Buzzin Cricket

England one-day skipper Paul Collingwood will miss the side’s next four limited overs matches. He has been banned by the ICC due to England’s poor over rate in Wednesday’s one-wicket loss to New Zealand.
The ban, rather than the usual fine or suspended ban, was imposed because it was Collingwood’s second offence in a year. [...]

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Pace bowler Dale Steyn cleaned up at yesterday’s South African Cricket Awards.  He was named as cricketer of the year, Test cricketer of the year, players’ player and Supersport fan’s cricketer of the year.
Steyn has taken an impressive 78 wickets in the 12 Tests South Africa played this year,  For a while he was  number [...]

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The MCC has decided that the reverse slog, or switch-hit, as played so fantastically by Kevin Pietersen in Sunday’s one-day win over New Zealand, should not be banned.
There has been much debate about the shot’s fairness – the bowler cannot change his delivery style at the last moment, captains can’t set fields to cover the [...]

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Kevin Pietersen hits another superb hundred as one-day cricket soldiers on.
On the eve of Sunday’s first one-day international between England and New Zealand, Kevin Pietersen claimed that the 50-over format wasn’t going to be around for much longer. After playing so beautifully to record his 6th one-day hundred and helping England to a huge 114-run [...]

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With their being much debate over the future of Twenty20 cricket and how much it should be played by international teams, I can assure you there is one man who is grateful for its presence in England’s calendar – Ian Bell.
The Warwickshire batsmen had a timely return to form, hitting a fluent 60 off just [...]

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