Sudatta Mukherjee, writing about “SEVEN foreign cricketers who married Indian women” …. https://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/the-seductiveness-of-indian-women-cricketing-stars-in-love/
Murali at his wedding ceremony in Chennai with Madhimalar Ramamurthy
Sir Viv Richards with his Indian paramour Neena Continue reading
“Australian cricketers get personal during anthem”, February 10, 2016, … http://www.watoday.com.au/sport/cricket/what-a-cheek-usman-khawajas-pregame-grab-of-adam-zampas-butt-20160210-gmq6bd.html
Australian opening batsman Usman Khawaja squeezes team-mate Adam Zampa’s behind ahead of the ODI against the Black Caps in Wellington.Some of the players were getting more than a little touchy-feely as they linked arms while Advance Australia Fair was played.
Australian opening batsman Usman Khawaja squeezes teammate Adam Zampa’s behind ahead of the ODI against the Black Caps in Wellington. Opening batsman Usman Khawaja certainly got busy calming the nerves of rookie spinner Adam Zampa. Khawaja laughed off being caught grabbing Zampa’s behind, playing it down when asked about the video on Twitter. “hahaha oh boy. Didn’t realize there were cameras filming from behind,” he tweeted. “haha it was all consensual. Just have a joke with the debutant #playon”.
Australia won that match to square the series, but lost the decider in Hamilton on Monday. The video clip was posted on Facebook and tweeted by The Crowd Goes Wild and was certainly proving a hit on the internet. … http://www.watoday.com.au/sport/cricket/what-a-cheek-usman-khawajas-pregame-grab-of-adam-zampas-butt-20160210-gmq6bd.html
Arjun Nair was named in the Australian under-19 cricket team. Picture: Helen NezdropaHAWKESBURY Cricket Club’s Arjun Nair is a cricketer to keep an eye on in coming years. Nair has been picked in the Australian under-19 team, which will tour the UK over July and August. With the Ashes set to start tonight, there will be a huge focus on whether all-rounders Shane Watson or Mitch Marsh make the Australian team. While the pair are undoubtedly the premier allrounders in Australian cricket right now, Nair’s selection has given him a fantastic chance to prove he is an all-rounder of the future for Australia.
Filed under Australian cricket, backyard cricket, Under 19 cricket, work ethic
The Agar family in 2010 – from left: Will, Ashton and Wes. Picture: Hilton Stone
ONE: “Another Agar n the Rise,” =Aaron Pereira,
Wesley Agar, youngest brother of Ashton, on the cusp of state honours. The days of being known simply as “Ashton’s little brother” are numbered for Wes Agar. The tearaway quick has forged his own path, not dissimilar to Ashton’s before him although not nearly as glamorous. For Ashton, it was a contract with Western Australia, an entrenched kinship with his state teammates and a retainer that not many would scoff at. For 18-year-old Wes, it’s an unfamiliar state, a host family and a grade club opportunity with no guarantee of a Redbacks contract.
But that hasn’t deterred the youngest Agar, who is determined to earn a state call-up without the need to draw on his increasingly well-regarded name. “The move to South Australia has been awesome for my game,” Agar told cricket.com.au. “I’ve had a few coaches really help me but another reason to move was to really grow up and take responsibility for my game.”
Agar has also heeded the lessons of his big brother, having witnessed first-hand how quickly the fortunes of a first-class cricketer can rise and fall. And so he viewS a possible trip to Bangladesh for the Under 19 ICC Cricket World Cup with no small degree of caution. “If I can perform and keep bowling fast and take wickets I can definitely have a good crack, but I’m not looking at that,” he said of the tour. “If it comes, then great, but if not, I’ll just keep working hard.”
If you looked at Wes’ stats through the junior ranks, you might be mildly impressed. If you saw his figures now, your interest would spike. But if you actually watched his bowling style and the manner in which he ferociously attacks opposing batsmen, you’d be sold. Think of the ‘Rawalpindi Express’, Shoaib Akhtar: similar action, same hair.
Standing at 192cm, slightly taller than brother Ashton, Wes has been clocked at above 130kph and puts his height to good use, sending even the tallest batsman onto the back foot. And while his batting doesn’t possess the simple finesse of Ashton’s, no-one ever questioned Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee were never questioned about their work with the willow.
Even matriarch of the Agar family, Sonia, is in Adelaide to watch Wes ply his trade, opting against a trip to Perth for the Warriors shield match, a game in which Ashton subsequently scored a century. Mum has probably seen enough backyard battles to write a cricket novel, though interestingly Wes says the star performer there was often middle brother Will.
“It was different every time – some days I would win, some days Ashton would win and I have another brother Will (who plays for St. Kilda in the Victorian Premier Competition) who probably won most of the battles,” he recalled.
