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Harbhajan Singh unmasked!

May 11th 2008 07:17

Ricky Ponting minces no words, whether on field or off the field. And when asked for his opinion on the latest Harbhajan Singh, Ponting's reply was as simple and blunt as it could get,

The incident was him dealing with a guy that he has probably played 20 Tests with. Harbhajan has been unmasked

The last time an Aussie player said something not too nice about Harbhajan Singh, he had been reprimanded by the Cricket Board, CA. This happened when Matthew Hayden called the wily sardar, an obnoxious weed. Fortunately, Ponting has not used a language that could be deemed as derogatory, but there is no doubt that, he - and for that matter many of the other Aussie cricketers - would be having a quiet little snigger or two.

Shane Warne, on the other hand, has lend a helping hand to Harbhajan, saying that it would help him come out stronger. Warne, no stranger to controversies all his life, says,

What has happened is good in a sense. Harbhajan has realised he has done wrong, he is embarrassed. It was good that he admitted straight away that he done some thing wrong

The Nanavati report will be submitted to the BCCI by Tuesday and then the BCCI will decide on the future course of action.

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Cricket going the Champions League way? (LINK)

May 8th 2008 05:57

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the governing body for the Lord's Cricket Ground, has come out with some earth shattering revelations. No, it has nothing to do with changes in the fine print of the MCC coaching manual, or a selection of a woman as their next Chief Executive.

It is simply this that the MCC has decided to agree to host neutral Test matches at Lord's and more importantly, it has also consented to host some of the matches of the proposed Champions League! We are not alluding to the sport of soccer here; it is the extension of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that would be played between the best teams of the various T20 leagues across the world. So, a Chennai Super Kings, a Pura Milk Perth Riders, a Vodafone Londoners and an Auckland Blacks side (names are definitely fictitious!), may face off in the Champions League of Cricket, with some of the matches being played in London, more specifically at Lord’s

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Queensland Allrounders snapped up in second round of the IPL playwer auction

March 12th 2008 11:06

The second round of the IPL player auction has come and gone with not too many surprises. The two big named Australians to go under the hammer were James Hopes and Shane Watson - both Allrounders, both from Queensland. Hopes brilliant innings in the second final of the Commonwealth Bank series must have upped his currency in the auction. For me the surprise wasn't his US$ 300,000 price but the team that got him - he joins Brett Lee at Mohali. The team I expected to get Hopes was the team that got fellow Queensland Allrounder Shane Watson - the Jaipur Rajasthan Royals headed by Shane Warne. They spent the least on the first player auction and had more money left to spend but opted not for Hopes. Instead they went for the only English player in the draft - Dimitri Mascarenhas.

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Posted By: Shan Jayaweera - Category: Australia, International, Issues, Player Profiles, Brad Hodge, Brett Lee, Shane Watson, Shane Warne

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Replacing the irreplacable

March 8th 2008 23:18

Australia in a spin trying to find the next Shane Warne
Say what you like about the man but one thing remains true about Shane Warne - he was the absolute master of his craft. He took the art of legspin bowling to a new previously unseen level and showed how a bowler could dictate terms and really be the difference in a cricket match (either test or one day).

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Posted By: Shan Jayaweera - Category: Australia, International, Issues, Player Profiles, Stuart MacGill, Shane Warne

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Sublime mix of Youth and Experience win the day for India

March 5th 2008 09:25

India has inflicted a defeat to Australia in the final game of the Commonwealth Bank one day tournament and in the process won it. It is the second time in a row the Australians have lost the finals 2-0.

Much has been made of the controversies that have plagued the summer of cricket - racism, sledging, the IPL player auction and now the tackling of a nude spectator - sometimes the actual cricket has gone unnoticed which is a shame

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Posted By: Shan Jayaweera - Category: Australia, International, Issues, Player Profiles, Ricky Ponting, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Jason Gillespie, Mitchell Johnson, Glenn McGrath, Andrew Symonds, Shaun Tait

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Arrogance the undoing of the Australian cricket team

March 3rd 2008 12:42

Need to punish 'bad boy' undoes the Green and Gold

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Posted By: Shan Jayaweera - Category: Australia, International, Issues, Player Profiles, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Michael Clarke, Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds

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IPL player auction - Now That's just ridiculous

February 26th 2008 02:51

Just when you thought the whole idea of the IPL player auction couldn't get more crazy...

it has. The actual auction has taken place and is full of such bizarre contradictions and extravagent spending that you would think that there is no poverty in India and that the streets are paved with gold

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Posted By: Shan Jayaweera - Category: Cricket Tips, Australia, International, Issues, Player Profiles, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Shane Warne

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IPL player auction

February 21st 2008 14:21

So it's come to this

In what has to be a move for the detriment of the game cricketers are today being auctioned off to the new Indian Premier League - made up franchises, with made up uniforms playing a made up game to make cricket look and feel like football. The net result is going to be an end to international cricket

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Posted By: Shan Jayaweera - Category: Cricket Tips, Australia, International, Issues, Player Profiles, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne

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