Shaheen Shah Afridi: “My aim is to play for Pakistan in all three formats for a long time”
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Pace bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi has revealed that he is determined to represent Pakistan “in all three formats for a long time”.
“I have been thinking about it seriously for a year, especially with the bad run of injuries I have suffered in recent times”
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Ireland all-rounder Alex Cusack has announced his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect.
“I will be done by the end of August”
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Sri Lanka wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara has confirmed that he will retire from Test cricket after the three-Test series against India in August.
“It will be very, very difficult for Zaheer to make a comeback into the Indian team”
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India left-arm pace bowler Zaheer Khan’s long-time coach Sudhir Naik has admitted that he doesn’t believe the national selectors will consider the veteran seamer again.
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“The position we got to, we’d have liked to win the game and be part of the best Test match ever”
South Africa batsman Faf du Plessis has revealed that he knew right from the get go that his match-saving innings of 134 in the first Test against India in Johannesburg would be much harder than his fabulous unbeaten knock of 110 against Australia in the second Test in Adelaide in November 2012.
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“I believe Sachin has done a tremendous job, not just for Indian cricket but for world cricket”
In an emotional tribute to his long-time friend, legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara has announced that “Sachin Tendulkar has definitely had the best cricket career out of any cricketer that I have known”.
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“Coming up against Sachin, I knew that my margin for error was low”
Former Australia pace bowler Jason Gillespie has become the latest cricketer to pay tribute to legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar, stating that “I thoroughly enjoyed my one-on-one battles with Sachin”.
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England registered a crushing 3-0 series win over Australia
England were denied the opportunity of humiliating their rivals even further after bad light stopped play on the final day at The Oval with the home team needing just 21 more runs to register a 4-0 thrashing of Australia.
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“Tendulkar and Ponting are also greats but I thought Lara was a cut above them”
Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has become the latest member of the cricketing community to join in the debate about whether West Indies legend Brian Lara was better than India veteran batsman Sachin Tendulkar and former Australia captain Ricky Ponting.
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Hussey acknowledged that Australia are still going through a transition phase
Retired Australia batsman Michael Hussey has conceded that it does hurt to watch the national team get battered and pulverised by England in the Ashes as he remembered how Australia used to dish out the same punishment back in the good old days.
