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Vaughan out of first Test 2007-05-04 05:50:39 Michael Vaughan
is likely to miss the first Test between England and West Indies at Lord's after breaking a finger.
The Yorkshire batsman, who scored 72 in his first inning of the County Championship season yesterday, was looking in reasonable touch in his return to the first-class arena.
However, his presence in the first Test match for England this summer looks in doubt after scans revealed he has suffered a fracture and could be out of action for up to a month.
Yorkshire physio Scott McAllister said he initially did not think the injury was a "serious problem" but a trip to hospital confirmed the worst.
"It's desperately bad luck for Michael after the succession of problems he's had to contend with, and we will be monitoring his progress over the next few days," McAllister told the Yorkshire Post.
"It looks like he might be out for three to four weeks, but it's too early to say with absolute certainty."
Vaughan has suffered a succession of debilitat
Aussie Sarfraz injures Vaughan 2007-05-03 23:07:36
AUSTRALIA fast bowler Stuart Clark sent England's injury-jinxed captain Michael Vaughan
off to hospital again overnight, this time with a finger injury.
Vaughan, batting for Yorkshire in the English County Championship game against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl, was sent for X-rays on a damaged finger, after being forced to retire hurt.
Vaughan, bidding to bat himself into some form after a woeful World Cup, had scored 16 in Yorkshire's second innings when he was struck on the right hand by a sharply rising Clark ball.
After receiving some onfield treatment Vaughan, who scored 72 in the first innings, opted to carry on, but after one more ball from Clark and two at the other end from James Bruce, he walked off with out adding to his total.
Yorkshire's director of professional cricket, Martyn Moxon, confirmed Vaughan would need hospital attention.
"We are looking at him now but we will be sending him for an X-ray later tonight.
"We will have to wait until tomorrow ( Read more:Aussie
Derbyshire dominate Somerset after Katich double-ton 2007-05-03 20:22:43 Derbyshire recovered from 0-2 to declare on 801-8 on the second day of their County Championship Division Two match at Taunton.
Having chosen to bat, Derbyshire captain Simon Katich found himself at the crease without any runs on the board after opener Phil Weston and Chris Taylor fell for ducks to former England paceman Andy Caddick.
The former Australian Test batsman, who earlier this week was dropped from his country's 25-man squad, responded with a magnificent double
-century.
His 221 off 323 balls featured 34 boundaries, including two sixes. By the time he departed with the score on 459-9 the 31-year-old had seen his side out of trouble.
More was to come from Derbyshire, however, in the form of centuries from Ian Harvey (153), Ant Botha (101) and wicketkeeper James Pipe (106).
In the end the touring side declared on 801-8 off 181.3 overs, leaving Ashes winner Justin Langer's Somerset
facing an extremely tough ask.
When the baggy greens' Ashes talisman fell for just four So Read more:Derbyshire
Ponting plan was spoiled 2007-05-03 13:36:32
AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Ponting
expressed mixed feelings on the World Cup experience after he arrived back Down Under this morning after the Caribbean tournament.
Ponting refused to criticise the length of the tournament - its duration has been lamented by cricket fans and media around the world - but did appear disappointed with the farcical finish to the final with Sri Lanka, which Australia won by 53 runs after much madness.
"We were running around like lunatics thinking we'd won, when (umpire) Aleem Dar came over and told me, well no, actually the game wasn't over yet," Ponting said at Sydney airport this morning, where the bulk of the team arrived back on home soil.
"To be honest, I really thought he was joking," Ponting continued. "We get on pretty well, Aleem and I, and we like to have a joke now and then, but I thought this particular one was extremely poorly timed."
Of course, the Pakistani official wasn't joking, and having celebrated prem
Woolmer case turns to cameras 2007-05-03 13:35:45
JAMAICAN police are continuing their attempts to try and identify dozens of people caught on video cameras at the hotel where former Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer
was murdered.
The Associated Press reported that 80 unidentified people were filmed on Woolmer's floor during the days he and his team stayed at Kingston's upscale Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields said.
Woolmer was found strangled in his room on March 18, a day after his Pakistan squad was upset by Ireland in the World Cup.
