“What you can’t survive as captain is scoring no runs when the team are losing and that’s what’s been happening for Alastair in one-day cricket”
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Former England captains Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton have backed the national selectors’ decision to sack Alastair Cook as ODI skipper.
“It has got more and more embarrassing for him, with failure after failure in Sri Lanka”
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Former England pace bowler Bob Willis believes that the national selectors made the right decision to strip Alastair Cook of the ODI captaincy.
“If Smith is doing a good job you just say ‘right, we’ll stick with him and have Michael Clarke as a player'”
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Former Australia skipper Ian Chappell believes that Steven Smith should be the country’s full-time Test captain since Michael Clarke will be out of action for a while.
McMillan (left) was given a two-year contract following the success the national team had in the West Indies
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Former New Zealand batsman Craig McMillan has signed a two-year contract to become the national team’s full-time batting coach.
“My dad said because of the system in Jamaica, it would be better to take up athletics”
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Jamaica sprint sensation Usain Bolt has revealed that his dad convinced him to pursue a career in athletics instead of cricket.
“It’s difficult to take on the gloves, especially keeping in mind that I haven’t kept for six or seven months now”
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South Africa wicketkeeper-batsman AB de Villiers has revealed that he is considering not donning the keeping gloves any more in Test matches due to long-term back issues.
Nepal have excelled on the field over the last year, but are currently having a lot of administration problems
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) are set to give five Associate and Affiliate members warnings about getting their affairs in order within the next year.
“It is my hope and ambition to turn into someone who is talked about as a Test cricketer as quickly as I can”
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Following his superb maiden ODI century against Sri Lanka during the fourth ODI at Lord’s, England wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler has admitted that he is “not ready for Test match cricket”.
“We are in talks with a few coaches and Hathurusingha is one of them”
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The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have revealed that they are currently in talks with former Sri Lanka batsman Chandika Hathurusingha to take over as the country’s head coach.
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The failure of the national team’s batting line-up has been a common theme for Pakistan over the past year
Outgoing Pakistan head coach Dav Whatmore has announced that the national team desperately need a full-time batting coach if they are going to start showing real signs of improvement.