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“We don’t have our strongest team without Pollard [and] Bravo”
After South Africa endured Chris Gayle’s wrath on the field, the West Indian selectors were next in line to feel the full force of a Gayle storm when he lashed out at them for not including all-rounders Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Bravo in the World Cup squad.
“You want to lead from the front, and when it’s not happening for you it is incredibly frustrating”
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Even after Sri Lanka took an unassailable 4-2 lead in the ongoing seven-match ODI series, England captain Alastair Cook still believes he should continue captaining the national team.
“We are absolutely thrilled to sign Clint, he will add a lot of experience and quality to the team”
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Australia pace bowler Clint McKay has agreed to sign with Leicestershire as their overseas player for the 2015 County season.
“My immediate aim would be to prepare the team for the upcoming busy cricket season including next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup”
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Legendary pace bowler Waqar Younis has been given a second chance to coach the national team after he quit in 2011 due to personal reasons.
“We are looking to arrange the tournament between November 2014 and January 2015”
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Despite the match-fixing scandal that took place in the second edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have announced that they are keen on hosting a third season of the tournament.
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“I thought I was walking away from everything I had ever worked towards”
England batsman Jonathan Trott has revealed that he really believed he would “never play for England again” after he returned home midway through the recent Ashes series in Australia with a stress-related illness.
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Ford will decide whether to join Surrey once his contract with Sri Lanka officially expires in January
Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford has decided not to renew his contract when it expires in January, according to a release by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).
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Razzaq is willing to do everything in his power to regain his spot in the national team
Pakistan all-rounder Abdul Razzaq has lashed out at captain Misbah-ul-Haq, stating that his defensive batting and timid approach is responsible for all the failures the national team have endured in the past couple of months.
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India can have even more “fun” now that they have an unassailable 3-0 lead
India coach Duncan Fletcher believes that the national team’s ongoing tour of Zimbabwe is “less intense” compared to the two “hectic”, but successful, months they have just endured, in which they won the last ever Champions Trophy and a tri-series tournament that included Sri Lanka and the West Indies.
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Clarke and Haddin both see no problems brewing within the team
Despite all the controversies Australia have endured over the last couple of months and former coach Mickey Arthur’s private legal documents recently being leaked, captain Michael Clarke has announced that there is no doubt in his mind that the national team are a united and cohesive unit.
