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For past few days I’ve been using some other platform for blogging for cricket news and updates, in the hope of making some money.

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Dhoni is ODI Player of Year

	Mahendra Singh Dhoni: ODI Player of Year

India’s one-day captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, has won the ODI Player of the Year award at the ICC Awards ceremony in Dubai.

Dhoni beat off tough competition from his India team-mate, Sachin Tendulkar, Australia’s fast bowler Nathan Bracken and Pakistan stalwart, Mohammad Yousuf, to take the award.

During the voting period, Dhoni played 39 ODIs and scored 1,298 runs at an average of 49.92 and at a rate of 82.46 runs per 100 balls faced. In that time he hit a century and nine fifties, making sure he led his team from the front.

Also in that time, in his capacity as a wicketkeeper, Dhoni claimed 62 dismissals (46 catches and 16 stumpings), which is almost twice as many as the next best, albeit having played more matches than any other keeper.

He is currently ranked No. 1 in the ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen.

The ODI Player of the Year Award was one of eight individual prizes given at this year’s ICC Awards. Dhoni also featured on the ICC ODI Team of the Year as picked by the ICC selection panel. The award was announced by Australia captain and two-time ICC Cricketer of the Year, Ricky Ponting.

The panel was chaired by the former West Indies captain, Clive Lloyd, and included the former Australia captain, Greg Chappell, the recently retired South Africa allrounder Shaun Pollock, the former Sri Lanka opener Sidath Wettimuny and the former Bangladesh batsman, Athar Ali Khan.

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BCCI allows international players for Ranji Trophy

The Board of Cricket Control of India decided to allow international players to take part in its first-class domestic championship starting this year.

The technical committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which is chaired by batting legend Sunil Gavaskar, said state sides were now free to include one foreigner in their ranks for the Ranji Trophy contest.

The Ranji Trophy is the India’s Inter-state competition and a good performance here often makes a selection to the national team.

Former England batsman Denis Compton and West Indian pacer Roy Gilchrist had played in the Ranji Trophy during India’s pre-independence period but the trend was not carried later on.

The BCCI had been trying for such a move for the past two years in the wake of dwindling spectator interest and almost negligible TV viewership.

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England v/s South Africa 4th ODI Scorecard

NatWest Series [South Africa in England] – 4th ODI England v South Africa

2008 season

Played at Lord’s, London, on 31 August 2008 (50-over match) Result England won by 7 wickets (with 14 balls remaining) (D/L method)

	South Africa innings (32.1 overs maximum)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		HH Gibbs	b Broad	74	119	75	9	0	98.66
		HM Amla	run out (Shah)	34	40	31	8	0	109.67
		JH Kallis	c Prior b Flintoff	1	12	8	0	0	12.50
		AB de Villiers	c Flintoff b Patel	14	35	34	0	0	41.17
		JP Duminy	c Bell b Flintoff	20	26	18	2	1	111.11
		MV Boucher	not out	10	24	12	1	0	83.33
		VD Philander	c Anderson b Flintoff	10	14	12	1	0	83.33
		J Botha	not out	2	4	3	0	0	66.66
		Extras	(lb 11, w 7)	18
		Total	(6 wickets; 32.1 overs)	183	(5.68 runs per over)

Did not bat M Morkel, DW Steyn, A Nel

Fall of wickets1-66 (Amla, 9.1 ov), 2-75 (Kallis, 11.2 ov), 3-113 (de Villiers, 20.2 ov), 4-155 (Duminy, 27.2 ov), 5-158 (Gibbs, 28.2 ov), 6-179 (Philander, 31.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	JM Anderson	3	0	23	0	7.66
	SCJ Broad	6.1	0	33	1	5.35	(1w)
	SJ Harmison	4	0	35	0	8.75
	A Flintoff	7	1	21	3	3.00	(2w)
	SR Patel	7	0	34	1	4.85
	PD Collingwood	5	0	26	0	5.20

	England innings (target: 137 runs from 20 overs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
		IR Bell	c Boucher b Morkel	13	23	16	1	0	81.25
		MJ Prior	c Boucher b Steyn	0	10	4	0	0	0.00
		OA Shah	not out	44	69	40	4	1	110.00
		KP Pietersen	c Amla b Botha	40	39	34	5	1	117.64
		A Flintoff	not out	31	17	12	5	1	258.33
		Extras	(b 2, w 7)	9
		Total	(3 wickets; 17.4 overs)	137	(7.75 runs per over)

Did not bat PD Collingwood, SR Patel, LJ Wright, SCJ Broad, SJ Harmison, JM Anderson

Fall of wickets1-7 (Prior, 2.2 ov), 2-19 (Bell, 4.3 ov), 3-93 (Pietersen, 13.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	DW Steyn	3	0	17	1	5.66	(1w)
	A Nel	2.4	0	11	0	4.12	(2w)
	M Morkel	4	0	32	1	8.00	(3w)
	VD Philander	4	0	30	0	7.50
	JH Kallis	1	0	20	0	20.00
	J Botha	3	0	25	1	8.33

Toss England, who chose to field first
Series England led the 5-match series 4-0

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