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Written by Rahul on 24 February 2009
Brisbane, Feb.24 (ANI): Injured Australian all-rounder Shane Watson will launch his latest comeback in Queensland’s Sheffield Shield clash with New South Wales starting at the Gabba on Thursday.
Finally fit after suffering a back stress fracture, Watson will play as a batsman in a match critical to the Bulls’ hopes of meeting already-qualified Victoria in the Shield final.
One of the heroes of Queensland’s weekend one-day title success, pacer Ben Laughlin, is in line for his first class debut after also earning a Bulls nod.
Laughlin finished with 23 wickets at 14.86 from his 11 one-day matches, the most by a Queenslander in a domestic limited overs season.
It eclipsed James Hopes’ 20 wicket haul in 2006-07.
Martin Love, Queensland’s all-time leading run-scorer, will make his farewell appearance at the Gabba in the New South Wales clash after announcing on Tuesday he will retire at the end of the season.
Queensland (22) are two points behind second-placed Tasmania on the Shield ladder and two points ahead of No.4 outfit Western Australia (20) with two rounds of the four-day competition left.
Leaders Victoria (40 points) is already assured of hosting next month’s final at Junction Oval.
Queensland: Chris Simpson (captain), Ryan Broad, Lee Carseldine, Ben Cutting, Chris Hartley, James Hopes, Nick Kruger, Ben Laughlin, Martin Love, Chris Swan, Andrew Symonds, Shane Watson (12th man to be named). (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 22 February 2009
Barbados (West Indies), Feb.21 (ANI): Injured England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is reportedly under pressure not to play in the 2009 Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition.
With Australian captain Ricky Ponting and several other players from that country deciding to opt out, Flintoff’s fragile fitness has assumed a larger than life picture, especially in the wake of England failing to win the third Test in Antigua.
In an article for the Telegraph, former England fast bowler Derek Pringle is critical of Flintoff’s desire to appear for the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL in his injured state, and urges him to learn from Ponting, who has put country first before IPL.
He quotes one England player as saying: “Ponting can do what he likes. I’m playing in IPL, end of story.”
“If that sounds unpatriotic, the reality of playing for England these days is a non-stop slog of matches and tours for which the England and Wales Cricket Board must take much of the blame. After all, the quickest way to grow the game’s revenue in recent years has been to enhance TV deals by playing ever-increasing amounts of cricket, a process that has proceeded unchecked for 10 years,” says Pringle.
At first players countered by warning of burnout, but with money now to be made by playing yet more cricket, a hard-nosed attitude has taken hold,” Pringle adds.
He blames the ECB squarely, saying that had they not made such an issue over IPL participation last year, and not insisted that players appear for the ill-fated Stanford venture as a way of remaining out of reach of India’s Twenty20 moguls, the players would probably have been less bullish now about taking part.
“The Board’s other option, and one many former England cricketers feel they should have taken, was to have handed players, especially those dithering over signing their central contracts, an ultimatum: “You can play in IPL but while it takes place when it does [April and May], if you do you won’t play for England,” Pringle says.
“With the Ashes imminent, injury is likely to be an emotive matter with regard to IPL, which is why Flintoff, who will discover the extent of any damage to his right hip on Saturday, is keeping his own counsel. But the thought of him playing extra cricket, and IPL is an add-on, albeit a highly lucrative one, must run contrary to England’s best interests for this summer’s Ashes and World Twenty20,” he concludes. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 22 February 2009
Barbados (West Indies), Feb.21 (ANI): Injured England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is reportedly under pressure not to play in the 2009 Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition.
With Australian captain Ricky Ponting and several other players from that country deciding to opt out, Flintoff’s fragile fitness has assumed a larger than life picture, especially in the wake of England failing to win the third Test in Antigua.
In an article for the Telegraph, former England fast bowler Derek Pringle is critical of Flintoff’s desire to appear for the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL in his injured state, and urges him to learn from Ponting, who has put country first before IPL.
He quotes one England player as saying: “Ponting can do what he likes. I’m playing in IPL, end of story.”
