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Two brothers, Andy and Grant Flower, are playing in the World Cup and their parents are following the team as usual. Two other London-based siblings are utilising a rare opportunity to complete a family reunion at Zimbabwe8217;s matches. Father Bill and mother Jean have gone on several tours to support the Zimbabwe team but this is something special. 8220;The team8217;s producing its best World Cup show ever and we are all enjoying being present as Zimbabwe is creating history,8221; Bill Flower said. 8220;Besides, this is one rare occasion that my wife will allow cricket being discussed at family reunions. She banned it five years ago.8221; Jean Flower explained why. 8220;Small cricket talk usually expands into an all-enveloping discussion at our house and that was why it got banned,8221; she said. It used to go on too long and hardly left anytime for the family to discuss anything else.8221;

Court suspends Lankan board again

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan cricket, already in turmoil after a disastrous World Cup campaign, was plunged into fresh crisis today with a Colombo court re-imposing the order suspending the functioning of the entire board.

Colombo district court judge AS Salam issued the orders on a petition challenging the re-election of board president Thilanga Sumathipala and others in a controversial election in March. The court issued the stay at the request of petitioner Clifford Ratwatte, uncle of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who had lost the battle for presidentship to Sumathipala by a 79-11 margin.

Neil Johnson joins elite band

London: Zimbabwe all-rounder Neil Johnson has become the eighth player and second Zimbabwean to carry his bat through the innings in World Cup. Johnson scored a valiant 132 in a terrific run chase against Australia, which eventually won by 44 runs at the Lord8217;s yesterday, and remainedunbeaten. He is the second player in this year8217;s edition to carry the bat after Ridley Jacobs of West Indies against Australia in the preliminary league phase. Andy Flower is the other Zimbabwean to carry his bat through.

Johnson, who opens both bowling and batting, is the seventh player to score a century in this edition, after Mark Waugh 104 became the first non-Indian to achieve the triple-figure mark earlier in the day which helped Australia post a mammoth 303 for four in 50 overs.

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