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Miss gives Noonan a Stradbroke dilemma
Jun 4th
Varenna Miss has stormed to victory in the QTC Cup (1,300m) at Eagle Farm, but the mare is no certainty to line up in next week’s $1 million Stradbroke Handicap.
Tony Noonan is mindful of the fact that no horse has won the QTC Cup and backed up to win the Stradbroke, a feat beyond some of Australia’s best sprinters in recent years.
The Melbourne trainer tried and failed in 2009 to complete the double with his star sprinter Ortensia, who only managed third to Black Piranha in the Stradbroke.
“We’ll have a drink first and then have a think about it,” More >
India v Sri Lanka, final, World Cup 2011, Mumbai
Apr 2nd
Nehra injury creates selection dilemma The injury to Ashish Nehra has put the Indian team management in a dilemma over who should be his replacement for the World Cup final against Sri Lanka. The likely choices are Sreesanth and R Ashwin, but MS Dhoni said that he was yet to make up his mind on whether to go for a third seamer, or play two seamers and an extra spinner.
“That is a tricky one,” Dhoni said 24 hours before the final. “If you see the Mumbai track there is a bit of pace and bounce for the seamers initially. Also More >
World Cup 2011 semi-final Sri Lanka v New Zealand,
Mar 29th
The Big Picture In the months leading up to the World Cup, New Zealand had traipsed through the subcontinent, copping defeat after defeat: they failed to make the final of a tri-series in Sri Lanka, were hammered 5-0 in India, and between those two beatings they were humiliated in Bangladesh, where they lost 4-0. “We played like d****, really,” Mark Greatbatch had fumed. They then lost a one-day series 3-2 at home to Pakistan. New Zealand were fortunate, it was said, to be pooled in Group A, from which qualification for the quarter-finals was straightforward. And after the hammerings they More >
