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'Dhoni's message: Now let's change cricket'

"Desh badla, bhesh badlo (The nation's changed, now change your deportment)", says Indian one-day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in one of his latest advertisements. And now, he may as well add: "Ab cricket badlo (Now, let's change cricket)".

Indian cricket star Dhoni gets all female police guard

Indian cricket star Mahendra Singh Dhoni is used to being surrounded by the ladies. Now it will become a permanent fixture in his life after police in his hometown of Ranchi assigned an all-female group of body guards to keep unwanted admirers away. The decision to give Dhoni, India’s limited-overs cricket captain, the new security detail comes after two recent incidents in which female fans tried to throw themselves on the heartthrob player, Ranchi police chief M. S. Bhatia said Tuesday. Bhatia said the female police had been given special training to protect Dhoni from unwanted advances.

Cricket eyes Twenty20 for 2020 Olympics

BEIJING (Agencies): As players from around the world backed former Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist's call for Twenty20 cricket to become an Olympic sport, officials said it would take another 12 years at least for it to get on the Games roster. But a spokesman for the International Cricket Council, the global governing body, said that if cricket decided it was intent on pursuing Olympic ambitions, then Cricket was part of the Olympics just once, in 1900, but last year it was again recognised as an Olympic sport -- the first step towards full admission. Gilchrist, in his column for Indian daily the Deccan Chronicle, said Monday: "It doesn't matter where the 2020 Olympic Games are held but many of us who've experienced international Twenty20 cricket and the IPL (Indian Premier League) are convinced that cricket should bid to become a

- Should the ECB protect Test cricket?

The popular metaphor for Frankenstein's monster is of something new running amok. In cricket that thing is Twenty20 cricket, its manic spread and brazen allure conquering all before it. The England and Wales Cricket Board created Twenty20 five years ago, to widespread acclaim and profit. But those by-products now threaten to destabilise a game several centuries in the making, a situation the ECB can perhaps best serve by shackling the thing it loves.

Now you can send free SMS via your iPhone

Show me a person who isn’t interested in saving money and I’ll show you a ghost! iPhone users now have the super economy scheme available to them where they can use the AOL Instant Messenger on their phone to send and receive SMS messages without paying for a plan or individual messages. The messenger is now available for download in the iPhone’s App Store and to start making use of the economic service, you’ll have to download and start it up. To send a free text message to a pal whose number is, say, (617) 555-6868, then all you have to do is send an IM to +16175556868. A confirmation message from AOL will tell you that your message has been sent, and if your pal replies reply you’ll receive it on your phone as an IM.

Sports ministry grants RO20,000 to OCC for promoting cricket

MUSCAT — The Ministry of Sports Affairs has allotted RO20,000 to Oman Cricket Club for the promotion of cricket in the Sultanate of Oman. The funds would be made available in two parts of RO10,000 per year. The funds would be utilised for the development of cricket, for the pre-tour expenses of the national team, development of Omani cricketers, for the development of women’s cricket and cricket in Omani schools.

CRICKET: Holding quits ICC over Oval change

Cricket officials who hoped this week might end with one sort of resignation from the International Cricket Council (ICC) had to cope with another as Michael Holding quit its cricket committee.

'ICC agrees to change Oval test result'

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has agreed to change the result of the controversial Oval test between England and Pakistan in 2006 to a draw, sources at the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Wednesday.

'ICC agrees to change Oval test result'

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has agreed to change the result of the controversial Oval test between England and Pakistan in 2006 to a draw, sources at the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Wednesday.

Cricket-ICC agrees to change Oval test result to a draw: source

KARACHI, July 2 (Reuters) - The International Cricket Council (ICC) has agreed to change the result of the controversial Oval test between England and Pakistan in 2006 to a draw, sources at the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Wednesday.

Prima Group and Sri Lanka Cricket to uplift Junior Cricket

CRICKET: The Prima Group, in partnership with Sri Lanka Cricket announced its sponsorship of the Prima Champions Cup 2008. Under 15 district Cricket Tournament, for the second consecutive year. This year’s tournament which is powered by Prima Nutrition is titled ‘Bringing the Champions out’.

Holding quits ICC cricket committee over Oval change

Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) pose for a group picture at a hotel in Dubai, on July 4. Cricket officials who hoped this week might end with one sort of resignation from the ICC had to cope with another as Michael Holding quit its cricket committee.

