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Geoff Marsh, Australia’s former batsman and coach, has been contracted to coach the IPL Pune side. The Sahara Pune Warriors, who are owned by the Sahara Group for a sum of $370 million will also have Dermot Reeve as his assistant coach.

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According to the former Australian cricket captain, and no commentator Ian Chappell, India does not deserve to be the number one Test team. He also said that the Indian team does not possess the wherewithal to retain its number one position for a long time.

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I was just browsing different news sources about recent Indian victory at Perth. I found this article very accurate about Australian players after Sydney brouhaha and Perth humbling: HUBRIS had set in with the Australian players. Since the 2005 Ashes they had not lost nor drawn a Test match, they had won the World Cup [...]

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Chris Dehring, the CEO of the World Cup organising committee, has said that racism and obscene gestures will not be tolerated at next year’s competition. I think most cricket fans remembers commentator Dean Jones racism joke. He has been sacked after an offensive remark regarding Hashim Amla. He called Hashim Amla a terrorist on live [...]

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South Africa batsman Hashim Amla has spoken of the hurt caused by Dean Jones jokingly calling him “the terrorist” on air in the second Test in Sri Lanka. Jones lost his job as a commentator. Amla said: I’ve got a bright future in cricket and that’s what I want to concentrate on. I don’t want [...]

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Commentator Dean Jones has been sacked after an offensive remark regarding Muslim player Hashim Amla. He called Hashim Amla a ‘terrorist’ on live television during the fourth day’s play between Sri Lanka and South Africa at Colombo. Ten sports the employer of Jones terminated him today. Jones, who admitted making the comment and apologised, was [...]

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