Just on the back of the horrifyingly stale news that Renault asked Nelson Piquet Jr to deliberately bang his car into the some corner of a surprisingly empty Singapore street, has come another disturbing accusation. Match fixing in the world of the equally, if not more, exciting and adrenaline pumping sport of lawn mowing. One will confirm the pulsating details of how all the mowing races were fixed in the due course of time
By Peter Della Penna At the conclusion of the ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier in Toronto on Sunday night, there were a number of acknowledgments made and people recognized for contributions made throughout the two-week event at an end of tournament banquet. However, no greater contribution was made to any team than USA’s Ryan Corns.
"Thirteen-year-old Jaafer Shahabuddin of Irving loves cricket. It's a love he not only shares with his father, but because of the multigenerational nature of cricket teams, he has been able to play it with his father." A neat article in today's Dallas Morning News about North Texas Cricket. Click here and then scroll down.
One was reading the other day about how bookmakers are quoting odds on either of Roger Federer's just born twin daughters winning a grand slam tournament (25 to 1) and Wimbledon (100 to 1) by the time they reach their 26th birth day.
First it was Daily News: The Brooklyn -based Lycans, a squad of players from FDR HS, Lincoln HS and Brooklyn's Kensington neighborhood, defeated the Richmond Hill Superstars. "This is a great tournament for everyone," said Forhad Mahamud, the Lycans' coach.
On August 22nd, cricket fans in Boston were treated to a picture of their favorite sport being played between Star Cricket Club and Trinidad and Tobago International. Here are excerpts and a link to the full article. Ananda said his team, the MIT Cricket Club, is composed of players mostly from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Maxim Magazine in India recently named Amrita Arora one of the top 5 dumping queens. Apparently, Amrita dumped her long-time boyfriend London-based cricketer Usman Afzal and marry Hyderabadi businessman Shakeel Ladakh. With Shakeel Ladakh Amrita with Usman
Finally, we have a movie where a girl wants to play for India. In the new Bollywood movie "Dil Bole Hadippa," Veera (Rani Mukherjee) is a small village girl who dreams of playing cricket for India alongside Tendulkar and Dhoni. In a village where girls don't play cricket, Veera puts on a disguise – wears a turban and beard – and as Veer Pratap Singh, she gradually makes her way into a Shahid's team
Midwest Cricket Conference: Winner of the USACA Central East Regional Tournament (July 18-19, 2009) By Sadiq Yusuf The annual Central-East Regional cricket tournament – an inter-league championship, and the single most important cricketing tourney across the entire midwestern states (Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Kansas), was played at the Washington Park grounds in Chicago this year. And, for the second consecutive year, the Midwest Cricket Conference beat Chicago-based International Cricket Management League in the finals, making it back-to-back titles for this 50-team league. Last season MCC had won the title with relative ease in Detroit, winning the finals by almost 200 runs.This year, however, in a tournament MCC hosted and one which was played on their home ground, the final turned into quite an exciting contest before the superior depth of MCC prevailed.
Date: 16-Aug-2009 – Game: CSCC Vs CCCC – Ground: Lower Acre Gardens, Longmont, Colorado By Kervyn Dimney – Colorado Cricket League Last years CCL Twenty20 League & KnockOut Tournaments produced a couple of bowlers namely Rajesh Solanki , Narayan Madabusi , Rohit Shah , Kervyn Dimney (Read article ) that equaled the Best Bowling figures in an innings record with 4 wickets, but Keyur Amin (Read article ) bettered it further by actually breaking the record with his 4-0-13-5, only to be superseded by Shailesh Patel (Read article ) who ended up with yet better record breaking numbers of 4-0-13-6 ( and the record still holds good today ). Monami Sharma's record equaling bowling performance of (3-0-12-5) Last years comparison was based on Twenty20 International Bowling Records of MR Gillespie’s 2.5-0-7-4 or RP Singh’s 4-0-13-4.Today the record for Best Bowling figures in an innings is held by Pakistan’s Umar Gul for his 3-0-6-5 against New Zealand in the recent ICC World Twenty20 2009.
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