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India Cricket - Latest News, 23rd February 06.

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1) Indian squad for the first test against Nagpur has been announced. The most important note from this squad is that former

captain - Sourav Ganguly has been dropped from the 15 member team and a 17 year old Leg Spinner - Piyush Chawla has been selected. Here is the full story....

Also try the schedule of England's 2006 tour of India, and England's squad.

2) Pakistan's tour of Srilanka has been announced. Pakistan will be playing three One day internationals and two test matches between 13th March and 7th of April. Here is the schedule of that Srilanka vs Pakistan series.

3) The swing of Sultan - Wasim Akram has hit back at Australian Captain Ricky Ponting who said a few days back that minnows like Bangladesh should be ousted from test cricket.. The comments have come after Bangladesh beat Srilanka in the 2nd one day international at Bogra on wednesday. Here is what Wasim has said and if you are interested in knowing how Bangladesh managed to beat Srilanka for the first time, read this. Here is the score card of that Srilanka vs Bangladesh match, that BANGLADESH WON..

4) South African cricket captain - Graeme Smith has come up with some comments that will boost the cricket fans of his country

to give the treatment back to Austrailan cricket team when they start their tour on Friday - with a twnety20 match. Smith has said that "He expects South African cricket fans to support their team wholeheartedly and hopes that Australia won't start moaning over every single incidents that happen during this cricket series". Read this.

Another important aspect of this series is that both the captains are pressing that Super - sub rule be done away with. Smith said that if there will be no such rule in the coming world cup in 2007, it should be stopped from right now. Try this.

Here is the schedule of Australia's tour of South Africa - 2006.

5) Pakistan won the under - 19 world cup in Srilanka by beating India with a margin of 38 runs.. but this win made each and every member of that team - richer by a margin of 2 lakh. Read this interesting story...

I wonder Pakistan is trying to feel better with that win against India under 19 as they lost the 4th straight match
(The fifth one day international) at Karachi on the same day to the national team.