Posts Tagged ‘World Cup’
Sachin Tendulkar eyes 15,000 Test runs before retirement
Posted by: devilkarthik on: August 6, 2009
Even after scoring close to 30,000 international runs ever since he started his career, Sachin Tendulkar feels he has not done enough as a batsman.I am not pleased yet with what I have done, said Tendulkar, who has scored a record 12,773 from 159 Tests at an average of 54.58 and 16,684 runs from 425 [...]
Pakistan Cricket Board hopes to stage its 2011 WC matches at neutral venue
Posted by: devilkarthik on: August 2, 2009
Pakistan Cricket Board has not given up hope of convincing the International Cricket Council (ICC) to allow Pakistan its share of the 2011 World Cup matches at neutral venues, PCB said on Sunday. The scope of discussions that are taking place between the PCB Chairman Ejaz Butt and ICC Chief David Morgan in recent days, [...]
Gary Kirsten said India team must decide its priorities
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 28, 2009
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There are trends developing in world cricket that are of concern to the future of the game, including in India, Indian coach Gary Kirsten said here, saying Team India has to decide its priorities in terms of Test cricket and other forms of the game, like T20. Kirsten was speaking on Saturday at a gathering [...]
Brad Hodge out, new players in Australia squad
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 23, 2009
Australia began rebuilding for the 2011 World Cup by including three young players and leaving out batsman Brad Hodge in a 30-man preliminary squad named on Thursday for the Champions Trophy. The squad, for the limited-overs tournament in South Africa from Sept. 22 to Oct. 5, must be trimmed to 15 players by Aug. 23. [...]
Chaminda Vaas to quit Test cricket after Pak series
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 19, 2009
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Within a fortnight of dismissing his retirement ‘rumours’, Sri Lanka’s most successful pacer Chaminda Vaas on Sunday announced that he will quit Test after the ongoing series against Pakistan. “I’m officially retiring from Test after the third Test against Pakistan but will continue playing one day and Twenty20 matches till the 2011 World Cup,” Vaas [...]
Dhoni said India face daunting task against Windies
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 3, 2009
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Barring a couple of individual performances, the Indians have generally been a pale shadow of themselves in the first two matches of the four-match series and Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team has a daunting task to put it across the hosts. With the series locked 1-1, both the teams will go all out for a victory [...]
Sachin Tendulkar said i can’t survive without Test cricket
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 2, 2009
Likening Twenty20 cricket with “dessert” which is delicious but could not satiate one’s hunger, Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has said Tests were the “main course” of meal and he cannot survive without it. “Twenty20 is like deserts? It tastes good but you can’t fill up your stomach with it? You have to have a [...]
Paul Collingwood said England to seize the day
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 30, 2009
England captain Paul Collingwood said his side had to be “brave” if they were to win the World Twenty20 even though fitness doubts surround star batsman Kevin Pietersen, their boldest player. They may have pioneered one-day cricket as a professional sport but hosts England have still to win a major international limited overs event.And since [...]
Harbhajan Singh said I’m an ordinary bowler with big heart
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 30, 2009
Harbhajan, who first captured the cricket world’s imagination with his sterling performance against Steve Waugh’s Australia in 2002, feels there was nothing extra-ordinary about him but an open mind to go about his job as per the team’s requirements. “I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart and [...]
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