Cricket News In Brief – January 10th 2012 – Part 3
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BJ-Haddin-c1170 after the Australian wicket-keeper claimed that the Men In Blue are a fragile bunch and choke easily under pressure.
The left-armer retaliated by stating that Haddin should focus more on his glove work following lacklustre performance behind the stumps in the opening two encounter of the side’s four –match Test series.
"Haddin should focus on his keeping. That looked fragile to me. Since he is doing the talk, it looks like he has been appointed just for that," he said.
Zaheer earlier also commented that his team is quietly confident in their abilities to stage a comeback after two heavy losses in the first two Test matches. The third five-day game will be played at Perth from January 13th.
Former Sri Lankan skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hashan-Prasantha-Tillakaratne-c62021 has written a formal request to the International Cricket council, to put an inquiry into the Sri Lankan Cricket elections held on January 3.
Tillakaratne claims that there was political interference in the elections while adding that several members of the voting parties do not qualify under Article 11 (v) (f) of the SLC’s constitution.
"Due to political interference the membership of SLC have been deprived of an opportunity to have free and fair elections," said Tillakaratne.
Australian inform fast bowler, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PM-Siddle-c2197 claims that being drop from the Test side to face Sri Lanka last year spurned him on to work hard on his game.
The pacer has been in scintillating form in the ongoing series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 where he has taken 11 wickets in the opening two Test matches to help his side take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series.
Despite having a stop start career so far with the national team, Siddle has brought consistency to his game in recent times, which has seen him become an integral member of the current set up.
“I think the disappointment of getting dropped in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 sort of did hit a bit of a spot in me, and I knew I had to work on a few things. Ever since then I've been a bit stronger, and bowling well and injury-free,” said the pacer.
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