Category: Sports

DURBAN, South Africa, Sept 18, 2007 (AFP) – England captain Paul Collingwood on Tuesday apologised for visting a strip club a night before an important tie in the Twenty20 world championships. The tabloid ‘The Sun’ reported on Tuesday that Collingwood accompanied friends to a lap dancing club in Cape Town on Saturday night ahead of […]

Sept 17, 2007 (AFP) – Ricky “Punter” Ponting’s Australians are strong favourites in the online gambling world to win the ongoing Twenty20 World Championships in South Africa.Australian paceman Brett Lee, who claimed a hat-trick against Bangladesh on Sunday, remains favourite with the ball, with paddypower.com rating him at 11-1 and popular Sri Lankan paceman Lasith […]

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 16, 2007 (AFP) – Captain Daniel Vettori led from the front as New Zealand brushed aside India by 10 runs in the Super Eights match of the Twenty20 world championships on Sunday.New Zealand next play England on Tuesday and India take on England on Wednesday, both matches taking place at the Kingsmead in […]

CAPE TOWN, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) – Australia bounced back from the embarrassment of defeat against Zimbabwe to crush England by eight wickets in a World Twenty20 match at Newlands on Friday. Flintoff and Owais Shah both hit sixes off off-spinner Andrew Symonds in the space of three balls but both fell in quick succession […]

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 15, 2007 (AFP) – Sanath Jayasuriya hit a second successive half-century as Sri Lanka warmed up for the next round of the Twenty20 world championships with a seven-wicket romp over New Zealand here on Saturday. The veteran left-hander, who made 88 off 44 balls against Kenya on Friday, blasted 61 off 44 as […]

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) – Kenya captain Steve Tikolo won the toss and sent Sri Lanka in to bat in a group C match of the Twenty20 world championships at the Wanderers here on Friday.Kenya need a win to stay in contention for the Super Eights round after losing their first game to New […]

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka went on a spectacular run spree to post the highest Twenty20 total of 260-6 in the world championship match against hapless Kenya here on Friday.Veteran Sanath Jayasuriya led the way with 88 off 44 balls and captain Mahela Jayawardene hit 65 off 28 before Jehan Mubarak smashed […]

PARIS, Sept 13, 2007 (AFP) – McLaren boss Ron Dennis has refused to accept the FIA’s decision to strip his team of their 2007 constructors’ championship points for their involvement in the Formula One spy saga. Formula One’s governing body has also fined the British team 100 million dollars for incorporating illegally obtained Ferrari intellectual […]

COLOMBO, Sept 13, 2007 (AFP) – The first of England’s two winter tours to Sri Lanka will start earlier than planned if they fail to reach the World Twenty20 semi-finals, a senior Sri Lanka Cricket official said Thursday.“They have asked if we have any objections to their coming early. We have said no objections,” the […]

WELLINGTON, Sept 12, 2007 (AFP) – Stephen Fleming has been dumped as New Zealand Test captain after a decade in favour of one-day skipper Daniel Vettori. Fleming led the one-day team to 98 wins from 218 games over the past 10 years.He played 279 one-dayers, scoring 8,007 runs — the highest total of any New […]

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 10, 2007 (AFP) – Winners of the International Cricket Council (ICC) awards for 2007 which were presented at the Sandton Convention Centre here on Monday night: Cricketer of the Year: Ricky Ponting (AUS) Other nominees: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WIS) Kevin Pietersen (ENG) Mohammad Yousuf (PAK) Test Player of the Year: Mohammad Yousuf (PAK) Other […]

LONDON, Sept 10, 2007 (AFP) – England have selected off-spinner Graeme Swann and all-rounder Luke Wright for their forthcoming one-day international tour of Sri Lanka.Paul Collingwood (Durham, capt), James Anderson (Lancashire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Stuart Broad (Leicestershire), Alastair Cook (Essex), Andrew Flintoff (Lancashire), Dimitri Mascarenhas (Hampshire), Monty Panesar (Northamptonshire), Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire), […]