Posts Tagged ‘australia’
Oil price rises
Posted by: karthik007 on: January 6, 2009
Oil prices rose back above USD 47 on Monday (Jan 5) as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raged on and major crude producer Iran said OPEC would hold a special meeting next month. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in February climbed 70 cents to USD 47.61 a barrel in afternoon trade on London’s InterContinental Exchange.
New York’s [...]
International Cricket Council mulls neutral venue for Aus-Pak series
Posted by: karthik007 on: January 6, 2009
The International Cricket Council is trying to convince Pakistan to host Australia at a neutral venue if the one-day series does not go ahead as planned in the strife-torn country. Though Cricket Australia and the ICC insist that the first preference would be to play in Pakistan, an alternative venue could not be ruled out [...]
South Africa 125/1, trail by 320 runs
Posted by: karthik007 on: January 5, 2009
South Africa got off to a sedate start after Michael Clarke’s sterling century and some spectacular rearguard action powered Australia to their best score of the series so far on Day 2 of the third and final Test.
Resuming on 267 for six, overnight batsmen Clarke (138) and Mitchell Johnson (64) stitched together an invaluable 142-run [...]
Graeme Smith breaks his little finger, out for 6 weeks
Posted by: karthik007 on: January 5, 2009
South Africa captain Graeme Smith will be out of action for six weeks after he broke his left little finger on the second day of the third cricket Test against Australia in Sydney.
Smith, who was set to miss the one-day series in Australia and fly home after the third Test to inject his own blood [...]
David Morgan wants to scrape B’desh’s Test status
Posted by: karthik007 on: January 4, 2009
Bangladesh’s abysmal record in the longer version of cricket may lead to their losing the Test status as top officials of the game, including International Cricket Council chief David Morgan, feel the ‘Tigers’ do not deserve the status.
Bangladesh’s overall record now stands at one win (against Zimbabwe) from 58 Test matches and the financial logic [...]
Aussie battle Proteas to avoid washout
Posted by: karthik007 on: January 4, 2009
Australia continued their recovery on day two of the thrid Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground today (January 4).
Resuming from their overnight score of 267 for six, Michael Clarke and Mitchell Johnson continued where they left off to post a 100 run partnership for the seventh wicket. Clarke earned his tenth Test century with a [...]
Glenn McGrath says to Aus pacers: Show the aggro
Posted by: karthik007 on: January 3, 2009
‘Show the aggro’, that is the simple message from former pacer Glenn McGrath to the current bunch of Australian fast bowlers who are struggling to take 20 South African wickets in the ongoing series.
“To be a fast bowler you have to have that aggression. It’s a naturally aggressive part of the game and if you [...]
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