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Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Scyld Berry Sir Allen Stanford's helicopter hovering over the Nursery end at Lord's last Wednesday symbolised that everything in professional cricket is ...

The game will soon be up for 50-over cricket, says Pietersen
Independent - London,England,UK
Fifty-over cricket will soon become extinct; maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but sometime and soon. The spectacular, uninhibited advance of Twenty20, ...

A cricket-playing Dutchman in New York
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Hans is an anomaly on the cricket pitch - a white man among the Jamaicans, Indians and Pakistanis - and it is here that he meets Chuck Ramkissoon, ...

Cricket round-up: Shoaib has ban cut to 18 months by tribunal
Independent - London,England,UK
The mercurial fast bowler, 33 in August, was suspended two months ago after he made critical comments of the Pakistan Cricket Board over pitches, ...

Crowe believes in Black Cap changes
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
BY JOHN MATHESON - Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 15 June 2008 OPENING UP: New Zealand cricket legend Martin Crowe talks frankly in a question and answer ...

Lankan cricket stars to woo Indian tourists
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Colombo: Sri Lanka's all-time cricket stars will kick off a campaign in Mumbai on Sunday to woo Indian tourists to the island nation during an upcoming Test ...

Cricket-Shoaib ban reduced to 18 months by PCB
Reuters.uk - UK
KARACHI, June 14 (Reuters) - Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar had his five-year ban for indiscipline reduced to 18 months by the Pakistan Cricket Board ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu gets standing ovation after cricket lecture
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was afforded a standing ovation after he delivered the Cowdrey lecture on the spirit of cricket at Lord's this week. ...

Cricket: Pakistan elect to bat against India
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
DHAKA: Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik elected to bat after winning the toss against India in the triangular one-day series final here on Saturday. ...

Cricket-Pakistan opt to bat in tri-series final v India
Reuters.uk - UK
DHAKA, June 14 (Reuters) - Pakistan won the toss and opted to bat against India in the final match of a triangular one-day series at the Sher-e-Bangla ...

Indo -Pak Cricket- most dreaded superstition.
By noreply@blogger.com (Ottayan)
Indo-Pak cricket in the '80s and '90s was full of superstition — like playing a Friday final meant Pakistan's win was a given, while a Saturday schedule suited the Indians. The Indians were supposed to be gentle souls, firmly vegetarian ...
In the name of cricket - http://www.cricketnewsonlinelive.com/

Pakistan cricket team is united, claims PCB
PCB has dismissed media reports that there was dissension within the national team and even assured skipper Shoaib Malik and coach Geoff Lawson that there was no sword hanging on their heads.
Times of India Cricket - http://cricket.timesofindia.indiatimes.com