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...Calcutta. By 1999, when he took over as Australian captain, he was one of the game's greats. His batting was never as flamboyant as West Indian Brian Lara's nor as sublime as Indian Sachin Tendulkar's, but his wicket had become the most prized in cricket. Other batsmen could take a bowling attack apart, but Waugh, using both bat and niggling remarks (or what he liked to call "mental disintegration"), would bludgeon it and then bury it to make sure it never bothered his team again...
...Rawalpindi Express," who can bowl a ball at 161 km/h, should be enough to keep them in contention. And don't miss Sri Lanka's man with the golden arm, spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, sometimes known as the smiling assassin because he grins incessantly as he mercilessly bowls out opposing batsmen. For South Africa, meanwhile, there is the chance to recoup from a disastrous semifinal of the 1999 World Cup, when a dreadful mix-up with two balls remaining between their batsmen Allan Donald and Lance Klusener - named player of the tournament - gave victory to Australia, who went...
...Crimson will hope to finally overcome those troubles when it faces Maine at 3 p.m. today at O’Donnell Field. Also this weekend, the Harvard batsmen are scheduled to resume Ivy action with back-to-back doubleheaders against Cornell and defending Ivy champ Princeton. The Crimson will look for a clean sweep on the weekend to ensure that it doesn’t avoid falling behind in the Red Rolfe Division. After splitting with Penn and Columbia one week ago, Harvard is tied with Yale and Brown atop the standings...
...often end in a draw as produce a result), and struggling India was expected to put up only modest resistance. Indeed, Indian cricket has been as subject to the bribery malaise as its politics, with the former captain of the national team and one of its star batsmen having been forced to quit last year after being found guilty of fixing games for bookmakers...
...going according to form as the Australians batting first had amassed 445 runs off the demoralized Indian bowling attack. Worse was to come. India lost its first wicket after only six minutes, with no runs on the board. And the rot never stopped, as the pride of India's batsmen were skittled for only 171. Only one man showed any resistance: Vangipurappu Laxman (like many of his countrymen better known by his initials, V.V.S.), whose 59 included 12 fours (balls smashed all the way to the boundary fence...