Mohammad Amir: “I also mentioned Wasim Akram, who said that even monkeys don’t eat as many bananas as [the] Pakistani players are consuming. You can’t say such things about players”
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Pakistan left-arm seamer Mohammad Amir has called out pace icon Wasim Akram for saying the national players are eating more bananas than monkeys do.
Malinga was given a “1 Year suspension, suspended by six months”
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Sri Lanka seamer Lasith Malinga received a “1 Year suspension, suspended by six months” and will be fined 50 per cent of his match fee in his next ODI appearance after Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) found him guilty of breaching his contract.
Malinga breached the terms of his contract on two occasions after the Champions Trophy
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Sri Lanka pace bowler Lasith Malinga will face a disciplinary inquiry for breaching the terms of his contract on two occasions after the Champions Trophy.
“I don’t care about criticism from those who are simply warming chairs”
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An investigation has been launched against Sri Lanka pace bowler Lasith Malinga after comparing the country’s sports minister, Dayasiri Jayasekera, to a monkey.
“On the day of release before sales began (at 11.30am on November 6) the book had topped 150,000 copies in orders”
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Legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography, Playing It My Way, has already “broken all records for an adult hardback on pre-order subscriptions across both fiction and non-fiction categories”.
“I must reiterate we were very serious about the boycott”
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Legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar has revealed that the national team almost abandoned their tour of Australia in 2007-08 after spinner Harbhajan Singh was banned for three games by match referee Mike Procter.
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“That [the scandal] was the start of the end for Andrew Symonds”
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has revealed that the ‘Monkeygate’ scandal was responsible for ending all-rounder Andrew Symonds’ international career.
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“Harbhajan was the one there was a problem with, but we got to Mumbai, looked each other in the eye and shook hands and said we’ll make this work”
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has announced that he believes it is “important to move on” from the Monkeygate scandal in 2008.
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Ponting questioned Tendulkar’s role in the scandal
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has evoked memories of the infamous ‘Monkeygate’ scandal after revealing that he was sceptical about the role India batsman Sachin Tendulkar played in his forthcoming autobiography, At The Close Of Play.
