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In-house TV Production venture starts next month with Test series vs NZ For the first time in its 84- year- old history, the BCCI has added an in-house television production unit and it will make debut with the home Test series against New Zealand next month. The BCCI Broadcasting Services will not only do the ...

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New Delhi :  Sports broadcasting major, ESPN STAR Sports on Sunday said it has bagged multi-year broadcast rights for exclusive coverage of the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) in India. The first edition of the T20 league will be played in August 2012. No financial details were disclosed. The multi-year deal includes a minimum of ...

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Hambantota (Sri Lanka): A rejuvenated India would look for a winning start to the new season but the task would be easier said than done against a strong Sri Lanka as the two sides clash in a five-match ODI series starting here tomorrow.  Barring the Indian Premier League, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s India have not been ...

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Former international cricketer Paul Reiffel will stand in his first Tests as an umpire in the upcoming series between the West Indies and New Zealand in the Caribbean. Reiffel, who played 35 Tests for Australia from 1992 to 1998, has been pursuing a career as an umpire since his retirement as a player at the ...

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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni wants his side to focus on the one-day international series in Sri Lanka rather than the upcoming World Twenty20 there.

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India will look to start the new season on a winning note when they clash with on-form Sri Lanka in a one-day series starting in Hambantota on Saturday. India’s cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (R) and Sri Lanka’s captain Mahela Jayawardene talk before a news conference ahead of their One Day International (ODI) cricket series ...

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REUTERS: Kevin Pietersen was left out of England’s provisional, 30-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup announced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Wednesday. England"s Kevin Pietersen looks on during a training session before the third cricket test match against the West

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15-man squad for the five-match One-Day International series against India set to begin July 21.

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Chennai: World Cup-winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes India’s limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka will help his team prepare for the World Twenty20 in the same country in September-October.     “Most of the players who will play in the World Twenty20

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REUTERS: All-rounder Yuvraj Singh has been named in a preliminary 30-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup, raising hopes of a return to international cricket after undergoing cancer treatment. The 30-year-old, who has played 37 tests, more than 250 one-dayers and 23 Twenty20 internationals

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The wait for fans in India and Pakistan to see the two countries face each other in a bilateral series is set to end. The BCCI confirmed today that Pakistan will tour India for three One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches in December – January. This will be the first bilateral series

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The promoters of Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) said yesterday that they aim to make it Sri Lanka’s most prestigious, annually-held, Twenty20 cricket competition. It will feature the best and upcoming cricketing talent from Sri Lanka playing alongside national Sri Lankan cricketers

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the successful second phase of ticket sales for the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012, concluded on the 30 June with more than 100,000 tickets sold. Tickets for the ICC WT20 SL 2012 will now be back on sale on 1 August. Ticket sales will re

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New Zealand skipper Ross Taylor smashed a fine century but it was not enough to prevent West Indies wrapping up the one-day series with a 24-run win in Saturday’s fourth match. Taylor, playing in his first match of the series after injuring his shoulder in an earlier Twenty20 international

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The two most prolific wicket-takers in international cricket are expected to be part of a cross-town rivalry in Melbourne this season, after Muttiah Muralitharan confirmed he would play for the Renegades in the Big Bash League. Muralitharan, 40, will be based at Etihad Stadium in the Docklands and Shane Warne is likely to head back ...

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Australian pace bowler Brett Lee on Friday announced his retirement from international cricket after a 13-year career, saying his body and mind were no longer up to the stresses of touring. The 35-year-old said a calf muscle strain that forced him home from Australia’s recent one-day tour to Britain was the final straw after a ...

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REUTERS: New Zealand bowled out West Indies for just 161 to earn an 88 run win, their first victory on their tour of the Caribbean, in the third one day international in St.Kitts on Wednesday. After suffering defeats in the two Twenty20 internationals in Florida and then the opening two one-dayers

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Australia captain Michael Clarke admitted he hadn’t seen a 4-0 one-day campaign defeat by England coming after his side made some unwanted history here on Tuesday. England cruised to a seven-wicket in a rain-affected fifth and final one-day international, triumphing in convincing style under the Old Trafford floodlights as they made it 10 straight victories ...

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London,(ANI): England batsman Kevin Pietersen has said Twenty20 is the future of cricket, and a tournament like the Indian Premier League is here to stay, while branding one-day cricket as dull and boring. Pietersen had unexpectedly announced his retirement from the one-day format for England

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Sandeep Bhammer is the CEO of the Singapore based Somerset Entertainment Ventures (SEV) and above all an avid sports enthusiast. It is this interest in sports and an astute understanding of its commercial potential which inspired SEV to acquire overall sponsorship rights to exclusively partner with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to launch the Sri Lankan ...

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Virender Sehwag feels break after IPL-V will hold the Indian team in good stead in against the LankansGreater Noida: Virender Sehwag believes that for the success of a team depends on the composition of the team. In fact, Sehwag believes that India’s World Cup success, in T20s and ODIs, in recent years has been mainly ...

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MUMBAI (Reuters): Opening batsman Virender Sehwag and pace spearhead Zaheer Khan returned to India’s limited overs squad for the Sri Lanka tour but Sachin Tendulkar made himself unavailable, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday. Sehwag, Zaheer and fast bowler Umesh Yadav were rested during the four-nation Asia Cup in Bangladesh in March, which Pakistan ...

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SYDNEY (Reuters):Australia will play Afghanistan for the first time next month in what is likely to be a one-day international in the United Arab Emirates, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday. Full details of the match, including the format, have yet to be finalised, CA said in a news release, but the Australians view the ...

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced today that more than 100,000 tickets for the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 to be staged between 18 September and 7 October have already been sold and the majority has gone to the Sri Lankan market. Commenting on the ticket sales, Upekha Nell

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More than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the ICC World Twenty20 to be held in Sri Lanka during September 2012. The International Cricket Council says the majority of them have gone to the Sri Lankan market with the highest demand coming for the matches featuring Sri Lanka. Ticket sales

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  The former England captain called for the IPL to be expanded into an Asian league   Former England captain Tony Greig has urged India to accept the “spirit of cricket is more important than generating billions of dollars”.  Former England captain Tony Greig India is cricket’s economic powerhouse, driving the finance of the global ...

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More than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the ICC World Twenty20 Cup in Sri Lanka, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said in a statement here Thursday. .

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday that more than 100,000 tickets for the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 to be staged between 18 September and 7 October have already been sold and the majority has gone to the Sri Lankan market. Commenting on the ticket sales, Upekha Nell

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COLOMBO: India’s limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka starting next month has been revised with the first one-dayer now scheduled for July 21, Sri Lanka Cricket said. The five-match one-day series, followed by a Twenty20 international, was originally due to start on July 22, but was amended

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