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World Cricket News and Events Thread - 2015

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    Steven Smith dominated the Allan Border Medal night in much the same way as he has blitzed bowling attacks over the past 12 months, taking Australian cricket's most prestigious award by an enormous margin in Sydney on Tuesday night.
    The Border medal aggregates votes compiled for performances across all three formats, with the greatest weighting given to Test-match displays. Smith's tally of 243 votes put him a whopping 68 clear of his closest challenger David Warner, who put in some outstanding efforts in Tests at Newlands and Adelaide Oval but could not match Smith's consistency. In third place, a further 49 votes behind, was the 2014 winner Mitchell Johnson.
     
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    Perth Scorchers beat Sydney Sixers by four wickets in Canberra to win the Big Bash
    Perth Scorchers 148 for 6 (Marsh 73, Lee 3-25) - Sydney Sixers 147 for 5 (Henriques 77)
    Sydney Sixers, after bucking a poor start to finish on a promising 147 for 5, left the opposition eight runs to get off the last over. Brett Lee, playing his final game of cricket, was entrusted with it and he struck twice in two balls to reduce to equation to one run off one ball.
    Everyone had come inside the circle, with three short covers and a silly mid-on to crowd the new batsman Yasir Arafat. A full and straight delivery was flicked to midwicket and the batsmen ran on instinct for a single that was never there. Moises Henriques, the Sixers captain, ran up to the stumps to collect the throw but he fumbled the take and Arafat dived to make his ground and seal the title defence.
     
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    South Africa beat West Indies by 131 runs in the 5th ODI at Centurion
    South Africa 361 for 5 (Amla 133, Rossouw 132) - West Indies 230 (Samuels 50, Parnell 4-42)
    South Africa win series 4-1
     
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    Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir has been cleared to return early from his five-year ban for spot-fixing.
    Left-armer Amir, 22, was jailed for six months and banned from all cricket for his part in a spot-fixing scam during Pakistan's tour of England in 2010
     
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    Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 34 runs in the 7th ODI in Wellington
    Sri Lanka 287 for 6 (Sangakkara 113, Dilshan 81, Anderson 3-59) - New Zealand 253 (Williamson 54, Ronchi 47, Eranga 2-31)
    NZ win series 4-2 - dark horses for the WC?
     
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    Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara broke the world record for the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in one-day internationals on Thursday.
    Sangakkara, 37, reached 473 dismissals - 377 catches and 96 stumpings - when he caught Corey Anderson off the bowling of Shaminda Eranga in the 34-run win over New Zealand in Wellington.
     
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    England beat India by 3 wickets in the Tri-Series at the WACCA to qualify for the Final
    England 7 for 201 (Taylor 82, Buttler 67, Binny 3-33) - India 200 (Rahane 73, Finn 3-36, Moeen 2-35)
    England's preparation for the WC going nicely - India winless on their Australian tour
     
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    Michael Clarke will play grade cricket for Western Suburbs in Sydney this weekend and Cricket Australia is confident he is on track to be fit for Australia's second World Cup match against Bangladesh on February 21. Clarke will play as a batsman only during the Saturday-Sunday grade fixture, with his return to limited fielding duties set for late next week.
     
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    New Zealand beat Pakistan by seven wickets in the 1st ODI in Wellington
    New Zealand 213 for 3 (Elliott 64*, Taylor 59*) - Pakistan 210 (Afridi 67, Misbah 58, Elliott 3-26)
     
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    New Zealand looking good. 10+ overs to spare.
     
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    Australia beat England by 112 runs in the Tri-Series final at the WACA
    Australia 8 for 278 (Maxwell 95, Marsh 60, Faulkner 50*) - England 166 (Bopara 33, Maxwell 4-46)
     
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    Australia beat India by 106 runs in a WC warm-up ODI in Adelaide
    Australia 371 (Maxwell 122, Warner 104, Shami 3-83) - India 265 (Rahane 66, Dhawan 59, Rayudu 53)
     
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    Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal has been cleared to resume his international career after his bowling action was deemed to be legal.
     
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    New Zealand beat Pakistan by 119 runs in the 2nd ODI in Napier
    New Zealand 369 for 5 (Williamson 112, Taylor 102*, Guptill 76) - Pakistan 250 (Hafeez 86, Shehzad 55)
     
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    South Africa beat Sri Lanka by five wickets (D/L method) in their WC warm-up match in Christchurch
    South Africa 188 for 5 (De Kock 66, Herath 3-22) - Sri Lanka 279 for 7 (Dilshan 100, Mathews 58)
     
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    New Zealand 157 for 7 (Guptill 100) v Zimbabwe - Match abandoned in Lincoln
     
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    England beat West Indies by 9 wickets in their WC warm-up match in Sydney
    West Indies 122 (29.3 overs): Simmons 45, Woakes 5-19 - England 125-1 (22.5 overs): Moeen 46, Bell 35 not out
     
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    Pakistan beat Bangladesh by three wickets in their WC warm-up match in Sydney
    Pakistan 247 for 7 (Maqsood 93*, Sohail 39, Taskin 2-41) - Bangladesh 246 (Mahmudullah 83, Tamim 81, Irfan 5-52)
     
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    Australia beat UAE by 188 runs in a WC warm-up match at the MCG
    Australia 304 for 8 (Clarke 64, Finch 61, Smith 59, Aziz 3-56) - UAE 116 (Patil 31)
    Michael Clarke's steady comeback from hamstring surgery continued at the MCG, where he made 64, then bowled and fielded effectively in Australia's clinical victory over the UAE
     
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    Pakistan beat England by four wickets in their WC warm-up fixture in Sydney
    Pakistan 252 for 6 (Misbah 91*, Akmal 65) - England 250 for 8 (Root 85, Ballance 57, Yasir 3-45)
     
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