When New Zealand required 26 off 39 balls, All-rounder "Grant Elliott" was knocked over by the bowler "Ryan Sidebottom". Elliot was given run out when England appealed.

It clearly angered Elliott and the team New Zealand too. Umpire - Mark Benson did the right thing offered England and Collingwood the chance to withdraw the appeal. Paul Collingwood and neither his players seems bothered and Elliott was given out. He walked out with "what's that" looks at England players that questioned the gentleman game Cricket.

Collingwood should have withdrawn the appeal for the sanctity of the game. True sportsman ship is lost when the England team appealed for Elliot's run out.

Anyway, the justice is served with New Zealand winning the match from the last over.

Also Colllingwood made history with the four match suspension for being captain of England for bowling too slow in ODi#4

Here is run out appeal video (courtesy @@ youtube)

Labels: Controversy, Cricket, England, videos

Even the re-play video from you tube keeps you at the end of your chairs in excitement. If you have followed this series it kind of brought life back to one day series in the midst of hyped Twenty20 and IPL buzz for three reasons.

1) Controversial no result match which black Caps would have won easily.
2) Switch-hit back to back sixes from KP
3) 4Th ODI last ball thriller.

Last over Video : (Courtesy Youtube)

Labels: Cricket, highlights

Image via WikipediaThe Asia cup 2008 played among six countries India,Pakistan,Sri Lanka,Bangladesh,UAE and Hong Kong in Lahore and Karachi Stadium in Pakistan From June 24 (24-6-2008) to July 06 (02-06-2008)

what are the options to watch this game online for someone who is in North America and have internet connection but not TV.

Here are few options available for Asia Cup 2008 live streaming sites.

Willow TV - The official live streaming site

Willow.Tv is the official site which is having live streaming as well as videos section and in case if you missed this great game you can watch replays from there.



Note : They have just put up the link but not yet the prices for the event.

Watch the live streaming game on webwide in Internet Explorer only thats the disadvantage of Willow.TV as it works only on Windows and IE.

I wish Yahoo streaming comes to rescue with other platforms and browsers soon. Here is the post that I've covered some good news.

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Image via WikipediaKP -- Kevin Pietersen Switch-hit sixes have been the talk of 1st ODI between England and New Zealand. KP mastered the shot and creating trend that I believe will change the game of cricket. If every one can play this kind of shot I doubt it.

What is a Switch-Hit ? Pietersen turned left handed though he is a right-handed batsman when hitting this shot -- switch-shot -- he hit New Zealand's Scott Styris twice for six using this Switch-Hit.

Kevin Pietersen Switch-shot sixers Video here:


Ricky Ponting himself noted that he would not play the shot himself or encourages his team the same citing the shot's legality.

MCC confirmed that shot is legal

Kevin Pietersen will be allowed to carry on playing his extraordinary 'reverse slog-sweep' after MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), cricket's rule-makers, announced they would not be outlawing the 'switch-hit'.

"MCC believes that the 'switch-hit' stroke is exciting for the game of cricket," said a statement issued by MCC following a meeting at it's Lord's headquarters in London on Tuesday.

"Indeed, the stroke conforms to the Laws of Cricket and will not be legislated against."

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This is good news for Canadian Cricket as reported by this news that they can now get more funds because of this recognition. More than funds the recognition puts cricket on radar in sports map for Canada.

The Honourable Helena Guergis, Secretary of State (Foreign Affairs and International Trade) (Sport) and Member of Parliament (Simcoe-Grey), made the announcement at the Canadian Cricket Association's office in Toronto's Sport Alliance Centre. The Association Canadian cricket team uniform was unveiled, and the appointment of a team captain was announced.

"The Government of Canada welcomes Cricket Canada to the list of sports that are eligible to receive Government of Canada funding," said Secretary of State Guergis. "We are proud of the association's achievements and we look forward to supporting future initiatives."

This recognition benefits the Canadian cricket two-fold -- funding as well as psychological barrier.

Canada which has one of largest subcontinent immigrants and Cricket used to be the most popular sport until early 20th century and Ice Hockey replaced it later.

