“They know what the challenges will be”
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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has announced that the national team’s upcoming tour of England will be a huge challenge for his team, especially since “quite a few of the players will be playing their first series in England”.
“If Cook wants to stay boring and be the same old England by bowling wide of off stump and trying to build up pressure slowly then he has chosen the wrong path”
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Legendary Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne has taken a jab at England captain Alastair Cook by calling him “boring” ahead of the national team’s Test series against Sri Lanka.
“He is coming back from retirement, so they have got to make the assessment of where he is”
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England head coach Peter Moores has announced that Lancashire have to continue picking the “best side” even though former all-rounder Andrew Flintoff recently came out of retirement.
“It has been decided by the national selectors to send Rangana Herath for the Sri Lanka tour of England, in place of Suranga Lakmal who is injured”
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Sri Lanka have decided to call up spinner Rangana Herath to replace Suranga Lakmal after he tore his hamstring during the first ODI against England at The Oval.
“There was an enormous amount of frustration surrounding KP from everyone in the management team”
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England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) managing director Paul Downton has revealed that he “couldn’t find one supporter saying ‘we want KP [Kevin Pietersen] to stay in the side'”.
“I think I got picked over guys who have done more than me in the last couple of years because of my bowling”
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England batsman Moeen Ali has announced that he sees himself as an all-rounder after it was rumoured that he would be the national team’s go-to spinner for their upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka.
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“I’ve been speaking to Richard Pybus (Director of Cricket) about getting together a core group of players to target the 50-over World Cup, getting some fitness done and making sure those guys are at the peak of their fitness”
West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson has announced that it is time for the national team to shift their focus towards preparing for the 2015 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
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“We’ve got to play our best to stay at No.2, let alone get to No.1”
Australia captain Michael Clarke has announced that he wants the baggy greens to go back to being the number one ODI side and plans to start putting that into action during the national team’s five-match series against England.
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“England went for three big men who we never really saw”
Former England left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom has announced that the national team paid the ultimate price for not picking pace bowler Graham Onions for the recently concluded Ashes series.
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“I’m pretty sure that he [will] be back in a couple of months”
Former India pace bowler Venkatesh Prasad has announced that the “selectors should consider” picking left-arm seamer RP Singh for the national team’s tour of New Zealand in January.