"The (closed-circuit TV) work has been completed and we're now looking at individuals on those tapes whom we've yet to identify," Shields, a former Scotland Yard detective heading the probe into the murder, said.
He did not say how many people police have identified so far.
Shields said he was confident Woolmer's killing will be solved even though police have yet to announce any breakthroughs more than six weeks into the probe.
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Gilly wouldn’t pick himself 2007-05-03 13:34:26
A MODEST Adam Gilchrist felt he tested the patience of Australia selectors by taking so long to score a maiden World Cup hundred.
The vice-captain produced one of the most memorable knocks of his spectacular career with a record 149 off 104 balls in the 53-run win over Sri Lanka in last weekend's final in Barbados.
The lethal left-handed opening batsman has been responsible for handing Australia blistering starts over the past decade and has played a key role in the three straight World Cup triumphs.
However, he said after touching down at Sydney airport today it had taken him a long time to score a century in the game's flagship tournament.
"From a selfish and individual perspective, it was really pleasing to finally pass the three figure mark in a World Cup game," he said.
"I would imagine I have played about 31 or 32 World Cup innings and I am not a selector but I wouldn't be picking too many players as a selector if they were the results.
"But to ge
Pidge leaves with one more joke 2007-05-03 13:32:50
GLENN McGrath moved into retirement today with the cheeky brand of humour that morphed his Pigeon nickname for being a skinny pest in cricket dressing rooms around the world.
The 37 year old, who won his third straight World Cup on Sunday with the Australia team and was named man of the tournament for his 26 wickets, gave a piece of priceless advice to young bowlers around the country hoping to emulate his unrivalled success with the cricket ball.
Asked at a civic reception in Sydney why he was so mean to batsmen, not allowing them to score runs, McGrath said: "I'm not sure what it is. I just hate batsmen scoring runs, at all.
"I think the biggest mistake bowlers make is trying to outthink batsmen. They're not that intelligent anyway, so I just try to keep it simple."
McGrath finishes his career with 563 Test wickets, more than any other fast bowler, and 381 from 250 limited-overs internationals.
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Sri Lanka’s losers return 2007-05-03 13:32:00
SRI Lanka
's World Cup cricketers returned to an elaborate welcome home today after being stranded in London after Tamil Tiger rebel air raids in Colombo.
The team was received at the VIP lounge of the Bandaranaike International airport where Buddhist monks, Hindu and Catholic priests and Muslim clerics conducted services to bless them.
Officials said they returned on Qatar Airlines after Emirates, on which they were originally booked, pulled out of Colombo after Sunday's Tamil Tiger attacks near the airport.
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Cricket, which had organised elaborate plans to welcome the cricketers who reached the final in the Caribbean, said another welcome ceremony had been arranged in the city, 35 kilometres away.
Emirates and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific suspended their flights to Sri Lanka after Sunday's air raids.
The guerrillas used two light aircraft to bomb two fuel depots near Colombo after crossing Colombo's airspace.
Sri Lanka lost to Australia in Saturday's final in
Ireland to host India, Proteas 2007-05-03 13:30:32
IRELAND will host limited overs matches against India
and South Africa next month, the Irish Cricket Union said.
Associate side Ireland
will face India on June 23 and South Africa the next day ahead of a three-match, limited overs series between the two Test-playing nations in Belfast.
Ireland's upset World Cup win over Bangladesh last month earned it entry into the main International Cricket Council limited overs ranking list. The World Cup debutant also scored a shock win over Pakistan to knock it out in the first round.
"The Irish Cricket Union (ICU) is proud that two such great cricketing nations as India and South Africa are coming to Ireland to play each other and against Ireland," ICU chief executive Warren Deutrom said.
"Following last year's hugely successful match at Stormont between Ireland and England, the ICU is delighted that top-class cricket continues to come to Ireland, in the first-ever matches between full Test cricket nations here.
"These m
Berry named assistant coach 2007-05-03 13:29:29
FORMER Victoria cricket captain Darren Berry
will return to the Bushrangers as an assistant coach.
