Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are one of five teams in the Central Division of the American League. When the Kansas City Athletics moved to Oakland after the 1967 season, Kansas City was left without professional baseball for the first and only time since 1883. An enraged Senator Stuart Symington threatened to introduce legislation removing baseball's antitrust exemption unless Kansas City was granted a team in the next round of expansion. MLB complied during the 1967 winter meetings, awarding one of four expansion teams to Kansas City to start play in 1969. Pharmaceutical executive Ewing Kauffman won the bidding for the new Kansas City team, which he named the Royals after the American Royal Livestock Show held in Kansas City every year since 1899. However, Symington was not satisfied and pressured MLB to allow the new teams to start play in 1969. Symington's intervention may have contributed to the collapse of one of the Royals' expansion brethren, the Seattle Pilots, who moved to Milwaukee as the Brewers after only one season. Full Article on Wikipedia
World Cup Preview: group stage
All the 16 times are divided into four groups with 4 teams in each group.In my opinion, watching the group stage cricket matches is a sheer waste of times. As 2 teams out of the four will advance to next round, these matches are just for marketing purposes.
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World Cup preview: Indian batting line up
Indian batting stars are peaking up at the right time for 2007 cricket world cup. It is a bad news for opposition teams. India is the only team in world cricket who can beat Australians on their day. On their day, it can blast opposition bowlers to all over the park. They reached 2003 world cup finals just basing on their batting strength. All the batting stars of Indian team are in the scintillating form against West Indies team in the recent one day series. If they can fire on all cylinders in the upcoming world cup, India can world cup 2007.
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Cricket World Cup news - New Zealand and India
New Zealand is again into World cup contention:Australian Cricket star Adam Gilchrist said that New Zealand is the most dangerous team in this world cup. After their bid for a stunning run chase which was missed by just 8 runs, odds are suddenly raised favoring New Zealamd. They are always dark horses in worldcups. They have the suitable players for one day cricket like Jacob oram and James Franklin.1. They have one of the bowling line ups with the likes of Shane Bond and Daniel Vettori.
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New Zealand provisional Squad for the Cricket world cup 2007
New Zealand announced 30 member provisional squad for the ICC Cricket world cup 2007 to be held in the West Indies in March and April. New Zealand will play in Group C along with England, Kenya and Canada. It is the favorite team to top their group.Final 15 member squad will be announced on February 13. New Zealand has a strong bowling line up while batting is its weak link. New Zealand is a good one day team and is a perennial under dog in the world cup.New Zealand Probables:
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England provisional squad for the Cricket world cup 2007
England selectors announced the 30-man squad for the Cricket world cup 2007 to be played in the West Indies. Darren Gough, Ian Blackwell and Tim Bresnan lost their places as they are unable to prove their fitness. Geraint Jones and Marcus Trescothick were the major misses in the squad. England will play in Group C along with New Zealand. Kenya and Canada. Final 15 member squad will be announced on February 13.England Probables for the Cricket world cup:
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India's probables for the Cricket World cup 2007
Indian selectors announced 30-member probables for the ICC Cricket World cup 2007. Final 15 member squad will be announced on February 13. 16 teams will compete for the cricket world cup which will be held in West Indies between March 11-April 28. Along with several young cricketers, Sourav Ganguly also included in the probable list.India's world cup probables:
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Pakistan probables for the Cricket World cup 2007
This is the Pakistan probable squad for the ICC Cricket world cup 2007. Fast bowlers Shoaib Akthar and Mohammad Asif are listed in the probables. Pakistan has the bowling attack for this world cup with a mix of world class fast and swing bowlers along with Danish Kaneria.Pakistan probables:
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South Africa and Zimbabwe announced provisional squads
South Africa and Zimbabwe announced provisional squads for the Cricket World cup 2007. According to the ICC Cricket World Cup regulations, all the participating countries and regions should have registered a 30-man squad by the 13th of January 2007.A player or players not in the initial list can still be added because the composition of the 30-man squad is open to change until the 13th of February 2007.After February 13, every team should announce 15 member final squad for the world cup.
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