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Pakistani cricketers apply for bails

The Pakistani cricketers convicted yesterday of conspiracy to throw matches in last year’s Test against England have applied for bails.

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Posted: Nov 4th, 2011
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Geoff Boycott’s grandmother called up to Indian cricket team

grandson insists she's better than Tendulkar‘About bloody time too,’ said her grandson, Sir Geoffrey Boycott. ‘I’ve been saying all summer that my grandmother is a better batsman than this lot.’

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Posted: Aug 28th, 2011
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‘Rioters display poor technique’ claims Toxteth riot veteran

way too much larking about these daysJohn Ashurst, TV pundit and veteran of the 1981 Toxteth riots in Liverpool today slammed what he called the ‘highly suspect’ techniques of many of the rioters who have wreaked havoc on English streets over the last few days.

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Posted: Aug 9th, 2011
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Cricket success prompts emergency inquiry into crisis in English game

The current run of form of the English test cricket team has forced the England and Wales Cricket Board to launch an emergency inquiry to halt the side’s alarming slide into success.

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Posted: Aug 8th, 2011
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Aid agencies blast the West as ‘awareness’ levels plummet

In an unprecedented press release today, a spokesperson representing the African Union and a conglomeration of aid agencies criticised the West’s ‘myopic focus on food and medical supplies, to the detriment of raising awareness and painting murals’.

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Posted: May 29th, 2011
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