Posts Tagged "Zimbabwe"

Believe 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 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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In 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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Sanity 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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Now, 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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Well, 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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Early 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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Paceman 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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The 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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A 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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The 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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Australia’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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The 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 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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The 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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With 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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Duncan 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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Imagine 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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Rugby 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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