‘I wish I could pick up the phone and give him a call now’, says Ricky Ponting

Ponting captained Hughes when he made history by becoming the youngest player to score a century in each innings of a Test match

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In his tribute to batsman Phillip Hughes, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting stated “I wish I could pick up the phone and give him a call now”.

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West Indies vs New Zealand 3rd Test Day 5: Bowling trio help New Zealand clinch series

This is the second time New Zealand have beaten the West Indies in the space of six months

This is the second time New Zealand have beaten the West Indies in the space of six months

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New Zealand’s bowling trio of Tim Southee, Trent Boult and Mark Craig took three wickets apiece to help the Blackcaps beat the West Indies by 53 runs on the fifth day of the third Test in Barbados.

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Young Trinidadian scores 404 not out in 35-over school match

Kallicharan walloped 44 boundaries and 31 sixes during his unbeaten knock of 404

Kallicharan walloped 44 boundaries and 31 sixes during his unbeaten knock of 404

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Scoring 404 not out off 35 overs seems like an impossible feat. Well, impossible is nothing for one 14-year-old boy from Trinidad after he hammered 44 boundaries and 31 sixes to score an unbeaten 404 in a school match.

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‘Sometimes I have to pinch myself that I’m playing in an era like this’, says Graeme Swann

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“To be playing in an era in which we have won it three times in a row, I sometimes find hard to believe”

England off-spinner Graeme Swann has admitted that “sometimes I have to pinch myself that I’m playing in an era like this” since Australia used to dominate every Ashes series he watched as a young boy.

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