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“It’s going to be a big first hour”
Former England captain Andrew Strauss has announced that on “the first day” of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane, “the first hour or so is going to be really important”.
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“I’m always fired up, that’s just how I play”
South Africa pace spearhead Dale Steyn has issued a challenge to his fellow bowlers, stating that if they are performing better than him, then they can take his place in the national team, but otherwise, they will have to “pull me out of this team”.
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“Australia in general can be quite an intimidating place”
England pace bowler James Anderson has come up with a simple, yet effective, plan to silence the Australians during the national team’s upcoming tour of the Land Down Under next month.
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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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“Pakistan cricket has hit rock bottom”
A number of former players who represented Pakistan have called for Misbah-ul-Haq to be stripped of the captaincy and head coach Dav Whatmore to be fired immediately after the national team suffered a humiliating loss to Zimbabwe in the second Test, which saw them drop from fourth to sixth on the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test team rankings.
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This will be Sri Lanka’s first Test series since March
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have announced the addition of two Twenty20 Internationals to the national team’s tour of Zimbabwe in October, which originally consisted of just two Test matches, three ODIs and one two-day warm-up game.
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Dravid believes Test matches are the “life source” of cricket
Legendary India batsman Rahul Dravid has always been a keen advocate of saving Test cricket, and once again, he has made a desperate plea for more Test matches to be played as he believes it provides players with a solid foundation, which helps them prosper in ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals.
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“Give us five years, I think we will be knocking over sides quite regularly”
Former New Zealand captain Richard Hadlee has announced that he believes the national team will not progress any further in Test cricket “unless we get more Test cricket at home and away”.
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Samuels wants the West Indies to be the top side around by the time he retires
West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels has announced that the national team will continue rising from the ashes and fighting against all their opposition until they achieve the top ranking in all three formats.
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Strauss is still worried about what goes on “behind the scenes”
Former England captain Andrew Strauss has pleaded with flamboyant batsman Kevin Pietersen to behave himself this summer and avoid texting opposition players as much as possible.
