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Cricket: Kevin Pietersen Joins Surrey

Longtime England batsman Kevin Pietersen was released from the cricket team on Tuesday and has now joined Surrey for the rest of the county season.
Geoff Miller, the national selector of the England and Wales Cricket Board stated that Pietersen will be omitted from the upcoming Twenty20 international friendlies against Pakistan stating that Pietersen needs to [...]

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Cricket Match For Flood Relief: Pakistan vs. England

England and Pakistan, one of the most popular teams for online sportsbook betting, are hoping to raise funds for the victims of devastating flooding in Pakistan with an exhibition cricket match.
An estimated 14 million people have been left homeless and 1.600 killed by floods in south and northwest Pakistan.
The Pakistani cricket team will also be [...]

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Harbhajan: SSC pitch is lifeless

In the second Test between India and Sri Lanka at the SSC, Harbhajan Singh has hit out at the benign nature of pitch laid out. During the Test in which several batting records were broken, bowlers from both sides struggled to make an impression.
He said, “You just can’t have one-sided contests where the batsmen [...]

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Cricket – Champions League Twenty20 gets new broadcast deal

When the Champions League Twenty20 cricket competition gets underway in September, cricket fans in the UK and Europe will be able to follow all the action.
Eurosport announced this week it has signed an exclusive three-year deal to broadcast the Champions League Twenty20 in the UK and Europe.
This follows a highly successful inaugural broadcast of the [...]

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Cricket and the “Other” World Cup

The 2011 Cricket World Cup is approaching. This event that will take place next February will be the 10th of its kind. The event will take place in South Asia in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The tournament will field fourteen different teams playing 49 matches. These teams will include teams that have full memberships in [...]

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Match fixing allegations in Cricket

The England and Wales cricket board have released some disturbing news for sports fans everywhere. Two separate individuals that play in the league have been offered money by bookmakers in order to give an unfair advantage to the bookmakers in making profits on their games.
This bribery to players is often called “match-fixing.” Any time that [...]

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2011 Cricket World Cup Is Shaping Up

February 19, 2011 the first match in the 2011 Cricket World Cup will take place. This event will be the tenth Cricket World Cup which will be hosted by three South Asian countries including India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. This will mark the first time Bangladesh has co-hosted this event.
The Cricket World Cup will use [...]

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Cricket- India Premier League

The Indian Premier league is a cricket league that consists 20 consecutive cricket competitions. This league was started by an organization called the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The Board of Control for Cricket in India initiated the development of this league in order to organize cricket events into a standardized organization similar [...]

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Most disgraceful moment in the history of cricket

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What does the sport of CRICKET have to do to be popular in the USA?

Let’s not lie to ourselves, Football is the greatest sport in the US right now and as long as it allows for Super Bowl betting and because of that no one gives a crap about Rugby or even Soccer.
Baseball is in 2nd place, and no one gives a crap about Cricket.
What would the sport of [...]

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