Chandimal is on track to return for the second Test against India
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Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal is likely to be back for the second Test against India, but the same cannot be said about veteran spinner Rangana Herath.
India and Pakistan have only faced each other in ICC events or Asia Cup tournaments since 2012
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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have sent a notice of dispute to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for failing to abide by the promises made in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) they signed in 2014.
“I knew during the Big Bash that I was going to finish up”
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Former Australia pace bowler Shaun Tait has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket effective immediately.
“It was probably one of the most stressful periods that I’ve been through whilst I’ve been in the England team”
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England pace bowler James Anderson has admitted that his altercation with India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja during the recent five-Test series “went too far”.
“It’s about being able to bowl long days, long months”
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Australia left-arm pace bowler Mitchell Starc is raring to bowl once again after enduring a long injury layoff.
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“This shows they are ungrateful for what they got through playing for the country”
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chief selector Sanath Jayasuriya has announced that wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara and veteran batsman Mahela Jayawardene “should have had the common decency to inform the selectors” about their decision to retire from Twenty20 Internationals following the conclusion of the World Twenty20.
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“It’s been a good contest so far”
India batsman Suresh Raina has announced that he believes the new ODI rules implemented by the International Cricket Council (ICC) puts “more pressure on the bowlers”
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Morgan and Bopara saved England from suffering an embarrassing defeat
The Irish duo of Boyd Rankin and Eoin Morgan helped England breeze past their former team-mates by six wickets in a one-off ODI in Dublin.
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Starc is the third Australian pace bowler to fall victim to the injury
Australia left-arm pace bowler Mitchell Starc is highly likely to miss the second leg of the Ashes series in November after being diagnosed with a lower back stress fracture.
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Khawaja blames the Sheffield Shield pitches for Australia’s batting woes
While most cricket pundits and former players will put Australia’s failures with the bat in the ongoing Ashes series down to the fact that they are impatient, lack concentration and England’s bowlers hitting the right lines and lengths, Australian batsman Usman Khawaja has a different outlook on the matter, stating that the decline in the pitches used during Australia’s Sheffield Shield season is solely to blame.
