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Amidst glitz, glamour and laser show, Chennai Super Kings formally announced their 24-member team, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the 2008 DLF Indian Premier League cricket tournament.TS Raghupathy, executive president of India Cements, also announced Aircel Cellular and Reebok as the title and apparel sponsors, respectively here on Saturday night.

Former South African captain Kepler Wessels will coach the team while Gregory King will be the physical trainer. Tommy Simsek will be the team physio.

Chennai Super Kings have also appointed Tamil cine stars Vijay and Nayanthara as their “star ambassadors”, both of whom were present at the gala launch along with Dhoni.

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Chennai: The first Test between India and South Africa came to an inglorious end here, with the visitors ending their second innings at 331-5. Neil McKenzie continued in his rich vein of form to remain unbeaten on 155, while Mark Boucher kept him company at the end with 11 runs, as play was called off with 14 overs remaining.

The unhelpful MA Chidambaram Stadium pitch had consigned this match to the record books right from the last session of the fourth day, and there was very little the bowlers could have done to change that plot. The South African batsmen took away some precious batting practice, not to mention some big scores. The action now shifts to Ahmedabad for the second Test, beginning on April 3.

If there were to be any advertisements for Test cricket after this, this pitch would certainly not feature on it. Home advantage is a given, but this track did not provide any advantage to anyone at all. As many as 1498 runs were scored in the match for the loss of 25 wickets, the highest ever here.

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Despite a fine unbeaten half-century by Lance Klusener, Kolkata Tigers could manage to post a small total of 142-4 in their allotted 20 overs against Delhi Gaints in the second edition of the Indian Cricket League’s Twenty20 tourney here at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium on Thursday.

Even after getting off to a good start and losing just four wickets, yet the Giants’ bowlers never let the Tigers’ batsmen dominate. Klusener was the lone batsman, who made a consistent 62 from 61 balls with 8 fours.

Electing to bat first, Kolkata Tigers got off to a flying start. Openers - Deep Dasgupta and Klusener got into the rhythm quickly and sent the fielders on a leather hunt.

Dasgupta was particularly in a vibrant mood as he assaulted the bowlers, scoring an excellent 21-ball 35, studded with 4 boundaries and a six before J P Yadav claimed his wicket.

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India’s Rahul Dravid became only the sixth batsman in history to score 10,000 Test runs as the first Test against South Africa headed for a draw.

The 35-year-old former captain reached the milestone on his way to making 111 for his 25th Test century in Chennai.

Virender Sehwag earlier departed for 319, adding only 10 to his overnight score, as India were all out for 627.

Dale Steyn took 4-103 before Neil McKenzie and Hashim Amla took South Africa to 131-1, a lead of 44.

The Proteas pair batted cautiously, with India’s spinners Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble finding increasing turn on the worn pitch.

One such delivery saw Harbhajan end an aggressive knock from South Africa skipper Graeme Smith.

The opener was adjudged lbw to one that turned in at him off a length after hitting 35 from 30 balls, including five fours.

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McLean Park (fifth day of five): England beat New Zealand by 121 runs

England finally won the third Test in the seventh over after lunch this morning despite a dramatic piece of hitting by Tim Southee, 19, who hit nine sixes in a merry and mighty afternoon slog. He reached a maiden fifty off 29 balls, the sixth fastest in Test cricket, before Ryan Sidebottom, who was named the man of the series, bowled Chris Martin to finish the series with 24 wickets.

Monty Panesar took six for 126 as England completed a happy comeback after the timely shock administered to them in Hamilton. It was important that, in the process of winning their first overseas series for three years, a callow side should develop and Stuart Broad’s quite exceptional all-round performance in a third Test made poignant by Stephen Fleming’s attractive final innings confirmed that encouraging progress has been made.

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When time is of the essence, things need to be done quickly. For a side that recovered so well from a 540-run deficit, India should have really pressed the advantage given to them by Virender Sehwag. But that was not to be.

The South Africans, under no real pressure, finished the fourth day of the first Test at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here at 131 for one in reply to India’s 627. Neil McKenzie was unbeaten on 59 while Hashim Amla was on 35.

Rahul Dravid got a hundred, and more. He also became the sixth in cricket history and the third Indian to cross 10,000 runs. But while that looks great for the records, his progress on Saturday couldn’t really be termed as being in tune with the team ambition, or at least, what team ambition should have been.

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Virender Sehwag fell well short of Brian Lara’s world record score as South Africa fought back on the fourth day of the first Test in India.

Sehwag resumed on 309, having already compiled the fastest triple century in Test history, and immediately added the single he needed to surpass the highest score made for India, beating his own record set against Pakistan in Multan four years ago.

But the right-hander did not last much longer, edging a full Makhaya Ntini delivery to Neil McKenzie at slip in the sixth over of the day to depart for 319, the 15th highest score in Test history.

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Two of England’s leading international grounds, Lord’s and The Oval, are considering offers to stage exhibition games involving teams from the Indian Premier League, according to a report in The Times.

Although the venues for the initial games have already been allocated in India, there seems an increasing likelihood that other international venues will be also be used, as a way to promote the tournament around the world as much as provide world-class facilities. As it stands, however, the London venues will only host exhibition matches.

Paul Sheldon, the Surrey chief executive, declined to comment to The Times, while a spokesman for the MCC also refused to make a statement.

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Bangladesh in Pakistan 2007-08

Rasel included for Pakistan ODIs

Syed Rasel, the left-arm medium-pacer, has been included in Bangladesh’s 15-man squad to tour Pakistan in April.

Rasel is the only addition to the 14-member squad that completed a 3-0 win over Ireland. The team will be led by Mohammad Ashraful, who was fined by the board for a recent altercation with a spectator while returning from a practice session.

“We have kept the winning combination for this tour,” Rafiqul Alam, Bangladesh’s chief selector, said. “I am sure the series whitewash of Ireland has given the boys a lot of confidence which they will carry over to Pakistan.

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