Posts Tagged "Zimbabwe"
Try that again and I’ll knock your teeth out
By Geoff Lemon, 8 Sep 2011Believe it: there are days when I don’t wake up thinking, “Hmm, I’d like to see someone’s teeth smashed out of their face today.” There are those days, but then there are days when it happens anyway.
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Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh on Test return
By AFP, 9 Aug 2011Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh by 130 runs in a one-off Test at Harare Sports club on Monday to claim their first victory since making their return to cricket after a six-year absence.
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The Grade A future for Australian cricket
By Kristin Carville, 29 Jul 2011In everything that has been highlighted as being wrong with Australian cricket at the moment, one thing has to been seen as being done right – the A Team.
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ICC allows Associates to play in 2015 Cup
By shanebrien, 30 Jun 2011Sanity has prevailed as the International Cricket Council (ICC) backed down from an earlier decision to reduce the 2015 World Cup from 14 to 10 teams.
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Cricket’s minnows deserve their chance
By Ben Carter, 5 May 2011Now, this is more like it! Pakistan hosting Afghanistan and England hosting Holland – arrangements that look set to bolster claims to get the “world” back into the 2015 World Cup.
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Some forward thinking from the ICC. Finally!
By Ben Carter, 9 Mar 2011Well, it looks like the International Cricket Council is finally getting somewhere. In less than a week, the organisation has not only hinted that there could be a qualification window open to the Associate nations for the 2015 edition of the World Cup in Australia/New Zealand, but it’s also hinted that it could get rid [...]
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Why not show us the minnows playing?
By Ben Carter, 23 Feb 2011Early during Monday night’s second innings of the Australia-Zimbabwe World Cup clash at Ahmedabad, commentator Ian Chappell made an important point: Australia hadn’t played Zimbabwe in a one-day international level for seven years.
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What had started out looking like a strange tactic, to block out the first 20 overs without getting too many on board, turned into a reasonably well-laid plan as Australia beat Zimbabwe in the fourth World Cup 2011 game. And very comfortably at that.
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Australia suffer World Twenty20 warm-up loss to Zimbabwe
By AAP, 28 Apr 2010Paceman Mitchell Johnson has refused to label Australia’s shock one-run loss to Zimbabwe in their World Twenty20 warm-up game as a setback.
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How the PowerPlay has changed ODIs
By Freud of Football, 7 Nov 2009The batting Powerplay, ODI’s latest feature, has been a fervently debated topic over the last months, now that Cricinfo has done the heavy lifting, I thought I’d put my spin on things. 50-over cricket is a batsman’s game.
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Ioane inspires Reds comeback
By Jim Morton, 6 Feb 2009A David Pocock hat-trick and a 19-0 lead wasn’t enough for the Western Force as a Digby Ioane-inspired Queensland stormed to a 22-19 Super 14 trial win at Ballymore.
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Zimbabwe to remain out of test cricket
By AP, 1 Feb 2009The International Cricket Council (ICC) says Zimbabwe’s return to Test cricket could be at least six months to two years away.
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Show me the IPL money, demand Aussie cricketers
By AAP, 31 Jan 2009Australia’s cricketers have shown their liking for the Indian Premier League by making up the largest contingent from any foreign nation for next week’s player auction in Goa.
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Zimbabwe cricket boss unwelcome in Australia
By Adam Cooper, 23 Jan 2009The Australian government has warned the head of Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) he must have good grounds to enter this country to attend a meeting of the sport’s world leaders.
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Shane Warne coaching England? I don’t think so
By Spiro Zavos, 13 Jan 2009Shane Warne has the cricketing nous to be a terrific coach of England, or any other team for that matter. He is certainly the greatest Test captain Australian cricket never had. And that cricketing brain that still makes him a wonderfully astute and inspiring captain could easily be transferred to the coaching arena.
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Reflections on Australian Test cricket [part three]
By James Mortimer, 13 Jan 2009The final chapter in this look at Australia’s cricket dominance. Two Test series’ against South Africa would be drawn, and would signal the end of an era as Allan Border retired from international cricket.
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2009 and cricket, a look at the months ahead
By James Mortimer, 12 Jan 2009With a new cricket world order evolving for the first time in over a decade, it will be a most intriguing collection of series to look forward to this year.
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Fletcher wins latest battle with Ponting
By Greg Buckle, 23 Dec 2008Duncan Fletcher’s battles with Ricky Ponting continue and this time it’s Fletcher who has taken the upper hand after helping to guide South Africa to their historic win in the first Test in Perth.
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The end of the ‘mad scientist’, John Bracewell
By Spiro Zavos, 9 Dec 2008Imagine you’ve just been dismissed for only a handful of runs towards the end of play in a tough Test. After you recover your bat from the corner of the dressing room, where you’ve thrown it in disgust, showered and dressed, you’re handed an assessment form on which you have to note down what you [...]
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Minnows Portugal light up George Sevens
By AFP, 7 Dec 2008Rugby minnows Portugal and the United States enjoyed a memorable first day at the South African leg of the World Sevens Series on Friday.
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