Cricket Victoria (CV) announced the appointment of the former wicketkeeper as an assistant coach under Greg Shipperd for the next two seasons.
Berry, 37, returns to the Victoria side after captaining the Bushrangers to their last Pura Cup title in 2003-2004, before he pulled stumps on his 15-season first-class career.
Berry replaces former fast bowler David Saker, the assistant coach under Shipperd for the past three seasons.
CV advertised for a new assistant about two months ago and interviewed a shortlist of five candidates.
Berry has maintained a strong involvement with cricket since playing the last of his 153 first-class matches, which yielded 603 dismissals and 4273 runs.
He has worked in the media and for the past two seasons coached Premier Cricket side Carlton, and helped lead the Blues to the 2006-2007 club championship.
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Top players slam World Cup 2007-05-15 15:53:43
A SURVEY of the world's best cricketers revealed most players were underwhelmed by this year's World
Cup and have little faith in the International Cricket Council's ability to govern the game.
In a damning assessment of the sport's showpiece event and the ICC, most of the 45 elite players surveyed admitted they were not satisfied by the governing body's ability to organise World Cups or the game.
The survey, conducted by the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) and released today, found 56 per cent of players were both not satisfied by the ICC's ability to deliver World Cups and lacked confidence in the ICC governing cricket.
Significant numbers also said they had not been educated properly on matters such as corruption, doping and racism.
The survey found 89 per cent of players rated the recent World Cup in the Caribbean as either average (44 per cent), below average (38 per cent) or poor (eight per cent).
Only three per cent of respondents said
Pietersen: England lack Aussie mentality 2007-05-15 12:44:41 Kevin Pietersen has said that some of his England
team-mates lack the mentality that has helped make Australia world beaters.
Pietersen spoke out after England's string of poor performances since winning the Ashes in 2005.
Australia meanwhile, bounced back from that defeat to wrest the urn back in a 5-0 whitewash earlier this year.
They also won the World Cup, illustrating their dominance of both Test match and one-day cricket.
According to Pietersen, a desire to continue improving is just as important as natural ability and preparation when it comes to explaining the Aussie
s' success.
"That's the mentality I wish a lot of our players had, a want to be greater every single day," he told the BBC's Inside Sport.
"The Australians are definitely winners," he added. "We copped it this winter. I had a horrible time."
The 26-year-old Hampshire batsman is currently suffering from a calf strain that could rule him out of the first Test against the West Indies
Woolmer theories ‘global joke’ 2007-05-15 06:21:56
A JAMAICA politican has urged security officials to back up their theory that former Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer
was murdered, describing media reports to the contrary as a "global embarrassment" for the Caribbean nation.
Derrick Smith, of the Jamaica Labour Party, said the confusion raised by the conflicting accounts is jeopardising the reputation of the country's police, which launched a murder inquiry following Woolmer's death.
"Announcements emerging from police and medical authorities in both Britain and Pakistan indicate that Mr Woolmer's death was from natural causes and not murder as suggested by the Jamaica police authorities," said Smith today (AEST).
"The matter has become a global embarrassment for us."
Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his Kingston hotel room on March 18, and later pronounced dead in hospital, a day after Pakistan was eliminated from the World Cup.
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Think like Aussies, KP says 2007-05-15 06:19:55
KEVIN Pietersen believes England needs to adopt a more "Australian" approach if it is to become the world's No.1 cricket nation.
"Australia have a team made of greats, but they want to be greater," he told the BBC overnight.
"That's the mentality I wish a lot of our players had, a want to be greater every single day."
Pietersen is an injury doubt for Thursday's first Test with West Indies at Lord's.
The 26-year-old's absence would be a major blow to England, particularly as the side is desperate to bounce back quickly from the 5-0 Ashes drubbing and another lacklustre World Cup campaign.
Pietersen is desperate to play and put into practice some of the lessons he learned during the (northern) winter campaigns in Australia and the Caribbean.
"I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things and crazy things," he said.
"But you have to go and do your hard work to perform on the field.
"The Australians ar Read more:Aussies
Chiefs just don’t get Zimbabwe 2007-05-15 06:16:49
IT is fair enough that we ask Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland if he has any idea why the Federal Government has blocked Australia's cricket team from playing a series of games in Zimbabwe
in September.
