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It looks like the crusade has found its first victim. Yes, it is still the preseason, but really, L.O. is getting called out because he has been in the league too long to still be underachieving in this manner. It seems like he is starting off this year where he left off in the Finals.

Bangladesh secured a first ever one-day international victory over New Zealand with a seven-wicket win in Mirpur.It marked the first time in 12 meetings that the BLACKCAPS had lost to the Tigers and swiftly ended their goal of vaulting to No 2 in the International Cricket Council one-day rankings.Such a promotion was in the offing providing they won the three-match series 3-0, which they were widely expected to do. But Bangladesh put paid to that with a confident allround performance, limiting the tourists to 201 for nine after a fine display in the field."I am happy we played as a unit," Ashraful said. "I am elated that its the first win against New Zealand and first against a major country under my captaincy." "The toss was very important," Ashraful told TigerCricket.com. "With the overnight rain and the cloud cover we needed the bowlers to have a go first. I want to compliment everyone - Mashrafe, [Syed] Rasel, Shahadat [Hossain], Shakib, Razzak, Naeem...they set up the win for us with some wonderful bowling. "The fielding too was good," Ashraful added. "I have said this before, if we do well in all three departments then we stand a good chance of being competitive. Today was proof of that."After being invited to bat first in damp and overcast conditions, they lost five wickets for 18 runs to slump to 65 for five inside 17 overs before Jacob Oram led the resistance movement with a battling 57 off 89 deliveries. The only top order batsman to get underway was Jesse Ryder, who made 34 off 35 balls before spooning a catch to mid wicket.Oram tempered his natural inclination to hit out as he and skipper Daniel Vettori cautiously set about turning the tide. These two put on 70 for the seventh wicket as the tourists reached 149 after 40 overs before Vettori departed for 30.Oram hung around for another six overs before holing out at long on to become left-armer spinner Abdur Razzak's third victim. Razzak finished with the fine figures of three for 33 off 10 overs, but he ...

I don’t get it. I don’t understand the reason why someone like Pacman Jones (who was suspended almost 2 year by Roger Goodell for bad behavior), would get into an altercation with his bodyguard not even 60 days after he was reinstated. When Pacman was allowed back into the league, he was told on no uncertain

About five months ago, I wrote a post about a suspect named Willie D. Clark, whom police were targeting as the killer former NFL cornerback Darrent Williams. Clark has somewhat restored order and given a sense of peace to Darrent’s family by being a complete moron and unknowingly implicating himself in the murder. Willie

The wait is finally over. And for a man who hasn’t played competitively since being the first pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, Greg Oden had a solid NBA preseason debut. His stats (13 points, 5 rebounds) were fairly good considering he only played 20 minutes. But, really, in watching the highlights, it is

New Zealand fast bowler Chris Martin has been ruled out of the tour of Bangladesh so he can continue treatment on a lingering hamstring and lower back injury, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said on Wednesday.Martin sustained the injury while playing county cricket in England and had already been ruled out of the one-day series that preceeded the two-test series.NZC selector Dion Nash said that while Martin was pain free he had lost condition and it was decided it was more beneficial that he continue his rehabilitation rather than join the tour."With such a big season ahead it would have been foolish to rush Chris back too early," Nash said in a statement. "He is better at home working on his fitness and strength."Martin has been replaced by Mark Gillespie for the tests. Gillespie is already in Bangladesh with the one-day squad.New Zealand play three one-day internationals from Oct. 9-14 before the two-test series starts on Oct. 17.

From cricinfo http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/wcl/content/story/320398.htmlThe World Cricket League was devised by the ICC to provide regular one-day international cricket to Associate and Affiliate countries as well as to provide a qualification route into the ICC World Cup Qualifier (formerly ICC Trophy) and form there to World Cup. The competition is divided into five divisions with promotion and relegation between them. Each division takes places in one venue over a week in a round-robin league with play-off places resulting from there culminating in a final between the top two and ranking finals for the remaining teams. The ICC says that competition is about more than just the top six Associate teams. "It is a five-division structure designed to afford teams of various standards the opportunity to play regular one-day cricket against similarly ranked opponents regardless of where in the world they are located. It will also ensure that the qualifying pathway for the World Cup is open to the majority of the 91 ICC Associate and Affiliate members." The first event - the WCL Division 1 competition involving the top six Associates - took place in Nairobi in January/February 2007 and was won by hosts Kenya with Scotland the runners-up. The two sides qualified for the ICC World Twenty in South Africa later in the year. The WCL Division Three was staged in Darwin in May 2007 with Uganda and Argentina the finalists promoted to Division Two. Rules and format The WCL was initially divided into five global groups (see below) with the first staging of each division being used to establish grouping thereafter. From 2009 onwards each division will have two promotion and relegations with the exception of the top division. All sides in Division 1 plus the top four in Division Two and the top two in Division Three 2009 will go through to the ICC World Cup Qualifier (formerly the ICC Trophy) which will be held in the UAE in April 2009. That will in turn produce rankings for ...