Fielding will make the difference
By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In DHAKASo much has changed in cricket’s World Cup that its initial tournaments now seem like museum pieces.
By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In DHAKASo much has changed in cricket’s World Cup that its initial tournaments now seem like museum pieces.
The 2010 National Sports Awards Ceremony will be held tonight at the National Cultural Centre at 19:00 hours.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – A battle for supremacy between bouncers and yorkers may eventually decide the outcome of tomorrow’s World Cup Group A showdown between Australia and Sri Lanka in Colombo.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA made a profit of $631 million over the last four years but was over-dependent on the World Cup for its revenue, soccer’s world ruling body said yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) Marlon Samuels has shrugged off suggestions he refused the offer to replace the injured Dwayne Bravo in the West Indies World Cup team out of fear of being charged by police authorities in India.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA is planning to take greater control over international friendlies after a fake Togo team played in one game in September and seven penalties were awarded in two matches in Turkey last month.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Nitish Kumar has serious business to attend to during the long rest periods at the Cricket World Cup — armed with a stack of textbooks and notes, the Canadian batsman has his high school homework to complete.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago have shifted their fifth round match in the WICB Regional first-class championship against Leeward Islands to the Queen’s Park Oval.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Officials in St. Kitts & Nevis have hailed the International Cricket Council’s decision to stage a High Performance camp in the island.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Clubs taking part in the Caribbean Football Union’s Champions Cup tournament now know their path to next season’s CONCACAF Champions League.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s World Cup aspirations lie firmly on the shoulders of skipper Shahid Afridi and once again he came to the rescue as an unthinkable defeat to Canada yesterday was averted in an eventual 46-run win.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – World record-holder David Rudisha has set his sights on breaking the one minute 40 seconds barrier in the 800 metres.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s shock defeat by Ireland at the Cricket World Cup was described as the country’s greatest humiliation by one newspaper on Thursday, as pundits and headline writers laid into the team with gusto.
TAUNTON, England, CMC – Joel Garner has agreed to become a patron of the Glastonbury Club.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – Ireland’s shock three-wicket World Cup win over England not only threw Group B wide open but provided a timely warning that no team can take quarter-final spots for granted.
(Reuters) – Facts and figures relating to the Group B World Cup match between Bangladesh and West Indies (0900 GMT) at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on Friday.
BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien, who plays his cricket for the Railway Union Club, yesterday stood head and shoulders above some of the sport’s greatest names after guiding his country to one of the biggest World Cup shocks with victory over the old enemy England.
BANGALORE, (Reuters) – England must raise their game by several notches if they are to stay alive in the World Cup and Andrew Strauss admitted that unless they stopped “chasing their tails”, their journey could come to a premature end.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A resurgent West Indies will have a stronger opposition to try their Plan B when they take on an ambitious Bangladesh in tomorrow’s World Cup Group B match in Dhaka.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea showed by beating Manchester United that they will not give up the Premier League title without a fight and Liverpool are likely to be just as tenacious when they face United at Anfield on Sunday.
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