Cricket

CRICKET NEWS: MARCH 2007

China Splurges on Caribbean Cricket in Quest to Isolate Taiwan
Bloomberg - USA
China's offer of a $100 million building program, including $40 million to replace the cricket stadium destroyed by the storm, helped prompt a change of ...
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Cricket-ICC clear Sami and Arafat for World Cup
Reuters.uk - UK
"We have clearance from the ICC technical committee to replace Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif," PCB director of cricket operations Saleem Altaf told ...
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List Of Venues At ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 In West Indies
Cricket World Cup Latest - London,Greater London,UK
Group C – Matches will be held in Saint Lucia at Beausejour Cricket Ground. This stadium can accommodate 12000 to 20000. ...
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Canadian cricket captain makes sacrifices to wear the Maple Leaf
SLAM! Sports - ON,Canada
(CP) - John Davison may call Australia home, but nobody can question the commitment of cricket's Captain Canada. Davison's first child - daughter Lila - was ...
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World Cup cricket teams evacuated from hotel amid tear gas leak
Metro Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - World Cup cricket players from South Africa and Pakistan were evacuated after a tear gas canister was opened on the eighth ...
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Warm-ups begin for Cricket World Cup
The Star - Castries,St. Lucia
The West Indies , winners of the first two cricket World Cups in 1975 and ’79 in England and runner-up in ’83, faces Kenya at Trelawny Stadium near Montego ...
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Let The Games Begin: Cricket World Cup to Bat for UN War On HIV/AIDS
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
When the top cricketers from across the planet come out to bat and bowl in the Cricket World Cup opening in the West Indies on Sunday, they will also be ...
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Cricket - Bermuda Short Of Class
sportnetwork.net - UK
The third England batsman to get with should come as no surprise; Kevin Pietersen is arguably the most destructive force in one-day cricket when he gets ...
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Nimbus threatens to withdraw from cricket telecast deal
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA
Nimbus had entered into a deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India - in February 2006 for the telecast rights to all matches featuring the Indian ...
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Cricket, lovely cricket
Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
EXCITEMENT is in the air as Cricket World Cup is finally here, and I have been pondering endlessly on what to write this week that is related to cricket. ...
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Air Jamaica says bookings for Cricket World Cup are increasing ...
radiojamaica.com - Jamaica
Air Jamaica is reporting that bookings for passengers flying into the Caribbean for Cricket World Cup are increasing steadily. ...
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Akhtar and Asif absence will allow Pakistan to concentrate on ...
International Herald Tribune - France
The pacemen tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone last year, and while their suspensions were overturned by a Pakistan Cricket Board appeals ...
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Cricket / World Cup / Pakistan coach: Minnows deserve their day in ...
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
Woolmer knows all about minor teams - he was the International Cricket Council's performance manager from 2001 until joining Pakistan in 2005 and helped ...
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Bangladesh beats NZ in Cricket World Cup warm-up match
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
Bangladesh has beaten New Zealand for the first time in a warm-up match at the Cricket World Cup in Barbados on Tuesday. Bangladesh beat the Black Caps with ...
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Nimbus, cricket board locked in telecast tussle
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
The $612-million (Rs 2755 crore) mega deal for the rights to telecast cricket matches in India till March 2010 is in jeopardy barely a year after it was ...
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Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS - An appeal to World Cup ...
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
International Cricket Council in its forthcoming World Cup 2007 has come forward to spotlight children and young people affected by HIV /AIDS. ...
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CRICKET ADVANCING TOWARDS THE ASIAN GAMES
Asian Cricket Council - Kuala Lampur,Malaysia
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah and HRH Tunku Imran during the recently completed Doha Asian Games, the cause for cricket's inclusion in the Asian Games of ...
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Cricket World Cup blog: Taxi madness
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
The only place there is no traffic is around the cricket ground. We arrive at 3Ws Oval to find we can't stop to get out. Our taxi driver toots and prepares ...
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Windies fails to woo Indian cricket fans
Hindu - Chennai,India
6 (PTI): Refusing to part with his hard-earned money for an expensive passage to the West Indies, the average Indian cricket fan has given a firm thumbs ...
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World Cup could revive Windies cricket, says cricket legend
radiojamaica.com - Jamaica
The former West Indies captain says one of the major reasons why West Indian cricket has declined is the absence of genuine match-winning bowlers. ...
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