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"The Central Organising Committee (COC), which is headed by Mr Sharad Pawar, who is also ICC president, has taken several decisions in trying to make this event a memorable one and to ensure that the non-India, non-Sri Lanka and non-Bangladesh games also have good spectator attendance," Shetty said in an ICC release. ODI Matches

"What we have also impressed upon the venues is to keep the ticket rates at the minimal and affordable so that people come to stadia, and to look after the spectators, media and players facilities. The emphasis has been not on the size of the stadia but at ensuring that the facilities are good at all the grounds." Cricket Live Streaming

The ICC's flagship event will start in Dhaka on February 19 and will also be played in India and Sri Lanka. Cricket World Cup 2011

Meanwhile, looking back at the year goneby, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said finalising the Future Tours Program was one of the highlights of 2010 for the ICC. Cricbuzz

"Restructuring of the Future Tours Programme (FTP) was quite significant where we created the Test Championship model. This will add a lot of context and meaning to the bilateral cricket." Cricket Live

"The anti-doping code was introduced and came into effect in 2010 while the Decision Review System (DRS) was also significant. We have seen how it is aiding the umpires in the current Ashes series." Live Cricket Scores

"There was a change of guard in the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) with Sir Ronnie Flannigan taking over from Lord Paul Condon. This year there was also a change of presidency when Sharad Pawar took over from David Morgan." Watch Live Cricket Match

Talking about the challenges that await the ICC in 2011, Lorgat said, "The single big objective is to deliver a world-class ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. That is our flagship event. It's The Cup that Counts." Cricket Match Live

"We will also like to finalise the new FTP League structure that we have got. We have got the new league rules to agree on. Hopefully during the year we can agree that the first World Test Championship can be held in 2013. It is still something which is a work in progress," he added. Online Cricket Match

Rahul Dravid registers record 200th Test catch, Latest Indian Cricket News

 Rahul Dravid registers record 200th Test catch, Latest Indian Cricket News

Indian middle-order batsman Rahul Dravid on Monday achieved a rare milestone in his career when he took his 200th catch in Test matches to stay on top of the list in the five-day format of the game.

An accomplished slip fielder, Dravid achieved the feat when he brilliantly caught Dale Steyn off Harbhajan Singh, diving in a flash to his left, during South Africa's first innings in the ongoing second Test against India at Sahara Kingsmead Stadium.

Dravid tops the list of most number of catches in Tests. He registered the feat in his 149th match.

Former Australia opener Mark Waugh is at the second spot with 181 catches from 128 Tests, followed by Australia skipper Ricky Ponting (174), former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming (171) and West Indian batting great Brian Lara (164).

Nicknamed "The Wall" for his stubborn and gritty display with the bat that holds the foundation of his team's batting line up, Dravid is also considered to possess the safest pair of hands in world cricket.

Apart from his exploits with the bat and in the slip cordon, Dravid is a handy wicket-keeper who has don the hat many a times for the Indian ODI side in times of necessity.

Dravid also ranks third in the list of top run-scorers in Tests with a total of 12,025 runs in 149 matches. 

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Legendary cricketers Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Vivian Richards and Arjuna Ranatunga shared their ideas about how to make the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 presentation truly entertaining and engaging at a recently held press conference.

There were several new initiatives that were proposed in the discussion like live match coverage by 3G mobile streaming in India where fans will enjoy unrestricted access to the biggest cricket event on internet and mobile besides televisions. Also another first of its kind initiative would be the 'Decision Review System' which will be introduced for the first time for any ICC tournament. "It will certainly be a very big challenge to organize an event of this magnitude that will be spread across 13 venues in three host countries — Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka for a month," informs ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 tournament director, Ratnakar Shetty.

"To create more excitement and interest amongst the viewers we have taken some new initiatives which will intensify the passion amongst the cricket fans," added ICC chief executive, Haroon Lorgat.

Speaking on the occasion, former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan said, "India has performed really well in the last few years. They definitely stand the chance to win the cup. Another team that according to Imran can upstage any strong team is Sri Lanka. "But I'm dying to see India win the cup. The Indian team has turned out to be the best. Best teams do come under pressure and it is all about how you cope with the pressures."

