Pak Cricketers For Sale Again For Cash In Lords.

Pakistani cricketers once again caught in match fixing trap,a british tabloid carried out a sting that allegadly revealed two of the country’s finest fast bowlers deliberately bowling no-balls against English batsmens in return for cash amount.
Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir who have tormented England and Australia with their torrid pace and swing bowling through the summer,delivered three no balls on thursday and friday during the fourth test at lords at the precise moment when an alleged middle man said they would,the News of the World reported.
The news paper agency paid Mazhar Majeed,the alleged Pakistni origin middleman who has now been arrested,a sum of 150,000 pounds in used notes and filmed him counting the money before making his accurate predictions.The 35 years old Surrey property developer is reported to have named seven Pakistani players as being involved in the match fixing scandal,including skipper Salman Butt as the ringleader and Kamran Akmal.
Over the next two days,Asif and Amir delivered the no-balls exactly as predicted,the otherwise flawless quickies overstepping by such huge margines that commentators were surprised.The match fixer Majeed said,”I have been doing it with them,the Pakistani team,for about two and half years.And we have made huge amount of money”.
After information of this scandal,the metropolitan Police have informed the ICC,ECB and PCB that their investigations continue,and the ICC,ECB and PCB along with the ICC anti-corruption unit are fully asisting those enquiries.

Dhoni’s FIR Against Gameplan,Terribly Shooted To Company.

The Jharkhand high court on Aug18,2010 reserved it’s order to examine whether the FIR lodged by team India skipper Ms Dhoni against his former Kolkata based agent Gameplan sports pvt. ltd. is maintainable in the eyes of law.
Dhoni,on June15,2010,had registered an FIR here with the Doranda police station alleging that the company had committed criminal breach of trust and cheated him over Rs.10.46 crore.The bench of justice DGR Patnaik reserved its order after noting that Dhoni and the company have failed to resolved the dispute mutually and the stalemate continues.
The matter came before the court when the directors of the company,Indrajit Banerjee,Jeet Banerjee and Malvilka Banerjee filed a writ petition for quashing the entire criminal proceedings initiated against them in the light of Dhoni’s FIR.The high court earlier had asked the authorities concerned not to take any coercive steps against the directors.It has also asked both parties to resolve the disputes mutually.
The Indian skipper stated that he had linked an agreement with the company,which would act as his sole manager cum agent to negotiate and signature agreements on his behalf with advertisements and company desirous of using him as a part of their advertisement campaigns.As per the agreement,which was valid for three years from Jan18,2005 to Jan31,2008.Dhoni would get 70 percent of business procured while the company would retain 30 percent as commission.
Ms dhoni in the FIR said after expiry of terms of agreements,the company lost the status of his sole agent and was permitted to act as his agent on freelance basis only in connection with three agreements executed between him and company namely Bharat Petroleum corporation limited,Titan industries and Lafarge cement.But the agent after receiving the money from these advertisers didn’t remit any amount due to Dhoni,The Dhoni FIR said.Ms Dhoni strongly shooted to Gameplan company.

Social Networking Sites Are Banned For English Cricketers.

The England and wales cricket board(ECB) is decided to ban english cricketers from social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook while on national duty like when they playing for their country side.
The English board think that players aren’t concentrate on their game cause of these type of sites.Players such as Greame smith,James Anderson,Kevin Peterson and Steven Finn have been very active on social networking sites such as Twitter.com.sO English board decided to strictly banned players from these type of micro-blogging sites while they playing cricket for country.

Enrique Will Rock In CLT20 In Johannesburg.

The hot and happening,Spanish music sensation Enrique Iglesias will perform a special concert.Enrique will perform live at Johannesburg’s Emmarentia Botanical gardens on September 9,2010.
An event which will inaugurate the 2010 Airtel Champions League Twenty20(CLT20),that gets underway a day later at the Wanderers stadium.All the matches of champions league will be played on south Africa.

Sri Lanka Have Not Sportsman Spirit.

On tri-series,third ODI between India and Sri Lanka,the match become scarcely believable when score board simply stats that Virender Sehwag was stranded on 99 and he want one more run to made his century,chasing a moderate target of 171,India rode on Sehwag’s controlled and masterful innings.

However,Sehwag’s fantastic batting display was marred by Sri Lanka’s unsporting tactics in what turned out to be the last over of the match.

With India needing five runs to win and Sehwag one run to shy of his 13th ODI century,the Lankan off spinner Suraj Randiv’s first ball kept low and went between the batsmen and the keeper for four byes runs and score become tied.

Sehwag couldn’t score a single off the next two balls and it was expected that the dashing batsmen would charge down the wicket off the next ball.And this is exactly what he did and hocked Randiv over the long off fence to raise his bat in air.

However the match was over but Sehwag didn’t made his century just because of Randiv.He had bowled a big no-ball.He had deliberately overstepped to deprive Sehwag of a century.
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“He should have showed sportsman spirit.If there is a player on 99,it doesn’t mean that you bowl a no-ball,give away four byes.That has no place in good cricket.”Sehwag said after the match.

“Till now in the test matches he hasn’t bowled a no-ball,he hasn’t no-ball in ODI’s.On 99 only why did he bowl a no-ball?And not a small,from one foot ahead.It has happen before with Sachin tendulkar was left on 99 not out in Cuttack one day.They bowled four wides down the leg side.”he said.

“This is not first time Sri Lanka has done this,they may have done it with others teams but with India it is the second time”.Sehwag said.

