Sri Lanka pose with the trophy after winning the one-off Test match
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Asela Gunaratne and Niroshan Dickwella scored 80 not out and 81 respectively to help Sri Lanka clinch a record-breaking four-wicket win over Zimbabwe on the final day of the one-off Test in Colombo.
Kumble’s tenure as head coach will come to an end after the Champions Trophy
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Speculation has been rife about why the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) didn’t extend head coach Anil Kumble’s contract, which ends after the Champions Trophy in England next month.
“It’s likely he’ll be available for the second Test but we won’t know that for a few days yet”
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Australia opener Chris Rogers has been ruled out of the first Test against the West Indies in Dominica on Wednesday after sustaining a concussion.
Zimbabwe Cricket’s financial woes continue to spiral out of control
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Zimbabwe Cricket’s debt problems have always been a major issue, but it became even worse when managing director Wilfred Mukondiwa and selector Givemore Makoni’s vehicles were impounded by the deputy sheriff in Harare.
“The ICC and BCB jointly appealed against the suspension reduction of Mohammad Ashraful to the Court of Arbitration for Sports”
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have announced that they will be appealing against Mohammad Ashraful’s ban reduction.
“Clearly this is an end-of-career book that is very bitter about how his career ended and therefore is a settling of scores”
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Former England captain Michael Atherton has described Kevin Pietersen’s autobiography as “a settling of scores”.
“The pitch did not provide a fair contest between bat and ball”
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has warned Nottinghamshire for the pitch that was prepared for the first Test between England and India at Trent Bridge.
“In the ICC’s view, clear and compelling evidence of corruption by a number of individuals have not been taken into account properly”
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will appeal against the verdicts given by the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) anti-corruption tribunal.
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Jayawardene has not played any Test cricket in the past 12 months
Sri Lanka wicketkeeper-batsman Prasanna Jayawardene is set to make his Test comeback against Pakistan later this year after being dropped following the national team’s tour of Australia in December 2012.
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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.