Kapil Dev said, "Two months are left for the world cup to begin. The team is doing well especially the youngsters in the team have done a commendable job in recent matches. At the end of the day, it's all about team spirit and playing according to the situation." Further according to Kapil Dev, the main key players from the Indian team would be MS Dhoni, Sachin, Sehwag, Pathan and Gambhir.

Vivian Richards is, however, rooting for the West Indies team, and believes that the team would do well in the World Cup. He is hopeful that India being a strong team, would definitely reach the final. "The young players have been performing well. Also since the matches will be played on the home ground they are definitely going to have an edge over other teams."

However, Arjuna Rantunga feels that Sri Lanka will come blazing on all cylinders this World Cup. "There is a lot of experienced players in the Sri Lankan team like Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Malinga, Muralitharan and others who will surely make a difference." 

Australia vs England Ashes Series 2010: Ricky Ponting Injury

Australia vs England Ashes Series 2010: Australian captain, Ricky Ponting is willing to take risk in his future by playing with his injured finger. He has been struggling with huge pain and keen to play in next Ashes test beginning on Boxing Day 26 December, 2010.

Rickey Ponting has got injured his little finger while trying to take catch of Jonathan Trott in the second slip on third day of the Third test match in which they managed to win with big margin of 267 runs at Perth.

Ponting is confident on his fitness and feels that he can perform well in the next Test. The selection panel has called Usman Khawaja, the New South Wales’s batsmen as a standby for Ricky Ponting. Usman has joined the sessions in Melbourne. Ponting is not likely to bat until the last two days before the test match. He might not field in his regular position of slips as if any further to the finger will not allow him to bat at all.

According to the Australian media, Ponting took part in the training session that happened on Thursday and had found no difficulty in fielding or throwing the ball.

Australian physiotherapist, Alex Kountouris stated that in any other test Rickey would think of resting himself but it will not be in this case. As it was so important to the team to win the next test and go with upper hand to regain the Ashes Series.

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West Indies cricket calls up 2 players for 2011 World Cup | watch cricket match online |

Veteran batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan and wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin have been included in West Indies' preliminary 30-man squad for next year's World Cup.
The pair missed the recent tour of Sri Lanka because of injury but will be fit for the tournament on the subcontinent, which begins on Feb. 19.
Legspinners Devendra Bishoo and Anthony Martin, who impressed in a domestic one-day tournament in October, were also included but pace bowlers Fidel Edwards and Jerome Taylor have not recovered from injuries in time.
Offspinner Shane Shillingford was picked in the squad, which must be trimmed to 15, but is in doubt after being suspended by the International Cricket Council on Tuesday for having an illegal bowling action.
Young fast bowler Jason Holder and batsman Jonathan Carter made the squad, along with two other Barbadian players: allrounder Ryan Hinds and paceman Tino Best.
The provisional squad must be trimmed next month to 15 players for the six-week tournament, which will be played in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India.
The West Indies won the first two World Cups, in 1975 and '79, and was a losing finalist to India in 1983.

ICC ranking: Sachin closes in on top spot

Sachin Tendulkar has closed the gap on Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara to just two ratings points at the top of the Reliance Mobile ICC Test Rankings following his 50th Test century in the Centurion Test which finished on Monday. 

According to an ICC release, Tendulkar is on 880 points to Sangakkara’s 882 points while Jacques Kallis has moved up to third spot courtesy his double hundred against India at the Centurion. 

Dashing Indian opener Virender Sehwag dropped a place down to fourth. However apart from V.V.S. Laxman who is 15th in the list, no other Indian player features in the list of top-20 batsmen. 

Mike Hussey has made the most significant strides with his matchwinning effort at Perth as he gained eight places to be at sixth position. 

However in list of Test bowlers, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh are placed seventh and tenth respectively. But both the senior Indian bowlers have dropped three and two places in the rankings list. Ishant Sharma is the other Indian bowler who has held on to his 15th position among the top-20. 

