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Mohammed Azharuddin used to be as soft with his words as he was with his sublime strokes. But in a recent interview to a magazine, the former Indian cricket captain had something trenchant to say on some issues. Most surprisingly, he made some caustic remarks about, of all people, Sachin Tendulkar. Azhar and Tendulkar played many a game for India together and also under each other's captaincy.

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 The 1999 World Cup was special for me because it was my debut. The experience of playing and getting ready for a World Cup was obviously different from other forms of the game. So from that point of view it was different and I still remember landing in England in early summer which was cold. The World Cup was held pretty early in May.We got ready by playing four to five preparatory matches

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Sidin Vadukut: You won't believe who will win the World Cup | Page 2 | ESPN Cricinfo: "You won't believe who will win the World Cup"I was hoping to ask the North Korean ambassador to India, or someone in the set-up, how nostalgic they were about 1966 and what expectations they had for 2010. This is how the conversation went:Me: "Hello, is this the DPRK embassy?"Embassy man: "Yes."Me: "I am a

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      South Africa 218 for 3 (Smith 65, Amla 60) beat Australia 217 (Clarke 73, Steyn 3-21) by seven wickets The Australia bowlers were dealt a heavy defeat as South Africa chalked up a seven-wicket win in their warm-up match in Bangalore. Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla both retired to give the middle order some time at the crease during

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Ireland 245 for 6 (Botha 79, K O'Brien 62, Cusack 47) beat Zimbabwe 244 for 8 (Chigumbura 103*, Taibu 45) by four wickets Andre Botha's half-century ensured a four-wicket win for Ireland against Zimbabwe in their World Cup warm-up game at Nagpur. Batting first, Zimbabwe clawed their way back from a top-order collapse to finish at 244 for eight, with captain Elton Chigumbura's 103 not

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Tendulkar had missed that warm-up game because of a niggle but will play on Wednesday,This will be his third one-day match since his double-century against South Africa in Gwalior a year ago. He had a long batting session on Tuesday morning during India's practice, and also spent time working on his fielding, showing no signs of the hamstring injury that forced him to return home midway through

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Sachin Tendulkar says Anil Kumble is the greatest bowler he has played with, finds Rahul Dravid’s technique and concentration excellent and VVS Laxman the most wristy, while Sourav Ganguly is one who figured out his game well. Tendulkar, who has closely seen all the four who formed the Fab Five of the Indian team not long ago, elaborated on the the style and substance of the four players. “From

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ICC team has announced ten years' ineligibility for Salman Butt (with five years of a suspended sentence); seven years for Mohammad Asif (with two years suspended) and five years' ineligibility for Mohammad Amir. As the 3 players are involved in the spot fixing in a test against England in 2010.  CPS head Simon Clements said the organization, which was responsible for prosecuting criminal

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URDS can’t use the functions of the hot spot camera’s in coming world cup, as the manufacture is not willing to supply the cameras to sub-continent  tournament. ESPNcricinfo on Saturday conformed that, "the supplier of the Hot Spot technology advised that it was not willing to supply its cameras for the tournament

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Date and Time Match Sat Feb 19 1st Match, Group B - Bangladesh v India 08:30 GMT | 14:30 local Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur 14:00 IST Sun Feb 20 2nd Match, Group A - Kenya v New Zealand 04:00 GMT | 09:30 local MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai Sun Feb 20

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Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Rajasthan Royals team comprehensively in the second match of IPL 2009. Peterson, Royal Challengers team captain won the toss & elected to bat first. But it looked he took wrong decision after first 3 balls of the match as they lost 2 wickets (Ryder & Taylor) with no runs on the board. Later Peterson & Dravid started building the

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Sachin Tendulkar led, Mumbai Indians won first match against Chennai super kings, who were runners in last time edition. Dhoni won the toss & choose to field first. Mumbai had a brisk start form Sachin & Jayasurya. But later fallen quickly, followed by few quick wickets in the form of Duminy, Bravo & Dhawan. But Tendulkar found a got

