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Aug 7, 2001
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Who's urned it?
Mark Waugh has been cleared of all bribery allegations made in India last year by the infamous Indian bookie Mukesh Gupta. A report released by The Australian Cricket Board (ACB)'s special investigator Greg Melick says that the younger Waugh has been cleared on the grounds that no credible evidence was located. Mukesh Gupta had named Mark Waugh as one of the many international cricketers he had paid money to for inside information way back in 1993. Waugh however denied all the charges. Mark Waugh who is currently in England playing the Test series against England was informed of the result of the inquiry. 
Bewildered Borde!
Meanwhile the one-day specialists (Zaheer Khan, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Reetinder Sodhi, Virender Shewag, Ajit Agarkar and Debasis Mohanty) of the Indian team returned back to India while their replacements for the Test matches (S Ramesh, Shiv Sunder Das, Sairaj Bahutule, Mohammed Kaif, Harvinder Singh and Dinesh Mongia) sans Sachin Tendulkar flew to Colombo. Tendulkar will join the team only if the scan taken on August 10 shows sufficient healing to his injury. Zaheer Khan and VVS Laxman are returning to treat the injuries they picked up on the tour. Laxman is scheduled to undergo surgery to correct his knee problem.
West Indies in Kenya West Indies beat Kenya in their opening tour match at Nairobi by an innings and 47 runs. The visitors declared their innings at 414-7 and soon dismissed the Kenyans for 134 in just 48 overs. West Indian fast bowler Marlon Black took six wickets for 35 in 15 overs.
Alarm bells in Pakistan? The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reportedly expressed difficulty in organising the 2001-2002 domestic season as it is facing a financial crunch. Locals are surprised to find the PCB inviting sponsors for the upcoming domestic season when it has just spent nearly a million dollars on hiring foreign professionals for various aspects of the game. Geoff Boycott and Richard Pybus, were all hired and paid well. The fact that none of the names short listed by Pakistan to coach the national team have responded has done more damage than good to the PCB's image. Pakistan's search for a foreign coach has now become some sort of a joke in cricket circles of late. What is alarming is the fact that the PCB say they are unable to shell out Rs 10-15 lakhs (about US$ 30, 000) to run their domestic tournament when they have paid so much to all their so called consultants, including groundsman Andy Atkinson and trainer Dale Naylor, apart from Boycott and Pybus. Meanwhile, Keith Medleycott, one of the names short-listed by the Pakistan Cricket Board to coach the national team has reportedly demanded an astronomical fee. The former Surrey left-armer and the current Surrey coach has reportedly asked for half million pounds to take up the long term coaching assignment. Former Pakistan captain Rameez Raja, one of the PCB's senior members is reportedly in England doing the negotiations on behalf of the Pakistan Board. David Lloyd, another former England player and now commentator is also said to had demanded a hefty fee. Former Pakistan fast bowler Sikander Bakht has been temporarily asked to handle the training camp currently going on for the national team at Karachi. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have said that it would not make Pakistan vice-captain Inzamam ul Haq available to the ICC's Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) for questioning. PCB officials said there was no question of Inzamam being queried when Pakistan have such a packed international schedule.
Miscellaneous Bangladesh's young pace bowler Mohammad Sharif has been undergoing treatment for a shoulder injury from the Bangalore based orthopedic surgeon Thomas Chandy. Dr Chandy has treated many cricketers including Srinath, Kumble, Dravid and many football players as well for different injuries. Mohammad Shariff has undergone a ten-day rehabilitation programme and is expected to be fit in time for Bangladesh's Asian Test Championship match against Pakistan beginning at the end of this month.
Former Australian skipper and coach Bobby Simpson has decided to quit as coach of the English county Lancashire. The Australian who also served as consultant to the Indian team for a while in 1999, said he did not wish to renew his contract with Lancashire after it ends this season. This season saw Lancashire (with overseas player Sri Lankan Muthiah Muralitharan) one of the strongest county teams slip to fifth position in the First Division County Championships and there are murmurs that the bosses at the county are unhappy with team selection. Yesterday's News ......................... News Roll archive |
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England wicket keeper Alec Stewart has joined the English brigade that is of the opinion that the Aussies should be allowed to take the original Ashes urn with them to Australia, since they have won seven series in a row. Leading Australian players Steve Waugh, Glenn McGrath and Adam Gilchrist are among those insisting that the urn should be handed over to Australia. The ECB has only provided Australia with replicas of the oldest Trophy in Test cricket history, never letting the original out. The ECB officials are stubborn in their stand that the original will not be allowed out of the Lord's museum.
India's chairman of selectors, former player Chandu Borde said he is puzzled by the continual losses India has been having in the finals of various tournaments. India have lost the finals of the last eight one-day tournaments since April 1999. Borde remarked that India had a very talented side but were winning only the battles and not the war.
India's Sachin Tendulkar will lead an Asian XI against a World XI lead by Alec Stewart in a match to be played at the Oval, London on September 18. A similar match played last year saw the World XI pulling off a last over victory over a depleted Asian XI side. This year round the likes of Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Wasim Akram, Aamir Sohail and Moin Khan are to be pitted against Adam Gilchrist, Graham Thorpe, Jimmy Adams, Courtney Walsh and Reon King. The players have been invited by former British prime minister John Major, who is now the president of the Surrey Cricket Club. The match is organised for the development for the historical Oval ground.