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How many of the cricket fans around the world would have reacted.
Sep 4, 2010
Not again. That was precisely how many of the cricket fans around the world would have reacted to the most-recent scandal to have hit cricket. A few Pakistani cricketers have been said to be involved in match-fixing –or the latest fad, spot-fixing – and if proved guilty, would have probably played their last international. The video may or may not be an admissible evidence but from what one sees, it could be the most damning tape in this sport since the evidence that Hansie Cronje gave in front of the King’s Commission. The tape also reveals what most in the Pakistan set-up probably already knew – the Sydney Test match of 2010 between Australia and Pakistan was fixed. The same had been mentioned by the likes of the then-coach, Intikhab Alam and some of the rest, in their deposition to the PCB, but the board had decided not to pursue any charges against the players. With the evil not nipped in the bud, it decided to raise its ugly head and how. It will be naïve to think that the Lord’s Test is a one-off or that Mazhar Majeed is the only guy involved. One can be rest assured that there would be many other such agent-player nexus that have not been revealed before today. Again, it will be foolhardy to assume that if some of the players are shown the door, the game will be totally purged clean – for that to happen, it will need a much more concerted effort and on a consistent basis by the ICC and the rest of the boards.
 
Team India and its fitness issues!
Aug 17, 2010
The World Cup is around six months away, and the injuries seem to have hit India hard enough for the board to sit up and take notice. That is, if they do not want the side to go down the same lane as they had in 2007.

If fit, the Indian side has a batting line-up to marvel. The choice of the two openers out of Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag is as close as it could get to the phrase, ‘embarrassment of riches’. Gambhir could miss out and bat at three. Suresh Raina’s excellent form merits him a number four slot, and even if Yuvraj Singh gets his form back, he will get in at five.

MS Dhoni will come in at six, while two frontline spinners and two pace bowlers – or three and one – will make it six of the seven top-order players. This leaves out Dinesh Karthik, Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Yusuf Pathan and even Irfan Pathan and Robin Uthappa, to fight it out for that lone berth at seven.

The question is whether everyone will be match-ready by then. Gambhir’s exploits have been there for all to see, but there are growing concerns about his fitness, while Yuvraj has failed to exhibit 100% fitness since the 2009 edition of the Champions Trophy. Dhoni has been nursing his niggles quietly, but it was all too evident that all was not well with his fingers in the third Test against Sri Lanka and then the first ODI of the Micromax Cup.

With Sehwag having had his own issues with back spasms, Tendulkar and Raina look to be the fittest of the lot for India. As for the rest, the board need to come up with a strategy to cut out on the meaningless cricket, rotate the players around and pray hard.

 
 
 
 
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Sept 5
  First Twenty20 International  Pakistan's tour of England - Match # 1, Pakistan v/s England @ Cardiff
Sept 7
  Second Twenty20 International Pakistan's tour of England - Match # 2,Pakistan v/s England  @ Cardiff
Sept 10
  First ODI Pakistan's tour of England - Match # 1 , Pakistan v/s England @ Chester-le-Street
Sept 12
  Second ODI Pakistan's tour of England - Match # 2 , Pakistan v/s England @ Leeds
Sept 17
  Third ODI Pakistan's tour of England - Match # 3, Pakistan v/s England @ Oval
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