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  • Injured Welegedara doubtful for Champions Trophy

    Chanaka Welegedara is in doubt for the Champions Trophy after sustaining a foot injury during Rest of Sri Lanka's List A match against Sri Lanka A on Friday. ...

  • Misbah bowlers set up 96-run win

    Pakistan began their tour of England on a good note, registering a 96-run win over Scotland in the first ODI between the two sides. In Edinburgh on Friday, Pakistan successfully defended a total of 231 for 7, as Scotland went down to the bowling of Saeed Ajmal and Junaid Khan. Chasing 232, Scotland had a nervy start, losing their first wicket for no score when Neil Carter was bowled by ...

  • Misbah takes Pakistan to 231

    It was a sunny day at The Grange Club in Edinburgh which gave Scotland the chance to test some new faces against some famous ones, as they welcomed Pakistan to the capital for the first of two ODIs. The visitors won the toss and chose to bat on a decent pitch with Imran Farhat and Nasir Jamshed taking the crease. Pakistan cruised early on, playing their way in and punishing the bad balls with ...

  • England-New Zealand Test series Fit-again Graeme Swann Tim Bresnan return to England Test squad

    Paceman Tim Bresnan and off-spinner Graeme Swann have returned from elbow surgeries to join the England squad for the first test against New Zealand, starting at Lord's on Thursday."Both Graeme Swann and Tim Bresnan have worked hard to regain fitness following elbow surgery and have demonstrated through their performances for their counties that they are ready for the challenge of ...

  • IPL 2013 Bhuvneshwar Kumar lone Warrior in a defeated army

    Over the course of the season, the Pune Warriors have tried several pacers. Ashok Dinda, Kane Richardson, Wayne Parnell, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Mitchell Marsh and Angelo Mathews make a long list of new-ball bowlers who have made it to the playing XI but failed to cement their spot. Cutting a lone figure of consistency is this fluid cast happens to be Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who happens to be Indian ...

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Side Effects

Similar to Contagion (2011), the previous collaboration between writer Scott Z. Burns and director Steven Soderbergh, Side Effects is a slick, entertaining piece of Hollywood genre work that includes just enough twists and tweaks to make it stand out from the parade of sim ... ...

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  • Russell Domingo replaces Gary Kirsten as South Africa coach

    Russell Domingo will take over as coach of South Africa's cricket team from Gary Kirsten, Cricket South Africa announced on Saturday.Domingo had served as Kirsten's assistant for the last two years and been in charge of the country's Twenty20 team since December.Kirsten announced on Friday he would not be taking up an offer to renew his contract when it ends in August, sending ...

  • Indian Premier League IPL 2013 We still have a fair chance says Gautam Gambhir

    His team is virtually out of the play-offs race having lost eight of their 13 matches, but an optimistic Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir today said they still have a "fair chance" of making the cut in the ongoing Indian Premier League."At the moment, the competition is pretty open. We still have a fair chance of reaching the play-offs. For me what matters is the ...

  • BCCI get Asian countries backing over Sivas appointment

    Even as the controversy over Laxman Sivaramakrishnan's appointment to the ICC Cricket Committee raged on, the BCCI today received support from its Asian allies Sri Lanka and Pakistan who claimed allegations of the Indian Cricket Board forcing a re-vote were baseless.The furore over the appointment seemed to have created a rift in the cricket world with the Asian countries throwing their ...

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