Infamous bookie Mukesh Gupta known as "MK" and "John" has turned down the ICC's request for an informal chat. He is also not likely to respond to the BCCI inquiry commissioner K Madhavan's call. Since neither have any legal binding on him they are unable to force him to make an appearance.
The Scotland Yard had arrested alleged bookie Sanjeev Chawla in North London in December. Chawla (33) who runs a clothing business store in Central London was arrested in his home in Hendon.
Australian skipper Steve Waugh said in Brisbane that he would miss Australia's next two matches in the Carlton One-day Series because of a groin strain. Deputy Adam Gilchrist will lead the side in his absence.
The BCCI has decided to conduct an elbow examination to determine the exact age of players in a bid to solve the problem of overage. In recently concluded finals of the Cooch-Behar (Under-19) Trophy both the finalists Madhya Pradesh and Haryana accused each other of fielding overage players.
The CBFS, Sharjah has denied that they would declare Sarfaraz Nawaz as persona non grata if he were nominated as one of the beneficiaries. CBFS chief co-ordinaor Asif Iqbal said in Dubai that he was still not aware if the Pakistan Board has nominated Sarfaraz, as they are yet to receive the list of nominations from the Pakistan Board. Majid Khan however who was earlier nominated declined the benefit saying he will not accept money from any other country than his own.
The meeting of Sports Ministers from all Test playing countries, which the South African minister Ngconde Balfour had proposed to host in Johannesburg this month, will now take place later this year. The main objective of the meeting was to find ways in which Governments can deal with the issue of match fixing in the wake of investigations that have uncovered the involvement of cricketers.
With a month left for the Australians to arrive in India, the ACB's chief Malcolm Speed is in India to find potential sponsors for this team. He refused to comment on BCCI's confusion with the dates confirming that he was here seeking sponsors and not sorting out dates.
Curtly Ambrose, the burly West Indian fast bowler who retired from Test Cricket was recently presented with two car licence plates: AMBI 405 (indicating his haul of Test wickets) and AMBI 98 (indicating the number of Tests he has played in).
Scores at a glance
Australia stamped their authority over the West Indies once again as the visitors were handed a crushing nine-wicket victory in the 3rd match of the Carlton Series at Brisbane.
West Indies: 234-8 in 50 overs (WW Hinds 54, JC Adams 44, RD Jacobs 44 not out; SK Warne 3-41)
Australia: 236-1 in 43.4 overs (AC Gilchrist 98, ME Waugh 112)
Man of the match: ME Waugh (Aus)
Sri Lanka continued their dismal tour of South Africa when they lost yet again by five wickets in the fifth match of the 6 match one-day series at Bloemfontein. This was the home team's tenth win in a row.
Sri Lanka: 206 in 49.2 overs (RP Arnold 32, K Sangakkara 33, GP Wickremasinghe 32; SM Pollock 3-44).
South Africa: 207-5 in 42 overs (HH Gibbs 79, N Boje 40, JH Kallis 31)
Man of the match: HH Gibbs (SA)
The weather marred the Duleep Trophy tie between North Zone and West Zone at Mohali, which ended in a draw. North Zone collected five points by virtue of having taken a first innings lead.
West Zone: 284 (Wasim Jaffer 39, HH Kanitkar 61, SV Bahutule 42; A Nehra 4-103, Surinder Singh 4-80) & 50-1
North Zone*: 331 (A Chopra 54, V Shewag 162 not out; Iqbal Siddiqui 5-116, SR Saxena 3-74)
The Central Zone-East Zone Duleep Trophy encounter at Kanpur also ended in a draw with East Zone collecting 5 points from their first innings lead.
Central Zone: 421 (Jai Prakash Yadav 95, AR Khurasiya 110, M Kaif 83, Abhay Sharma 31, M Kartik 45; Javed Zaman 5-99, Sukhvinder Singh 3-89)
East Zone*: 484 (SS Das 40, NL Haldipur 34, RR Parida 53, RS Gavaskar 146, D Dasgupta 72, Extras 52; KS Parida 4-126)
Duleep Trophy points table after four matches:
North Zone
Central Zone
West Zone
East Zone
South Zone
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Mts
2
2
2
1
1
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Pts
10
8
6
5
3
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Its their bread and butter…
Unlike the professional and spoilt cricketer of today the players of a few decades ago had to have occupations outside the cricket field either as temporary or more so with a view to a secure future. Given below is a list of some well known cricketers and the professions they followed in their early days….
Jonathan Agnew
Younis Ahmed
Geoffrey Boycott
Allan Lamb
Andy Roberts
Colin Croft
Joel Garner
John Bracewell
Geoff Howarth
Colin Miller
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(Eng)
(Pak)
(Eng)
(Eng)
(WI)
(WI)
(WI)
(NZ)
(NZ)
(Aus)
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Lorry driver
Owns and runs a travel agency
Worked for the Yorkshire Electricity Board
Timber Representative
Fisherman
Air Traffic controller and pilot
Telegraph operator
Grave digger
Petrol Pump attendant.
Bar attendant
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Yesterday's News
Compiled by: Mohandas Menon