For more info on cricket in Canada check the page on wiki.

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Man Singh the manager of the 1983 Prudential World Cup team in his book "Cricket Biryani" writes about history of Hyderabad cricket

The Man Singh's Hyderabad XI team is: Abbas Ali Baig, VVS Laxman, ML Jaisimha (captain), MAK Pataudi, Mohammad Azharuddin, EB Aibara, Syed Abid Ali, P. Krishnamurthy (wicket-keeper), Mumtaz Hussain, NP Singh, Ghulam Ahmed, 12th man: Gul Mohammad.

Find more details here

Labels: Abbas Ali Baig, Cricket, Ghulam Ahmed, India, Mohammad Azharuddin, sachin tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman

Here is list of all channels showing Asia Cup 2008 in different countries. The matches start on June 24'2008 and ends on July'6'2008. The 13 matches are hosted by Pakistan.

Pakistan being hosting country is in advantageous position and with its recent win against India in kit Ply cup gives them edge over Sri Lanka.

I'll update this list when info is available for other countries. If you happen to know please post the country and channel info via comments.

Country	Channel Name	Channel Number	Schedule and Channel Timings links	Notes
India	ESPN STAR Sports	Dish TV Ch # 661/Ch #659  Tata Sky Ch #405/Ch # 413	ESPN Star Sports	ESPN Star Cricket is available both on Dish TV and Tata Sky ( 50 Rs extra ) This TV listings link slect the date and it will give you the time
Pakistan	GEO Super	PAS 10	GEO TV	The schedule and timings are not clear and will update as available
Europe	GEO TV (Urdu)	GlobeCast Ch #14
UK	Setanta Sports	Sky Digital & Virgin Media	Sentanta Sports	The matches will be on Sentanta Sports 1 and this channel link will take you TV guide and click on the date and you will get timings
UK	GEO TV (Urdu)	Sky Digital Ch #815	GEO UK	GEO UK schedules have not been updated and commentray will be in Urdu in channel 815
Canada:	CBN, ATN CricketPlus and Jaya TV	Bell ExpressVu Ch#730/NA/ch. 705  Rogers Cable Ch #640/Ch. # 577/Ch #620	ATN	CBN will be showing the Asia cup and  rebroadcast it on CricketPlus. If two games fall on same day then one game will be on  Cricket plus while 1 game other on Jaya TV and CBN
US	Dish Network & Direct TV	Not Available	Direct TV Dish Network	Direct TV customers call 1–888–244–0530 and ask for Pay-Per-View event for Asia Cup 2008. Call Dish Network (USA) 1-877 DISH PPV* (347-4778)  and tell customer service that you want cricket Asia Cup 2008 channel.
Africa
Australia
UAE

Labels: Asia, Cricket, TV Channels

Asia Cup 2008 will be played in Pakistan with six teams. Six cricket teams are Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and India. Matches are played from June 24' 2008 to July'6 - 2008 at both Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore and National Stadium, Karachi

Here is detailed Asia Cup 2008 schedule with match start times , venues and team vs team details -

Once the group matches are over the team according to their rankings in the group will start playing from June 28. On June 28 the team with #2 ranking in GroupA will play against Group B's #2 ranked team.
*TBD -- To Be Decided

