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Written by admin on 04 February 2012
Dubai, Feb 4 (IANS) Virat Kohli will be the highest-ranked batsman in the ODI tri-series that starts Sunday with a clash between India and Australia in Melbourne.
Kohli sits in third place of the rankings, 45 points behind South Africa’s ODI captain AB De Villiers while Hashim Amla is on top, another 26 rating points ahead.
The other batsmen in the series inside the top-10 include India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (sixth), former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara (seventh), Mike Hussey (eighth) and Michael Clarke (ninth).
Ravindra Jadeja is the top ranked Indian bowler in 13th position while Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga is the highest-ranked bowler in the series at 10th place.
Meanwhile, India will have a battle on their hands to keep their second position in team rankings. Number-one ranked Australia are on 130 ratings points, leading second-ranked current world champion India by 14 points with fourth-ranked Sri Lanka another five ratings points behind.
Sri Lanka could earn significant number of points if they are successful in the series. In contrast, Australia and India can lose points if they don’t win most of their matches.
South Africa, who will be playing New Zealand in a three-match ODI series, are in third position, just one rating point behind India.
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Written by admin on 03 February 2012
Dubai, Feb 3 (IANS/WAM) Emirates Airlines has launched its new daily flights to Dallas city in the US, it was announced Friday.
Emirates will serve Dallas/Fort Worth daily with a Boeing 777 aircraft.
The new service is a monumental development because it opens up a key region of the world for the citizens of Dallas/Fort Worth, said Jeffrey P. Fegan, CEO of DFW International Airport.
The UAE is the single largest export market for American goods in the Middle East and trade continues to grow sharply, said UAE ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba.
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Written by admin on 03 February 2012
Dubai, Feb 3 (IANS) Pakistan cricket captain Misbah-ul-Haq has said it was for the International Cricket Council (ICC) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to decide if fast bowler Mohammad Aamer, who was released from jail Wednesday, can return to international cricket after serving his five-year ban.
The 19-year-old Aamer was Wednesday released from jail in London because of good behaviour after serving half his six-month sentence for spot-fixing with two team-mates, former captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammed Asif, during a Test match against England in 2010.
Aamer has been banned by the ICC until September 2015, but he will be appealing to have his suspension overturned.
Misbah said that once Aamer serves his ban then his future would be clear. By the time Aamer finishes his ban he would be 24 years old and can still make a come-back.
‘As a cricketer you feel sad about such incidents but you cannot do anything about it. Once he is cleared, once he is available, only then we will see what happens’ said Misbah, when asked Thursday about the fast bowlers international comeback.
‘It’s totally up to the management and what ICC and the (Pakistan) cricket board decide. We have nothing to do with that,’ he said.
England captain Andrew Strauss also concurred with Misbah.
‘It’s not up to me to decide these things. It’s up to the ICC to decide how long the bans should be. The deterrent should be very strong to stop these guys doing this again. They’ve suffered quite badly, they’ve obviously been to prison, but it’s for the ICC to decide (what happens next).
‘It’s not my job to hand out bans or otherwise. All I’ve said all along is that the deterrent for match-fixing or spot-fixing should be as strong as it possibly can be to make sure people don’t do it in the future,’ he said.
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Written by admin on 02 February 2012
Dubai, Feb 2 (IANS/WAM) Flydubai has added its seventh destination in Saudi Arabia, with the start of its three-weekly flights to Taif in Makkah province.
The inaugural flight was launched Wednesday. The airline launched its services to Saudi Arabia in November 2010. It has flights to Riyadh, Jeddah, Yanbu, Gassim, Abha and Dammam in addition to Taif.
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Written by admin on 01 February 2012
Dubai, Feb 1 (IANS) The International Cricket Council (ICC) Board Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution that the presidency will become an ‘ambassadorial’ role on a one-year rotational basis from 2014 while a chairman would lead the Board.
In a statement after the two-day meeting, the board said its recommendation regarding the presidency was ‘consistent with recommendations in the Woolf Report’.
The necessary amendments to the Articles of Association will be discussed at the next ICC Board meeting before being submitted for approval by the ICC Annual Conference in June.
The Board will also consider the position and role, if any, of the ICC Vice President between 2012 and 2014. Accordingly, the nomination received of Mustafa Kamal, the Bangladesh Cricket Board president, for the ICC Vice-Presidency from 2012-14 will be considered as part of this process.
India’s Sharad Pawar is the ICC president and after the end of his tenure in June 2012, he would be succeeded by Alan Isaac, the ICC vice-president nominated by New Zealand and Australia.
The recommendations, if approved, could strike out the role of president-elect (vice-president) and shatter Kamal’s ambitions to head the ICC.
The ICC Board also received from Lord Woolf of Barnes and PricewaterhouseCoopers a 60-page report containing 65 recommendations and a transitional plan. Woolf, a former chief justice of England and Wales, was appointed chairman of the ICC’s Independent Governance Review Committee and submitted a report containing 65 recommendations and a transitional plan.
‘This has to be the most important exercise that the ICC Board will take responsibility for in seeking to grow the game for future generations,’ ICC chief executive, Haroon Lorgat said in a statement.
The document will be published Thursday, with the ICC board due to review the report and discuss it before fully considering the recommendations at the next Board meeting in April 2012.
The board also approved a proposal to substantially increase incentives, in the form of prize money, to promote Test cricket in the period before the ICC Test Championship, scheduled for 2017.
From 2013 the top team in the ICC Test rankings will receive a minimum of $450,000, a substantial jump from the present $175,000. From 2015, the prize will be increased to $500,000 in 2015 and from 2016 there will be a further increase in Test prize money.
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Written by admin on 31 January 2012
Dubai, Jan 31 (IANS/WAM) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has donated $5 million to the Cleveland Clinic in America’s Ohio state to establish a chair in cardiology research.
Minister of Finance Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum donated the amount which will also benefit Joe Sabik, a professor who performed a successful surgery on Sheikh Hamdan.
Under an agreement, UAE doctors will be sent to the Cleveland Clinic for training.
A main hall of the clinic will also be named after Sheikh Hamdan.
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