So how does the world's top cricket team slide from glory into ignominy so quickly?
Sahara has a number of sporting interests and sponsors the Indian national cricket team.
Goatacre Village Hall will spend the money on better facilities for its cricket team.
Sir Donald prospered as a stockbroker and for many years helped to select Australia's cricket team.
To most English cricket-lovers, this would not matter much if the national cricket team were any good.
Her involvement in sports, notably as the owner of the Mumbai Indians cricket team, made her a national figure.
For the England cricket team, however, it has been a summer to forget.
In 1983, the West Indies cricket team was on top of the world.
Security has become a major issue after gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan, on Tuesday.
The West Indies cricket team, once a world-beating symbol of Caribbean unity, has been brought low by inter-island squabbles.
In one of the most notable incidents, in March, gunmen attacked the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team, killing six policemen.
Even the admired captain of the national cricket team, the late Hansie Cronje, was caught taking money from betting syndicates.
It also helped that, just before this week's talks, India confirmed that its cricket team would come to Pakistan in March.
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Meanwhile, Australia's cricket team says it has held talks with Indian authorities about its players' safety in the wake of the bombings.
Meanwhile, Australia's cricket team says it has held talks about its players' safety with Indian authorities in the wake of the deadly twin bombings.
India's media have hailed their cricket team's 4-0 whitewash over Australia.
He added that the current "candy-floss diplomacy" - a reference to a recent tour of India by the Pakistani cricket team - needed to stop.
Our cricket team is actually pretty good, but unfortunately cricket cannot be played in the rain, so there hasn't been very much cricket to watch.
Vodafone has already withdrawn from other big sports sponsorship deals in the past decade, including with the English national cricket team and English soccer club Manchester United.
But we have seen Pakistan cricket team in the past couple of decades - whenever things are tough and hard for them they really come out positive.
But given the almost hysterical celebrations that have greeted the Indian cricket team, it will be a tough climb to elevate hockey to the same status as cricket.
Ryder had been at the bar with teammates from the Wellington cricket team, which played in the semifinals of New Zealand's domestic one-day competition in Christchurch earlier Wednesday.
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Hansie Cronje was sacked as captain of South Africa's cricket team after admitting that he had accepted money from an Indian bookie for forecasting the result of a match.
About a month beforehand, an almighty row between the WICB and Digicel, who sponsor the West Indies cricket team, flared up over whether Digicel had branding rights to the Stanford match.
Members also discussed petitions calling for a national Welsh cricket team, a grant for a daily Welsh-language newspaper and improved Arriva Trains Wales services between south west and south east Wales.
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Currently, India has a junior cricket team touring Pakistan.
At the independent school Harrow, the exam results of the First XI cricket team are closely scrutinised because a high number of matches takes pupils out of lessons during the summer term.
In 2009 the England women's cricket team won the World Cup, the World Twenty20, and retained their Ashes, with batsman Claire Taylor the first woman named in Wisden's Cricketers of the Year.
Ricky Ponting's Australian cricket team struggled in the popularity stakes because it was deemed to have taken on-field aggression and sledging too far, most notably during the controversial "Bollyline series" with India in 2008.
"I've never been approached by the News of the World and neither did I approach anyone connected with the News of the World to disclose any allegations concerning the Pakistan cricket team or any other players, " added Hameed.
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