Match date & time	Match schedule details	Stadium	Match starts in -
June, 24' 2008 on Tuesday at 16:00 local Time, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Bangladesh vs United Arab Emirates	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	Bangladesh vs United Arab Emirates match starts in - -
June, 24' 2008 on Tuesday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Group B - Pakistan vs Hong Kong	National Stadium, Karachi	Pakistan vs Hong Kong match starts in - -
June, 25' 2008 on Wednesday at 16:00 local Time, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka match starts in - -
June, 25' 2008 on Wednesday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Group B - Hong Kong vs India	National Stadium, Karachi	Hong Kong vs India match starts in - -
June, 26' 2008 on Thursday at 16:00 local Time, 10:00 GMT	Group A - Sri Lanka vs United Arab Emirates	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	Sri Lanka vs United Arab Emirates match starts in - -
June, 26' 2008 on Thursday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Group B - India vs Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	India vs Pakistan match starts in - -
June, 28' 2008 on Saturday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Bangladesh vs India	National Stadium, Karachi	Bangladesh vs India match starts in - -
June, 29' 2008 on Sunday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan match starts in - -
June, 30' 2008 on Monday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh	National Stadium, Karachi	Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh match starts in - -
July, 2' 2008 on Wednesday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Teams TBD India vs Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	India vs Pakistan match starts in - -
July, 3' 2008 on Thursday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Teams TBD Sri Lanka vs India	National Stadium, Karachi	Sri Lanka vs India match starts in --
July, 4' 2008 on Friday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Teams TBD Bangladesh vs Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	Bangladesh vs Pakistan match starts in - -
July, 6' 2008 on Sunday at 17:00 local Time, 11:00 GMT	Teams TBD FINALS	National Stadium, Karachi	Finals match starts in - -

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Its Yahoo now joining the cricket live streaming market niche besides willow.tv and cricinfo.com. Watching matches on TV Channels may not be a big deal for cricket popular nations like subcontinent, UK and Australia but for North America it always has been struggle for the cricket fans to find the TV channels or live streaming options for each series.

Willow.TV has been popular and consistent in live streaming serving for so many years probably from year 2000 as far as I know. Limitation - Willow.tv only works on a PC and Internet Explorer only. Dish Network or Direct TV sometimes based on popularity of series shows these as pay-per-view (PPV) events. DishNetwork's Zee sports Americas shows only matches played by India in India.

Looks like Yahoo wants to take advantage of this situation and as its video syndication head --Satish Menon-- announced Yahoo will be putting videos of live cricket match clippings soon.

See the video of this talk from newteevee crew that interviewed Yahoo's Satish Menon.

We will have a live scorecard with ball-by-ball commentary and when there is a significant event such as a 4 or 6 or somebody getting out, then, the video clip of that even (1 minute or less) will show up next to that event description in the ball-by-ball commentary.

-- writes Newteevee

Labels: Cricket, DishNetwork, Internet Explorer, live, North America, streaming, Television, Television program, Video clip, videos, Yahoo, youtube

Promising Chicago cricketers - Abhijit Joshi (student of Waubonsie Valley High School, Aurora, IL) and five others are banned by Midwest Cricket Conference for playing in other leagues. According to DreamCricket - MCC announced that any player turning out for any other league would be punished. Abhijit Joshi who made a name and played in recent league with his back to back centuries in Guyana is the reason for the ban.

Other banned five cricketers are part of United Cricket Club. As cricket lovers these players keeps themselves busy in plying in multiple leagues in Chicago region.

"it is not Kevin Pietersen turning up to play for UK because he did not get on the South African team"

Because of this ban promising players like Abhijit Joshi who put USA team on world cricket map will miss the huge chance to play with seniors as part of MCC for Chicago. The issue at hand "Playing in multiple leagues" in Chicago has got required attention now such that American Cricket Associations ( United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) ) work on to resolve such issues and give life to USA cricket and to young players like Abhijit.

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Are you ready for another IPL look alike league tournament ? Cricket fans will have another Twnety20 league coming up.

IPL success led to creation of new league - Cricket Champions League (CCL). The parties involved in this league are England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), Cricket Australia , the Board for the Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) and Cricket South Africa.

The structure looks very similar to IPL with eight teams and winners get a huge reward of £2.5m. Winners from each board like IPL winners Rajasthan Royals and the runners up Chennai superkings are already part of eight teams of CCL. From Australia cricket - Western Australia and Victoria teams, From South africa - the Titans and KwaZulu Natal Dolphins. ECB twenty 20 winners are yet to be decided.

Venues will be either India or Middle East. My guess is it would be india where stadiums were full for IPL thus getting ticket revenues would be easy for this new league.

