Posts Tagged "Cricket"

Besieged left-hander Shaun Marsh will attempt to revive his Test hopes at the Gabba when Western Australia meet Queensland in a top-of-the-table Sheffield Shield clash starting on Monday.

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Former Test No.3 Usman Khawaja is refusing to look as far ahead as Australia’s tour to the West Indies as he focuses on continuing his century-making form in this week’s Sheffield Shield clash with Tasmania.

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Luckless Brett Lee’s broken little toe has forced the paceman out of the triangular one-day series in the latest injury to hit Australia’s fast bowling ranks.

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Top one-day cricket team Australia rallied from a shaky start to dominate India in their rain-shortened match at the MCG.

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At the beginning of the Australian summer of 1999, there were pleas from across the nation to allow Ian Healy one last Test series before retiring. As the selectors stood firm, the appeals were reduced to just one last home Test at the Gabba.

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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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Before its younger sibling came along, One Day cricket was all the rage.

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Australia took on India in the first match of the ODI cricket series at the MCG.

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Ageing Australian cricketers Brad Hodge and Brad Hogg have earned massive pay-days in the latest Indian Premier League auction.

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Give or take a few one-day cricket matches and a Davis Cup tie, the summer sports of tennis and cricket have come to an end. Compared to last summer, I am guessing most fans of these sports will have hope in their hearts.

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There are two avenues bowlers can use to build pressure in Test match cricket. The first is to beat the outside edge, strike the pad, coax the batsmen into playing shots they normally wouldn’t, create chances, and make the striker’s end an unnerving, uncomfortable place to be.

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In the last few years, cricket came to a crossroads, took a turn to the capitalist right, and blew on through a few more intersections.

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India have boosted their confidence ahead of Sunday’s opening one-day game against Australia, levelling the Twenty20 series with the home side 1-1.

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Cricket Australia may be basking in the afterglow of the Big Bash League, but another huge test is looming. Last night marked the end of Twenty20 international cricket in Australia for the summer and the coming month is filled with matches many fans see as irrelevant.

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Join us for live scores, team lineups and commentary of the second Australia vs India Twenty20 match, with Australia looking for another win and India looking for their first win of their tour. The match starts at 7.35 pm AEDT tonight from the MCG in Melbourne

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Cathy Freeman’s gold medal, John Aloisi’s penalty and now Dave Warner’s switch-hit six. Sydney’s former Olympic stadium has a new image for posterity, especially among the schoolkids who represent cricket’s future.

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New Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene is adamant his unpaid squad can put their money woes and off-field dramas behind them to turn around what’s been a bleak patch of Test and one-day results.

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David Warner’s explosive switch-hit six against India in the first Twenty20 clash at ANZ Stadium on Wednesday night has rattled a goodly few cages.

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Australian Twenty20 batsman David Hussey says David Warner’s controversial switch-hitting technique should continue to be allowed in international cricket.

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It is fair to say that the recent Australia India Test series failed to live up to the hype. India’s big name batting line-up failed miserably, aside from Zaheer Khan the bowling was poor, and they fielded like a team from the ‘90s.

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