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From the daily archives: Friday, November 11, 2011
DUBAI: Leg-spinner Shahid Afridi capped an excellent return to international cricket with three wickets as Pakistan thumped Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the first ODI on Friday.
Afridi took 3-27 in his first match since returning from a six-month exile, helping Pakistan dismiss Sri Lanka [...]
DUBAI: Returning all-rounder Shahid Afridi took three wickets to help Pakistan restrict Sri Lanka to 131 in the first day-night one-day international at Dubai stadium on Friday.
Afridi, who finished with 3-27, led the Pakistan spin attack which shared seven wickets between them as they never [...]
NEW DELHI: Itching to attain peak fitness ahead of the tough tour of Australia later this year, pace spearhead Zaheer Khan reckons the emergence of youngsters like Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron bodes well for Indian cricket.
Yadav caught the eye of many during India’s one-day [...]
DUBAI: Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan won the toss and decided to bat in the first day-night one-day international against Pakistan at Dubai stadium on Friday.
Sri Lanka preferred leg-spinner Seekkuge Prasanna over the more experienced off-spinner Syraj Randiv, while they also gave debut to 26-year-old allrounder Kosala [...]
CAPE TOWN: Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla both hit centuries to take South Africa to a comfortable eight-wicket victory over Australia on Friday to end one of cricket’s most topsy-turvy Test matches.
Amla raced to a 126-ball century before being caught for 112 with his team [...]
MELBOURNE: Former Australia Test spinner Greg Matthews feels that discarded batsman Simon Katich should have punched current skipper Michael Clarke on the face during their infamous dressing-room showdown in 2009.
Katich and Clarke had an ugly showdown in 2009 when the former had grabbed the latter by the [...]
More than stock market indices, headline inflation figures or GDP data, Sachin Tendulkar’s on field performances have perhaps been a better barometer of our national mood for over two decades.
Not surprisingly, the analysis of Tendulkar’s 100th in the Indian media since the beginning of the Lord’s Test in July has been [...]
More than stock market indices, headline inflation figures or GDP data, Sachin Tendulkar’s on field performances have perhaps been a better barometer of our national mood for over two decades.
Not surprisingly, the analysis of Tendulkar’s 100th in the Indian media since the beginning of the Lord’s Test in July has been [...]
CAPE TOWN: Australia captain Michael Clarke said his team’s batsmen were to blame for the team’s collapse to 47 all out in their second innings on a frenetic second day of the first Test against South Africa at Newlands on Thursday.
Twenty-three wickets fell for 294 runs on a day [...]
NEW DELHI: As sports minister Ajay Maken sets out to getting the revised National Sports Development Bill tabled in the winter session of parliament, the biggest opposition is once again going to come from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
BCCI, who have [...]
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