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World Cricket News and Events Thread - 2016

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    India have appointed former captain and leg spinner Anil Kumble as their new head coach on a one-year deal.
    Kumble, 45, has no international or first-class coaching experience but is India's leading Test wicket taker with 619 wickets in 132 games.
    India have been without a head coach since Duncan Fletcher left the role after the 2015 World Cup.
    Former team director Ravi Shastri has overseen India's recent World Twenty20 and Asia Cup campaigns.
     
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    England will host Ireland in a one-day international series for the first time in 2017.
    The two sides will meet at Bristol on 5 May and again at Lord's on 7 May in the build-up to the Champions Trophy
     
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    Australia beat West Indies by 58 runs to win the Tri-Series Final in Barbados
    Australia 270 for 9 (Wade 57*, Holder 2-51, Gabriel 2-58) - West Indies 212 (Charles 45, Hazlewood 5-50, Marsh 3-32)
     
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    New Zealand are unlikely to play a day-night Test against India this season with the BCCI announcing that all three Tests in September and October would begin at 9.30 am.
     
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    Scotland suffered a 78-run defeat to Afghanistan in the second and final one-day international in Edinburgh.
    Wet weather forced the abandonment of the first match and rain again affected proceedings at The Grange as the tourists sealed a series win
     
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    Australia have appointed former England fast bowling coach David Saker as their assistant coach.
    The 50-year-old from Melbourne worked with England for nearly five years and gained great credit for the improvement of bowlers including Stuart Broad and jimmy Anderson
     
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    West Indies trail India by 535 runs after Day 2 of the 1st Test in Antiga
    West Indies 31 for 1 (Shami 1-6) - India 566 for 8 decl. (Kohli 200, Ashwin 113, Dhawan 84, Mishra 53)

    Kohli's first double hundred
    Always a good batting pitch, but will WI cope with the scoreboard pressure?
     
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    Following on, West Indies still trail India by 302 runs at the end of Day 3 in Antigua
    West Indies 243 (K Brathwaite 74, Dowrich 57*, Yadav 4-41, Shami 4-66) and (f/o) 21 for 1 (Ishant 1-3) - India 566 for 8 dec (Kohli 200, Ashwin 113, Dhawan 84, Mishra 53)
     
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    India beat West Indies by an innings and 92 runs in the 1st test in Antigua
    India 566 for 8 decl. (Kohli 200, Ashwin 113, Dhawan 84, Mishra 53) - West Indies 243 (K Brathwaite 74, Dowrich 57* Yadav 4-41, Shami 4-66) and (f/o) 231 (C Brathwaite 51*, Samuels 50, Ashwin 7-83)
     
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    Australia with 8 1st Innings wickets standing only trail Sri Lanka by 51 runs at the end of the 1st Day of the 1st Test at Pallekele
    Australia 66 for 2 (Smith 28*, Khawaja 25*) - Sri Lanka 117 (Lyon 3-12, Hazlewood 3-21)
     
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    Sri Lanka have lost a 2nd innings wicket and still trail Australia by 80 runs at the end of the 2nd Day of the 1st Test at Pallekele
    Sri Lanka 117 and 6 for 1 - Australia 203 (Voges 47, Herath 4-49, Sandakan 4-58)
     
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    Sri Lanka fight back to lead Australia by 196 runs at the end of the 3rd Day of the 1st Test
    Sri Lanka 117 and 282 for 6 (Mendis 169*) - Australia 203
     
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    New Zealand with all 1st Innings wickets standing trail Zimbabwe by 132 runs at the end of the 1st Day of the 1st Test at Bulawayo
    New Zealand 32 for 0 (Latham 16) - Zimbabwe 164 (Tiripano 49, Masvaure 42, Wagner 6-41)
     
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    Officials from the BCCI are due to meet with members of the WICB in Florida on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss the possibility of staging a series of T20 internationals at the Central Broward Regional Park in Florida next month.
     
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    Cricket South Africa has confirmed a decision to introduce targets for all national teams for selection of players of colour. The specifics of the new policy, which will stipulate how many players of colour need to be included in starting XIs, have yet to be revealed, but are likely to fall in line with the requirements of the South African sports ministry, with whom CSA have signed a memorandum of understanding
     
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    Australia need 185 on fifth day or Sri Lanka seven wickets
    Australia 203 and 83 for 3 (Smith 26*, Voges 9*) - Sri Lanka 117 and 353 (Mendis 176, Starc 4-84)
     
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    New Zealand with just 4 1st innings wickets down lead Zimbabwe by 151 runs at the end of Day 2 of the 1st Test in Bulawayo
    New Zealand 315 for 4 (Latham 105, Taylor 91) - Zimbabwe 164 (Tiripano 49*, Wagner 6-41)
     
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    Sri Lanka beat Australia by 106 runs in the 1st Test at Pallekele
    Sri Lanka 117 (Lyon 3-12, Hazlewood 3-21) and 353 (Mendis 176, Starc 4-84) - Australia 203 (Voges 47, Herath 4-49, Sandakan 4-58) and 161 (Smith 55, Herath 5-54)

    Amazingly this is only the 2nd time Sri Lanka have beaten Australia in a Test match!
     
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    Australia's penultimate pair, Peter Nevill and Steve O'Keefe, batted together for 178 balls for just four runs, a boundary scored by O'Keefe, whose hamstring injury prevented him from running. That included a record-breaking 154 balls without a run
     
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    Boring Aussies <laugh>

    They made Boycott and Tavare look like McCullum and Gayle. And they lost.
     
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