Cricket News In Brief – February 10, 2012 – Part 2
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482.
Middle-order batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wahab-Riaz-c95839 was also included in the playing XI for the first time since May 2011..
The Afghan team handed spinner, Hamza Kotak a debut and will be looking to perform well after skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nawroz-Mangal-c2084 opted to bat on a lively pitch at Sharjah.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 to maintain their unbeaten home run, winning the 3rd Commonwealth ODI match by 5 runs.
Set into bat, the hosts faltered early on before skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978, stabilized the innings with a well constructed 57, which aided in his team posting 231.
In reply, the Lankans began solidly with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Mathews-c913 heroic knock of 64.
Men In Green legendary batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Javed-Miandad-c66580, has slammed the Indian Board of having double standards, following their failure to include Pakistani players in the lucrative Indian Premier League.
The p**i player featured in the first edition of the IPL in 2008, but went unsold the following year after the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 terror attacks dented the political relationships between the two arch rivals.
“My question is, who is to be blamed? Is it the BCCI or the Indian government? One should come clear on whose decision is this, otherwise the blame game would continue and Pakistani cricketers will be deprived time and again," Miandad told MiD DAY.
Injured Aussie pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MG-Johnson-c1945, claims that too much advice eventually led him to underperform for the national team in 2011.
The left-armer struggled to replicate his early form last year, where he managed just 13 Test scalps at an abysmal average of 56.62.
"As soon as I get too much information, I don't think it helps me. It's hard when you have a lot of people coming in and telling you what you should and shouldn't be doing," Johnson was quoted as saying by 'the Daily Telegraph'.
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