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That smirk. The one reserved for this moment. That knowing smirk. The one that always knew the Indian Premier League was corrupt. Many are wearing that smirk, but maybe they should not be.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Clontarf games will be broadcast through Cricket Ireland TV channel    

While tourists have been flocking Himachal Pradesh expecting to get some respite from scorching heat prevailing in the plains, most of them have been left sweating as the hills too are sweltering under the sun.    

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Items on the menu include cricket pizza    

New four-year plan puts the health of the county game at top of the Board's agenda    

Mumbai cops have found phone call logs linking arrested actor Vindu with a close relative of an IPL franchise owner who wields enormous clout in cricket world.

Sahara Pune Warriors pulled out of the T20 extravaganza and also announced that it would withdraw from Indian cricket team sponsorship from January 2014.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court dismissed a petition on Tuesday seeking to scrap the remaining matches of the country's lucrative Twenty20 cricket competition amid growing concerns about corruption in the sport.

Social activists Amitabh and Nutan Thakur have sent two complaints against Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to the government of India under section 5 of the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act 1950.    

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Supporters of an influential Pakistani political party took to the streets of Karachi on Monday to protest against cricket-hero-turned-politician Imran Khan, who has accused it of killing one of his senior staff a week after a general election.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Cricket brought him to Pakistani politics, but his exploits haven’t supplanted his playboy reputation

Neville Neville, 63, accused of sexually assaulting a 46-year-old woman in the Greenmount area of Bury in MarchThe father of former Premier League and England footballers Gary and Phil Neville is to be charged with sexual assault.Neville Neville, 63, is accused of sexually assaulting a 46-year-old woman in March, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Monday.Nazir Afzal...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Cricket hero Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a revote in an upmarket constituency of Karachi on Sunday, unofficial results showed, a day after gunmen killed a party leader, setting the stage for protests and counter-protests.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Stuart Broad hailed his best spell in Test cricket as England completed an astonishing win over New Zealand.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

The reaction of the cricketing fraternity to the spot-fixing charges and the subsequent arrest of a few cricketers and more than 11 bookies has been that of shock and disbelief. What consummate actors! All of them! They are behaving as if they didn’t know this being par for the course in this ‘tamasha’ cricket. That is, if they were not involved in some of it themselves....

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Die Welle der Gewalt im Zuge der Parlamentswahl in Pakistan reißt nicht ab. Am Samstag wurde eine führende pakistanische Reformpolitikerin aus der Partei des ehemaligen Cricket-Stars Imran Khan, der PTI, getötet. Zara Shahid Hussain wurde der Polizei zufolge vor ihrem Haus in der Finanzmetropole Karachi von zwei Männern erschossen, erklärte Khan. Die Tat wurde einen...

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is in a blue funk. The world’s richest and most powerful cricket body has little control over what is happening in Indian cricket. Its biggest brand IPL is stumped by its worst crisis since its inception in 2008. Three of its players (technically they belong to its franchise Rajasthan Royals) are in Delhi Police’s custody....

The Board of Control for Cricket in India president, N Srinivasan, stated today in a press conference that the board has no control over the involvement of bookies.

Zahra Shahid Hussain, vicepresidenta de la organización, ha muerto este sábado tras ser emboscada por dos hombres

By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. Around 150 people were killed in the run-up to national elections...

Stay up to date with all the action on day four of the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's with Sportsmail's unrivalled team. We'll deliver over-by-over coverage as Alastair Cook's men start their summer of cricket.

Die Unruhen in Pakistan haben ein weiteres Opfer gefordert: Die Vizepräsidentin der Partei PTI des früheren Cricket-Stars Imran Khan ist vor ihrem Haus in Karachi erschossen worden. Der Hintergrund ist bislang unklar. Khan macht seine politischen Gegner für den Mord verantwortlich.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

David Warner could be fined by Cricket Australia after a Twitter attack on two of the country's leading cricket writers.    

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

SYDNE - Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait has strongly denied any link to the arrest of three Indian teammates allegedly involved in spot-fixing during an Indian domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament. Test player Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and fellow bowlers Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were all arrested Thursday, Indian police said, with 11 bookmakers also detained...

Stay up to date with all the action on day three of the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's with Sportsmail's unrivalled team. We'll deliver over-by-over coverage as Alastair Cook's men start their summer of cricket.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Owais Shah to be interviewed by England and Wales Cricket Board's anti-corruption unit as IPL fixing investigation widens.    

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

  For whatever reason, I said to myself, enough of bad news. Everybody knows cricket is fixed, as is most everything else in India, scams are part of the diet, and the weather is getting hotter. Let me go looking for good news, happy people, and report on them. Breathlessly, as things stand, because I have also seen very tough times but this approach - look for good...

Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Friday briefed the Union home secretary R K Singh on the progress into the IPL cricket spot-fixing case and said that the arrested cricketer S Sreesantha was cooperating with the interrogators of the special cell cops.    

