Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt: “I didn’t open with your Dada ji for Pakistan. People elder than me are still playing in [the] Pak team. It’s about performance and fitness not about age”
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Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has lashed out at a fan who said he was too old to be recalled to the national team.
Viv Richards: “They’re much better players than this, I’ve spent some time with them at the PSL (Pakistan Super League) and I’m disappointed with what I’m seeing from Pakistan today”
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Legendary West Indies batsman Sir Viv Richards criticised Pakistan for their abysmal performance in their World Cup opener against the men from the Caribbean.
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“Something needs to be done because in [the] three years I’ve been England captain I have just, in my eyes, been criticised for a hell of a lot of that”
England captain Alastair Cook has lashed out at legendary Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne after his captaincy style was criticised time and time again.
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“The opinions that matter to me are the opinions of the players”
South Africa head coach Russell Domingo has lashed out at his critics following South Africa’s World Twenty20 campaign, which came to an end after they were beaten by India in the semi-finals.
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“It’s not that we couldn’t bowl them out, not that we couldn’t score runs, not that we got outplayed, it’s Kevin Pietersen’s fault”
Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has lashed out at the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for axing batsman Kevin Pietersen following the national team’s disastrous tour of Australia.
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“We want him to understand the game better”
Australia head coach Darren Lehmann has lashed out at all-rounder Glenn Maxwell for throwing his wicket away during the fourth ODI against England in Perth.
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“I do feel that it’s best if I go home now”
England pace bowler Steven Finn has announced that he has “not forgotten how to bowl” after he was sent home from Australia to work on his bowling.
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“You’ve played cricket with some great guys, some not that great, but that doesn’t mean that you come out into the open and wash your laundry”
Legendary West Indies pace bowler Michael Holding has lashed out at former Australia captain Ricky Ponting over the controversial claims he made in his autobiography, At The Close Of Play, about his successor Michael Clarke not being fully committed to helping the baggy greens succeed during his days as the country’s vice-captain.
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“I don’t know why he said that”
England batsman Joe Root has lashed out at former Australia spin king Shane Warne over the comments he made about captain Alastair Cook being “negative, boring [and] not very imaginative”, stating that “I don’t think Shane Warne’s ever said a nice thing about an England touring team”.
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“In Test cricket you won’t be able to play your natural game all the time”
Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal, who scored 70 runs off 218 balls today, has admitted that it was not the kind of innings he imagined himself playing.
