Nathan Lyon: “For the T20 finals teams, Australia obviously because I’m quite biased towards them. I think I’m [also] going to go with Pakistan. In those conditions, quality spin bowlers, but also electric batters like Babar Azam”
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Australia spinner Nathan Lyon has called Pakistan limited overs captain Babar Azam an electric batsman and backed the men in green to reach the final of the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Ahmed Shehzad: “Misbah-ul-Haq is an honest gentleman and we all know that he was the best Test captain Pakistan has ever produced”
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Pakistan batsman Ahmed Shehzad believes that head coach and chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq was the “best Test captain Pakistan has ever produced”.
“Any suggestion that the match officials had ‘an agenda’ or did anything other than perform to the best of their ability are baseless and are refuted in the strongest possible terms”
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International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has lashed out at the organisation’s president after he questioned whether the umpires had been biased during the World Cup quarter-final match featuring India and Bangladesh.
“If you are a West Indian, and understand what cricket means to us, you have to feel that we could do a lot better than we are currently doing”
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Legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara has announced that he is open to becoming president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in the future.
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“There is a general belief that because the Indian players are rich and spoilt, they deserve to be put in their place”
Legendary India batsman Sunil Gavaskar has announced that he believes International Cricket Council (ICC) match referees are being biased against Indian players nowadays since they are “rich and spoilt”.
Jayasuriya has promised to be fair and unbiased when selecting the national team
Former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya, who was recently appointed as the country’s new chief selector, has announced that fair selection will top his list of priorities.
