Saturday, July 5, 2008

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With their bowlers looking quite ordinary, India will rely heavily on their in-form batsmen to do the job when they take on a confident Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup final on Sunday.


Australia staged a late-innings fightback to seal a one-run victory and a 4-0 one-day series lead against the West Indies on Friday.


Australia captain Ricky Ponting will fly home from the Caribbean on Friday after he was ruled out of Australia's final two one-day internationals against West Indies because of a wrist injury.


Pakistan openers Salman Butt and Nasir Jamshed produced an unbroken century partnership to set up a comprehensive 10-wicket win over Bangladesh in the final Asia Cup super league match on Friday.


The big-hitting Afridi believes that he is under a spell of black magic! Sources close to Afridi told IANS that the player is "convinced that his enemies have carried out a spell of black magic on him which the player believes has affected his performance on the field".


There is no need to create a window in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Future Tours Programme (FTP) to accommodate the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL), said IPL chairman Lalit Modi here on Friday.


The Lahore High Court on Friday suspended an 18-month ban on Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for indiscipline.


Chronology of the Zimbabwe cricket crisis:


Zimbabwe voluntarily offered to withdraw from the World Twenty20 tournament to be held in England in 2009, it was announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday.


Star players Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff are likely to lead the English influx into the Indian Premier League with its cash-rich franchises lining up six-figure offers for them.

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