India refuse to change England cricket tour itinerary

NEW DELHI (Agencies): India will not alter the schedule of England’s cricket tour later this year despite protests from the visitors about being made to play in smaller venues, an official said on Tuesday. The England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Monday it was upset that India’s regular Test venues like Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and Mohali were not given matches during the six-week tour. India want the two Tests in December to be played in Ahmedabad and Mumbai, while the seven preceding one-dayers were spread across various centres like Rajkot, Guwahati, Cuttack and Jamshedpur. “We would like to remind the ECB that our venues are always decided on the basis of a rotation policy,” Indian cricket board secretary Niranjan Shah was quoted as saying on the cricketnirvana.

Vote matters more, so let cricket die

An unholy compromise has been reached at the apex meeting of cricket's top administrators. Zimbabwe have pulled out of next year's Twenty20 World Cup in England in what their cricket board chief Peter Chingoka calls "the larger interests of the game". In reality, it is a move to safeguard the England and Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) commercial interests which would have suffered an estimated blow of $20 million had the event been shifted out of England.

"We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight"

"de Icaza: Yes, definitely. They have been talking about opening up and improving interoperability since February, and in March at the Mix-conference you really could see them talking a lot more about engaging with the community, open specs and process. And I was just there a couple of weeks ago for another of our regular meetings and I had the chance to not only talk to the top management but to actual engineers and developers. And what was interesting: The really got the message. I don't know if it was an internal message or if they are asking people to think in that way but in the last six months there has been a significant amount of change inside Microsoft."

Future Stars Cricket Camp underway

"WHEN you stop playing the game you don't give up the game," was the advice of Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB and president of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Bish Panday to the participants of Future Stars Cricket Camp yesterday.

Cricket Australia seeks mediation course in racism abuse cases

Peter Young, general manager of Public Affairs for Cricket Australia leaves the ICC Code of Conduct appeal hearing of Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh at the Federal Court in Adelaide, in January. Cricket Australia is currently lobbying the International Cricket Council for a mediation phase in cases of racial vilification in international cricket, reports said Thursday.

On cricket alone, Zimbabwe is in disgrace

So let us talk not politics but cricket. After all, that is what Peter Chingoka and Ozias Bvute want, is it not? Those twin pillars of the crumbled edifice called Zimbabwe Cricket, who have presided over a most disgraceful decline while all the while enjoying the benefits that full-member status of the ICC brings, called upon the international cricket community this week to consider only cricketing matters when Zimbabwe's position at the high table is discussed. We shall grant them their wish.

Tired Dhoni pulls out of Test series in Sri Lanka

New Delhi: Non-stop cricket played by the Indian team has now had another victim in the form of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who opted out of the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka. The Indian ODI captain said that he was exhausted due to the hectic cricket schedule over the past year and had hinted his desire to take a break after the recently concluded Asia Cup in Pakistan.

TCA youth cricket festival launched

The Technical Cricket Academy (TCA) has moved one step closer in its goal to make the game of cricket a favourite among the younger population of Antigua and Barbuda with the launching of its inaugural Youth Cricket Festival last Saturday at the Dredgers’ Cricket Ground.

Matsushita now calls itself Panasonic

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd announced its shareholders approved a proposal to change the company's name to "Panasonic Corp." at its 101st annual shareholders' meeting held last week. The change will become effective from Oct. 1, 2008. The name change will also take effect for some of the group companies currently using the names Matsushita or National. In addition, Matsushita announced its ticker symbol change on the New York Stock Exchange from "MC" to "PC" as of Oct. 1.

Scotiabank presents One Day International Cricket Tri-Series

TORONTO, Aug. 15 /CNW/ - Scotiabank is pleased to announce that it is the title sponsor of the One Day International Cricket Tri-Series beginning Monday, August 18th in King City. The tournament, hosted by Cricket Canada and the Canadian National Cricket team, will feature the national cricket teams of the West Indies and Bermuda.

CRICKET: English cricket set for Twenty20 double

English cricket is to feature two Twenty20 competitions as part of a new structure for the domestic game starting in 2010, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced.

'Cricket in Olympics' movement gathers strength

David Morgan, the president-elect of the International Cricket Council, shows a China Cricket T-shirt during an interview in Beijing, on August 19.

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