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Yusuf Pathan has openly questioned the wisdom of not selecting his brother, Irfan, for the thirty-member squad for the Champions Trophy. Every country is expected to choose thirty players in the pre-squad, before pruning it down to 15 before the tournament begins. India named theirs and sprung a couple of surprises by including Rahul Dravid and chucking Irfan Pathan.
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Beleaguered quick bowler Shoaib Akhtar has run further into trouble with his national cricket board, the PCB, after he was found to be violating his contract with the cricket board. The reason for the violation this was an interview that he gave a television channel in which he castigated the cricket board, something that is not allowed according to the agreement.
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Gary Kirstein has re-ignited the IPL controversy by saying that many cricketers could follow the Andrew Flintoff path of announcing retirements from the longest format of the game, to play in the million dollar baby, the Indian Premier League. Flintoff had earlier announced that he will not play in test matches, but concentrate only on the ODIs and T20s once the Ashes had ended. Earlier, even Chris Gayle and Jacob Oram had made similar announcements, for varying reasons, but essentially due to the impact that the IPL has had on the player earnings.
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Former Australia opener, and current Chennai Super Kings batsman, Matthew Hayden, has planned to begin work on setting up an academy in Chennai and may enlist the help of Rahul Dravid and Stephen Fleming in doing so. Hayden has had a very good record in the country, while he averages 83.75 in test matches in Chennai including a double century.
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The Gauteng Cricket Board (GCB), which manages the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg has heavily criticized the IPL and its chief, Lalit Modi, for violating many of the norms set by the ground, during the IPL this year.
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After a couple of weeks of trading verbal volleys, and losing two test matches to the lowly Bangladesh, sense has finally prevailed and the main-stream West Indian team has ended their strike. This means that the likes of Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Chanderpaul will be eligible for selection for the ODIs against Bangladesh.
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The prize money of the 2009 edition of the Champions Trophy has been increased to $4 million from the near $1 million it was in the previous version in 2006 when it was hosted by India. The tournament was supposed to be held in Pakistan in 2008, but was postponed due to the security situation there and relocated to South Africa.
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