Afridi and the seven other players will be dropped and sent home if they break curfew again
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Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi and seven other players have been fined 300 Australian dollars (US$230) for breaking team curfew.
“I was kind of scared because you never know with a head injury how serious it could be”
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Barbados batsman Omar Phillips has revealed that he doesn’t “really remember what happened” after he was struck on the back of the head during a first-class match against Windward Islands.
“He’s someone who can play Twenty20 cricket in the middle order, and you need players like that in this format”
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Sri Lanka have included all-rounder Ramith Rambukwella in their 30-man preliminary World Cup squad.
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Perera will replace Thirimanne
Sri Lanka batsman Lahiru Thirimanne has been ruled out for the remainder of the ongoing Test series against Pakistan after sustaining an ankle injury.
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“I was screaming like my daughter”
West Indies captain Darren Sammy’s fear of flying got even worse during the team’s flight from Dunedin to Wellington after the pilots had to abort their initial landing attempt due to high winds before circling round and touching down safely.
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Akmal will play his first match since suffering a seizure during the CPL
Pakistan have recalled wicketkeeper batsman Umar Akmal and pace bowler Wahab Riaz for the upcoming ODI series against South Africa, which gets underway on October 30 in Sharjah.
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“He knows we’ve got a huge summer ahead”
Australia captain Michael Clarke has announced that he has no doubt opening batsman David Warner will bounce back and show what he is truly capable of during the second leg of the Ashes series in November.
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Akmal suffered the seizure while representing the Barbados Tridents in the CPL
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Umar Akmal has been cleared to resume playing cricket with “no restriction on physical activity or exertion” after getting a clean bill of health from his neurologist.
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Rambukwella believes he mistook the cabin door for the toilet since he was half-asleep
Sri Lanka A player Ramith Rambukwella has been fined 50 per cent of his tour fee after he mistook a flight’s cabin doors for the toilet 35,000 feet in the air, resulting in numerous passengers on board panicking for their lives.
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Warner’s Ashes campaign has suffered yet another setback
First it was a suspension and fine of A$11,500 and now Australia opening batsman David Warner has suffered yet another slap in the face due to his bar brawl antics, which saw him punch England’s Joe Root at the Walkabout bar in Birmingham during the Champions Trophy.