Currently contesting the Under 19 National Championships for his newly-adopted state, Wes took 5-37 against Tasmania, his pace often proving too much for the batsmen of the under-age tournament. “It’s a good learning experience for me, especially getting the new ball,” he said. “I probably haven’t bowled better than that five-wicket-haul but I could probably bowl better early doors to help the side. “Obviously my goal is to bowl as fast as I can but you have to be smart about it, know your batsman’s strengths and weaknesses.”
On the fringe of state selection, Wes has one goal in his sights and something to add to the ever-growing Agar trophy room. “I think a Baggy Green is everyone’s goal who plays in these tournaments,” he said. “That is the dream.”
You can follow Wes’ progress through the Under 19 National Championships in Adelaide at www.nationalchamps.com.au or @CAPathway
Wes Agar says he is ready to burst on to the cricket scene, just like older brother Ashton did when he made a shock Test debut for Australia in England earlier this year. The 16-year-old quick will make his first XI Premier Cricket debut for Richmond against St Kilda at Glen Waverley’s Central Reserve on Saturday and today told Leader he is “so excited”.
With solid form, he took 4-29 in the second XI last week, and an ankle injury to Ben Torney has paved the way for Agar’s selection.
Ashton made international headlines in July when he smashed 98 on debut in the opening Test match of the Ashes series. The younger Agar said he also considered his selection a shock. “At the start of the year I thought I’d be playing fours and hoped I’d get a game in the threes, but then I was picked in the twos and started getting wickets,” he said.”Two days ago the Big Wiz (captain-coach Al Wise) sent me a text asking me to call him when I could so, at recess, I rang him and he told me I was playing. I’m lucky there’s been an injury and some unavailability.”
Ashton is currently in Melbourne playing for Western Australia in a Sheffield Shield match against Victoria at the MCG and was thrilled when Wes delivered him the news last night.
“I came home from the gym and Ash was in the lounge room and I told him I was playing ones and he gave me a big hug and we jumped around screaming,” Agar said. “I always listen to and try to do what everyone says and Ash always tells me ‘don’t be stupid, just do what you do’ so I’ll be taking his advice.”
Agar will bowl to a familiar face on Saturday in star St Kilda batsman and triple Ryder Medallist Graeme Rummans. “I’m trialing for the Victorian under-17 team and he’s my coach,” Agar said. “He’s an awesome player and, yeah, I’m going to try and get him out.”
Agar will wear a pair of Australian all-rounder Steve Smith’s gloves when he bats. Smith generously gave him 15 pairs in the Australian dressing room after play during the First Test at Trent Bridge.
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I read somewhere that a game of cricket was played in New York. But no news after that. The reason may lie in the following story. An American asked an Englishman, (they who invented the game) to explain to him what this game is all about. The Englishman took another gulp of his beer and proceeded.
You have two sides, one out in the field
And one in.
Each man that’s in the side that’s in, goes out
and when he’s out he comes in
and the next man goes in till he’s out.
When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in
and the side that has been in, goes out
and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When both sides have been in and out including the not outs, that’s the end of the game
The American grabbed the Englishman’s beer mug and finished it
The Foundation of Goodness confirmed Tuesday that it is organising a Murali Harmony Cup Unity tour to the United Arab Emirates following an invitation from Kevin Pietersen’s KP24 Foundation. The Unity Squad includes exceptionally talented under 18 cricketers from different schools island-wide, including five boys from previously war-affected areas in the North and East. The young cricketers were invited to participate in the tour after their outstanding performances during the 2015 Murali Harmony Cup completed in October.
Bharat Sundaresan, in The Indian Express, 19 August 2015, where the title reads: “Tharindu Kaushal: Breaking walls, building walls”
In December 2014, Tharindu Kaushal left from his 100-year-old ancestral home to make his Test debut in New Zealand. When he returned from tour a month later, there was nothing left of it. The young off-spinner had no home to come back to. There was only rubble.The disintegration of the already-dilapidated house started with the roof caving in one night. Kaushal’s parents, father PH Dhanapala and mother Deepti Hemalatha were asleep inside the house at the time, but they escaped without any injury.
Next morning, they had no choice but to shift their stuff, along with Kaushal’s, away. Luckily Dhanapala’s sister, Induvati, lived just 100 yards away—at Rathgama’s highest point—in a slightly more opulent house. In a day or two, Dhanapala’s home had completely crumbled. When Kaushal heard the news, he was understandably upset, but not too surprised.
Tharindu Kaushal’s parents, father Dhanapala and mother Deepti Hemalatha (centre), pose with their son’s gift to them, a rickshaw.
“Tharindu had asked us to move to my sister’s house before he left. I wanted to fix the house but never had the money,” says Dhanapala, dressed in a purple shirt and trousers. So the first thing the 22-year-old, who spun India to a massive defeat in Galle, did upon his return was buy a tiny plot in the neighbouring town of Seenigama — which was badly affected by the tsunami — and start building a house for his parents, both 50 now. For now, even Kaushal still sleeps in the aunt’s house when in town. Continue reading
