Why Mount Everest?

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A set of amateur cricketers are to undertake a nine-day trek to Everest base camp next month, before setting up a full-sized cricket pitch on the plateau of Gorak Shep and playing a match at 5,165 meters (17,000ft).

Though it is a blatant attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records, the cricketers hope to raise £250,000 for the Lord's Taverners, which provides disabled and disadvantaged young people opportunities to participate in sport, and the Himalayan Trust UK.

The report reminds this blogger of his childhood, when due to lack of open spaces, he finally ended up playing cricket in some of deserted quarries atop the Tirusoolam (near Minambakkam airport) hills.


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ICC reduces unsuccessful appeals to two.

Umpire decision review system

The ICC has decided to reduce the number of unsuccessful appeals by one. Hence, teams will be permitted only two unsuccessful appeals in the four test series between England and the West Indies.

According to ICC Chief Haroon Lorgat, “That is why we have made this refinement to it. It has become clear during the trial so far that three unsuccessful reviews per innings is too many as there is potential there for frivolous or unnecessary reviews to be made by one side or the other”.

IPL- Player valuation, player attributes and bid prices.

Titled ‘Player Pricing and Valuation of Cricketing Attributes: Exploring the IPL Twenty-Twenty Vision’, the working paper by Satish Deodhar and Siddhartha Rastogi (IIM-A) attempts to discern an IPL player’s valuation based on the relationship between the IPL-2008 final bid prices and the player’s attributes.

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DLF IPL’s Second Player Auction –2009

The Indian Premier League announced a final list of 114 cricketers for the second player auction.

 

LIST OF PLAYERS FOR SECOND PLAYER AUCTION
	Goa, February 6th 2009
Sr. No	Player Name
AUSTRALIA
1	Brad Haddin
2	Michael Clarke
3	Nathan Hauritz
4	Stuart Clark
5	Brad Hogg
6	Beau Casson
7	Mark Cameron
8	Peter Forrest
9	Lee Carseldine
10	Doug Bowler
11	Michael Dighton
12	Jason Krejza
13	Nathan Reardon
14	Chris Hartley
15	Shaun Tait
16	Ashley Noffke
17	Bryce McGain
18	George Bailey
19	Michael Hill
20	Travis Birt
21	Chris Swan
22	Michael Klinger
23	Ben Edmondson
24	Aiden Blizzard
25	Mark Cosgrove
26	Adam Voges
27	Shane Harwood
BANGLADESH
28	Tamim Iqbal
29	Junaid Siddique
30	Rajin Saleh
31	Mehrab Hossain Jr
32	Shakib Al Hasan
33	Mohammad Ashraful
34	Mashrafe Bin Mortaza.
35	Tamim Iqbal Khan.
36	Shakib Al Hasan.
37	Mohammad Junaid Siddique.
38	Ziaur Rahman
39	Mahumudullah Riyad
40	Nadif Chowdhury.
41	Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahim.
42	Mohammad Raqibul Hasan.
ENGLAND
43	Ravi Bopara
44	Monty Panesar
45	Robert Key
46	James Foster
47	Tyron Henderson
48	Sajid Mahmood
49	Matt Prior
50	Ian Bell
51	Paul Collingwood
52	Owais Shah
53	Shaun Udal
54	Darren Gough
55	Ryan Sidebottom
56	Graeme Swan
57	Luke Wright
58	Kevin Peterson
59	Andrew Flintoff
60	Steve Harmison
61	James Anderson
62	Ed Joyce
63	Dominic Cork
NEW ZEALAND
64	Mark Gillespie
65	Tim Southee
66	Jesse Ryder
67	Jeetan Patel
68	Kyle Mills
69	Chris Martin
70	Jamie How
71	Peter Fulton
72	James Franklin
PAKISTAN
73	Asim Kamal
74	Yasir Hameed
75	Danish Kaneria
76	Mohd. Hafeez
77	Yasir Arafat
SOUTH AFRICA
78	Gulam Bodi
79	Rory Kleinveld
80	Charles Langeveldt
81	Ashwell Prince
82	J P Duminy
83	Martin Van Jaarsveld
84	Roelof Van der Merwe
85	Andre Nel
86	Neil Mckanzee
87	Yusuf Abdullah
88	Paul Harris
89	Johan Botha
90	Morne Van Wyk
SRI LANKA
91	Thilina Thushara
91	Nuwan Kulasekera
93	Mahela Udawatte
94	Dammika Prasad
95	Thilina Kandamby
96	Kaushalya Weereratne
97	Jehan Mubarak
98	Dilhara Lokuhettige
99	Malinga Bandara
100	Malinda Warnapura,
101	Michael vandort,
102	Prassanna Jayawardane
103	Upal Tharanga
104	Jeevantha Kulatunga
105	Kaushal Lokuarachchi
WEST INDIES
106	Sylvester Joseph
107	Darren Sammy
108	Kieron Pollard
109	Andre Fletcher
110	Kieron Powell
111	Fidel Edwards
112	Dwayne Smith
113	Kemar Roach
ZIMBABWE
114	Vusi Sibanda