Tag: cricket
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ICC announces details of official travel and tour providers
Dubai, Feb 07, 2012: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the appointment of the official travel agents for the ICC World Twenty 2012 which will be staged in Sri Lanka from 18 September to 7 October. Gullivers Sports Travel, Sport Abroad and Thomson Sport in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland as well as…
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Results of the ICC Board meeting in Dubai
Board meeting result, The ICC Board held the first of its scheduled 2012 meetings in Dubai on 31 January 2012 and 1 February 2012. The major items considered or decisions taken were: Independent Governance Review Following adoption of the new ICC Strategic Plan in April 2011 which, inter-alia, identified the need for an independent governance…
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Saeed Ajmal rises to No.2 spot as Abdur Rehman breaks into the top 10
Dubai, Jan 29, 2012: Crafty off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has risen one more place and his spin partner Abdur Rehman has broken into the top 10 for the first time in his career in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers which were released on Sunday after the conclusion of the Abu Dhabi, Adelaide and Napier…
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ICC Executive Board to meet in Dubai
Dubai Jan 29, 2012: Independent Governance Review, The ICC Executive Board will hold the first of its scheduled 2012 meetings in Dubai, starting on January 31, 2012 and concluding on February 01, 2012. The major topics on the agenda are: Independent Governance Review In April 2011, the ICC had adopted a new strategic plan which identified…
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Cricket’s Day of Shame
By: Rashid Ali Siddiqui, President, Pakistan Sports Writers Federation (PSWF). The conviction by an English court of three Pakistani cricketers in a spot-fixing case has finally opened the can of worms and the truth behind what sports officials have tried not to divulge for more than three cricketing decades and, possibly, fifty years in other sports.…
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Opportunity for England to win jackpot in series against Pakistan
Dubai, Jan 16, 2012: England win jackpot, England will have a chance to the win the US$175,000 jackpot for topping the Reliance ICC Test Championship table when it goes head to head with Pakistan in a three-Test series starting in Dubai on Tuesday. The award is presented on an annual basis to the side which…