“I see myself as a longer format player, so sitting on the sidelines in the IPL for me wasn’t going to be great practice”
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After only four matches, Australia batsman Peter Handscomb is already standing tall in the Test arena, like a mighty gladiator.
“I can still remember what happened like it was yesterday, the way our home was caught up and lost”
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Boxing Day is usually associated with holidays, family and happiness. But, for Sri Lanka wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal, December 26 has dark connotations as it was the day that he “lost everything” when a tsunami ravaged through his town in 2004.
“I can look forward towards starting a meaningful chapter in my life after all these years”
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Former India batsman Ajay Sharma has been cleared of match-fixing by a Delhi district court after 14 years.
“I really appreciate all the help and support that I have received from Queensland Cricket”
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Queensland batsman Luke Pomersbach has quit cricket in order to tend to his mental health problems.
“As a franchise, we feel that a couple of bad apples are gone now, so we are wholly and solely focusing on the people we’ve got around us”
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Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Watson has revealed that he and “everyone associated with the team certainly felt betrayed” when Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were indicted in a match-fixing scandal during last year’s Indian Premier League (IPL).
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“We’ve underperformed badly”
England team director Andy Flower has admitted that the national team’s 5-0 whitewashing in the Ashes series felt “like the end of an era” and ended the “chance of some sort of renewal for the England cricket team”.
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Sreesanth and Chavan were both given life bans
India pace bowler Sreesanth has been found guilty of spot-fixing in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and slapped with a life ban.
Strauss felt humbled to have been awarded an honorary life membership
Former England captain Andrew Strauss has been awarded with an honorary life membership of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) for his “outstanding contribution to the game”.
