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  • ICC to conduct Super Series tourney in Aus next year

    MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced a new tournament the ICC Super Series. It has awarded the rights to stage the inaugural edition of the event to Australia.
     

    The ICC Super Series will see the number one team in the world take on a Rest of the World side in a one-off six day Test and three one-day matches. These will be played in Sydney and Melbourne. The event takes place in October 2005 with total prize money expected to top $ 1.7 million.

    ICC CEO Malcolm Speed said that the tournament would revive a format of the game which has proven difficult to schedule in recent years.

    The last time a team of the world’s best players visited Australia was in 1971-1972. Sir Garfield Sobers lead a side including Bishan Bedi, Zaheer Abbas and Clive Lloyd against Ian Chappell’s Australian team.

    In order to accommodate the tournament the different cricket playing countries have agreed to slightly alter their playing schedule. This will allow their star players free time to participate. The ICC is hoping to conduct the tournament once in four years like the World Cup.

    The problem will lie in choosing the members of the rest of the world side. As Speed pointed out, “Choosing between Rahul Dravid, Michael Vaughan, Sachin Tendulkar, Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Inzamam ul-Haq, Stephen Fleming, Brian Lara, Vireder Sehwag and Sourav Ganguly is hard enough. Then you have to choose the all rounder, the wicket-keeper and the bowling attack”

  • Aus, SA seeded first, 2nd at next year’s ICC Champions Trophy

    Aus, SA seeded first, 2nd at next year’s ICC Champions Trophy

    LONDON: Australia and South Africa will be the first and second seeds respectively for the ICC Champions Trophy 2004. The event which takes place in England will air on Max in India from 10-25 September.
     

    Co-defending champions India may have finished in the runner up position at the World Cup in South Africa in March. However its recent loss to Australia in the final of the TVS Cup places it at number seven with a rating of 105. However other teams still have one day matches to play and so Saurav’s boys can move up or down.

    The other defending champion Sri Lanka is in third spot with a rating of 107 after beating England by ten wickets. Before 1 December, Sri Lanka still has two more matches to play against England. New Zealand will play in Pakistan. West Indies – the other team in this six-way battle – has a five-match series in Zimbabwe. Bangladesh has a rating of zero.

  • Aus dominates 8th Ceat Intl Cricket Rating awards

    MUMBAI: World Cup champions Australia took home most of the spoils at the 8th Annual Ceat International Cricket Rating Awards for the year 2002-2003. The awards considered to be the equivalent of the Oscars for the international cricket fraternity recognise performance across eight categories. 
    The awardees will be honoured with trophies and prize money worth rupees two million tonight at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai.
    Australia’s one day skipper Ricky Ponting was voted the cricketer of the year. Not surprisingly Australia who demolished India in the World Cup final in March were adjudged the team of the year. The two sides go head to head tomorrow at the Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai) as part of the ongoing triangular series that also features the black caps New Zealand.
    There was good news for India too at the ceremony. Spinner Harbhajan Singh and opening batsman Virendra Sehwag were adjudged best bowler and fielder respectively. Although he was on the losing side Sachin Tendulkar was voted the Ceat Cricketer of the World Cup. The lifetime achievement award went to Vijay Hazare.
    The panel of judges included ex-cricketers Ajit Wadekar and Sanjay Manjrekar and journalists Bombay Times’ Ayaz Memon and Lokendra Pratap Sahi.