Archive for April, 2009

Big money, minimal effort

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
In 1935 Franklin D Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration as a response to the Great Depression. Its role was to stimulate the US economy and raise morale by using government funds from taxation to give jobs to the unemployed, even if the

Yorkshire declare at 460-6 and fight for wickets

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
th April 2009 Jacques Rudolph was stumped for 198, right, as Yorkshire reached 460-6 before declaring during the morning session on another weather-hit day in their LV Championship match against Worcestershire at Headingley Carnegie. Worcestershire had

Warne yet again hails Tendulkar as best

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Durban, Apr 30 (UNI) Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne has yet again hailed batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar as his all-time favourite batsman. Rajasthan Royals' skipper Warne admitted that it was very tough to choose between Brian Lara and Tendulkar but

SPORTS-CRICKET-IPL-PUNJAB TWO LAST DURBAN

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Scoreboard: Kings XI Punjab innings Ravi Bopara c Tendulkar b Bravo 6 Karan Goel st Shah b Harbhajan Singh 12 Kumar Sangakkara not out 45 Yuvraj Singh c Khan b Duminy 10 Mahela Jayawardene c Dhawan b Jayasuriya 7 Irfan Pathan c Bravo b Khan 7 Wilkin Mota

Weather frustrates Hants & Sussex

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Rain and bad light prevented any play on the second day of the County Championship match between Hampshire and Sussex at The Rose Bowl. Steady rain before the start of play and again throughout the morning left pools of water on the outfield. Umpires

Weather frustrates Hants & Sussex

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Rain and bad light prevented any play on the second day of the County Championship match between Hampshire and Sussex at The Rose Bowl. Steady rain before the start of play and again throughout the morning left pools of water on the outfield. Umpires

The Melbourne Mining Club Is Holding Its Dinner At The Wrong End Of Lord’s Cricket Ground And On The Wrong Day

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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Ravi: I expected England recall

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The Essex starlet has been earmarked for the No3 role ahead of the two-Test series against West Indies starting next week. And while he edged out the vastly more experience pair of Michael Vaughan and Ian Bell, the cocky 23-year-old revealed: I was

Rajasthan Royals opt to field first

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The Rajasthan Royals won the toss and chose to field in their IPL Twenty20 match against the Chennai Super Kings at Supersport Park on Thursday. - Sapa BOOKMARK THIS STORY (What's This?) Social bookmarking allows users to save and categorise a personal

Glamorgan frustrated by wash-out

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Persistent drizzle denied Glamorgan the chance to press home their advantage over Derbyshire after the entire third day was lost to the weather. Umpires Nigel Cowley and Michael Gough eventually abandoned play for the day at 1615 BST. That was a