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Looking for all TV channels that are broadcasting Bangladesh tri-nation series from June'8, Here is grand list of all continents/countries and the respective TV channels. I've tried my best to include the schedule of the channel links for convenience of match start times and channel numbers.

Canada: CBN (Bell ExpressVu; Rogers Cable)

CBN channel has the broadcast rights of telecasting this tri-series in Canada.CBN and ATN- Cricket Plus are two sports channels that ATN operates in Canada.

US - Direct TV & Dish Network

Direct TV DirectTV hasn't yet announced on its website the package -

Check this link for any updates.

Dish Network

Dish Network hasn't yet announced on its website the package -

Call Dish Network (USA) and tell customer service that you want cricket - Bangladesh tri-series channel.

Check this link for any updates.

UK - Zee Cinema

The Tri-Series will be shown on ZEE Cinema, live and exclusive in the UK.

the Tri-Series, which features India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, will be shown from next month. The Indian and Pakistani squads are set to reach Dhaka in early June, with a kick off on Sunday 8th June.

June 8: Bangladesh v Pakistan
June 10: India v Pakistan
June 12: India v Bangladesh
June 14: Final

The Tri-Series will be shown on ZEE Cinema, live and exclusive in the UK.

India - NEO Cricket (Tata Sky)

Neo Sport bought the rights to broadcast all Bangladesh tri-series matches.

Pakistan - Geo Super

Geosport is telecasting Ban-Ind-Pak series.

Africa - Supersport

Supersport (http://www.supersport.co.za/cricket/content.aspx?id=11817&des=content&view=full ) provides coverage for tri-nation matches in Africa continent.

Here is the schedule ..remember some days it is on Supersport1 (SS1 channel) , SS2 channel and SS7 channels.

Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:50 - 19:45 SS1 Bangladesh Cricket - Triangular B`desh v Pakistan
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:50 - 19:45 SS2 Bangladesh Cricket - Triangular Pakistan v India
Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:50 - 19:45 SS7 Bangladesh Cricket - Triangular B`desh v India
Saturday, June 14, 2008 10:50 - 19:45 SS7 Bangladesh Cricket - Triangular Final

Australia - ??

UAE, Dubai & Middle East - ART Prime Sport

Probably ART Prime Sport, as this is popula sports channel available to viewers in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Libya.

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Does Dhoni's captaincy gets another tri-series cup for India ? Or Bowling sharp Pakistan clean bowls two weakened bowling sides of India and Bangladesh ? Minnows are no more -- can team Bangladesh hit back at two great class teams ?

Here are few options available for Tri-series (India, Pakistna and Bangladesh matches) live streaming from Willow.TV

Willow.TV package for $9.99

To watch Bangladesh, India, Pakistan live streaming from willow.tv website you will need to have a broadband connection, which can be either a DSL or High-Speed Cable Internet connection. Willow.TV warns that the streaming may not work with slow dial up connections

Package which is available for $9.99 for all 4 games includes Live Video Streaming, On-Demand Replays, Video Scorecards and Commentary.

Details are available in this link.

Tri-Nation Tournament (India v Pakistan v Bangladesh), June 2008
Please note:
All timings are listed in your local Timezone. Make sure that your computers Clock and Timezone settings are accurate.
These schedules are subject to change at short notice. Please revisit the service as close as possible to the broadcast time for the most accurate information.
Tri-Nation Tournament (Bangladesh, India and Pakistan in Bangladesh), 2008
Sun Jun 8 03:30 CDT 2008 1st ODI Bangladesh v Pakistan. Shere Bangla National Stadium. Mirpur Click to watch:
(LIVE Video)
8 Jun 2008 Reserve Day
Tue Jun 10 03:30 CDT 2008 2nd ODI India v Pakistan. Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
10 Jun 2008 Reserve Day
Thu Jun 12 03:30 CDT 2008 3rd ODI Bangladesh v India. Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
12 Jun 2008 Reserve Day
Sat Jun 14 03:30 CDT 2008 Final - TBC v TBC
14 Jun 2008 Reserve Day

If you have questions of how to purchase the package, The below FAQ from Willow.TV will help.

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