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Not quite the first, Sunny

For the first time in India, and perhaps in the cricketing world, podcasts will be available to cricket aficionados to download and listen to at their convenience.
- Yahoo! India teams up with Gavaskar for podcasting and more, sourced from Indiantelevision.com, 10.1.06

Well no, Sunny won't be featuring in the cricketing world's first podcast, though he may well be the first leading player to appear in one.

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Oi! Get that plane off our pitch!

Plane finds people playing cricket on runway

“I was playing cricket with my friends as usual on the strip. We heard the plane, but didn’t care, as no plane lands here daily. But suddenly I saw a plane rushing towards us and we began running to save our lives,”

Saturday's Indian Express tells the rest of the story.

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The Australian: Giant man on a road less travelled [January 07, 2006]

The Australian: Giant man on a road less travelled [January 07, 2006]

The Australian's Mike Coward spoke to Vincent van der Bijl, one of the forgotten legends of South African cricket, at the Sydney Test this week. Van der Bijl is part of the South African official party on this tour.

Great moments in media diversity

Ricky Ponting's historic match-winning century at the SCG yesterday made the front page of all today's local papers, as the collage below demonstrates.

Reuters photographer David Gray captured Ponting's moment of ecstacy after scoring the winning boundary. Competing broadsheets The Weekend Australian (top left, owned by News Ltd) and the Sydney Morning Herald (bottom right, owned by John Fairfax and Sons) displayed their intense rivalry by publishing the exact same shot.

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