CRICKET - Live The Game: June 2013

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

JP Duminy signs contract with Surrey

Surrey have signed South Africa batsman JP Duminy on a contract for the final two months of the season.

The 29-year-old will arrive at The Oval in August following South Africa's tour to Sri Lanka.

He is currently involved in the Champions Trophy after

Australia captain Michael Clarke has been ruled out of his side's second Champions Trophy group match against New Zealand on Wednesday.

Clarke, 32, has been struggling with a lower back injury and missed the opening 48-run defeat by

Ashes 2013: Australia's Ricky Ponting 'could return to help side'

In-form Ponting, 38, recently scored 192 on his Surrey debut, while the Aussies have struggled in one-day games after a series whitewash in India.

"If they said, 'we are desperate Ricky, we want you' I'm sure he would put his hand up," Slater told

BCCI has decided to ban cheergirls and post-match party of IPL

In an effort to clean up cricket and restore its credibility as a “gentleman’s sport,” Working Committee Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to ban cheergirls and post-match party of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Members of the committee discussed possible measures to combat corruption in length, as part of its

Introduction

India and the West Indies have met 106 times in ODI cricket with the West Indies winning 57 matches and India 46, with one tie and two no-results. India has won nine of their last 12 meetings.

Misbah, well‑played. Are these the best six batsmen in Pakistan?
I hope so. When we came here, obviously, we thought that this is the best course and these guys are really performing for Pakistan.

One, how frustrating is it for you as captain and as a senior batsman to bat over there and see

The equation for India and West Indies is fairly simple. Having won their first matches, victory here will almost certainly guarantee a semi-final place, provided there’s no complete meltdown in the final game. India certainly won’t want to go into a match against Pakistan with a last-four place at stake.

Pakistan faces exit after collapsing 67 short of a gettable total

Like a hot air balloon that had its burner turned off unexpectedly mid flight, Pakistan imploded gently against South Africa, slumping to a 67-run loss in a game it had set on fire in the first half with

Ramdin suspended for two ODIs

West Indies’ Denesh Ramdin has been fined 100 per cent of the applicable match fee and suspended for two (2) ODI matches after being found guilty of a Level 2 breach of the ICC Code

In a major setback to the Delhi Police, a court on Monday indicted them for slapping the stringent provisions of MCOCA on cricketers S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and 17 others and granted the accused bail in the Indian T20 League spot-fixing case. "There is no reason

Ian Botham has warned Australia that England are so superior to their old rivals that it would be no surprise to see back-to-back whitewashes in the forthcoming Ashes double-header.

England legend Botham believes his country's 48-run

Ravi Sawant named BCCI's treasurer

New Delhi: Mumbai Cricket Association President Ravi Sawant has been chosen to take charge of the treasurer's post in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The decision was taken by the working committee of the Board which met here on Monday.

Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra has been suspended by the BCCI, pending a probe, following claims by the Delhi Police that he was involved in betting on IPL matches.

According to the Delhi Police, Kundra had confessed to placing bets through his business partner

This is with reference to the Hindi song which was played while the Sri Lankan National Flag was paraded onto the field, at the opening ceremony of the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy in England. As concerns raised by the

What happens next to Raj Kundra, co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals IPL franchise, is expected to be decided at an emergency meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India this morning. The

Introduction

Pakistan and South Africa have met 62 times in ODI cricket with South Africa winning 41 matches and Pakistan 20, with one no-result.

Angelo, bad luck, but great performance by the bowlers. Don't you think it took Malinga a little later on before getting 2 overs to Thisara and Shaminda, don't you think you should have brought in Malinga before that?
Not really. We still had about 30-40 runs to play with. We just thought that they would have taken

Australia A romp to victory

Australia A 372/8d & 230/5d
Scotland 149 & 93 (30.1 ov) Australia A won by 360 runs

Moises Henriques and Ashton Agar began day three for Australia with a lead of 388 runs, but both batsmen had a tricky time getting their eye in against the bowling of

West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo is confident of containing India's batting firepower when the two sides meet in a key Champions Trophy match at the Oval on Tuesday. The winner is almost certain to

Former Sri Lankan captains Mahela Jayawardene and Tillakaratne Dilshan have been reprimanded for appealing excessively during Sunday’s tense Champions Trophy clash against New Zealand.

South Africa and Pakistan are two extremely talented teams. The former’s strength – as Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel are injured – is the young batting talent and the innovative AB de Villiers whereas

South Africa are set to to be without Dale Steyn once again at the Champions Trophy when they face Pakistan at Edgbaston on Monday.

