Nobody can pressure me - Asif
A court heard on Friday during the alleged spot-fixing trial defendant Mohammed Asif
insist that he was not protecting his former captain Salman Butt and
denied that Butt had ever put pressure on him to bowl no-balls or to
cheat in any other way.
On the eighth day of the trial at Southwark Crown Court, the jury heard a
transcript...
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India start series with crushing win
MS Dhoni marked India's homecoming with a brutal innings of 87 not out
from 70 balls, before the left-arm spin of Ravindra Jadeja sparked a
dramatic English batting collapse, as the team that failed to win a
single international fixture on their recent tour of England returned to
form with a crushing 126-run victory at Hyderabad.
Dhoni's...
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Simmons' ton sets up easy WI win
Five years after his debut, Lendl Simmons finally made his first
international hundred, and with the help of another batsman who has
resurrected his international career this year, Marlon Samuels, powered
West Indies to a total that proved too much for Bangladesh in the first
ODI in Mirpur....
5:21 PM 0
Australia take opening Twenty20
A powerful half-century from Shane Watson
helped Australia make an encouraging start to their tour of South
Africa as they won the opening Twenty20 in Cape Town by five wickets.
The teenage debutant Patrick Cummins collected three wickets as South Africa reached 146 for 7, led by a solid innings from JP Duminy, and the target wasn't...
5:19 PM 0
England's chance in low-key series
India's winless tour of England has not been without what initially
seemed like positives. At least the admen had moved on from the Lagaan theme that has been the easiest way to sell an India-England series in
India. Except that colonial references have now made way for war ones.
"There's no weapon deadlier than vengeance," says one...
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A series too short for its stature
A little longer would have been nicer
Just as a gastronome would moan if Heston Blumenthal served up only one
course at The Fat Duck, so too will cricket fans lament the decision to
make Australia's tour of South Africa so brief. Three years ago, these
teams delivered the ultimate degustation...
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