“Our objective is – to come here and win the series”
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India head coach Duncan Fletcher has announced that the national team have the ability to stun England in their upcoming five-Test series with their unpredictability.
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“He doesn’t want to end up being someone who struggles his way through to the end”
Legendary India batsman Rahul Dravid has announced that left-arm pace bowler Zaheer Khan needs to start pondering about his international career.
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“Obviously they’re hugely talented but it’s a very different line-up to the one I’ve become accustomed to playing against”
South Africa captain Graeme Smith has issued a warning to India ahead of the first Test in Johannesburg, saying that they will feel the heat and experience firsthand why the Proteas are the number one Test team in the world.
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“We need to be on the money from Wednesday itself, otherwise they can score quickly and at [the] Wanderers”
South Africa pace bowler Morne Morkel has announced that India will sorely miss their iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar during the upcoming two-Test series, which gets underway on December 18 in Johannesburg.
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“It’s the first time that they will be going there, and they will learn a lot in the series”
With the tour of South Africa looming, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has announced the he is not concerned about the national team’s inexperienced batting line-up.
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“We have to be focused on our job, which is to get there and give India a good fight”
With the West Indies’ last three Test series having come against Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and an inexperienced New Zealand side, head coach Ottis Gibson believes “this series against India gives us an opportunity to see where we are as a Test side”.
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“It is a great moment in the history of Afghanistan”
Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chief executive Noor Mohammad Murad has announced that the national team are hungry for tougher opposition after beating Kenya 2-0 to qualify for the 2015 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
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Starc is the third Australian pace bowler to fall victim to the injury
Australia left-arm pace bowler Mitchell Starc is highly likely to miss the second leg of the Ashes series in November after being diagnosed with a lower back stress fracture.
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Waugh believes Ganguly always “showed a lack of respect for the game”
Former Australia captain Steve Waugh has slammed ex-India skipper Sourav Ganguly over his disrespectfulness and the fact that he was always late for tosses when the two nations squared off for a Test series in 2001.
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Gough believes the rivalry between Clarke and Cook will be one of the most intense the Ashes has ever seen
Having had the experience of playing in the Ashes and knowing the pressures that come with the old rivalry between England and Australia, former England pace bowler Darren Gough has warned the cricketing world not to dismiss Australia as the underdogs during this year’s back-to-back Ashes series.
