Kieswetter to visit eye specialists in Belgium and USA

"He loves playing cricket for Somerset and I am sure that he would love to continue doing so but first and foremost he knows that his eye has got to be right"

“He loves playing cricket for Somerset and I am sure that he would love to continue doing so but first and foremost he knows that his eye has got to be right”

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Somerset wicketkeeper-batsman Craig Kieswetter will visit eye specialists in Belgium and the United States to find out whether or not his cricketing career is over.

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Bopara feels ’empty’ and ‘frustrated’ at being left out of Test team

"I woke up feeling this hole inside me knowing that England was over for me for a bit and I was going back to county cricket"

“I woke up feeling this hole inside me knowing that England was over for me for a bit and I was going back to county cricket”

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England all-rounder Ravi Bopara has admitted that he felt “empty” and “frustrated” at being left out of the national team for their recently concluded two-Test series against Sri Lanka.

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Taylor schedules wedding during IPL after believing he would not get a contract

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“I am going to have to ask very nicely for two days off so I can come back and get married, otherwise maybe I won’t have a fiancée to marry anymore”

Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor has admitted that he made a huge mistake by scheduling his wedding during the Indian Premier League (IPL), but stated that he did so since he was not expecting to attract any bids during the auction.

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul replaced by Luke Pomersbach for CPL

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Pomersbach is excited to be playing in the inaugural edition of the CPL

In a turn for the worst, the Caribbean Premier League’s (CPL) St Lucia Zouks franchise have lost veteran batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul due to his contractual obligations with Derbyshire and will get Australian batsman Luke Pomersbach as a result.

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Tim May resigns as chief executive of FICA

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May had grown increasingly frustrated with the direction in which the sport was heading

Tim May has announced his resignation as chief executive of the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) just a month after he controversially lost his place in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Cricket Committee to former Indian player and commentator Laxman Sivaramakrishnan.

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