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Clarke shines as Australia win fifth World Cup title

Michael Clarke marked his final one-day international with a fine 74 as Australia won their fifth World Cup, beating fellow co-hosts New Zealand by seven wickets in a one-sided final in Melbourne on Sunday. aussy teamNew Zealand, who defeated Australia by one wicket in the pool phase, were all but out of the match after being dismissed for just 183 following captain Brendon McCullum’s decision to bat first, having won the toss. The writing was on the wall for New Zealand, appearing in their first World Cup final, when McCullum was bowl...

Australia beat India to set up final clash

AUSSIE-Win-NSAustralia will now meet New Zealand, the only team they have not beaten in the tournament and the Kiwis will play the summit clash at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday, which will be their first match outside New Zealand in this tournament. Captain MS Dhoni kept the Indian hopes alive with a run-a-ball 65, a knock that was studded with 2 sixes and 3 fours before he was run out by direct hit from Glenn Maxwell. India got off to a good start in their run chase with openers Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan putting u...

Protests in Bangladesh over ‘biased’ umpiring

Hundreds of Bangladesh cricket supporters Thursday burnt an effigy of Pakistani cricket umpire Aleem Dar and marched in the capital Dhaka after the country was knocked out of the World Cup. They chanted “Shame, Shame. No to ICC conspiracy,” as they shouted slogans against the umpires and the International Cricket cricket BDCouncil after Bangladesh’s best ever World Cup came to an end following a 109-run defeat against India. Opener Rohit Sharma top-scored with 137 off 126 balls and Suresh Raina hit a rapid-fire 65 from 57 balls as Indi...

Not taking Bangladesh lightly: Raina

Middle-order batsman Suresh Raina has said India are not taking Bangladesh lightly ahead of their cricket World Cup quarterfinals clash at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) here on Thursday. Bangladeshi-crowd-300“We are not taking Bangladesh lightly. Tomorrow is a big day for us. This is the quarterfinals and we have to win. One mistake and you can lose,” Raina said at the customary pre-match press conference here on Wednesday. “All we need to do now is be disciplined in all departments of the game, be positive and l...

India warm up to World Cup’s business-end

The talk in television studios is already about India’s semifinal opponents, hurdling over the quarterfinal against Bangladesh. That’s the kind of confidence Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s boys have instilled. Just to jog the captain’s memory, the Bangladeshis might take him back to 2007 in the Caribbean. That was a World Cup wherein the Indians suffered performance paralysis and they could not get the Bangladeshi-crowd-300better of either of their subcontinental neighbours, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, to crash out of the tournament at t...

Stomach bug in NZ camp days before fighting BD

Illness prevented leading batsman Kane Williamson from training with his teammates Wednesday as New Zealand faced the first major off-field glitch of its Cricket World Cup campaign. Williamson is the most-heavily affected of a handful of New Zealand players who contracted a virus after their six-wicket win over Afghanistan on Monday. [caption id="attachment_13807" align="alignleft" width="300"]kane-williamson-mi-ap World Cup 2015, New Zealand World Cup, Kane Williamson stomach bug, New Zealand stomach bug, Cricket World Cup 20...
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