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I don't think India will win WC it seems Australia will walk away with the cup, It has badly mauled India in previous encounters.
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We've had a number of long term injuries to key players such as Bond, we're only now getting back to full strength.
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India or NZ may win World Cup: Azhar
Sunday, February 25, 2007
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Kozhikode: Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin today tipped India or New Zealand to lift the World Cup in the Caribbean but said the team from subcontinent will have to field well to succeed. "If you ask me, it is between the Indians and the Kiwis," Azhar told reporters here.
Azhar, who was an excellent fielder, said it was important to put pressure on the rival side by coming up with good fielding and said Mohammad Kaif deserved a place in the Indian side.
"India would miss Mohammad Kaif is a very good fielder, who besides his batting can also save some runs which is very vital in a one-day tie." He also opined that Virender Sehwag and Sourav Ganguly should open the innings for India throughout the championship.
Yuvraj Singh will be the most reliable among the batsmen, he said, adding he was among the very few who know how to finish a game.
"India has lost several close matches after failing in the final stages... And there he (Yuvraj) will play a crucial role," he said.
Asked if Irfan Pathan's fitness was a major problem, he said "any player has to be honest to himself and prove fit."
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India or NZ may win World Cup: Azhar
Sunday, February 25, 2007
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Kozhikode: Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin today tipped India or New Zealand to lift the World Cup in the Caribbean but said the team from subcontinent will have to field well to succeed. "If you ask me, it is between the Indians and the Kiwis," Azhar told reporters here.
Azhar, who was an excellent fielder, said it was important to put pressure on the rival side by coming up with good fielding and said Mohammad Kaif deserved a place in the Indian side.
"India would miss Mohammad Kaif is a very good fielder, who besides his batting can also save some runs which is very vital in a one-day tie." He also opined that Virender Sehwag and Sourav Ganguly should open the innings for India throughout the championship.
Yuvraj Singh will be the most reliable among the batsmen, he said, adding he was among the very few who know how to finish a game.
"India has lost several close matches after failing in the final stages... And there he (Yuvraj) will play a crucial role," he said.
Asked if Irfan Pathan's fitness was a major problem, he said "any player has to be honest to himself and prove fit."
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Is the Caribbean ready for the World Cup?
By Boria Majumdar, Barbados
The cricket ground in Barbados has been upgraded
Is the Caribbean ready to host the cricket World Cup?
This poser is worrying a lot of people barely two weeks away from the opening of the showpiece event.
For the small, independent nations, of varying economic strengths, that comprise the West Indies, the tournament presents big challenges.
Most of the host islands have populations between 100,000 and 300,000. They could face up to 50,000 international visitors during the event.
The islands may include some of the world's premier tourist destinations. But the challenges of staging a sporting event of this magnitude are very different.
Take Barbados. It will be hosting six of the eight final-round play off games, including the high profile India-Pakistan and India-West Indies clashes.
Nightmare
The problems begin at the airport. There are only four customs counters. The time taken to clear television equipment through ranges from an hour to two hours. Foreign media crew expect long waits.
The flight schedules are awkward and there are only a couple of connecting flights for passengers from the Indian subcontinent.
Travel within Barbados is hard. A distance of five kilometres, the distance between my hotel and the Kensington Oval cricket ground, takes an hour or more and taxi fares are never less than $15.
The World Cup is a showpiece event for the West Indies.
Restaurants are struggling to keep up. The time taken to serve pizza at the pizzeria in a mall opposite my hotel was an hour and twenty minutes. Many of the waitressing staff seem new to the job.
These may be teething problems. But internet facilities are unreliable. More than two thirds of the hotels have no internet. Internet cafes are few and far between. Places with broadband are limited and the speed is often not good enough to send television stories.
Enthusiasm
If you think you can overcome this by calling office/home, you are in for a shock. A $5 phone card allows you to talk for only for a minute to the UK and India. To compound problems, some hotels charge $3 every time one uses a calling card from the room phone.
One redeeming feature, however, is the local enthusiasm for the event.
Residents are more than ready to house international visitors in their homes and the local tourism authorities are also helpful.
Traffic moves slowly in Barbados.
Yet another redeeming feature is the entertainment on offer.
In India it is impossible to imagine stars like Sourav Ganguly or Sachin Tendulkar playing cricket with local children on the city streets.
In the Caribbean, however, things are different. As a build up to the event, authorities have revived the culture of beach cricket. Caribbean cricket players are regularly playing with young children to spread the message of the World Cup.
While beach cricket helps break down class barriers and helps bring the entire community together, it is also good fodder for journalists looking for stories outside match reports.
Add to these novelties the sun-kissed Caribbean beaches, the beautiful women and rousing calypso and you have a World Cup which every potential to be outstanding.
But will the islanders be able to cope with pressures of hosting such an international event?
Enthusiasm over the event is running high.
Reverend Wes Hall, legendary former West Indies fast blower, summed it up best: "The World Cup has already transformed us. We in the Caribbean are used to getting up [in the morning] and checking if there are clouds in the sky. Only then do we make up our minds on whether or not to go to the [cricket] ground."