Steyn, widely regarded as the best fast bowler currently in world cricket, missed the Proteas' opening

New Zealand seal nail-biting thriller

Sri Lanka, who had won 10 of their last 11 completed 50-over games against New Zealand, let themselves down with a sloppy batting display in the first session.

Veteran Kumar Sangakkara played a lone hand for the Islanders with 68, his 75th one-day half-century, but five of the

Matthew Fisher became the youngest post-war county cricketer when he was picked for Yorkshire against Leicestershire aged just 15 years and 212 days.

Yorkshire were forced to turn to Fisher for their Yorkshire Bank

Team-mates praise Ashraful for admitting guilt

Mohammad Ashraful has continued to be the subject of discussion at all levels of the public sphere in Bangladesh over the last four days. Some of his national team-mates have also weighed in, expressing their surprise at his admission of involvement in match-fixing and spot-fixing during the BPL.

Shakib Al Hasan said he had also heard questions about February's BPL match between Dhaka

BCCI's Emergent Working Committee meets on Monday

Crisis-ridden Rajasthan Royals and its under-fire co-owner Raj Kundra's future hangs in balance as the BCCI's Emergent Working Committee meets on Monday (June 10) to deliberate on the IPL spot-fixing and betting scam and take action, if required.

The Board's head of the interim arrangement, Jagmohan Dalimya, was forced to call the meeting after

Cricket is bigger than individuals: BCCI secretary

Newly appointed BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel believes that the game of cricket is above all the scandals and match-fixing and will certainly emerge cleaner from this recent spot-fixing controversy. Patel also insisted that the Indian Premier League is here to stay and its long-term prospects look

Betting is a disgusting habit: Shah Rukh Khan

Speaking on the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal, Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan has said that the team owners should stay away from such practices.

“I think as a team owner one should not indulge in all these practices even if you are a betting person

After a few hours of Rajasthan said co-owner Raj Kundra, who holds a 11.7 percent stake in IPL franchise will be suspended if the rate of the charges against him are proved, Kundra issued a statement saying that he would be deprived of its shares if “neither iota of wrongdoing is established

The film, which was directed by Syed Ali Raza and written Vasay Chaudhry, unlike any previous Pakistani film, in the sense that it is a commercial, but a weak story, which centers on cricket.

While continuing to sweat on fitness Dale Steyn, South Africa hope to change ‘trend’, which is often denied them international fame of cricket. History shows South Africa is often suffocated in the

Kiwi’s target is to counter Sri Lankan bowlers in the Champions Trophy clash

Sri Lanka has an overwhelming record of winning 10 of their last 11 ODI matches and six in a row against the Kiwis but black hats to support themselves to reverse the trend especially when their batsmen in Superb Touch.

Opener Martin Guptill smashed two consecutive hundreds against England and Ross Taylor half a

It’s the first super Sunday in this year’s ICC Champions Trophy, and a crucial Group A encounter between probably the two underrated teams in the tournament, Sri Lanka and New Zealand is

A high impact performance from James Anderson and Ian Bell gave England a comprehensive win over Australia in the first Group A match at Birmingham. Ian Bell’s impressive 91 and Anderson’s timely wickets sealed the game for England against Australia.

England’s bowlers were instrumental as they carried on their form which they showed against New

Australia had salt rubbed into the wound of their 48-run Champions Trophy defeat by arch-rivals England at Edgbaston on Saturday when they were fined for a slow over-rate.

Match referee Javagal Srinath, the former India bowler, imposed the fines after title-holders Australia

Siddle makes Scotland struggle in the sun

Australia A 372/8d & 165/4 (35.0 ov)
Scotland 149ao

Australia A lead by 388 runs with 6 wickets remaining

Day 2: Morning Session

The players were greeted to conditions more familiar to Melbourne than Edinburgh when they arrived at the Grange Club for the second of the four day encounter

Ramdin was charged with Level 2 breach of ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which refers to “conduct that is contrary to the spirit of the game” for a two-wicket victory

The Mumbai crime branch officials were shocked after receiving a letter from a Khar-based man, co-owner of a franchise team of Sri Lanka Premier League last year.

The man claimed that his brother had offered bookies to fix his team by paying Rs50crore.

ICC Champions Trophy 2013: West Indies thrashed Pakistan by 2 wickets

When a man-of-the-match Kemar Roach took the first three wickets to fall, Pakistan were 15 for three.

In the end, they were for 170 with only captain Misbah-ul-Haq, who was not 96 was his highest score

ICC Champions Trophy: New Zealand fancy Champions’ chances

New Zealand coach Mike Hesson has said his side may not be” the sort of guys who wander around like peacocks” but “are in with a chance” of winning the Champions Trophy.

