Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has offered to put up -million for England to play five Twenty20 games against his West Indies All-Star team. England and Wales Cricket Board chairperson Giles Clarke had said on Thursday the prospect of England taking part in a winner-takes-all -million match in the West Indies was ”very likely”.
Cricket faces the threat of the biggest revolt in its history, with elite players ready to call for a breakaway from the International Cricket Council (ICC). Fica, the international players’ union, will demand far-reaching reform of the ICC, the global governing body it considers to be paralysed by the dominance of India’s Board of Control for Cricket.
Fictional robots always have a personality: Marvin was paranoid, C-3PO was fussy and HAL 9000 was murderous. But reality is disappointingly different. Sophisticated enough to assemble cars and assist during complex surgery, modern robots are dumb automatons, incapable of striking up relationships with humans. But that could soon change.
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/ 20 December 2007
More than a century ago, a war correspondent called Winston Churchill was dispatched to Cuba to cover the conflict with Spain. ”It may be that future years will see the island as it would be now, had England never lost it — a Cuba free and prosperous under just laws and patriotic administration, throwing open her ports to the commerce of the world, sending her ponies to Hurlingham and her cricketers to Lord’s.”
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/ 25 September 2007
Cricket has shed its image as a dull, unattractive and lengthy sport after the spectacular success of the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship. The event, which ended on Monday with India beating Pakistan by five runs in a rousing finale, created such a stir that Twenty20 is now being hailed as a revolution.
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/ 24 September 2007
The winners of Monday’s Twenty20 World Cup final between India and Pakistan will be invited to play in a million match against the Stanford Super Team in the West Indies next year. Allen Stanford announced that the World Cup winners will asked to play the lucrative winner-takes-all match against a West Indies select team.
Fourth-seeded Kim Clijsters easily defeated Venus Williams 7-5, 6-2 in Sunday’s final for her third Bank of the West Classic title. Clijsters claimed her fourth title of the year and third on hard courts, having won at Indian Wells and Miami in the spring. Williams slipped to 6-3 all-time against Clijsters.
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/ 15 January 2003
Vast zones off US coasts must be declared off-limits to fishing and other resource extraction to help reverse the depletion of marine life in the nation’s waters, a commission found.