"For the World Cup, however, things are different. If we wait for the day of the games, none of us will get tickets. This event demands a fundamental transformation in our attitude and we have realised that. By the time the event ends, the world too will wake up to the fact that the Caribbean has reinvented itself."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6403375.stm
Is the Caribbean ready for the World Cup?
By Boria Majumdar, Barbados
The cricket ground in Barbados has been upgraded
Is the Caribbean ready to host the cricket World Cup?
This poser is worrying a lot of people barely two weeks away from the opening of the showpiece event.
For the small, independent nations, of varying economic strengths, that comprise the West Indies, the tournament presents big challenges.
Most of the host islands have populations between 100,000 and 300,000. They could face up to 50,000 international visitors during the event.
The islands may include some of the world's premier tourist destinations. But the challenges of staging a sporting event of this magnitude are very different.
Take Barbados. It will be hosting six of the eight final-round play off games, including the high profile India-Pakistan and India-West Indies clashes.
Nightmare
The problems begin at the airport. There are only four customs counters. The time taken to clear television equipment through ranges from an hour to two hours. Foreign media crew expect long waits.
The flight schedules are awkward and there are only a couple of connecting flights for passengers from the Indian subcontinent.
Travel within Barbados is hard. A distance of five kilometres, the distance between my hotel and the Kensington Oval cricket ground, takes an hour or more and taxi fares are never less than $15.
The World Cup is a showpiece event for the West Indies.
Restaurants are struggling to keep up. The time taken to serve pizza at the pizzeria in a mall opposite my hotel was an hour and twenty minutes. Many of the waitressing staff seem new to the job.
These may be teething problems. But internet facilities are unreliable. More than two thirds of the hotels have no internet. Internet cafes are few and far between. Places with broadband are limited and the speed is often not good enough to send television stories.
Enthusiasm
If you think you can overcome this by calling office/home, you are in for a shock. A $5 phone card allows you to talk for only for a minute to the UK and India. To compound problems, some hotels charge $3 every time one uses a calling card from the room phone.
One redeeming feature, however, is the local enthusiasm for the event.
Residents are more than ready to house international visitors in their homes and the local tourism authorities are also helpful.
Traffic moves slowly in Barbados.
Yet another redeeming feature is the entertainment on offer.
In India it is impossible to imagine stars like Sourav Ganguly or Sachin Tendulkar playing cricket with local children on the city streets.
In the Caribbean, however, things are different. As a build up to the event, authorities have revived the culture of beach cricket. Caribbean cricket players are regularly playing with young children to spread the message of the World Cup.
While beach cricket helps break down class barriers and helps bring the entire community together, it is also good fodder for journalists looking for stories outside match reports.
Add to these novelties the sun-kissed Caribbean beaches, the beautiful women and rousing calypso and you have a World Cup which every potential to be outstanding.
But will the islanders be able to cope with pressures of hosting such an international event?
Enthusiasm over the event is running high.
Reverend Wes Hall, legendary former West Indies fast blower, summed it up best: "The World Cup has already transformed us. We in the Caribbean are used to getting up [in the morning] and checking if there are clouds in the sky. Only then do we make up our minds on whether or not to go to the [cricket] ground."
"For the World Cup, however, things are different. If we wait for the day of the games, none of us will get tickets. This event demands a fundamental transformation in our attitude and we have realised that. By the time the event ends, the world too will wake up to the fact that the Caribbean has reinvented itself."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6403375.stm
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Shoaib and Asif to miss World Cup
Pakistan pace bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif have been ruled out of the World Cup due to injury.
Shoaib has been unable to recover from a knee injury that forced him to be sent back from South Africa in January.
Asif has been carrying a niggling elbow problem since that tour, and neither will be fit enough for the tournament starting on 13 March.
Yasir Arafat and Mohammad Sami will replace the pace duo and join the squad in the Caribbean at a later date.
"It is a big blow for us, but I am confident that Yasir Arafat and Mohammad Sami will live up to the expectations," team coach Bob Woolmer said.
"They will join the team in a week's time and we hope to overcome our injury problems with a united team effort."
Pakistan play hosts West Indies in the opening match of the World Cup on the first day of the tournament.
The squad flies out to the West Indies later on Thursday.
Shoaib (knee and hamstring) and Asif (elbow) have been in the news for doping issues as well as injury-related matters.
They both tested positive for nandrolone last September but had lengthy doping bans quashed on appeal in December after claiming they had not knowingly taken the banned substance.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is in turn contesting that appeal result in the Court of Arbitration for Sport
The Pakistan Cricket Board asked all its players to submit for drugs tests by 28 February.
Shoaib and Asif did not do so, raising unsubstantiated speculation that they still had traces of nandrolone in their system.
But PCB spokesman Pervez Mir insisted: "Their withdrawal has nothing to do with doping.
"They were due to feature in dope tests once they regained full fitness but for us the chapter is now closed.
"We did our best and waited because [captain] Inzamam[-ul-Haq] wanted them in the team as they are our best bowlers.