Dale Steyn and Graeme Swann continue as the top two in the Bowlers’ list followed by Morne Morkel and Mitchell Johnson both of whom have up come up three places from their earlier rank to be third and fourth respectively.

James Anderson and tainted Pakistani pacer Mohammed Asif are at fifth and sixth positions respectively.

West Indies announces its preliminary squad for 2011 World Cup

West Indies announces its preliminary squad for 2011 World Cup

Six uncapped Caribbean cricketers have been offered the opportunity to prove their worth ahead of February’s World Cup event after being named in West Indies’ 30-man preliminary squad for the esteemed tournament announced on Tuesday. The uncapped names include two batsmen, Kirk Edwards and Jonathan Carter, fast bowler Jason Holder and two leg-spinners Anthony Martin and Devendra Bishoo.

The West Indies Cricket Board has not yet announced the captain for the 2011 ICC World Cup which would be jointly hosted by three subcontinent nations, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Former West Indies skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan and the wicketkeeper batsman Denesh Ramdin, who were dropped from the recently concluded tour of Sri Lanka have also been recalled to the squad. The squad would be reduced to 15 names by the 19^th of next month.

Fast bowlers Jerome Taylor and Fidel Edwards, who have just returned to the game after recovering from enduring injuries failed to get a spot in the preliminary squad. The only centrally contracted player  left out of the mix is the 33-year-old Australia born Brendan Nash.

The West Indies cricket team, are going through the rough run these days, they won the 1975 and 1979 World Cup's and were the runners up during the 1983 Cricket World Cup which was held in England.

The holders of two World Cup titles have been Placed in Group B which also includes England, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Netherlands and Ireland. The team will play two warm-up matches against Kenya and Sri Lanka before formally begining their World Cup campaign in Delhi on the 25^th of February and will conclude their pool games against India on March 20th in Chennai.

The squad would be trimmed to 15 men by the 19^th of January. The boards were required by the ICC to submit their preliminary squads by the 19^th of December but the deadline was extended to the 5^th of next month on request of some participating boards.

West Indies Preliminary World Cup Squad: Adrian Barath, Lionel Baker, Carlton Baugh Jr, Dave Bernard Jr, Sulieman Benn, Tino Best, Devendra Bishoo, Jonathan Carter, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, Kirk Edwards, Ryan Hinds, Jason Holder, Anthony Martin, Nikita Miller, Nelon Pascal, Kieron Pollard, Kieran Powell, Kemar Roach, Denesh Ramdin, Darren Sammy, Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Devon Smith, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Devon Thomas, Shane Shillingford and Gavin Tonge.

West Indies World Cup Schedule

February 24:    West Indies vs. South Africa in New Delhi

February 28:    West Indies vs. Netherlands in New Delhi

March 4:          West Indies vs. Bangladesh in Dhaka

March 11:        West Indies vs. Ireland in Mohali

March 17:        West Indies vs. England in Chennai

March 20:        West Indies vs. India in Chennai

IPL 2011 Auctions, the much awaited cricket picks ( Indian Premium League )

Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions for players have been scheduled on the 8th and 9th of January wherein above 400 cricket champs will be under the selling spree as teams make their required preferences.
Sources close to the team confirmed that the auction will be set in Bangalore and the number of players involved will be 416.
Under the regulations meant for IPL players can be retained by the team but the limitation is set on four players only.
Out of these four players only three can be Indian cricketers. This retaining also comes with a price as per the rules a deduction of $9 million will be done from the salary cap.
Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, the champion teams of last year’s league have been fully retained.
The former team has retained Indian cricket teams captain MS Dhoni along with Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina and Albie Morkel the all rounder of South Africa.
Mumbai Indians on the other hand has retained the cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar along with players like Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh and Kieron Pollard the powerhouse of West India.
In the auctions MI and CSK have spent their vast amount and are only left with $4.5 million to buy players which can also be through Ranji players that are not a part of the auction.
The Delhi team Daredevils has made a quick start with the swaggering player Virender Sehwag, while the Royal Challengers have held back Virat Kohli.
The Aussie players Shane Watson and Shane Warne have been retained by Rajasthan Royals.