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New Zealand wicketkeeper batsman Brendon McCullum got the chance a head of local hero Ganguly to captain the Kolkata Knight Riders team for the second season of IPL. McCullum was very happy for the news. He will keep the wickets & open the batting. "I'm immensely proud to have been named Kolkata Knight Riders captain. It's a tremendous honor, We've got some quality players in our line-up and

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Player Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 50+ 0 4s 6s SE Marsh (Kings XI Punjab) 11 11 2 616 115 68.44 441 139.68 1 5 6 0 59 26 G Gambhir

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Player Runs Balls 4s 6s 4+6 SR Team Opposition BB McCullum 158* 73 10 13 118 216.43 Kolkata v Bangalore ST Jayasuriya 114* 48 9 11 102 237.5 Mumbai v Chennai AC

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Player Runs Balls 4s 6s SR Team Opposition B Akhil 27* 7 2 3 385.71 Bangalore v Deccan Yuvraj Singh 49 16 2 6 306.25 Punjab v Rajasthan ST Jayasuriya 48* 17 6 3

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Player Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Econ Team Opposition Sohail Tanvir 4 0 14 6 3.5 Rajasthan v Chennai A Mishra 4 0 17 5 4.25 Delhi v Deccan L Balaji 4 0 24 5 6

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MS Gill, Indian Sports minister doesn’t convinced with Dhoni & Harbhajan’s casualness in receiving the national awards from president. Dhoni & his teammate Harbhajan Singh were conspicuous by their absence at the Rashtrapati Bhavan ceremony where they were expected to accept the Padma Shri awards from president Pratibha Patil. "To be selected for such a national honor and then getting the

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IPL t20 match is no more an 3hour game. It will be three & quarter game for IPL. As IPL governing body has decided to added a commercial break of seven & half minute, after 10 overs were completed. “It is a move that is driven completely and totally by commercial objectives. It is designed purely to make even more money by selling airtime. Nobody could argue that this adds any cricketing value

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Player Runs Balls 4s 6s SR Team Opposition BB McCullum 158* 73 10 13 216.43 Kolkata v Bangalore A Symonds 117* 53 11 7 220.75 Deccan v Rajasthan MEK Hussey 116* 54 8

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The Indian Cricket League will start the third season in October 2009. Subhash Chandra, the ICL's owner, has announced news just 2 days before the the ICC is expected to decide on its application for official recognition. Kapil Dev, who heads the ICL's executive board, said the league has initiated a performance evaluation program to develop a better talent pool, improve player performance

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India ace off-spinner sold his name as a brand to Delhi based License India for an undisclosed sum. The deal was recorded as the first deal in Indian history. "Licensing is a $191 billion business worldwide, although it is still nascent in India. Harbhajan is one of the most recognized faces of Indian cricket and we have signed an agreement with him to license his brand name," License India

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IPL 2008 champions “Rajasthan Royals” has struck to lime light by axing 8 players from its squad including the main player like Mohammad Kaif. Along with Kaif, Dinesh Salunkhe, Paras Dogra, Anup Revandkar, Srideep Mangela, Ashraf Makda and Azhar Malik are the others players, who will be flying back to India. They can join the team if any player gets injured in the remaining squad. "It has

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Team India moved to second place in ICC ODI rankings after 3 successive ODI series against England, Sri Lanka & New Zealand. Team India with 122 points are behind the South Africans(127). Australians are 3rd place for the first time with 121 points. Remarkably, out of a total of 79 months since that date, Australia has held the top spot for 69 of those months, including 52 straight months at

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Player Mat Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI Ave Econ SR 4 5 Bangalore Royal Challengers Z Khan 11 42 0 357 13 Mar-38 27.46 8.5 19.3 0 0 Kumar 13 44.4 1 366

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