New Delhi: India has rejected players' contracts for next year's World Cup, it was revealed on Tuesday, leaving the sport's world governing body facing a showdown with its corporate partners.
New Delhi: India has rejected players' contracts for next year's World Cup, it was revealed on Tuesday, leaving the sport's world governing body facing a showdown with its corporate partners.
Perth: English Test cricketer Ben Hollioake, killed in a car smash here this weekend, enjoyed life but was no playboy, the president of a Perth cricket club with which the 24-year-old was associated, said on Sunday.
The 2000 women's World Cup was, indeed, an out-and-out success but from the Indian point of view the much talked about World Cup and the subsequent heartbreak is worth pondering over. Thatscricket.com spoke at length to Shantha Rangaswamy, who had the opportunity of watching the Indian cricketers in action from close quarters, in an effort to unravel the shortcomings."To put it in a sentence, expectations were belied," is what the former great had to say with regards to the tremendous high with which the team left the Indian shores; only to put up a very scratchy performance - against teams
Terming it as a 'raw deal', former international Shantha Rangaswamy told thatscricket.com in an exclusive interview that she did not subscribe to reasons - whatever - that necessitated the last minute swapping of the coach of the Indian team that recently toured New Zealand for the World Cup.Rumour has it that Women's Cricket Association of India (WCAI) chief Anuradha Dutt was not satisfied with the way the preparatory camps were conducted, especially the fitness and running between aspect of the game and hence the change. However Shantha begs to defer. " The Indian team's fielding and running between was as
