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Cricket News
April
, 2000
March 2000
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Fourteen
cricketer selected for fast bowling coaching
May
7, 2000
Dhaka,
May 6 (UNB) – Fourteen cricketers have been selected for fast bowling
coaching under former South African test bowler Mike Proctor as part of the
ICC Development Program.
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South
Africa, Pakistan tours to go ahead as planned
May
6, 2000
COLOMBO,
MAY 5 (/AP) - Cricket tours by Pakistan and South Africa
to Sri Lanka will go ahead as scheduled beginning June despite the country
being put on war status to fight Tamil Tiger
rebels.
"The
government will not object to the matches being played.
These
tours are a commercial venture," said Rienzie Wijetilleke, chairman
of the country's cricket board.
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Kapil
will
sue over match fixing allegation
May
6, 2000
NEW
DELHI, MAY 5 (AP) - Kapil Dev, India's former cricket captain,
will sue a cricket board official for alleging that he offered money to a
player to under-perform, newspapers reported
Friday.
Dev
denied cricket board official Inderjit Singh Bindra comments quoting
player Manoj Prabhakar as saying he was offered dlrs 25,000 to underplay
during a match against Sri Lanka in 1994, the reports said.
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ACB to appoint
corruption investigator
May
6, 2000
MELBOURNE,
MAY 5 (AP) - The Australian Cricket Board will appoint
an independent investigator to examine allegations of bribery or match
fixing, cricket's national governing body said Friday.
The
decision comes in the wake of an International Cricket Council
emergency summit in London earlier this week, called in response to
admissions last month by South African skipper Hansie Cronje that he
received money from an Indian bookmaker.
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Brett
Lee undergoes surgery to both ankles
May
4, 2000
SYDNEY,
MAY 3 (AP) - Australian fast bowler Brett Lee was recovering
Wednesday in a Sydney Hospital after surgery to correct bone spurs to the
back of both ankles.
Lee,
who had been experiencing pain in his ankles for the last two
seasons, said he timed his surgery to coincide with Australia's
off-season.
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Donald
on the stretcher
May
3, 2000
LONDON,
May 2: Warwickshire's South African fast bowler Allan Donald was
carried off on a stretcher with a suspected broken rib after a freak
accident in an English National League match on Monday.
Donald,
playing against Hampshire at Southampton, successfully caught a skied
on-drive from Australian Shane Warne but fell backwards on to the top of
the boundary fence as he did so.
He
collapsed in agony, clutching the right side of his lower back. Players
from both sides, including Warne, surrounded him.
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Dravid
helped Kent complete a seven-wicket win
May
3, 2000
Rahul
Dravid helped Kent complete a seven-wicket win over top-flight new boys
Northamptonshire at Canterbury in the English National League on Monday.
In
a low-scoring contest, Northamtonshore put in by Kent captain Matthew
Fleming was dismissed for only 76 with Ben Phillips returning
competition-best figures of four for 25.
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Corruption
in the scandal-hit sport could be widespread
May
3, 2000
England's
top cricket official expressed fears on Tuesday that corruption in the
scandal-hit sport could be widespread.
Lord
MacLaurin, Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), made his
claims as the International Cricket Council (ICC) met at Lord's for a two
day emergency meeting.
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Match-fixing
meeting
May
3, 2000
LONDON,
May 2: Eighteen International Cricket Council (ICC) delegates gathered at
Lord's on Tuesday for a two-day emergency meeting to discuss the
match-fixing crisis.
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Steve
Waugh has earned a financial windfall
May
2, 2000
BRISBANE,
MAY 1 (AP) - Steve Waugh has earned a financial windfall for leading
Australia to its most successful summer ever, gaining an upgraded contract
Monday with the Australian Cricket Board.
For
leading Australia to its 14-game unbeaten stretch in limited-overs
internationals and to 10 successive test wins, Waugh was rewarded with a
payrise of 95,000 Australian dollars (U.S. dlrs 57,000).
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Khan,
Akram century lifts Pakistan over West Indies Under-23s
May
1, 2000
GEORGETOWN,
Guyana, APR 30 (AP) - An unbeaten century by Younis Khan and a
five-wicket haul by Mohammad Akram lifted Pakistan to a strong position
over the West Indies Under-23s on the third day of their four-day,
first-class cricket match on Saturday.
Khan
pummeled five sixes and nine fours in an unbeaten 103 as Pakistan declared
their second innings at 172 for four after Akram captured five for 16 to
help dismiss the Under-23s for 143 in their first innings. It gave the
Pakistanis a first-innings lead of 156.
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Bindra preparing document for CBI
May
1, 2000
New Delhi, April 30:Former President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Inderjit
Singh Bindra has said that he is preparing a detailed document on cricket
match-fixing that he would hand over to the CBI, which has been asked to investigate
the controversy.
"I am not saying give me one month. Within a week's time, I will give
them a document. I have been producing a document for last four days, I am
dictating it. I will give a booklet of to 100 pages, with whatever little
circumstantial evidence I have," he told Janata ki Adalat programe
telecast today.
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