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Broad calls England’s batters `brainless’ |
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Written by Sheetal Mehta
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Sunday, 09 August 2009 06:58 |
Leeds (UK), Aug. 9 : England fast bowler Stuart Broad blasted his team’s brainless batsmen as its dream of winning the Ashes appeared to evaporate on the second day of the Headingley Test.
England at 82-5 in their second innings is still 261 runs away from avoiding an innings defeat.
The Sun quoted all-rounder Broad, as saying: "We''re disappointed because we''ve made the same mistakes again in the second innings that we made in the first. We''ve lost wickets in clumps. To lose five wickets for only 23 runs was really disappointing.”
"I thought the Australians bowled fantastically but, it was a shame we made the same mistakes," he added.
Ravi Bopara was out first ball, Ian Bell made just three, Paul Collingwood four, England skipper Andrew Strauss 32 and fellow opener Alastair Cook 30.
Broad - who had earlier claimed a career-best 6-91 as Australia chalked up a whopping first innings total of 445 - added: "Australia have some highly talented players but we are focusing on what we have done badly in this game."
England still need 82 runs to avoid their heaviest ever Ashes defeat on home soil. (ANI) |
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Junior World Squash Championships underway in Chennai |
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Written by Deepak Joshi
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Friday, 31 July 2009 15:24 |
 Chennai, July 31 : The 16th World Junior Men Squash Championship and 13th World Junior Women Squash Championship with participants from over 28 countries is being played at Chennai.
Over 100 girls and 60 boys from USA, Canada, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Kuwait, Egypt and all European countries have assembled to clinch the world championship titles.
Major (Retd) S. Maniam, Director of Coaching; Asian Squash Federation (ASF) said that India''s top seed Dipika Pallikal stands a good chance of winning the tournament.
“I think she (Dipika Pallikal) stands a very bright chance. I have had look at most of the senior players in this tournament and I think she stands a good chance,” said Major
(Retd) S. Maniam.
Meanwhile, top seed and defending champion Mohammed El Shorbagy of Egypt said that he is confident that he would win the championship, as he is familiar with Indian courts.
“I came to India twice. It''s like I know the place and I know the court because I played here before, which may be an advantage for me,” said Shorbagy.
However, some participants said that playing in Indian conditions and playing against so many international players would be quite challenging.
“It''s a lot more hard to play against other people from the whole world because within Europe we know each other very well, so, we know kind of how we each other play. But, it''s much more hard to play here,” said Manna Frederiksen from Denmark.(ANI) |
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Chamundi gets 10 days to clarify his stand |
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Written by Neena Sareen
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Monday, 27 July 2009 15:18 |
 The Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) has given 10 days to the suspended Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) secretary Chamundeswarinath to clarify his stand on the allegation made by six women cricketers for sexual harassment in the meeting of its general body on Sunday.
The speculations were made by media that Chamundi will be expelled by ACA but they decided to give time of another 10 days to Chamundi till its next meeting. Chamundi will have to submit a written explanation within a week to ACA and he will have to take part in the next meeting as he was not present in the meeting on Sunday.
ACA president Gokaraju Gangaraju said that ACA has been planning to set up an academy for women cricketers in Guntur, where they could stay, continue their studies and also play cricket. Savita Kumari, former skipper of Andhra women cricket team, was satisfied with the proceedings and she said that they were not expecting such good support by ACA members.
The members also assured them that such an incidence of women harassment would not take place in the future. |
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Thej Kumar extends lead to one point |
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Written by Harpreet Verma
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Monday, 27 July 2009 15:15 |
 The International master Thej Kumar of South Western Railway ended match his with his team-mate IM Ratna Kumar into a draw to take lead by one full point in the Karnataka Bank third FIDE-rated All India Open Chess Tournament at Mangalore on Sunday.
The match between Thej and Ratna lasted for 26 moves as both players were not taking risk and they decided to share the points among themselves.
Thej Kumar has been placed at the top position with 9 points while the second position has been occupied by five players including GM Thipsay of Maharashtra, IM Rathnakaran and IM Muralikrishnan and G A Stany and Navalgund Niranjan with 8 points each.
C Praveen Kumar lost his match to GM Praveen Thipsay of Union Bank after 26 moves due to passive play.
On another board, R Balasubramaniam (ICF) held IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (Indian Railways) to draw in defence. |
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West Indies retains new squad for second test match |
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Written by Reetu Sharma
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:30 |
 The West Indies cricket board has retained the new inexperienced squad for the second test match against Bangladesh which has been scheduled to start from on Friday.
The only change in the West Indies squad has been the addition of the batsman Ryan Hinds in the team while Kraigg Brathwaite and Jamaican André Creary have been allowed to play in the domestic three-day tournament.
Hinds has played last test match against England during a test series in West Indies while he was not included in the squad which toured to England in May.
The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) has decided to boycott the series and the matter were not solved till now so all the players refused to play in the International cricket.
However, WICB Vice President Dave Cameron said that any player would be considered for the selection in the team if they make themselves available.
The West Indies squad for the second test includes Floyd Reifer (capt), Darren Sammy (vc), Ryan Austin, David Bernard Jr, Tino Best, Travis Dowlin, Ryan Hinds, Kevin McClean, Nikita Miller, Nelon Pascal, Omar Phillips, Dale Richards, Kemar Roach and Chadwick Walton. |
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