DURBAN: Virender Sehwag returned to the Delhi Daredevils line-up as Deccan Chargers captain Adam Gilchrist won the toss and elected to field at Kingsmead in Durban on Wednesday.Delhi, who have all but sealed their place in the IPL semi-finals, left out Mithun Manhas to make way for their regular captain, while Deccan retained the same team that beat Rajasthan Royals by 53 runs in their previous game.TeamsDelhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag (captain), Gautam Gambhir, David Warner, AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dinesh Karthik, Rajat Bhatia, Amit Mishra, Pradeep Sangwan, Ashish Nehra, Dirk Nannes.Deccan Chargers: Adam Gilchrist (captain), Tirumalasetti Suman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Dwayne Smith, Y Venugopal Rao, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Chaminda Vaas, Pragyan Ojha, Shoaib Maqsusi, RP Singh.
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Pakistan is suing international cricketing bodies for moving the World Cup 2011 secretariat out of its country and into India, a lawyer said Wednesday.
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LAHORE: The Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Ijaz Butt has decided to visit the cricket playing nations of Asia to garner their support.According to PCB sources, the board planned this move keeping in view of its strained relations with the ICC after the country was stripped of hosting the World Cup.Ijaz Butt will leave for Sri Lanka, Bangaladesh and India in next few days.
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DURBAN: Delhi Daredevils scored 173-7 against Deccan Chargers in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at Kingsmead in Durban on Wednesday.AB de Villiers and Dinesh Karthik made 44 runs each to post a formidable total. Chaminda Vaas and Pragyan Ojha got two wickets for the Chargers. Earlier, Deccan skipper Adam Gilchrist won the toss and elected to field against Delhi, who have all but sealed their place in the IPL semi-finals.While Deccan retained the same team that beat Rajasthan Royals by 53 runs in their previous game.TeamsDelhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag (captain), Gautam Gambhir, David Warner, AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dinesh Karthik, Rajat Bhatia, Amit Mishra, Pradeep Sangwan, Ashish Nehra, Dirk Nannes.Deccan Chargers: Adam Gilchrist (captain), Tirumalasetti Suman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Dwayne Smith, Y Venugopal Rao, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Chaminda Vaas, Pragyan Ojha, Shoaib Maqsusi, RP Singh.
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KARACHI: The 2011 World Cup should be switched to Australia and New Zealand because of the security situation and political instability in the Asian sub-continent, former ICC president Ehsan Mani said on Wednesday.”I would say the sensible thing to do would be to shift the World Cup to New Zealand and Australia and have the 2015 edition in South Asia,” Mani told Reuters.”There is no guarantee the geo-political situation in this region is going to improve soon,” the Pakistan-born administrator said. The International Cricket Council executive board ditched Pakistan as one of the 2011 co-hosts last month because of the security situation in the country with India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka remaining as venues.The Pakistan board has mounted a legal challenge to the ICC decision and also asked for the matter to be referred to an independent arbitration tribunal.Mani, the ICC president from 2003 to 2006, said there was no guarantee the governments of Pakistan and India would co-operate for the World Cup matches.”Is there any guarantee India will allow Pakistan to play in India or vice versa? The situation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh is also not ideal for an event of such magnitude,” Mani said. He said the ICC was making a mistake by only treating Pakistan as a problem when other areas in the region were unstable.”It is understandable after the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore about teams not wanting to play in Pakistan. But sportsmen are also refusing to play in India.
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Refugees fleeing Pakistan’s fight against the Taliban scuffled for relief supplies on Wednesday as the military said it had secured footholds in a northwestern valley overrun by the insurgents.
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LAHORE: Cricket has become an Asian Games sport after it was approved by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Wednesday. It will make its debut in Guangzhou in 2010 with India and Pakistan pledging to send their best available teams. The format of the game will be Twenty20, with both men’’s and women’’s competitions. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will qualify automatically, along with host nation China. Other countries will have to play a qualifying round to fill three additional spots. “India and Pakistan were the drivers,” OCA president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah said. “Pakistan and India will come with their best teams because it will be a big competition. Asia’’s four Test-playing nations have committed to sending their best available teams.” The 2010 Asian Games will take place between November 12 and 27 in Guangzhou. Cricket was last played at a major multi-sport event in 1998 during the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
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Pakistan’s president on Wednesday brushed aside warnings that country’s nuclear arsenal was in jeopardy because of mounting instability caused by a surge in Taliban activity.
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Pakistan attack helicopters and fighter jets pounded Taliban targets in the northwest Wednesday as the government lobbied Afghanistan for a closer alliance in the battle against militants.
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Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said Wednesday he would skip the Twenty20 team’s conditioning camp at a luxury holiday resort due to a skin problem.
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