Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
England lead India 2-1 in the series so far with 4 games left. India have won the toss all 3 times and have decided to field twice and bat once. The side batting first has been victorious in every game so far, which gives merit to WG Grace's saying :"When ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Ray Mali, the president of the ICC, has told the Zimbabwe Herald that he believes the current squad, if kept together for the next 3 years, will become the number one side in the world. It is difficult to fathom how a man who is president of the ICC, can ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat, which looked to be going horribly wrong when they were 72/7 in the 24th over. Elton Chigumbura and Gary Brent came to the wicket and fell 2 runs short of setting a record 8th wicket partnership for Zimbabwe. However their 115 run ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Jacques Kallis was left out of the South African Twenty/20 squad for the inaugural world Twenty/20 championships being played in South Africa in September. This was a shock omission from the squad and because of his omission Kallis resigned as the South African vice-captain.
Kallis is a prime example of a ...
Posted in Boucher, Boucher and Kallis, Cricket, Cricket World Cup, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, ODI, ODI cricket, Pro20, Pro20 cricket, Pro20 selections, SA cricket, SA selectors embarrassing, South Africa, South African Cricket, South African selectors, big five, twenty20, twenty20 cricket | 4 Comments »
Monday, August 20th, 2007
In the next 3 weeks, there are seven ODI’s between the 5th ranked India and the 8th ranked England who are propped up by the minor cricketing countries of Bangladesh, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Kenya.
England will be looking to even out the score after losing the test series to India. A ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Hampshire won the toss and chose to field first, a decision they were going to regret especially after Kyle Coetzer and Shiv Chanderpaul put on a 111 run partnership off 119 balls for the 3rd wicket. At this stage, Durham were 180-3 off 32 overs and looking like a total ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Australia: Ricky Ponting (captain), Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Michael Clarke, Adam Gilchrist, Brad Haddin, Matthew Hayden, Brad Hodge, Bradley Hogg, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Andrew Symonds, Shaun Tait, Shane Watson.
Bangladesh: Mohammad Ashraful (captain), Aftab Ahmed, Nadif Chowdhury, Shakib Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Alok Kopali, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mushfiqur Rahim, Ziaur ...
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
On Saturday the South African squad was announced for the upcoming Twenty20 Cup. There was the shock omission of Jaques Kallis, which can easily be justified if Strydom is sticking to his guns about not exposing all the senior players to this form of cricket. Bearing this in mind, there ...
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