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Mortaza May Also Retire From Test Matches

by Vivek Gite on February 26, 2010 · 0 comments

Bangladesh’s former captain and current fast bowler, Mashraf Mortaza has said that he is not sure about his future as a Test match bowler. Mortaza was recovering from his knee injury for the last eight odd months, that he had sustained in the West Indies last July.

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The name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar echoed not only in Gwalior’s Major Roop Singh Stadium but also throughout the country as he smashed a double century against South Africa in an ODI. Tendulkar became the first ever batsman in the history of cricket to score double century and it was befitting that it was Tendulkar who did it before anyone else!

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The New Zealand and the Australian cricket board have been asked to stay on a stand-by to host the 2011 edition of the World Cup, after it has been deemed that the security threat in India is for real. The CEO of the New Zealand Cricket (NZC), Justin Vaughan has said that that the ICC had asked them to remain on the stand-by but also added that the situation would be resolved and the tournament could be held as planned in the Asian nations of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

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Yuvraj Could Play For Middlesex in T20 Cup

by Vivek Gite on February 3, 2010 · 1 comment

The county of Middlesex is in talks with Yuvraj Singh to have him play for the county in the Twenty20 tournament this year. The county had earlier approached Sachin Tendulkar to feature in the tournament, but the problem with the amount of cricket meant that the maestro had politely refused to be a part of the tournament.

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The three nation series between India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will begin from today. Each team will play the other two sides, twice each, and at the end of this round-robin stage, the top two sides with the highest points will feature in the final of the tournament. There will b six league games. The final will be played on the 13th of January at Dhaka. In fact, all the games will be played at Mirpur in Dhaka and will be day-night matches.

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Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf has said that the advent and the existing love for the T20 format of the game will have an adverse impact on the other formats of the game in Pakistan. In a rather startling statement, he said that such a format will finish off Pakistan cricket if not controlled properly.

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The Kotla controversy refuses to die down. Only a couple of days after the game at the Feroz Shah Kotla was abandoned due to an unfit pitch, there have been contrasting views that have come out from the different stakeholders of the game.

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