Faf du Plessis: “It starts with honesty. That’s the groundwork of any conversation that happens. Once you’re honest in your conversation as a coach, everything flows from that”
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South Africa batsman Faf du Plessis has advised Pakistan head coach Mike Hesson to have a candid conversation with Babar Azam about his T20I future, saying “it starts with honesty”.
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Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is likely to succeed Mashrafe Mortaza as the country’s Twenty20 captain.
Fitch-Holland denies telling Vincent to provide a false witness statement
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Andrew Fitch-Holland, the co-defendant in the Chris Cairns perjury trial, has told Southwark Crown Court that he never forced former New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent to lie during the Lalit Modi libel trial.
“He called up just after the Test match in Melbourne and told me that he wanted to retire from Test cricket”
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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Sanjay Patel has revealed that captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni did not announce his retirement from Test cricket out of the blue.
“We’re going to focus on people first rather than the cricket”
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There are still doubts about whether the first Test between Australia and India at the Gabba in Brisbane will go ahead as planned since the country is still mourning about the loss of batsman Phillip Hughes.
“We need to talk about it, we need to realise how entrenched and how shadowy that this all is”
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Former New Zealand pace bowler Iain O’Brien has announced that cricketers need to report being approached by illegal bookies immediately instead of waiting for months or years before working up the courage to do so.
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“I am not sure I will ever get over that”
Australia batsman Alex Doolan has admitted that he was extremely disappointed to miss out on scoring his maiden Test century on debut during the first Test against South Africa in Centurion.
Hodge’s next assignment will be the IPL
Australia veteran batsman Brad Hodge, who had a grand plan of making an international comeback during this year’s back-to-back Ashes series, was left bitterly disappointed after Victoria decided not to select him for the last few games of the Sheffield Shield season, which he was planning to use as a launchpad for his dazzling return to Test cricket after an absence of nearly five years.
