Cricket News in Brief – December 16, 2011 – Part 1
India and Pakistan would have to wait a bit longer to play each other as the bilateral series between the two countries failed to get a green light in the Asian Cricket Council meeting.
According to insiders, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747.
Talking on the matter, PCB’s chief operating officer, Subhan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 and Pakistan agreed to play their series.”
However, according to Ahmed, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) failed to give a positive gesture towards the resumption of bilateral cricketing ties.
India boycotted playing with Pakistan after the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 terrorist attacks in 2008 and since then the arch rivals have not played in a bilateral series.
Newly appointed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jason-Neil-Gillespie-c66461, the former Australian pacer, has vowed to tackle match-fixing in county cricket with an iron fist.
Gillespie believes that education can prevent the players from getting sucked in this menace which is destroying the game.
“It's a huge issue at the moment and it really saddens me that things have gone on. It's all about education. We've seen what happens when guys make bad decisions,” said the 36-year-old pacer.
The cricket world has been rattled by recent spot-fixing scandal, which saw the banning of three Pakistan players (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Asif-c1993) from the sport.
Former Australian captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377’s recent decline in form.
Hughes believes that the reason behind Indian batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556’s success is the fact that the batsman has a solid technique and even at the age of 38, Tendulkar is still playing better than 36-year-old Ponting.
"http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 is 38 but has a wonderful technique. This has nothing to do with age. Ricky's technique is flawed,” he opined.
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