresheets of the 1930s and 40s. |
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Bond Co wreck Pak Kiwis win 1st Test by 32 runs (28 November 01:23) |
| Riding on comeback star Shane Bond's brilliant match figures of eight for 153, New Zealand defeated Pakistan by 32 runs in the first Test in Dunedin. |
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AB de Villiers smashes ton as SAfrica levels series (28 November 01:23) |
| AB de Villiers hit a dazzling century as South Africa swept to a series-levelling 112-run win in the third ODI against England. |
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Nehra gets Grade B contract Irfan left out by BCCI (25 November 04:47) |
| BCCI rewarded in-form pacer Ashish Nehra by offering him a Grade B annual contract worth Rs 40 lakh while dropping all-rounder Irfan Pathan. |
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Chanderpaul is the most astonishing batsmen around Roebuck (25 November 04:47) |
| Shivnarine Chanderpaul likes batting and knows his game inside out, writes noted cricket writer Peter Roebuck. |
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IPL will kill international cricket feel Oz fans (25 November 04:47) |
| Australian fans have termed the mega BCCI event as the biggest threat to the health of international cricket. |
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India scores 642 Lanka faces uphill task (25 November 04:47) |
| Rahul Dravid struck his second consecutive century as India racked up a mammoth total and then made an early dent in the Sri Lankan top order to maintain their iron grip over the second cric... |
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Johnson admits row with mother behind Ashes meltdown (24 November 06:46) |
| Johnson said the spat between his mother and fiancee played on his mind during the Lord's Test, resulting in his awful performance in the match. |
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Sehwag Gambhir reign supreme (24 November 06:46) |
| Gautam Gambhir (167) and Virender Sehwag (131) were the architects of India's unrelenting dominance on the first day of the second Test at Kanpur as India ended the day at 417/2. |
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Motera-like tracks would kill Test cricket Harbhajan (21 November 01:24) |
| Feisty off-spinner Harbhajan Singh said that batting-friendly tracks like the one in Motera would kill cricket's longest format. |
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Fit-again Clarke reveals captaincy ambitions (21 November 01:24) |
| Michael Clarke, who missed the Champions Trophy and the seven-match ODI India tour due to a back injury, has returned to the 12 member Aussie squad. |
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Decision on sending Misbah to NZ after first Test PCB (21 November 01:24) |
| Pakistan Cricket Board said it would wait till the first Test to decide whether to send Misbah ul Haq in New Zealand as Younus Khan's replacement. |
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Cricket going global IPLs the way (20 November 06:51) |
| Greg Chappell feels that IPL would soon become a world event |
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Dhoni Sangakkara differ on Motera featherbed (20 November 06:51) |
| Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni described the Motera featherbed as a bowler-hostile track but his Sri Lankan counterpart Kumar Sangakkara had no issues with the strip which he described ... |
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Gambhir Tendulkar strike tons earn India a draw (20 November 06:51) |
| Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar hit opportune centuries as India came up with a spirited batting display to salvage a draw in Ahmedabad. |
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Like suspect actions Board should crack down on overage players too (20 November 06:51) |
| So umpires in India have started calling bowlers for chucking and it is nice to see a forgotten law being implemented! |
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Ishant is the future of Indian bowling Ganguly (14 November 04:54) |
| Ishant had one or two bad games but that's going to happen in India where you play on flat wickets and fast outfield, said Sourav Ganguly. |
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Sachin greatest batsman of my generation Ganguly (14 November 04:54) |
| Ex-India captain Sourav Ganguly described Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest batsman of his generation. |
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Team like KKR cant be wooden-spooners feels Whatmore (14 November 04:54) |
| Dav Whatmore said that the Kolkata Knight riders side was certainly not a team to be the laggards in the high-profile Twenty20 event. |
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Little chance of me accepting captaincy again Younis (14 November 04:54) |
| The player rebellion continues to rankle Younis Khan, who says there is little chance of him accepting Pakistan's captaincy again. |
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England edge South Africa in rain-hit T20 (14 November 04:54) |
| Eoin Morgan played a stunning innings of 83 not out off 45 balls as England won a rain-affected first Twenty20 international against South Africa by 1 run. |
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