He might think that Australia Prime Minister John Howard thinks three games are not enough and that we ought to play a handful of Twenty20 games and a brace of Tests, as well.
Or that, cricket tragic that he is, the Prime Minister will be busy with the election campaign and would not have the opportunity to sit in the hardly grand stand at Harare and watch Australia slice up the Zimbabwe boys. Might be that Howard is miffed that Sutherland did not schedule a Prime Minister's XI fixture against President Robert Mugabe's Execution Squad.
What is utterly clear is how oblivious Sutherland must be to the real reason Australia will not be permitted to tour Zimbabwe. So we will put him through a little crash course using the Prime Minister's own words.
"The Read more:Chiefs
New India role for Greig 2007-05-14 21:13:16
FORMER international captains Kapil Dev and Tony Greig were named overnight on the executive board of India
's new professional cricket league.
The Indian Cricket League (ICL) board will also include former Australia batsman Dean Jones and ex-India wicketkeeper Kiran More.MO< The league, to be launched later this year, is being set up by a leading Indian broadcast and entertainment group.
"The game should be run by the people who have played it at the highest level and hence the choice of the members," said Subhash Chandra, chairman of Essel Group which controls the country's biggest listed media firm Zee Telefilms, in a statement.
The league will comprise six teams in its inaugural edition, which will be played in Twenty-20 format.
Each team will have four foreign players, two India Test players and eight young Indians.
Former England skipper Greig said the league will not conflict with the India cricket board.
"This will be the platform where youngsters fr
Rain wrecks Windies warm-up 2007-05-14 21:10:31
WEST Indies goes into Thursday's first Test with England at Lord's short of match practice, after its only warm-up was abandoned because of rain overnight.
No play was possible against Somerset on the scheduled final day of a three-day match and, with Sunday's action also washed out, the tourist heads for Lord's with only 48 overs of batting in English conditions.
Runako Morton top-scored with 103 on Saturday before retiring hurt with a thigh strain.
He shared a stand of 193 with Shivnarine Chanderpaul (82 not out), taking the total to 4-237 after being reduced to 4-44.
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Freddy ‘hopeful’ for Lord’s 2007-05-14 21:09:05
ENGLAND all rounder Andrew Flintoff faces a fitness battle for the first Test with West Indies at Lord's on Thursday.
He has had a recurrence of the ankle problems which have dogged his career, but remains "hopeful" of taking his place.
Flintoff felt discomfort in his left ankle, which has been operated on twice in the last three years, while bowling nine overs for Lancashire against Hampshire at the weekend.
He has been forced to have a scan, which will determine if he can play at Lord's.
"We'll probably know more after I've run around and done what I need to do at practice, but I'm hopeful for Thursday," said Flintoff.
"Sometimes when it's the ankle the alarm bells start ringing a little bit, but I'm still hopeful.
"The operation was on the back and on the inside and this is more on the outside. I had a bit of discomfort in the same sort of area in the winter so it's not something completely new.
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Zimbabwe rejects neutral venue 2007-05-14 21:06:36
ZIMBABWE has rejected an offer to play Australia at a neutral venue, and accused John Howard's government of renewed efforts to topple President Robert Mugabe.
In a protest against Mugabe's rule, the Australia government barred Ricky Ponting's team from travelling to Zimbabwe
for a scheduled three-match tour in September, prompting Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive James Sutherland to suggest the world champion could play the series at a neutral venue.
"That is wishful thinking ... the International Cricket Council (ICC) says Zimbabwe can host the Australians and any other cricket country here," said Zimbabwe Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu overnight.
He said the move to cancel the tour, and the Australia government's announcement that it is increasing funding for civic groups in the southern Africa country, is part of efforts to ostracise and unseat Mugabe.
An Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade statement released overnight said Australia
Sponsor’s money brings Moody home 2007-05-14 21:05:21
THE call of home and the cash of an Indian industrialist has persuaded Tom Moody
to turn his back on international cricket to take up the coaching reins of Western Australia.
