“It will also enable us to promote Day/Night fixtures, which will become an integral part of of our limited overs schedule in the various domestic competitions”
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Yorkshire Cricket Club have been given the green light to install floodlights at Headingley and it is likely to be completed by 2015.
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Temporary structures will be put in place for the fifth Ashes Test
The Sports Ground Trust have revealed that ongoing renovations at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) will not be completed by the start of the fifth and final Ashes Test in January.
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“We had an opportunity to win the Champions Trophy and the Ashes in a short space of time and we didn’t quite take it”
England captain Alastair Cook has publicly admitted that he and his team-mates “are always going to be disappointed by the Champions Trophy final”, in which they lost to India by five runs in Birmingham.
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“The disappointing thing for us is that Cricket Australia didn’t engage at all with us to try and come on board and help with this situation”
The Hot Spot technology will not be available during the second leg of the Ashes series in Australia after Channel Nine decided against using it.
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Khan and Singh worked on improving their fitness in France
Veteran India pace bowler Zaheer Khan has admitted that he feels ashamed about his fitness levels over the last year as it has cost him his spot in the national team.
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Warner conceded that Australia made the right move by dropping him
Australia opening batsman David Warner had finally admitted that he “definitely needed a kick up the bum” after getting suspended till the start of the ongoing Ashes series for punching England’s Joe Root at the Walkabout bar in Birmingham during the Champions Trophy.
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Clarke has even started questioning his own captaincy abilities
Australia captain Michael Clarke has lashed out at all the batsmen in the squad after they yet again failed to put up an impressive performance during the second Ashes Test, which cost Australia the match by an embarrassing 347 runs and handed England a 2-0 lead heading into the third Test at Old Trafford, Manchester.
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The Kensington Oval in Barbados played host to pre-season county matches earlier this year
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) are considering to start the English county season abroad as they desperately seek out a solution to the congestion woes they face year after year.
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Zimbabwe Cricket are set to go deeper into debt with India’s last minute pull-out
India have decided to postpone their ODI tour of Zimbabwe in July due to the “fatigue factor” affecting the entire team, according to a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) official.
Up until now the law stated that a dead-ball had to be called every time this problem occurred
Steven Finn has already garnered a reputation of being one of the best pace bowlers in international cricket today, however, his rather unorthodox habit of knocking down the stumps with his knee has been a major flaw in his game and has even cost him wickets on two separate occasions.
