WHo is best in cricket team

My simple question who is the best team in cricket team in futher
1 . Auatralia
2 . south africa
3 . India
4. new zeeland

pls give me answer throgh of comments

Tenis-Growing Into a Leader

By: harvey araton

Published: March 3, 2009

You could tell by her mischievous giggle and by the apparent delight of freeing a memory from a normally guarded vault that Venus williams wasn’t speaking apocryphally when she talked about the family rule of I Don’t Know.

It came from her father, Richard, she said, and was enforceable any time, anywhere.

“We’d all sit down and have these family talks, and he’d start asking the questions: ‘Now, why do poor people always stay poor but rich people get richer?’ ” she said. “He’d ask, ‘Why don’t people change?’ I’m sitting there, like 8 years old, and I knew I had to have an answer. Never say I don’t know.”

I’m fairly certain that Venus, as well as her sister , have ducked a question or three in interview rooms on various continents. But Venus, in particular, seems mighty adept these days at addressing the most important ones.

She was a committed leader in the successful pursuit of equal prize money for the women at that most conventional of Grand Slams, Wimbledon. She also agreed to front a partnership that began in 2006 between the WTA Tour and a series of programs. Along with the growing role of 28-year-old tennis stateswoman has come full-blown adulthood.

It may not have sounded like much to some critics back home, but taking the microphone after accepting the winner’s check for $350,000 and lecturing her hosts on their inexcusable denial of a visa to the Israeli player Shahar Peer was not only called for, but it was brave.

The stadium was full and United Arab Emirates royalty was on the court with her, but Williams stood up and said it was a crying shame that Peer was locked out.

“I was just in the middle of it, just staying focused, making sure I said the right thing,” she said. “I think they clapped.”

“Obviously it would have been a strong statement,” Williams said.

She thought about it for a moment and added: “Would have, could have, the thing is, it was all done at the 11th hour. Shahar was actually in the draw. People were already there. It didn’t happen in a way that a boycott was possible. And I think the way we handled it definitely made a difference. Andy Ram got his visa the next week. If he hadn’t gotten his visa, the tournament would have been in real trouble.”

Ram, another Israeli, was allowed into Dubai to play doubles in the men’s tournament that followed. At that moment, the excuse originally given by the authorities — security concerns — was exposed for the craven untruth it was.

Scott said he was aware of the number of news media people around the United States and elsewhere who argued that Venus especially and the other women’s players had missed their chance to have a Muhammad Ali moment.

“It opened a great philosophical question: Eye for an eye or a move toward a constructive dialogue?” he said.

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Venus’s answer to the question of ever playing Indian Wells again sounded more “no” than “I don’t know.” But perhaps as she continues to grow, and lead, she will embrace the pragmatic approach more than the punitive at home as well.

By now, no doubt, there is as much appreciation and respect for this American champion in the California desert as there should be in Dubai.

E-mail: hjaraton@nytimes.com

Baseball news

The me agreed to one-year contracts in salary arbitration with reliever Duaner Sánchez at $1,687,500 and outfielder Jeremy Reed at $925,000. Sanchez was 5-1 with a 4.32 earned run average in 66 relief appearances in 2008, when he made $950,000. Reed, obtained from Seattle during the winter meetings with reliever J. J. Putz, hit .269 for the mariners last year with 2 homers and 31 runs batted in.
Among others who agreed to contracts Monday were starter Félix Hernández, who received a sevenfold salary increase with a one-year, $3.8 million contract with the Mariners; Chicago White Sox closer Bobby Jenks, who agreed to a one-year, $5.6 million contract, more than 10 times his $550,000 salary last season; Colorado reliever Huston Street ($4.5 million); Atlanta closer Mike Gonzalez ($3.45 million); the Cubs right-hander Kevin Gregg ($4.2 million); and the Cardinals right-hander Todd Wellemeyer ($4.05 million).

write by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Aus VS SA score

Batting: Australia 1st Innings
Australia (445/10 in 136.2 ovs)


Batting: South Africa 1st Innings
South Africa (327/9 in 120.5 ovs)

and

Batting: Australia 2nd Innings
Australia (257/4 in 67.3 ovs)]

Batting: South Africa 2nd Innings
South Africa (272/10 in 114.2 ovs)


Match Status: Australia won by 103 runs
Man of the Match: peter siddle
Man of the Series: Graeme Smith

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Australia vs South Africa 1st Test

Result: South Africa won by 6 wkts


AUS: 319/10 in 97 ov & 375/10 in 98.5 ov


RSA: 281/10 in 89.5 ov & 414/4 in 119.2


G Smith(c)......................................................108
AB De Villiers..................................................106

England vs. India 1st Test scoreboard

India v England, First Test at Chennai IND win the match by 6 wicket

and man of the match is shewag.

summary of match


India 241 & 387 for 4 beat

beat the

England 316 & 311 for 9d
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