“If that sounds unpatriotic, the reality of playing for England these days is a non-stop slog of matches and tours for which the England and Wales Cricket Board must take much of the blame. After all, the quickest way to grow the game’s revenue in recent years has been to enhance TV deals by playing ever-increasing amounts of cricket, a process that has proceeded unchecked for 10 years,” says Pringle.
At first players countered by warning of burnout, but with money now to be made by playing yet more cricket, a hard-nosed attitude has taken hold,” Pringle adds.
He blames the ECB squarely, saying that had they not made such an issue over IPL participation last year, and not insisted that players appear for the ill-fated Stanford venture as a way of remaining out of reach of India’s Twenty20 moguls, the players would probably have been less bullish now about taking part.
“The Board’s other option, and one many former England cricketers feel they should have taken, was to have handed players, especially those dithering over signing their central contracts, an ultimatum: “You can play in IPL but while it takes place when it does [April and May], if you do you won’t play for England,” Pringle says.
“With the Ashes imminent, injury is likely to be an emotive matter with regard to IPL, which is why Flintoff, who will discover the extent of any damage to his right hip on Saturday, is keeping his own counsel. But the thought of him playing extra cricket, and IPL is an add-on, albeit a highly lucrative one, must run contrary to England’s best interests for this summer’s Ashes and World Twenty20,” he concludes. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 16 February 2009
Kolkata, Feb 15 (ANI): A special train carrying over 35 passengers of accident-hit Coromandel Express arrived at Howrah Station on the outskirts of Kolkata on Saturday.
The south Chennai-bound Coromandel Express from Howrah derailed off Jajpur Road railway station in Orissa as it was speeding along the tracks on the night of Friday.
Meanwhile, senior Railway officials have constituted an inquiry team and an emergency centre to provide immediate medical aid to the injured and are also informing anxious relations about the whereabouts of their near and dear ones.
“We have received information about 32 injured passengers. But out of them, ten got treatment here We have sent the other injured through ambulances and other conveniences.Some of them have gone on their own,” said Debashish Chanda, an emergency officer.
A passenger who escaped without any serious injuries recalled his horrific experience.
“I was travelling in the B-2 compartment. Suddenly, we felt a violent jerk, and the train started crawling. All of us thought that the engine driver was applying emergency brakes. That time the train must have been travelling at the speed of around 80 kilometres per hour. The train stooped with a fierce jerk. When we came outside, we saw , several compartments of the train , derailed and the tracks were scattered in opposite directions,” said Subhankar Roy, a passenger.
About 1,500 passengers were travelling to Chennai in the Coromandel Express train. (ANI)
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Written by admin on 14 February 2009
Shah Rukh Khan’s house attacked
Two motorcycle-borne miscreants hurled a bottle of kerosene at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Bandra residence, Mannat, at around 2.30 am on Friday. Nobody was injured.
Security personnel at Khan’s bungalow were unable to note the registration number of the bike in the darkness. A complaint was lodged at the Bandra police station.
According to reports, a fundamentalist group was upset with the use of certain words in the song, Marjaani, marjaani, featuring Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the film Billu.
On Friday morning a group of protesters gathered outside Bandra’s G-7 cinema complex, where Billu was being screened, and broke glass panes and tore away posters.
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Written by admin on 15 December 2008
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni today described the enthralling six-wicket win over England in the first cricket Test here as the toughest of his four-match old tenure as captain.
“The toughest win. We were not present for the first three days of this Test, did not take wickets and bat the way we should have batted. But we won this match over the last two days,” Dhoni said after the match.
Dhoni was all praise for man of the match Virender Sehwag who gave a rollicking start to the Indian run chase with a 68-ball 83 last evening.Pietersen said his side would take the positives from the match and come back hard in the second Test at Mohali.Meanwhile, the BCCI announced a sum of Rs 3 crore to be given to the servicesmen, who died or got injured in the Mumbai terror attacks.
Rs 2 crore would be distributed to those servicemen who died in the tragedy while Rs 1 crore has been earmarked for the servicemen injured.
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