"But reports of their injuries were not good and we could not have waited any more."
Arafat is an all-rounder who bowls medium pace and has played just seven one-day internationals, while Sami is an experienced paceman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/other_international/pakistan/6388979.stm
Shoaib and Asif to miss World Cup
Pakistan pace bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif have been ruled out of the World Cup due to injury.
Shoaib has been unable to recover from a knee injury that forced him to be sent back from South Africa in January.
Asif has been carrying a niggling elbow problem since that tour, and neither will be fit enough for the tournament starting on 13 March.
Yasir Arafat and Mohammad Sami will replace the pace duo and join the squad in the Caribbean at a later date.
"It is a big blow for us, but I am confident that Yasir Arafat and Mohammad Sami will live up to the expectations," team coach Bob Woolmer said.
"They will join the team in a week's time and we hope to overcome our injury problems with a united team effort."
Pakistan play hosts West Indies in the opening match of the World Cup on the first day of the tournament.
The squad flies out to the West Indies later on Thursday.
Shoaib (knee and hamstring) and Asif (elbow) have been in the news for doping issues as well as injury-related matters.
They both tested positive for nandrolone last September but had lengthy doping bans quashed on appeal in December after claiming they had not knowingly taken the banned substance.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is in turn contesting that appeal result in the Court of Arbitration for Sport
The Pakistan Cricket Board asked all its players to submit for drugs tests by 28 February.
Shoaib and Asif did not do so, raising unsubstantiated speculation that they still had traces of nandrolone in their system.
But PCB spokesman Pervez Mir insisted: "Their withdrawal has nothing to do with doping.
"They were due to feature in dope tests once they regained full fitness but for us the chapter is now closed.
"We did our best and waited because [captain] Inzamam[-ul-Haq] wanted them in the team as they are our best bowlers.
"But reports of their injuries were not good and we could not have waited any more."
Arafat is an all-rounder who bowls medium pace and has played just seven one-day internationals, while Sami is an experienced paceman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/other_international/pakistan/6388979.stm
March 13, 2007
Colourful opening to cricket gala
TRELAWNY (Jamaica), March 12: The Cricket World Cup officially opened on Sunday with a colourful but low-key ceremony. Nine independent states from the West Indies will host 51 games involving 16 teams, including defending champions Australia.
The competition will last for 47 days leading up to the final on April 28 at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.
Over 2,000 singers, dancers and performers, including several of the Caribbean's top reggae and dancehall performers, participated in the opening at the new stadium close to Montego Bay on the northern coast of Jamaica.
Surprisingly only just over half of the Trelawny stadium was opened to spectators with one of the stands, behind the stage, left empty but those inside enjoyed a celebration of Caribbean culture.
Against a red, gold and green backdrop, reggae singers Jimmy Cliff and Gregory Isaacs, as well as contemporary performers Sean Paul and Shaggy, entertained the crowd of around 10,000.
Chris Dehring, CEO of the event, said fans at the World Cup would see ââ¬Åthe world's best cricketers competing against the backdrop of the most blessed place on earthââ¬Â. Former West Indian great Garfield Sobers formally declared the competition open.
The hosts take on Pakistan in the opening game on Tuesday in Kingston
http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/13/top5.htm
Colourful opening to cricket gala
TRELAWNY (Jamaica), March 12: The Cricket World Cup officially opened on Sunday with a colourful but low-key ceremony. Nine independent states from the West Indies will host 51 games involving 16 teams, including defending champions Australia.
The competition will last for 47 days leading up to the final on April 28 at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.
Over 2,000 singers, dancers and performers, including several of the Caribbean's top reggae and dancehall performers, participated in the opening at the new stadium close to Montego Bay on the northern coast of Jamaica.
Surprisingly only just over half of the Trelawny stadium was opened to spectators with one of the stands, behind the stage, left empty but those inside enjoyed a celebration of Caribbean culture.
Against a red, gold and green backdrop, reggae singers Jimmy Cliff and Gregory Isaacs, as well as contemporary performers Sean Paul and Shaggy, entertained the crowd of around 10,000.
Chris Dehring, CEO of the event, said fans at the World Cup would see ââ¬Åthe world's best cricketers competing against the backdrop of the most blessed place on earthââ¬Â. Former West Indian great Garfield Sobers formally declared the competition open.
The hosts take on Pakistan in the opening game on Tuesday in Kingston
http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/13/top5.htm
Lets see. After this game, few things are clear.
1) Younis is useless at number 3. Bring him at 5 or 6. Or other solution, retire him from ODI cricket. He hasn't done much in ODIs and should only be used exclusively in tests.
2) Inzi should bat at 4 and Malik at 3. Yousuf at 5.
3) Only use Naved on slow and low pitches. Thats where he is the most successful.
1) Younis is useless at number 3. Bring him at 5 or 6. Or other solution, retire him from ODI cricket. He hasn't done much in ODIs and should only be used exclusively in tests.
2) Inzi should bat at 4 and Malik at 3. Yousuf at 5.
3) Only use Naved on slow and low pitches. Thats where he is the most successful.