In replied Lankan captain,Kumar Sangakkara said,”I hope it’s not deliberate.That’s not the way I would like to play cricket,if that was intentional,that has got no place on the field of cricket”.

Indian Team Management Says It’s Clueless That Players Played Excessive Cricket.

The Indian team management,board of control cricket in India(BCCI) said,it is not truth that Indian players are overworked and played too much cricket.

A sports channel reported and send letter to BCCI secretory,N.srinivasan to look into the effect too much cricket on seven key members of the squad.The letter according to channel said,”They should be dealt with carefully as they are picking up overuse injuries.”

A member of Indian team management,requesting anonymity confirmed that they had “communicated” their feelings to BCCI after a series of breakdowns during the test series in Srilanka.

However the BCCI denied having received any such letters.”If you have to go by media reports go ahead.But the BCCI hasn’t received any such letter from anyone in the team”,a senior BCCI official said.

The team management on a tour consists of captain Ms dhoni,vice captain Virendra sehwag,coach Gary kirsten and team manager Biswal.
Sri lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara admitted that too much cricket does a take a toll on the players bodies.”We’ve played less cricket than India this year.Our itinerary is a bit more structured,which is good for the players.But the overworked is quite high”,Sangakkara said.

“We have to take a decision on how many players we are going to play in a particular format.we have got to make players understand that if they get injured,there is a scheme in place to look after them so that they don not feel left out.”he said.

However,Indian team management denied these letters and statements.

Criticism Affected Murali On Australian Tours.

Former Australian coach John Buchanan feels that Muralitharan’s record is not impressive against Australia because of consistent criticism he faced during Aussie tours.

The lankan off-spinner brought down curtains on his five-day career.last match against India in a blaze of glory by becoming the first test player to scalp 800 wickets in tests.

The former Aussie coach was quoted;”Australia for any spinner can be unforgiving location as the wickets are reasonably true for four or five days of test matches”.

“Murali’s early encounter with Australian umpires and crowds were very-very critical of his action As a consequence,he may never felt totally comfortable touring Australia”.

Buchanan said;”Australia didn’t play Murali too much on his home soil.The 2004 series which Australia won 3-0 was a triumph for the team’s batting group which spent a lot of time analyzing to play Murali so that he couldn’t dominate the batting lineup”.

Icc Rejects Controversial Complaint Of ECB On Review Systems.

The international cricket council(ICC) rejects the ECB complaint on the controvercial usage of the review system(UDRS) in a january test vs South africa,insisting that there was a no evidence to suggest any flouting of rules.

The England team complaint after television umpire Daryl Harper didn’t out decision vs south africa captain Greame smith.When he batted,he had appeared to edge a ball to the wicket keeper but television um[ire not given him out,the decision was upheld after a UDRS system.Therefore England team claimed that Harper had not turned up the volume on his monitor,so he missed what they claimed.

But the ICC rejects England team complaints after an enquiry by it’s code of conduct commisioner,advocate Brent Lockie and Clive Lloyd ,chairmen of ICC cricket comitee.

The ICC given a statement that;”The independent enquiry was convented by the ICC chief executive following a formal complaint by the ECB that relevant DRS procedures and protocols were not followed by the third umpire during the fourth test match in Johannesburg.The findings of the Lockie/Lloyd enquiry found no evidence there to support complaint.

The enquiry was conducted to determine whether “correct protocols and correct procedures” were followed by Daryl Harper in all decisions involving,apart from South Africa skipper Greame smith,A B de villiers Alistair Cook and Greame swann.

Ponting Wants UDRS Systems In Test Matches.

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting said the international cricket council(ICC) should ensure the decision review system is used in every test matches.
The UDRS system is not used in Australia’s current two match series against Pakistan in England as the Pakistan cricket board(PCB) Wasn’t prepared to meet the additional cost involved in system.He feels there should be some consistency in the execution of the review system.Ponting was quoted as saying in Herald sun;”Look i got my point across at the referees meeting before this series…,I just think probably even the ICC could have stepped in on this occasion.It is a financial thing at the end of the day,there is the reason we aren’t using.”
“So i thought the ICC could have come in and done something about it but it hasn’t eventuated and that is just the way it is.So we just have to get on with it.It was brought in as compulsory i test cricket 12 months ago now,so i thought if it was ever left up in the air someone should have stepped in and made sure it actually happened,” Ponting said.
Indian team also opposed to the video review system for the October test series against Australia.

In Sussex During Test Match Meteorite Lands On The Field.

In Britain,a county cricket match had an unexpected visitor.A 4.5 billion year old meteorite hurtled down from the sky landing just inches away from the boundary ropes and hit on the man on the chest.The rock broke into two pieces when it hit the ground in front of John marzel and Richard haynes.They are the senior members of the Sussex county cricket club{SCCC}.The two people were sitting near the boundary watching Luke wright and Monty panesar,england cricket team players.When they spotted the black,five inch rock hurtling towards them.Marzel quoted in Telegraph:”We’re sitting at the boundary edge when all of a sudden,out of a blue sky,we saw this small dark object hurtling towards us.It landed inside the boundary and split into two pieces.”
He said:”One piece bounced up and hit me in the chest and the other ended up against the boundary board.”They have kept the extra pieces of rock for posterity and said they would happy for experts to examine them.A another member Richard haynes said:”If it had come from the other direction we might have suspected someone had thrown it,but we saw it come in straight over the ground from a quite way out-it was definately a Meteorite”.