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The findings of the report mean that Shabbir can resume bowling in international cricket,

You can't fault government for seizing that opportunity. But it has an impact on Barbados' current account deficit and it does bring with it attended risks. And, therefore, you have to ask whether or not the tourism business that is going to be generated from the publicity around the cricket matches will be sustained after the cricket matches are over.

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A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

This is already the biggest betting Test series ever, with up to a record 50 million pounds riding on the outcome of the five-match series, and with the unprecedented interest in the outcome of the final match we are expecting cricket punters to bet over a million pounds in a single day for the first time as the game gets underway.

Andrew has played a lot of cricket lately at a high intensity so it didn't seem necessary to rush him into a game only two days after he has arrived in Melbourne,

All bowlers are subject to further reporting if the match officials are of the view that they have concerns about whether a delivery or deliveries conform to the laws of cricket when observed with the naked eye.

The number one British dish is curry. In this country, we have got over 8,500 curry restaurants. Cricket is another shared link.

Football has something to learn from cricket: respect for officials, for each other as professionals and for the opponents.

For 18 months the ICC have been consistently reviewing the role that Twenty20 cricket could play internationally, and this response indicates there is strong interest from many parts of the cricket world in this type of event.

It?s the normal pressure or anxiety to perform well which is good. We know Pakistan?s recent performance against us has been good. But statistics don?t count much as in one-day cricket the team that performs well on that day will win.

It's time to play cricket. That's what we're here for. We have had our challenges in the past and this is another challenge. I'm excited about the possibilities.

It's one of my best moments in cricket. We always knew we'd be up against it. We tried to keep it simple, we knew we had to get a good start and Herschelle and Graeme (Smith) did fantastically well.

For Indian cricket, I am always ready to assist in whatever way I can.

There's an ebb and flow of cricket populations. When you have harsh, wet springs it can damage the egg sacs and cut down the numbers.

I tried out for the cricket team, then found out I had to play Saturday mornings... or Saturday afternoons and practice twice a week.

It might have been that I praised the work of (former Test coach) Bob Simpson, who was his sworn enemy, or that I didn't spend hours in the bar drinking and regurgitating old cricket stories,

It's a really, really tough job and I think cricket is a long way behind other sports in terms of its level of support and the way in which it trains and develops its umpires, especially considering how much pressure and scrutiny umpires are under.

It's a great sign for him and for Indian cricket. Hopefully, he will go from strength to strength from here.

Everyone in the whole team wanted to be positive this morning and go for a win. Cricket itself needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games.

Everyone is keeping an eye on all cricket all the time. As long as we don't try to notice too much and forget about our own game.

That is cricket. The selectors looked at the best balanced team to go into the game. You've got to be patient.

That is important for players to recover but I don't think excessive international cricket is being played these days. The players are also being paid well now.

This meeting is an important opportunity for the directors from across our membership base to guide the direction of international cricket on a range of major issues.

They make attempts to identify serial offenders and keep them out. These types of people are not wanted at cricket matches. If there's a cost-effective method of keeping them out, we'll certainly look into it.

They don't seem to have had the hunger normally associated with Australian cricket sides. From Australia's point of view, there have been a few injuries and too many statements in the papers leading up to the series.

They don't seem to have the hunger normally associated with Australian cricket sides.

It was borne out of World Series Cricket and it's almost an institution in world cricket, so from that point of view everyone understands and knows very well what a big event it is.

It was disappointing to lose your skipper at that point in time. He felt like it could have been his day to get some runs but that's cricket - sometimes you get the hard knocks.

Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.

We will talk with the officials of Pakistan's government and the cricket board.

We don't want cricket reduced to a level where it turns into a hooligans' sport and the spirit of the game is eroded. We can't have a situation like we see in football.

We expect that all three players who have not been selected, will go back to state cricket and get back to the sort of form they were in 12 months ago.

We expect that all three players who have not been selected will go back to state cricket and get back to the sort of form they were in 12 months ago.

We felt they should return to domestic cricket to work on their batting before being reconsidered for selection.

It's a financial issue--these guys are crying out for help. But if they don't see a viable career in cricket they will have to earn a living doing something else.

It's a bit of a lottery but we played some good cricket. Today was our day. I don't think it will have any impact on the five-day matches to come.

It was something special. Test cricket is a different ball game but I really enjoyed it and hopefully we can take some of that momentum into the Tests.

It was simply the cricket score being brought to the attention of people round the table.

It's a completely different atmosphere to '98. It's much more professional and we are much more together. I found it quite tricky in '98. No disrespect to anyone in that side, because players made me feel welcome, but it was very disjointed. Now we are basically another county team. We know each other that well. We've played that much cricket together.

It was a triumph for the real thing. Five five-day Test matches between two gifted, well-matched teams playing fantastic cricket at high velocity and high pressure with the perfect mix of chivalry and venom. Here was the best game in the world, at its best.

It's a different type of cricket and we're going to have to be at our best to get used to the conditions quickly.

We had three very good pitches for the series against England (last month) and I believe good pitches produce good cricket.

We had to do the best deal for cricket as a whole,

We knew it before the series. But our focus at the moment is to win tomorrow's match and clinch the series. We have been playing good cricket so far and we just want to maintain the same standard.

It's another big tour and more big opportunities. We are focused on playing good, hard cricket.

It's how you should play cricket. They did the right thing declaring at tea and we set a total they can get if they play very well.

It's been an interesting day's cricket. There was a little bit in the wicket this morning and their guys bowled very well and we made a good start but didn't bat as well as we probably could've done or should've done.

This is the time to plan properly with the World Cup upon us and start to turn around the game in the Caribbean. West Indies cricket is at a stage where upward mobility is necessary and we have to all start working to achieve this.

I don't see any reason why this young team should not go out and play the same game they have done over the past few weeks, go out and enjoy it and give it their all because that's all they can do and see where it takes us, ... This week is a great opportunity for the team to cement their place in the history of the game of cricket and it's great that we are in a position to do that.

For the last five-six months, I have been making runs in both domestic and Test cricket. I also scored runs as the captain in Zimbabwe, so I don't know whether I am playing better because I am no longer the Indian captain.

For the business-minded, ICC WI Cricket World Cup 2007 also represents an opportunity to provide goods and services, from food and entertainment to transportation and accommodation. However you become involved, remember, each of us is an ambassador for our country and our region and our actions matter.

For the past three years at least, we've been asked that players be allowed not to comply with their agreements with Zimbabwe, or that cricket not be played in Zimbabwe,

He ran well and he looked good which is a good sign for Indian cricket. If you look at his record it is impressive.

We lost the crickets.

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

Harder he works, the luckier he gets.

Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

Dravid Could play attacking cricket like me but i could never play like him

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

India me aap Prime Minister ko ek baar katghare me khada kar sakte hain. Par Sachin Tendulkar par ungli nahi utha Sakte.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

I love England and I love cricket.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

Well, all cricket invites attention.

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket than Christopher Martin-Jenkins.

I've never got to the bottom of streaking

The last two years have been the best cricket I've watched in 57 years,

The matches have been so close and tensely fought that people not only in England but in other cricket playing nations are totally involved in its outcome.

All these complaints about too much cricket nowadays is rubbish. In our days we yearned for more matches.

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.

I leave with sadness, but also with pride,

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire

Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

A great competitor, and someone who I think Indian cricket owes a lot to,

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

We have started calling him grandfather.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!