After months of speculation, during which time Moody guided Sri Lanka to a World Cup final, the WA Cricket Association finally announced a favourite cricketing son would return to the place where it all began, to continue his coaching career.
But WACA chief executive Graeme Wood and president Dennis Lillee both admitted if not for the sponsorship deal between Moody and businessman Vikas Rambal – believed to be doubling Moody's yearly salary – the 41 year-old wouldn't have signed on.
"Domestically we cannot compete with international salaries that are being offered, so it was essential that we have a private sponsorship," Wood said.
Moody met with Sri Lanka cricket officials today, where he informed them he would not be taking up an offer to prolong his two years in charge there.
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Cook century pierces gloom 2007-05-18 04:25:34
ALASTAIR Cook scored his fifth hundred in 15 matches to guide England to 3-200 in the first Test with West Indies at Lord's today (AEST).
The Essex opening batsman, 22, who had been at the crease for more than four hours after England lost the toss in bowler-friendly conditions. was 102 not out when bad light ended play on the opening day of the four-match series.
Cook, not included in England's World Cup squad, batted with the calm assurance that has been a hallmark of his brief international career, his century off 162 balls with nine boundaries.
It is the left hander's second at Lord's having made 105 against Pakistan last year.
All rounder Paul Collingwood is unbeaten on 21 after the weather ensured only 56 of the day's scheduled 90 overs were bowled.
Fast bowler Daren Powell, who brought West Indies back into the game with two wickets after lunch, led the attack with 2-52 off 18 overs.
Asked if it was his best innings for England, Cook said: "It's the one
India overcome early wicket 2007-05-18 04:23:34 India
overcomes early wicket
INDIA survived a first-ball dismissal to make a strong start on the opening day of the first cricket Test against Bangladesh here on Friday.
India, electing to bat on the dry wicket at the Ruhul Amin stadium, was stunned when paceman Mashrafe Mortaza bowled Wasim Jaffer off the first ball of the match.
Captain Rahul Dravid and Dinesh Karthick ensured there were no further setbacks as they hit a century partnership to steer India to 113-1 by lunch.
Karthick was unbeaten on 54 at the break with the help of eight boundaries.
Dravid was on an unusually aggressive 52, his 47th Test half-century studded with 10 fours.
Jaffer, who was not picked for the preceding one-day series which India won 2-0, shouldered arms to a delivery that swung in sharply and shattered the stumps.
Dravid lifted the pressure with four well-timed boundaries through the covers off Mortaza and Karthick hooked seamer Shahadat Hossain to the square-leg fence.
Mortaza concede
Cook remembers Ashes “hell” 2007-05-18 03:43:44 Alastair Cook had a terrible winter but his summer has got off to a good start
England centurion Alastair Cook says enduring this winter's Ashes "hell" down under made him stronger.
The 22-year-old Essex left-hander put England in a strong position on the first day of the first Test against the West Indies today.
Speaking after the game, he said the emotional strain of enduring a 5-0 whitewash at the hands of Ricky Ponting's Australians had driven his desire to succeed.
"What happened there I wouldn't wish on anyone's worst enemy. Those feelings in certain games, it is still hard to bring it up - a lot of people went through hell on that tour," he said.
"Now we're through that, and you have to look at it and learn from it - you can only look forward from something like that."
Cook, who missed England's unimpressive World Cup campaign in the Caribbean, said he had benefited from time off the international circuit.
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Veteran Hick retains hunger 2007-05-18 02:41:16
GRAME Hick,40, who played 65 Tests for England, is still churning out the runs in county cricket.
Hick, who has scored almost 40,000 runs in a 20-year career with Worcetershire, hit 110 at Old Trafford overnight to help his county to a first-innings lead over Lancashire.
In reply to Lancashire's first innings 161, Worcestershire was dimisssed for 327, Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan claiming 6-72.
At stumps in in its second innings, the home side was 0-63, still trailing by 123.
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Shoaib return bitter pill for game 2007-05-18 02:39:14
EMBARRASSMENT for international cricket continues apace, with drug cheat Shoaib Akhtar making himself available to play for Pakistan again.
