Posts Tagged "cricket World Cup"

Cricket World Cups have started to lose their appeal. The Champions Trophy, on the other hand, still gets cricket fans excited. A Cricket World Cup Series though would be just what the doctor ordered.

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If you watched any of the cricket World Cup a couple of years ago you may recall that it wasn’t the most enthralling edition of the competition.

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NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has realised that the quickest way to the electorate’s heart is to bring big name sporting events to Sydney.

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Midway through the last AFL season, the AFL and the Players’ Association expressed the desire to insert a second bye into every team’s draw in future seasons, maintaining the 22 home and away games for every club but spreading them over 24 weeks.

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If cricket wants to develop into a world game it needs to fully support the development of the Irish Cricket team.

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The tri-series one-day final was brilliant. It was tense, exciting and close, with the emotions of the players demonstrating just how much they cared. Regardless of what anybody else thought, this was high-stakes cricket. It mattered.

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The only problem with having a Midas touch is that you eventually lose it. And ironically it usually happens after one has tasted lofty and unimaginable heights.

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The name Ricky Ponting is almost synonymous with one-day cricket, as the Australian veteran is considered by many to be one of the game’s greatest players.

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The recent decision by the National Selection Panel to dump Ricky Ponting from the Australian one-day team in the Commonwealth Bank Series indicates that the selectors are beginning to prepare for life after Ponting.

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On Friday night at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the city of Melbourne proved beyond doubt why it should host the 2015 Cricket World Cup final.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has approved a new system of qualifying for the 2015 World Cup.

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Former Qantas Group CEO James Strong has been appointed chairman of the local organising committee for the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, to be hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

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The year was 1996. It was the 16th of February. I was introduced to the world of cricket, by my father and big brother. The Wills World Cup was going on in the subcontinent and South Africa was taking on the UAE, in Rawalpindi.

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Selectors may have one eye on the next World Cup but this month’s limited overs matches in Sri Lanka are all about Australia’s here-and-now, according to coach Tim Nielsen.

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Non-Test nations should be given the chance to qualify for the World Cup, the cricket committee of the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday.

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This whole “ICC preferring a 10-team Test-nation-only World Cup” business has got me thinking on a real left-field tangent of late.

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When it comes to the sanity levels of international cricket, it seems to be a case of half-step forward, three steps back.

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The International Cricket Council have been asked by their president, Sharad Pawar, to reconsider proposals to streamline the cricket World Cup.

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In one extremely short-sighted stroke, the ICC is attempting to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. The facts are fifty over cricket is a dying format but the World Cup also happens to be the premium trophy and biggest money spinner for ICC.

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Greetings, fellow Roarers. I’ve been absent from your screens for a week. A fair bit has happened: Ricky Ponting steps down, replaced by Michael Clarke, a couple of drawn AFL games get that familiar debate going, the ICC World Cup is over for another four years, and my lovely wife gave birth to our first [...]

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