Live Cricket Matches, Rajasthan Royals, Kings XI to furnish bank guarantees

The two Indian Premier League (IPL) teams that faced expulsion, Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab, are ready to comply with the Bombay high court’s orders and furnish bank guarantees by 3 January, allowing them to participate in the players’ auction to be held by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and play in season 4 of the fixture.
The court has asked the Royals, run by Jaipur IPL Cricket Pvt. Ltd, to deposit $20.83 million (Rs.94.4 crore) as players’ salaries for two years and to protect their contracts. The bank guarantee to be deposited with the court will be in favour of BCCI.
Kings XI Punjab, run by KPH Dream Cricket Pvt. Ltd, has to deposit $32.77 million. A person closely associated with the Mohali team said it has to deposit money “for the losses that BCCI might suffer in case the final verdict of the arbitration goes against us. We are confident about the verdict, that is why we are willing to furnish this huge amount.”
Kings XI will raise money from its shareholders in the respective ratio of their stakes in the team, said an executive close to the development. The four investors—Gaurav Burman, Mohit Burman, Ness Wadia and Preity Zinta—hold 23% each. The Apeejay Surrendra Group’s Karan Paul has a 4% stake while another 4% is held by Root Investments Pvt. Ltd.
Sean Morris, chief executive of Rajasthan Royals, said that it hadn’t been decided whether the money will be raised internally or as a loan. “We’ve always followed the court’s ruling. Twice they’ve ruled in our favour,” he said. The team is promoted by actor Shilpa Shetty and her businessman husband Raj Kundra.
It’s not clear whether BCCI will move the Supreme Court after having lost an appeal twice in the high court.
An official of the sports administrator said on condition of anonymity that the board has not taken a call on moving court over the expulsion of the two teams.
“First, let the courts open (3 January) and let these teams make the necessary deposits and then let’s see. They are saying now that they willcomply with the court order, but I have serious doubts. Whatever we do will depend on whether they comply,” the BCCI official said.
BCCI doesn’t have much room for manoeuvre because of the year-end holidays.
“The courts are closed till early January. If they appeal after the auction, the whole process becomes a lot more complex,” said Indranil Blah, chief operating officer, Kwan Entertainment and Marketing Solutions Pvt. Ltd, a sports marketing agency.
It may not be easy to adjust the players if the two teams are expelled after the auction. “They (BCCI) are on the backfoot as far as advertisers and sponsors go,” Blah said.
The number of matches will increase this season because of the addition of two teams to the existing eight.
“If there were 60 matches, now IPL could have 94 or more. BCCI had so far planned for just eight teams,” Blah said. “Now it will have to squeeze 10 teams into their 45-day schedule for IPL. A lot of the matches may just land up in non-prime time and that wouldn’t sit well with sponsors.”
In spite of the uncertainty about the number of matches, the franchises, old and new, are planning their sponsorship activities.
A person familiar with the developments at the new team, Kochi, said: “We are exploring the possibility of auctioning the team’s title. It is a good branding opportunity for companies without owning a team and will generate revenue for us. The Anchor group, the lead investor, will have the rights to match the sponsorship amount at any point of time.” Anchor Earth owns 27% in the Kochi IPL team.
A Mumbai Indians executive said the franchise will seek to raise more sponsorship money than in the previous season as several of its existing sponsors will extend partnerships to cover the new season as well.
“But we’ll make our plans known once the auctions happen and the composition of the team is known,” he said.
Raghu Iyer, chief marketing officer of Rajasthan Royals, said advertisers belonging to industries such as telecom, mobile phones and insurance were keen to participate, but deals are still at various stages of finalization.
“In any given year, we see a jump of 70% or more in sponsorships over the previous year. For merchandise and apparel, our partner continues to be Puma,” he added.
An executive at Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd, which owns the broadcast rights for IPL, had said earlier that the company got around Rs.800 crore in revenue in the previous season. “We should at least make Rs.1,100 crore-plus this year, with the inclusion of the new teams.”