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Cricket Australia has backed up claims Shaun Tait was not in any way involved in the spot-fixing scandal that has engulfed the Indian Premier League.

Mr. Shah on the recent spot-fixing scandal, the state of Indian cricket and more.    

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

  @ Sunil gavaskar Sunil Gavaskar was baffled by the revelations. "You always expect the unexpected in T20 cricket. But this is shocking. The IPL rewards cricketers quite handsomely, some of them are paid over handsomely. Despite that, some players are tempted to take the wrong route is shocking. Having said that, we need to wait for the investigations. You are innocent...

  @ Sunil gavaskar Sunil Gavaskar was baffled by the revelations. "You always expect the unexpected in T20 cricket. But this is shocking. The IPL rewards cricketers quite handsomely, some of them are paid over handsomely. Despite that, some players are tempted to take the wrong route is shocking. Having said that, we need to wait for the investigations. You are innocent...

LAHORE- Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Thursday announced the squad and management for the upcoming ICC Global Twenty20 qualifiers to be hosted byIreland. The PCB women wing announced 14 women players, four reserves and five officials. They will be part of the squad for the ICC Global T20 qualifiers as well as the series againstEnglandandIreland. Irelandhas been chosen...

LAHORE - Veteran Test cricketer M Yousuf has described putting Lahore City Cricket Association (LCCA) under an interim setup ‘unjustified and unwanted’ and a negative move to harm the interest of the game at grassroots level. "For me, it is an illegal decision taken by an unconstitutionally elected chairman against an elected president and I strongly condemn it," he...

  @ Sunil gavaskar Sunil Gavaskar was baffled by the revelations. "You always expect the unexpected in T20 cricket. But this is shocking. The IPL rewards cricketers quite handsomely, some of them are paid over handsomely. Despite that, some players are tempted to take the wrong route is shocking. Having said that, we need to wait for the investigations. You are innocent...

EDINBURGH- Isolated ODIs between international big guns and associate small fries are not a common occurrence, but with the Champions Trophy looming, the deprived Scottish were happy to oblige the Pakistan Cricket Board. Pakistan's preparation for the showpiece in the United Kingdom has been well planned, with training camps, contract upgrades and the appointment of former...

Stay up to date with all the action on day two of the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's with Sportsmail's unrivalled team. We'll deliver over-by-over coverage as Alastair Cook's men start their summer of cricket.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Stay up to date with all the action on day one of the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's with Sportsmail's unrivalled team. We'll deliver over-by-over coverage as Alastiar Cook's men start their summer of cricket.

England start their summer of cricket with a two-Test series against New Zealand - and you can watch the latest highlights right here.

As the nation tries hard to come to terms with the latest revelations of spot fixing in the Indian Premier League, it is time to acknowledge that this is a golden opportunity to cleanse the sport — an opportunity to rid cricket of the rotten elements once and for all, and to restore the faith of fans who have been taken for granted by a player-bookie nexus involved in...

Mastermind of the cricket betting syndicate is said to be a Dawood man named Sunil Ramchandani while the principal bookie is a person called Chandresh.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

The accused, representing the Rajasthan Royals team in the ongoing Indian Premier League season, allegedly struck a deal exceeding $70,000, police said.    

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide will host the one-day internationals between England and Australia early next year, Cricket Australia announced today.

(Phys.org) —Research has detailed how acoustic communication has evolved within a unique species of cricket which exploits extremely high frequency harmonics to interact.

The hordes are rising. A cicada invasion is imminent in the US, with millions of the large cricket-like insects poised to emerge from the earth after 17 years lying in wait.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

Stay up to date with all the action on day one of the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's with Sportsmail's unrivalled team. We'll deliver over-by-over coverage as Alastiar Cook's men start their summer of cricket.

WORLD OF CRICKET: As England take to Lord’s on Thursday for the first Test of their seismic summer it is worth paying more than a penny for the thoughts of their absent friend.

England are approaching this series with exactly the right attitude after they only managed to draw in New Zealand recently. Forget the Ashes: the next 10 days’ cricket against these Kiwis is all that matters now.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

The hordes are rising. A cicada invasion is imminent in the US, with millions of the large cricket-like insects poised to emerge from the earth after 17 years lying in wait.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

IT'S clear that the SABC doesn't think much of Test cricket or of the South African team.

 LAHORE -  The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Tuesday announced that its 21 cricketers on central contracts would get a 15-percent salary increase and a 10-percent rise in match fees this year. The PCB keeps 21 players on central contracts in three categories, marked by three different scales for retainers and match fees. "For the second consecutive year, the players’...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had no place for talented left arm medium fast bowler Sohail Tanveer who was best suitable for the conditions of England due to his vast experience of playing county cricket in England and he is also a complete all-rounder which is direly needed by the team. Sohail was strongly recommended by legendry bowler and former captain...