LUCKY DAY FOR PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN WERE LUCKY THROUGH OUT THE DAY BECAUSE UMPIRE HAD NOT GIVEN ANY LEG BEFORE DECISION IN THE FAVOUR OF INDIA. FAISAL IQBAL AND MISBAH-UL-HAQ BOTH WERE PLUMBED LEGBEFORE BUT THE UMPIRE THOUGHT DIFERENT.
FAISAL IQBAL COULD NOT CAPITALIZED IT HE WAS CAUGHT BY GAUTAM GAMBHIR IN THE BOWLING OF YOUNG ISHANT SHARMA.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Sunday, December 9, 2007
FORMAT OF 2011 WORLD CUP MIGHT BE CHANGED
Bangalore, Dec 6: The format of the 2011 cricket World Cup, to be held in Asia, might undergo some changes and highest number of matches may be played than the 2007 tournament held in the West Indies.
Niranjan Shah, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), said here a number of formats would be discussed at a meeting of the four joint hosts - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - in Delhi this weekend.
'We will be discussing a few formats at the meeting. One of them would be reverting to including quarter final stage instead of the Super Eights,' Shah told.
'According to the proposal, if we play quarter-finals there will be 59 matches in the tournament,' he said.
A total of 51 matches were played in 49 days in the 2007 tournament in March-April while 54 matches were played in South Africa in 2003.
The International Cricket Council wants to restrict the number of days of the World Cup. Therefore, it might not approve a World Cup with a quarter final round that will make the tournament longer.
Shah said there was no deadline for submitting the format, to be decided by the joint hosts, to the ICC.
Bangalore, Dec 6: The format of the 2011 cricket World Cup, to be held in Asia, might undergo some changes and highest number of matches may be played than the 2007 tournament held in the West Indies.
Niranjan Shah, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), said here a number of formats would be discussed at a meeting of the four joint hosts - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - in Delhi this weekend.
'We will be discussing a few formats at the meeting. One of them would be reverting to including quarter final stage instead of the Super Eights,' Shah told.
'According to the proposal, if we play quarter-finals there will be 59 matches in the tournament,' he said.
A total of 51 matches were played in 49 days in the 2007 tournament in March-April while 54 matches were played in South Africa in 2003.
The International Cricket Council wants to restrict the number of days of the World Cup. Therefore, it might not approve a World Cup with a quarter final round that will make the tournament longer.
Shah said there was no deadline for submitting the format, to be decided by the joint hosts, to the ICC.
GARY KIRSTEN HAS SINGED A TWO-YEAR CONTRACT : BCCI
Bangalore, Dec 9 (IANS) Former South African opening batsman Gary Kirsten has signed a two-year contract with the Indian cricket board starting March 1, a top official confirmed here Sunday.
'Yes, Kirsten has signed a two-year contract with the board and he will formally take charge from March 1, 2008,' Ratnakar Shetty, chief administrative officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), told IANS.
Kirsten, who arrived here Friday to interact with the board officials and observe what the players do in the ongoing third Test against Pakistan, signed the contract before he left South Africa for India.
'We sent the contract through courier and he signed and returned it by courier. But he confirmed this through fax too,' said Shetty.
The 40-year-old Kirsten, who would replace Australian Greg Chappell as the permanent coach, would spend some time with the team when India tours Australia starting from Dec 20.
'There is a 10-day gap between the second and third Tests against Australia. He will spend time with the team during this period before taking over formally on March 1,' he said.
Kirsten, who played 101 Tests and 185 One-Day Internationals before retiring in 2004, is staying in the team hotel.
'I am part of the set-up, so I have to see how it (system) works,' he said after arriving here Friday. 'I will get to know the players and observe what they do.'
Kirsten watched the match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Saturday and Sunday. 'He would leave India Sunday night,' said Shetty.
Kirsten, who had not even applied for the post, was surprisingly called to New Delhi and interviewed recently by the BCCI coach selection committee led by board president Sharad Pawar.
Around 20 people, including interim manager Lalchand Rajput, had applied for the post that has been vacant since March when Chappell decided against renewing his contract after a two-year tumultuous tenure.
It was during Chappell's tenure that India suffered a humiliating first-round exit from the World Cup in the West Indies.
Former India players Ravi Shastri, Chandu Borde and Rajput have been temporary managers of the team on tours of Bangladesh, England, South Africa and the home series against Australia and Pakistan in the absence of a permanent coach.
Bangalore, Dec 9 (IANS) Former South African opening batsman Gary Kirsten has signed a two-year contract with the Indian cricket board starting March 1, a top official confirmed here Sunday.
'Yes, Kirsten has signed a two-year contract with the board and he will formally take charge from March 1, 2008,' Ratnakar Shetty, chief administrative officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), told IANS.
Kirsten, who arrived here Friday to interact with the board officials and observe what the players do in the ongoing third Test against Pakistan, signed the contract before he left South Africa for India.
'We sent the contract through courier and he signed and returned it by courier. But he confirmed this through fax too,' said Shetty.
The 40-year-old Kirsten, who would replace Australian Greg Chappell as the permanent coach, would spend some time with the team when India tours Australia starting from Dec 20.
'There is a 10-day gap between the second and third Tests against Australia. He will spend time with the team during this period before taking over formally on March 1,' he said.
Kirsten, who played 101 Tests and 185 One-Day Internationals before retiring in 2004, is staying in the team hotel.
'I am part of the set-up, so I have to see how it (system) works,' he said after arriving here Friday. 'I will get to know the players and observe what they do.'
Kirsten watched the match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Saturday and Sunday. 'He would leave India Sunday night,' said Shetty.
Kirsten, who had not even applied for the post, was surprisingly called to New Delhi and interviewed recently by the BCCI coach selection committee led by board president Sharad Pawar.
Around 20 people, including interim manager Lalchand Rajput, had applied for the post that has been vacant since March when Chappell decided against renewing his contract after a two-year tumultuous tenure.
It was during Chappell's tenure that India suffered a humiliating first-round exit from the World Cup in the West Indies.
Former India players Ravi Shastri, Chandu Borde and Rajput have been temporary managers of the team on tours of Bangladesh, England, South Africa and the home series against Australia and Pakistan in the absence of a permanent coach.
IRFAN PATHAN HAD SCORED HIS MAIDEN TEST CENTURY AT BANGLORE AND IT WAS CAME WITH THE MINDBLOWING SIX.
INDIA WERE ALL-OUT FOR 626 RUNS INDIA HAD PLAYED 3.2 OVERS FOR 15 RUNS AFTER TEA. IRFAN PATHAN WAS CAUGHT BY KAMARAN AKMAL ON 102(133)
BANGLORE WAS A LUCKY GROUND FOR LEFT HANDERS
FIRST WAS YUVRAJ SINGH
SECOND WAS SOURAV GANGULY
THIRD WAS IRFAN PATHAN
ALL WERE PLEASING TO WATCH.
INDIA WERE ALL-OUT FOR 626 RUNS INDIA HAD PLAYED 3.2 OVERS FOR 15 RUNS AFTER TEA. IRFAN PATHAN WAS CAUGHT BY KAMARAN AKMAL ON 102(133)
BANGLORE WAS A LUCKY GROUND FOR LEFT HANDERS
FIRST WAS YUVRAJ SINGH
SECOND WAS SOURAV GANGULY
THIRD WAS IRFAN PATHAN
ALL WERE PLEASING TO WATCH.
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