“I’m very grateful to the board for the confidence and faith it has showed in me”
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Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards has allowed James Sutherland to carry on as the board’s CEO indefinitely due to the “outstanding job” he has done.
“We were all pretty fatigued, mentally as well as physically”
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Australia captain Michael Clarke has revealed that the national team “were on the brink of breaking” during their tour of South Africa in March.
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“There’s no point hiding it, we’re here to win the Ashes back”
Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon has announced that the baggy greens are confident and “can’t wait” to get their hands on England when the first Ashes Test gets underway on November 21 in Brisbane.
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“I don’t know why he said that”
England batsman Joe Root has lashed out at former Australia spin king Shane Warne over the comments he made about captain Alastair Cook being “negative, boring [and] not very imaginative”, stating that “I don’t think Shane Warne’s ever said a nice thing about an England touring team”.
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“If Australia play well and he continues to captain the way he does, I think England are going to lose the series”
Former Australia spin king Shane Warne has taken a jab at Alastair Cook just weeks before the start of the Ashes series, stating that the England captain “can be negative, boring, not very imaginative”.
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“Sometimes in England 240-250 can be a good score with the overhead conditions, but the majority of the time in Australia 400 is the bare minimum”
With England just having landed in the Land Down Under, captain Alastair Cook has already sent a strong message to the top-order batsmen, stating that they will have to step up and set the foundation for the rest of the team.
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Chappell used to be India’s head coach
Former Australia captain Greg Chappell is the front-runner to become Sri Lanka’s new head coach after Graham Ford recently signed a three-year deal with Surrey.
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“Australia in general can be quite an intimidating place”
England pace bowler James Anderson has come up with a simple, yet effective, plan to silence the Australians during the national team’s upcoming tour of the Land Down Under next month.
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“I think there is a little shift in the mindset more towards Twenty20 and the one-day game and the faster forms of the game”
Newly appointed high performance coach at the Centre of Excellence Graeme Hick has announced that the Australian batsmen need to shift their mindset from Twenty20 cricket to Test cricket if they are to have any chance of beating England when they visit the Land Down Under in November.
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England registered a crushing 3-0 series win over Australia
England were denied the opportunity of humiliating their rivals even further after bad light stopped play on the final day at The Oval with the home team needing just 21 more runs to register a 4-0 thrashing of Australia.
