| Saturday, 04 September 2010 09:35 |
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| I am still pretty young: Sharapova
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| Tags: Maria Sharapova 
At just 23 years, Maria Sharapova considers herself still to be in the bloom of youth, but things are moving fast.
Her third round match at the U.S. Open on Saturday will see her take on 18-year-old American wildcard Beatrice Capra, who idolised the Russian glamour girl as she was growing up.
It all comes as a bit of a shock to Sharapova, who won Wimbledon in 2004 as a precocious 17-year-old and who was ranked No. 1 in the world a year later.
“It's pretty crazy because I still somewhat consider myself pretty young, as well — I'd like to think so, at least,” she said.
“You know, to see someone coming up that's 18, that's a lot younger than I am, in the third round of the Open is great.
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| Tags: ICC | Pakistan Players | Spot-fixing 
The crisis in Pakistan cricket deepened on Thursday as three of its top players, captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif, were suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) over allegations of match-fixing saying that they had “arguable case to answer''.
Chief executive Haroon Lorgat said the ICC would do “whatever is necessary to maintain integrity in the sport.
Zero tolerance
“We will not tolerate any sort of corruption within cricket,” he told a crowded press conference with Sir Ronnie Flanagan, chief of ICC's
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| Tags: ICC | match-fixing scandal | Sachin Tendulkar 
Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said the International Cricket Council should thoroughly investigate the spot-fixing scandal that has plunged the game into a crisis and take action against players who are found guilty.
“ICC should make a thorough probe in the spot-fixing scandal and take appropriate action if the players are found guilty,” Tendulkar told reporters.
“If the allegations are true, they will certainly bring disrepute to the game,” he added.
The furore follows a British tabloid’s sting operation on a bookie who allegedly paid money to Pakistani trio of Test skipper Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir for bowling no-balls during the Lord’s Test against England last week.
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| Tags: 2010 US Open | Andy Murray 
Outside title pick Andy Murray stormed out of the starting gate after waiting three days to play at the US Open, with the fourth seed wasting no time in crushing Slovak Lukas Lacko 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round on Wednesday.
With officials still unsure of how a tropical hurricane approaching the US East coast might affect play on the Labour Day holiday weekend, Murray drew the short straw on a start as the last of the elite players to get onto court three days into competition.
The Scot who lost the Australian Open final this year and the Open title match against Roger Federer in 2008 is searching for his first trophy at a major.
Murray warmed for the hard-court fortnight by beating Federer for the Toronto final last month but exited in the Cincinnati quarter-finals five days later.
The seed was never in trouble against Lacko, a rival from junior days, sweeping up the first two sets with an efficient performance.
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| Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:35 |
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| Cricket's crisis of confidence
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| Tags: match-fixing scandal | Nirmal Shekar | spot-fixing scandal Oh No! Not at Lord's. That was the first thought that crossed my mind on Sunday morning when the story of cricket's latest match-fixing scandal broke across the media outlets. Almost immediately, one hoped that some clever tabloid headline writer wouldn't label it Lord's-gate, leaving a permanent taint on the hallowed home of the game in St. John's Wood.
The first time this writer stepped into that great ground, there was a predictable, yet almost pleasant, onrush of goose bumps — it was the same spine-tingling sensation one felt on entering the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon.
Hard to imagine
Even in an age when cricket's nefarious links to illegal profit-making are clear to most of us, even in an era when the weariness associated with moral futility turns the most optimistic among us into cynics, somehow it was still hard to imagine that this could happen in a Lord's Test match.
When you walked out of Lord's or Wimbledon after a day's play, sated emotionally and aesthetically, it was the same sort of exalted feeling that you might have experienced after a visit to the Musee du Louvre in Paris or the Vienna State Opera house.
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