Shoaib Akhtar: “To be honest, it’s Inzamam-ul-Haq. See my action is very complicated unlike Brett Lee’s but I could not bowl him out even once in the nets in 10 years”
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Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has revealed that he failed to bowl out former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq in the nets even once over the span of 10 years.
Rahul Dravid: “You do all the testing, the quarantine and then on day two of the Test match, what if one player tests positive? What happens then?”
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Legendary India batsman Rahul Dravid believes it is dangerous for Pakistan to tour England this summer.
Rashid Latif: “He played with Sachin, played with Rahul and remained under their shadow. If he was playing for any other country then he would’ve easily crossed 10,000 runs, only one and a half thousand runs were remaining”
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Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Rashid Latif believes that iconic India opener Virender Sehwag would have scored 10,000 Test runs had he played for another country.
Pakistan legend Shoaib Akhtar: “They’ve not used me, my job was not to sit on TV, they should’ve allowed me to run cricket”
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Legendary Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar has slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not letting him “run cricket” in the country.
Rahul Dravid became the fifth Indian player to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
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Legendary India batsman Rahul Dravid was formally inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Hall of Fame during the fifth ODI between India and the West Indies in Thiruvananthapuram.
Ricky Ponting: “I feel deeply honoured to be recognised by the ICC in this way”
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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting, legendary India batsman Rahul Dravid and ex-England women’s batsman Claire Taylor were all inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame on Sunday night in Dublin.
Bangar (right) will be India’s assistant coach
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A four-member BCCI committee has decided to promote Sanjay Bangar to assistant coach of the Indian team, while Bharat Arun will continue on as bowling coach.
Shastri (pictured above) is eager to see Arun retain his position as bowling coach
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India head coach Ravi Shastri has told the BCCI that Bharat Arun should continue on as the national team’s bowling coach.
“There is no such thing as a contract yet”
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Upon Ravi Shastri being unveiled as India’s new head coach, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed that Rahul Dravid would be the overseas Test batting consultant and Zaheer Khan the bowling consultant.
“A coach’s role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players”
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India head coach Ravi Shastri has made it clear that captain Virat Kohli will be the authoritative figure of the national team.
