Category: Sports

MUMBAI, April 6, 2007 (AFP) – India’s super-rich cricketers must cut down on their commercial dealings, the country’s former captains recommended on Friday while reviewing the team’s World Cup debacle. Seven ex-captains, summoned by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to chart a future course of action, also wanted the team’s international […]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 7, 2007 (AFP) – Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar insisted on Friday that coach Dave Whatmore’s interest in taking charge of the India team has not been a distraction at the World Cup. Whatmore, who has been instrumental in guiding Bangladesh to the Super Eights for the first time, has declared his interest […]

DHAKA, April 6, 2007 (AFP) – Bangladesh cricket chiefs will convene an emergency meeting next week to discuss Dav Whatmore’s future after he joined the race to succeed Greg Chappell as new coach of India, an official said.India, one of the pre-tournament favourites, were upset by Bangladesh in the first match and also lost to […]

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, April 5, 2007 (AFP) – On the eve of the World Cup, the talk was of Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas. Now the words on Sri Lankan lips are Dilhara Fernando and Lasith Malinga. The 27-year-old Fernando held his nerve on Wednesday to secure his team a heart-stopping two-run win over England […]

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 6, 2007 (AFP) – Leading World Cup wicket-takers on Thursday, the first of two rest days in the second round Super Eights stage (player, country, matches, overs, runs, wkts, best bowling, average, economy rate, strike rate, four wicket innings, five wicket innings): S Malinga (SRI) 6 43.2 3 214 15 4/54 14.26 […]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 6, 2007 (AFP) – New Zealand are capable of winning the World Cup for the first time because they believe they can do it, middle-order batsman Craig McMillan has said. “Probably the key this time is that there is a real belief,” said McMillan, whose side have already posted five successive victories […]

April 06, 2007 (LBO) — Sri Lanka plans to contract cricketers for the A team for the first time in the island’s history, to nurture talent for upcoming games and the national team, a senior official said Friday.“We want to give our promising players an incentive to concentrate on the game for a longer period […]

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, April 4, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene believes the two heart-stopping finishes against South Africa and England can inspire his team’s push to the World Cup title. Sri Lanka lost by one wicket to South Africa last week but turned the tables on England by clinching a nerve-shredding last […]

NEW DELHI, April 5, 2007 (AFP) – Another Australian — Dav Whatmore — has emerged among the frontrunners to succeed Greg Chappell as coach of India, one of the hottest and toughest jobs in cricket. “I’m definitely interested,” Whatmore told Thursday’s Times of India. India, one of the pre-tournament favourites, were upset by Bangladesh in […]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 3, 2007 (AFP) – South Africa defied rain and a fighting Ireland to cruise to a seven-wicket win in a World Cup Super Eights match at the Guyana National Stadium here on Tuesday.Ireland, who lost to England by 48 runs in their first Super Eights match, now meet New Zealand in their […]

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, April 2, 2007 (AFP) – New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming’s 102 not out set the seal on a comprehensive nine wicket victory against Bangladesh in the World Cup Super Eights match here Monday as his side moved a step nearer the semi-finals. Bangladesh next play South Africa in Guyana on Saturday with […]

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, April 3, 2007 (AFP) – Kevin Pietersen may have once disdainfully reverse-swept Muttiah Muralitharan for six but that hasn’t lessened the England batsman’s respect for the Sri Lankan spin wizard. “Against Sri Lanka or Australia you cannot slip up for five or 10 overs in the one-day game, you’ve got to nail […]