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**Sourav** · 1st February 2010, 03:24 PM

Hussey topples Dhoni from ODI batsman top spot

Dubai, Feb 1 (PTI) Australian middle-order batsman Michael Hussey dethroned Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni from the top spot in the ICC ODI batsmen chart updated today.

Hussey, whose 46-ball 40 was instrumental in Australia's win in the fifth ODI against Pakistan yesterday in Perth, has 825 rating points, three more than Dhoni who also had a good show in the recent tri-series in Bangladesh.

Sachin Tendulkar (at seventh), who skipped the Bangladesh tri-series, and Virender Sehwag (at ninth) are the other Indian batsmen in the top 10 with 723 and 702 points respectively.

Yuvraj Singh (12th), Gautam Gambhir (19th) and Suresh Raina (20th) make it to the top 20. Bangladesh tri-series top-scorer Virat Kohli is at 21st.

Among the bowlers, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is the only Indian in the top 10 at sixth. Pacer Zaheer Khan is the next highest ranked Indian at 21st.

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Dhoni... 1 yr-ku mela no-1-la irunthanlla? great...

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**Movie Cop** · 4th February 2010, 07:23 AM

Interview Link (both video & transcript) with Hyderabadi stylist - VVS!

Being in the twilight of his career, hope the graceful batsman scores a big one against the visiting South Africans. That would be a real treat for the eyes, I say.

http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/446525.html

**VinodKumar's** · 4th February 2010, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by Sourav

Hussey topples Dhoni from ODI batsman top spot

Dubai, Feb 1 (PTI) Australian middle-order batsman Michael Hussey dethroned Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni from the top spot in the ICC ODI batsmen chart updated today.

Hussey, whose 46-ball 40 was instrumental in Australia's win in the fifth ODI against Pakistan yesterday in Perth, has 825 rating points, three more than Dhoni who also had a good show in the recent tri-series in Bangladesh.

Sachin Tendulkar (at seventh), who skipped the Bangladesh tri-series, and Virender Sehwag (at ninth) are the other Indian batsmen in the top 10 with 723 and 702 points respectively.

Yuvraj Singh (12th), Gautam Gambhir (19th) and Suresh Raina (20th) make it to the top 20. Bangladesh tri-series top-scorer Virat Kohli is at 21st.

Among the bowlers, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is the only Indian in the top 10 at sixth. Pacer Zaheer Khan is the next highest ranked Indian at 21st.

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Dhoni... 1 yr-ku mela no-1-la irunthanlla? great...

Pete sampras maari athigam week irruka record pannuvaanu pathaen just miss ... intha series mudiyatum 2 century will bring him back at top

**Dinesh84** · 5th February 2010, 11:49 AM

Bangladesh tour of New Zealand, 1st ODI at Napier

New Zealand 336/9 (50 overs) Oram 83 (40 balls)

Bangladesh 82/1 (13.4 overs)

**Plum** · 9th February 2010, 06:38 PM

[url=http://www.cricinfo.com/2010iccwt20/engine/current/match/439495.html]Pakistan thEigiradhu, Afghanistan vaLargiradu[/quote]
Afghan beat Ireland,which is probably a comment on the level of Cricket just below top level. But credit to the Afghanis for reaching this level so quickly

**Aalavanthan** · 10th February 2010, 08:56 PM

Afghanistan secure second win

Plum FYI They beat the ODI playing nation Scott this time

**Aalavanthan** · 19th February 2010, 09:07 PM

England v Pakistan.. 1st T20 in Dubai today..

Pakistan batting first scored 129 runs.. and our own Mr. Aamir Sohail is complaining about how bad they played and giving us LKG lecture on what has happened..

129, is what Pakistan had scored, their second lowest score in T20 as far as Pakistan is concerned, their batting was made hard by some good bowling from England - epadi thaan full stop illaama Thiru Aamir pesugiraaro

**Aalavanthan** · 19th February 2010, 09:41 PM

Pak fights back ENG 18/3

**P_R** · 20th February 2010, 03:15 PM

Andy Zaltzman

if Amit Mishra had bowled Amla a ravenous man-eating crocodile, he would have covered his off stump and gently knocked the slavering reptile safely into the leg-side before staring his stoical stare back at the bowler, as if to say, "Is that all you've got? Go on, try a boa constrictor next, or a tank of piranhas, I am in form."

Until then, may cricket guide you well, listeners. And I'll play you out with some more lies about cricketers.

Moustache-wielding Australian ex-captain Allan Border won't leave his house in the morning until he has correctly guessed the outcome of five consecutive coin tosses. During a run of bad luck, he spent the whole of 1998 stuck in his front porch, calling heads.
On nights out, New Zealand stalwart Kenny Rutherford sometimes pretends he is in fact nuclear-physics whizz Ernest Rutherford, and goes round bars offering to split atoms for cash.

**ajithfederer** · 22nd February 2010, 11:01 PM

Brett Lee
Lee set to quit Tests to prolong career
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February 22, 2010

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Brett Lee could be set to follow in the footsteps of Andrew Flintoff, Jacob Oram and a number of other high-profile cricketers by retiring from Test cricket in a bid to prolong his one-day and Twenty20 career.

According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Lee is expected to confirm his decision at a press conference on Friday. At the age of 33, he currently lies fourth on the list of Australia's all-time Test wicket-takers, with 310 victims in 76 Tests dating back to his debut in 1999.

However, he has not played a Test since suffering a stress fracture of the foot during Australia's home series defeat against South Africa at Melbourne in December 2008. He was forced to sit out of the subsequent 2-1 victory in South Africa, before a side strain ruled him out of the entire Ashes campaign. An elbow injury then sidelined him for Australia's 2009-10 home series wins against West Indies and Pakistan.

In between whiles, however, he has featured prominently in Australia's one-day campaigns, including a 6-1 post-Ashes trouncing of England and a successful defence of their Champions Trophy title in South Africa. He was also Man of the Match as New South Wales beat Trinidad & Tobago to claim the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 title in Hyderabad.

According to the SMH, Lee's decision to retire from Tests was influenced by a discussion with Flintoff, leading to speculation that he too could seek to pursue a freelance career to maximise his earnings in the final years of his career.

On announcing his own Test retirement back in August, Flintoff stated that his ambition was to become the best one-day and Twenty20 player in the world. His manager Chubby Chandler added that he would have received lucrative offers from at least four Twenty20 teams across the world this year, had he not been recuperating from knee surgery.

Like Flintoff, Lee has a wide global appeal, with Bollywood connections adding to his marketability in India, and Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, recently stated on Twitter that Lee had committed to his 2010 contract with King's XI Punjab.

http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/co...ry/449615.html