In the same week that Australia's federal Government was forced to ban its national side from touring Zimbabwe because the hopelessly compromised International Cricket Council puts cronyism ahead of cricket, Shoaib is the second disgraced drug-taker about to turn out for Pakistan.
Fellow fast-bowling drug cheat Mohammed Asif was recently appointed vice-captain as Pakistan continues to thumb its nose at sporting conventions involving drugs in sport.
Shoaib and Asif were banned for steroid use but Pakistan blew its biggest raspberry at the international cricket community by acquitting the pair on appeal because of a technicality. There was never any dispute that the pair tested positive and had the drugs in their system.
Widely regarded as the world's fastest and most unreliable bowler, the shameless Shoaib has made himself available to p
ICC changes timely amid unrest 2007-05-18 02:38:05
FORMER Australia captain Mark Taylor says he believes in the International Cricket Council, even if its players don't.
Taylor, 42, has vowed to "make a difference" after joining a restructured 13-member ICC committee to be chaired by outspoken Indian great Sunil Gavaskar.
A survey conducted by the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations found 56 per cent of member-nation players had no confidence in ICC's governance of the game. Its organisation of the World Cup in the Caribbean was also scolded.
Regardless, Taylor said cricket's governing body faced "very touchy" challenges.
"Everyone in cricket wants to see the game flourish worldwide and it has to happen through someone," said Taylor of the ICC, criticised for lacking direction over the past two years.
"I think the cricket World Cup and things since will be discussed at the next committee meeting."
FICA chief executive Tim May this week lashed ICC committees for operatin Read more:changes
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‘Dictator’ Inzamam cops blame 2007-05-18 02:37:06
AN inquiry into Pakistan's shock first-round exit from the cricket World Cup has blamed the arrogant attitude of captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, accusing him of acting like a dictator.
The three-member committee, which revealed its findings in Lahore today, added that lack of planning and poor discipline were also behind Pakistan's dismal performance in the Caribbean.
"Inzamam's attitude was haughty and that of a dictator and more than one incident proved that," Ijaz Butt, head of the committee, said after a month-long inquiry that took statements from players, former players and officials.
"Inzamam should have been removed from the captaincy. As a player he was world-class but his attitude was haughty during and before the tournament."
Pakistan lost its opening match to the West Indies by 54 runs and then crashed out of the event with a humiliating three-wicket defeat at the hands of debutant Ireland.
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Inzamam blamed for World Cup loss 2007-05-17 18:12:44 Inzamam rowed with umpire Darrell Hair at the Oval
Former Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq has been cited as one of the main causes of Pakistan's poor showing in the recent World
Cup.
A committee set up by the Pakistan Cricket Board to review the side's performance claimed that ul-Haq's poor leadership was at the root of their first-round exit.
"Inzamam's attitude was haughty and that of a dictator and more than one incident proved that. Inzamam should have been removed from the captaincy. As a player he was world-class but his attitude was haughty during and before the tournament," head of the committee Ijaz Butt said.
"Inzamam became an autocratic and introverted captain after the Oval fiasco last year and his refusal to go on the field was overlooked by then PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan."
Pakistan missed out on the Super Eight stage after group defeats to the West Indies and Ireland, but the committee found no evidence that match-fixing may have been behind Read more:blamed
Whatmore in frame for India job 2007-05-17 07:41:23
AUSTRALIAN Dav Whatmore is a candidate to take over as coach of India
's national cricket team, an Indian cricket board official said.
The board is looking for a successor to Greg Chappell, who quit after India's shock first round exit from the World Cup.
"He can be regarded as one of the candidates," said the official, who did not want to be identified.
"Whatmore looks like he is interested."
Whatmore guided Sri Lanka to the World Cup in 1996 and helped unfancied Bangladesh reach the second round for the first time this year in the Caribbean after a shock win over India.
The 53-year-old decided not to renew his contract with Bangladesh, which ran out at the end of April, but agreed to coach the team in a series against India this month.
Senior India board officials are likely to meet the outgoing Bangladesh coach during a two-test series, which starts on Friday.
Indian media reported that former skipper Ravi Shastri, the current cricket manager who is on the
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