I know its a team with a fat ass captain, I forget his name too..is it Hare?
Shabaz said:I am gonna simplify it for all of you, and just say that ALL OF AUSSIE'S SUCK, and THEY ARE GONNA GET THEIR A** KICKED TOMORROW
$cags said:where can i find some good stufff of briana banks!!!!
Cricket Chiefs Had No Knowledge of Alleged Al-Qaeda Ashes Plot
By Dan Baynes
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Australian cricket and government officials said they had no knowledge of an alleged terrorist plot targeting the Australian and English teams during last year's Ashes series.
Al-Qaeda planned to kill the players using sarin nerve gas, the Sunday Times reported, citing a friend of one of the terrorists who bombed London's public transport system on July 7, 2005, in an attack that killed 52 people.
Australian team management worked closely with security officials and U.K. police after the bombings, and had not heard any reports that the teams were targeted, Cricket Australia said today. The England and Wales Cricket Board advised its Australian counterpart overnight that it also had no knowledge of the claim.
``At no stage then or since was there any specific issue relating to the Australian or England teams raised with us,'' Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland said in a statement.
Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, who bombed the London Underground, were allegedly ordered to get jobs as stewards at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham and spray lethal sarin gas inside the teams' locker rooms, the Times said.
The friend, whose real name was not published, said the plot may have been canceled, and the Tube bombings carried out instead, because Tanweer, 22, was a cricket fan.
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said police and intelligence officials are investigating the claims.
``Ultimately I would receive information in relation into whatever they obtain from him,'' Ruddock said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. ``But at this stage I'm not aware of any other information known to our authorities.''
The top-ranked Australian team, which is in India to contest the Champions Trophy, said it had confidence in the security precautions taken by Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association on the players' behalf.
``With regards to this report, we were very comfortable with the security arrangements that were in place during the recent Ashes tour and we continue to trust the security information provided to us by Cricket Australia and the ACA,'' team captain Ricky Ponting said in a statement.
Cricket: Akhtar, Asif recalled due to positive drugs tests
KARACHI - Pakistan are sending home fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif from the Champions Trophy cricket tournament in India after the pair tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone.
Both cricketers face bans of up to two years if a second test confirms the positive result.
"They have tested positive for using nandrolone, which is a performance enhancing anabolic steroid," Saleem Altaf, director of cricket operations of the Pakistan Cricket Board, said today.
Altaf said both players had returned positive results for nandrolone in tests conducted on 25 players before the Champions Trophy in a World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited laboratory in Malaysia.
"We have asked for a second test (B sample). But for the moment they have been suspended and are being recalled from India," he said.
Altaf made it clear that since the tests were conducted internally and not in an International Cricket Council (ICC) tournament, the two players would appear before a PCB disciplinary committee.
"Under the ICC anti-doping rules the punishment for a first violation is two years. We don't have our own rules on such matters and might follow the ICC regulations," he added.
The PCB has also asked the ICC to allow two replacements for the disgraced players.
"It is a voluntary withdrawal of the players. So we can ask for replacements," Altaf said.
The team management in India has asked for a pacer and spinner and Altaf said Mohammad Sami, Shahid Nazir and Yasir Arafat were being discussed as possible replacements.
Pakistan cricket is still reeling from a ball-tampering fiasco which caused the team to forfeit the recent fourth test against England at The Oval, controversy over the captaincy and the resignation of board chairman Shaharyar Khan.
The Champions Trophy involves all the test-playing nations and is second only to the World Cup in importance
The Pakistan team skipped their scheduled morning training session in Jaipur following the news.
Skipper Younis Khan and coach Bob Woolmer were expected to address a news conference later on Monday, the eve of their opening Group B tie against Sri Lanka.
pablito said:shahz
Stefan said:I wouldn't be laughing if I were you aussies. As far as I remember you had a certain legendary leg spinner sent home from the 2003 wc for doping.
pablito said:great win fro us verse england....damien martin played a great innings. dissapointing for ponting anf gilly
i think we verse India next
h2o said:lol you said it, that legend though was taking medicine for his dislocated, I could assure you if it was pure steroids he'd of coped it more
Stefan said:And how do we know that the 2 pakistani's weren't doing the same?? Both were injured both could have been taking something to recover faster.
Lets not judge till we have all the facts.