Cricket Thread

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South Africa.

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SA 90-5 off 11 overs

England win by 28 runs

Next stop is the main event

T20 World Cup

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England.

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ODI team of the year

Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Alastair Cook (Eng), Kumar Sangakkara (SL), Virat Kohli (Ind), MS Dhoni (Ind, wkt/captain) Michael Clarke (Aus), Shahid Afridi (Pak), Morne Morkel (SA), Steven Finn (Eng), Lasith Malinga (SL), Saeed Ajmal (Pak)
12th Man - Shane Watson (Aus)


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cri...#ixzz26T8tHdo9

No Amla and De Villiers has an average of 100+ in ODIs this year and hes not in

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Kumar Sangakkara has won the International Cricket Council's Cricketer of the Year award.
The Sri Lanka batsman was also named Test Cricketer of the Year and took the LG People's Choice award at the ceremony in Colombo.
The 34-year-old former captain averaged 60 in Test matches in the past year, hitting five centuries, and was also prolific in 50-over internationals.
England's Sarah Taylor won the Women's Twenty20 Cricketer of the Year award.
In addition to three hundreds in ODIs, Sangakkara made 42 dismissals as wicketkeeper for Sri Lanka in the 50-over format.
England's Alistair Cook and Stuart Broad were also nominated for the Cricketer of the Year award, along with South Africa's Hashim Amla and Vernon Philander, and Australian captain Michael Clarke.
India's Virat Kohli was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year, while Richard Levi's 117 off just 51 deliveries for South Africa against New Zealand in Hamilton last February was named Twenty20 Performance of the Year.

Kohli

[Dennis Bendtner]

I can't say I've paid much attention to Sangakkara, but he'd have to have been good to have fought off Amla. Three awards?? What's that? Ceremony in Colombo? Oh right.

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Yoss was a big fan before he died

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Kivin Pittabread left out of the England squad to tour India. As is Ravinder Singh Bopara.

England Test squad for India: Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Nick Compton (Somerset), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Graham Onions (Durham), Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Monty Panesar (Sussex), Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire), Matt Prior (Sussex, wk), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire).

Cook
Root/Straight outta compton
Trott
Bell
Bairstow
Morgan
Prior
Broad
Swann
Anderson
Finn

That would be a guess, but not sure if they plan to play two spinners.

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Kevin P left out

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Bell won MVP for England in 2012

Bell