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After an embarrassing exit from last year’s World Twenty20 in the group stage, Australia’s one-run loss to Zimbabwe in a warm-up match for this year’s competition must have sent a collective shudder through Michael Clarke’s team. Depending on your perspective, the news gets worse for Australia too, with pace spearhead Brett Lee ruled out of [...]
Now the third season of the IPL has concluded the explosive on-field exploits are set to be dwarfed by events off the field as the future of IPL chairman, Lalit Modi, becomes increasingly precarious. As allegations of corruption swirl around the league, Modi was, in the hours after Sunday’s IPL final, suspended both from his [...]
The Mumbai Indians dominated the IPL for the majority of the competition’s third season, but finished 22 runs short of winning the final against the Chennai Super Kings yesterday. After setting a testing 169-run target for Mumbai, Chennai applied the squeeze on the opposition batsmen as they struggled to cap what had been a dominant [...]
The individual efforts of four England players during last year’s summer of cricket did not go unnoticed when it came to selecting Wisden’s five Cricketers of the Year. Off-spinner Graeme Swann, pacemen Stuart Broad and Graham Onions and wicketkeeper Matt Prior were all named among Wisden’s top five players, with the quartet surely recognised for [...]
Dynamic Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds will join Surrey CCC for the 2010 Friends Provident t20, the club has announced. The 34-year-old, who hasn’t played for Australia since May 2009 but has been keeping his eye in playing for the Deccan Chargers in the IPL, will be available for the entirety of the series and according [...]