The Black Caps, who play Sri Lanka in their tournament opener at Cardiff on Sunday, go into the

New Zealand batting great Martin Crowe on Friday said the cancer he was diagnosed with last year was under control and he was cutting all ties with cricket to reduce his stress levels.

Crowe said he believed worrying about cricket, particularly the axing of his protege Ross Taylor as New

West Indies had a memorable time playing in the Champions Trophy the last time it was held in England, as they came back from hopeless position to win the tournament in 2004 at The Oval, incidentally the same

What a spectacular game of cricket we witnessed at the Cardiff today, kick starting the Champions Trophy with the clash of two teams expected to make it to the semis. India took on South Africa with a superb display of batting performances and a great spin attack. South Africa sure did miss Steyn’s presence, as the lead wicket-taker was out owing to a rib injury.

South Africa v New Zealand - ICC T20 World Cup

New Zealand coach Mike Hesson has insisted his side can cope without veteran bowler Daniel Vettori as they bid to win the Champions Trophy tournament in the United Kingdom.

The Black Caps had hoped left-arm spinner Vettori would return from a lengthy injury lay-off during their

Middle-order collapse costs Proteas victory

THE Castle Lager Proteas lost three wickets for six runs off 13 balls to derail their runs chase in their opening group match against India at the ICC Champions Trophy tournament Cardiff on Thursday.

Having been set 332 for victory the Proteas were bowled out for 305 off the last ball of the 50th over to lose

Jonathan Trott accepts he must find "more boundary options" but is adamant that what matters most to him is helping England win matches.

South Africa-born number three Trott averages more than 50 in both Test and one-day international cricket

BCCI have called an emergency meeting on Monday, June 10th to discuss the course of action to be taken against Raj Kundra, Rajasthan's owner over his alleged betting confession. Reports suggest that Kundra had placed illegal bets worth a crore over the last three years on his own team.

Addressing a press conference, the BCCI Working Group's chief Jagmohan

Suspended Indian cricketer Ankeet Chavan, an accused in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal, surrendered before a Delhi court on expiry of the one-week interim bail he was granted to solemnise his marriage.

Chavan, who along with his Rajasthan teammate S Sreesanth and others is now

A magnificent maiden ODI ton by Shikhar Dhawan coupled with a brilliant all-round performance by Ravindra Jadeja helped India beat South Africa by 26 runs in the first match of the 2013 Champions Trophy

Kolkata - The Indian cricket board would look into the alleged conflict of interest issue concerning Indian captain M.S. Dhoni’s stakes in a sports management firm after the ongoing Champions Trophy

Cardiff has seen a third 50-over game involving the Indian cricket team in about a week. The new-look side once again posted a score in excess of 300 from their allotted 50 overs against former champions South Africa. They got a huge scare during the run chase, but backed themselves to strike at regular intervals, and

BREAKING NEWS: New BCCI Secretary appointed

Kolkata - Sanjay Patel has been appointed the new secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), its interim chief Jagmohan Dalmiya announced today.

The post fell vacant after Sanjay Jagdale quit last Friday to protest cricket board chief N. Srinivasan’s refusal

Preview: Pakistan v West Indies

Both the teams face off in their first game at The Oval after winning one warm-up match each. While Pakistan's first game was washed off due to rain, West Indies lost their match against Australia quite easily before bouncing back for the second game. However, both teams are evenly matched with an array of talented players. The last time the tournament was played in England, West Indies emerged as the champions

Fan holds his nerve to win £50,000 in bowl out

Cricket fan Chris Newell kept his cool in front of a crowd of more than 16,000 at Trent Bridge on Wednesday (June 5) to win £50,000 ($77,000).

Since November, the 50-year-old had known he would have the chance to win the money in a competition run by the sponsors, a cider-making firm.

Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra and his wife Shilpa Shetty are upset with how the media has “misconstrued everything” after the former was questioned by the Delhi Police here in connection with the

Rajasthan Royals' owner Raj Kundra has admitted to indulging in betting and placed bets on his own team, Delhi Police claimed on Thursday (June 6) as it confiscated his passport to ensure that he

Sachin Tendulkar may have announced his retirement from the Indian T20 League, but the veteran cricketer is likely to don the Mumbai jersey during the upcoming edition of the World League T20 which will be held

When India and South Africa take the field for the opening game in what is to be the last edition of the Champions Trophy, one will not see the big names that are usually associated with these two teams. India have left out the likes of Sehwag, Yuvraj, Gambhir, Zaheer, Harbhajan and opted for new young blood in

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