Mohammad Hafeez: “He cannot take 15-20 balls to start scoring runs against big teams, it will become a burden when he takes so many balls”
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Former Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has said Babar Azam cannot afford to take 15 to 20 balls to get going against top teams in T20Is.
Mohammad Hafeez: “All I care about is that you need to bring your fat level down and improve your running abilities. You need to increase your running abilities so that the team’s balance doesn’t get affected during the game”
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Former Pakistan team director Mohammad Hafeez has urged wicketkeeper-batsman Azam Khan to work on his running so that he doesn’t become a burden on the team.
Mohammad Hafeez: “Babar Azam’s work ethic [is] really strong so I don’t think the burden of captaincy will affect his batting”
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Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez said captain Babar Azam’s work ethic is absolutely outstanding.
Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik: “The day I feel myself a burden on the team, I will quit”
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Veteran Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik has said that “the day I feel myself a burden on the team, I will quit”.
“It would be much nicer if they were saying nice things about me”
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England captain Alastair Cook has announced that he is fully focused on regaining his form and trying to win the third Test against India in Southampton.
“I don’t think over the winter that senior players helped as much as they could with taking pressure off Cooky”
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England pace bowler James Anderson has announced that the senior players in the national team have to start lending more support to captain Alastair Cook.
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“It is a great loss not just for England but for the world game”
England pace bowler Chris Tremlett has become the latest player to get involved in the Kevin Pietersen saga, stating that the South African-born batsman “did not do anything wrong apart from voicing his opinion”.
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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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It is only a matter of time before du Plessis replaces de Villiers as ODI captain
South Africa Twenty20 captain Faf du Plessis has admitted that his “performances need to be better” if he is to have any chance of replacing AB de Villiers as skipper of the ODI team.
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Jayawardene single-handedly crushed Australia’s hopes and dreams of reaching the semi-finals
Sri Lanka fans would have been beating their drums and blowing their trumpets louder than ever as Mahela Jayawardene’s brilliant knock of 84 catapulted his side into the semi-finals, while Australia could only bury their face in their hands and think about what could have been if they had played harder.
