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Herath took five wickets and only gave away three runs from 3.3 overs
Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath wreaked havoc on the New Zealand batsmen as he recorded his maiden five-wicket haul to lead his side to a 59-run win in Chittagong and to the semi-finals of the World Twenty20.
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“He won’t be bowling further in this match”
South Africa pace bowler Vernon Philander has announced that it was “very painful” to watch his compatriot, Morne Morkel, be helped off the pitch after sustaining an ankle injury.
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“Seconds before collapsing, he signalled that he was fine”
A 22-year-old Pakistani club cricketer has died after being struck on the chest while batting during the Begum Khursheed Memorial T20 tournament in Sukkur, which is a district in the province of Sindh.
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Mascarenhas will be out of action indefinitely
Former England all-rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas’ Big Bash League (BBL) season may be over before it has even started after he broke his jaw while batting in the nets.
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“This team has done some special things in the last three or four years and we need something special over the next two days”
England pace bowler Stuart Broad has admitted that the national team have “obviously had a tough day” after Australia amassed a 369-run lead at the end of the third day of the third Test in Perth.
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“At the end of the day, even if there is a small crack there and my symptoms aren’t painful, I see no reason why I can’t continue to play”
England pace bowler Stuart Broad is unlikely to play in the Boxing Day Test after being hit on the right foot by Australia left-arm pace bowler Mitchell Johnson during the third day of the third Test in Perth.
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De Kock smashed a quickfire 43
The rain Gods must have been on South Africa’s side during the first ODI in Johannesburg as the Proteas escaped with a narrow four-run win over Pakistan via the Duckworth-Lewis method to take a 1-0 lead in the series.
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Randall set up a cricket academy at Stirling Primary School
A former South African first-class cricketer has died after suffering a blow to the side of the head during a Border Cricket Board Premier League match in Alice in the Eastern Cape.
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“We’ll only know for sure when he starts bowling again”
England captain Alastair Cook has revealed that pace bowler Tim Bresnan “might be back bowling 100 percent by the first Test match” in Brisbane after the Yorkshireman suffered a lower back stress fracture during the recent Ashes series this summer.
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Details of the incident are still sketchy
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Umar Akmal has been ruled out of the national team’s upcoming tour of Zimbabwe after fainting and being rushed to hospital due to a suspected seizure.
