He was an outstanding batsman who amassed the highest score in Fijian cricket - 246.
In a cricket-addicted nation, Dhoni was taking his first cricketing steps at a late stage.
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Twenty20 cricket is fun cricket - it's more for entertainment, even if it is international cricket.
You can't expect men to be machines, as leading cricket-loving TV news presenter Rajdeep Sardesai said.
To most English cricket-lovers, this would not matter much if the national cricket team were any good.
Officially, there is only one 'overseas' player allowed per side in county cricket - but the reality is different.
Microsoft, with 2, 000 immigrants from cricket-playing countries on its staff, now supports cricket in Seattle, close to its headquarters.
When not indulging in his other great passion - cricket - Gifford will still be on hand to help out.
"The leading one-day team in world cricket - South Africa - do not mirror 50 overs at domestic level, " said Clarke.
Captain Nasser Hussain is reportedly willing to gauge feeling among the cricket-viewing public back in England before making a final decision.
More than a billion fans in the two cricket-mad countries relish these encounters as much as--perhaps even more than--Australians and Englishmen.
"We have groomed Hashim Amla to open the batting in one-day cricket - and he will be a more than adequate replacement, " Arthur predicted.
Former India captain Kapil Dev says his compatriot is a hero to a cricket-loving nation and admire the way he has dealt with the adoration.
The new batsman, Ravi Bopara, had to weather a stormy introduction to Ashes cricket - which included a nasty ball from Siddle which struck his throat.
Nicky Oppenheimer, a cricket-loving scion of the family behind De Beers , is to become chairman of the diamond firm in place of Julian Ogilvie Thompson.
It is ironic that perhaps Banerjee's fortunes turned for the better on the day that the cricket-loving Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was sworn in as chief minister in 2006.
Simon Jones is desperate to prove that he can be effective in one day cricket - it seems that he needs to convince Glamorgan of that too.
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Cricket-lovers everywhere were relieved to discover the answer was no.
Why, when you have two of the most destructive hitters in world cricket - Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Dhoni - do you send out the little-known Ravi Jadeja instead?
But while Carlisle and Co are getting their new careers - whether inside or outside cricket - up and running, it is not simply a case of 'I'm all right Jack.
BBC: It began as a vibrant show of solidarity for their leader.
The Pakistan job is widely regarded as one of the toughest in World Cricket, due to the high expectations of 160 million cricket-obsessed people, language difficulties and a series of recent controversies.
In 1970, the International Cricket Council banned South Africa from international competition, leaving the country's cricket-mad fans deprived of the sport they loved, and their cricketers of the careers they dreamed of.
"I'll take getting four wickets in Test cricket - and I hope, tomorrow, if we can take our chances, we can get the rest as cheaply as possible, " said the Barbadian fast bowler.
Limited-overs cricket - as its name suggests - is restricted to a maximum number of overs, and in the modern era, international limited-overs cricket is divided between one-day internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 internationals.
He needed six from two balls to set the fastest fifty in Test cricket - a record many would be surprised to learn is held by South Africa's Jacques Kallis - but was briefly becalmed.
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Three famous names of Indian cricket - Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and S Venkatraghavan, along with the board president and two others, were there in the meeting to hammer out a solution to the crisis.
Overlooked by FIFA for those tournaments, Hawk-Eye -- which already provides ball-tracking systems for tennis and cricket -- will install its technology in 20 Premier League grounds and at Wembley, which will host August's Community Shield.
"We've played alot of cricket in three weeks and before that we had a week solid of county cricket - five consecutive days of county one-day cricket - so it's been a real challenge, " Connor added.
And with Daryl Tuffey ruled out with a broken finger, 19-year-old batsman Williamson - who averages almost 50 in first-class cricket - could yet also earn himself a call is the pitch dries out, said Greatbatch.
Seamer and captain Jhulan Goswami (3-16) and slow left-armer Gouher Sultana (3-26) were the pick of the Indian bowlers as England - missing the world's number one batter, Claire Taylor, who is taking a break from cricket - collapsed.
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