India captain Anil Kumble says Gary Kirsten will be a great help as their new coach when he takes up his role for the series against his own nation South Africa.
The Proteas play three Tests in India and former South Africa batsman Kirsten will be able to use his knowledge of his own country to [...]
March 18, 2008
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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly wants to emulate the recent one-day success of team-mate Sachin Tendulkar and prove his worth in the shorter form of the game.
Tendulkar inspired India to a brilliant Commonwealth Bank Series win in Australia, scintillating knocks of 117 and 91 in the opening two clashes of the best-of-three final ensured success [...]
March 18, 2008
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India have included MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh in their 14-man squad for the first two Tests against South Africa, but young paceman Ishant Sharma has missed out.
India take on the Proteas in the opening Test in Chennai on March 26, and they have given two of their more experienced stars every chance to prove [...]
March 18, 2008
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South Africa’s Imtiaz Patel will take over as the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) new chief executive in the summer.
Malcolm Speed is set to step down from the post in June and Patel has beaten off competition from former India cricket chief Inderjit Singh Bindra to replace the Australian.
“There was an absolute consensus on his choice,” [...]
March 18, 2008
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Lewis Hamilton has hailed his victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix as the best of his career so far.
Starting from pole position, the 23-year-old McLaren-Mercedes driver led the race from start to finish, taking the chequered flag some 5.4 seconds ahead of BMW Sauber driver Nick Heidfeld.
The victory was the fifth in a F1 [...]
March 18, 2008
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Fernando Alonso
is refusing to get carried away by his fourth-place finish in the
Australian Grand Prix, the Renault returnee readily conceding that he
benefitted from the chaos around him in Melbourne.
Fifteen of the 22 starters in Albert Park eventually retired
from Sunday’s season-opener, with the double world champion one of the
main beneficiaries as he came through from [...]
March 18, 2008
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