Mohammad Wasim on Misbah-ul-Haq: “We can’t judge on the basis of one series”
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Former Pakistan cricketer and national selection committee member Mohammad Wasim believes it is too early to judge whether Misbah-ul-Haq should be sacked as head coach.
Mickey Arthur: “Sarfaraz was ahead of the game in T20 cricket. He captained unbelievably well in this format”
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Former Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur believes that Sarfaraz Ahmed was “ahead of the game in T20 cricket”.
Ehsan Mani: “I did not make any changes in the team management and also retained Sarfraz Ahmed as captain because the World Cup was just a few months away when I took charge as PCB chairman”
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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani has revealed that he decided to retain Sarfraz Ahmed as captain earlier on as he didn’t want to make such a drastic change ahead of the World Cup.
Zimbabwe Cricket: “The Board believes that things have come to a point where bad performances and bad results cannot be absorbed with a shrug of the shoulders and considered as business as usual”
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Zimbabwe Cricket has revealed that their decision to sack Graeme Cremer as captain and the entire coaching staff was based on the national team’s failure to qualify for the 2019 World Cup.
“Hindsight has probably proved them wrong but now it’s very easy to say that”
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Alastair Cook believes that the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) decision to sack him as ODI captain and replace him with Eoin Morgan turned out to be a grave mistake.
“It would have been really difficult for them to go into a World Cup with the captain in such poor form”
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Legendary India batsman Rahul Dravid and former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith both believe that England made the right decision to sack Alastair Cook as ODI captain.
“It could’ve been handled very differently, I think, by everyone”
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England pace bowler Stuart Broad has admitted that it was “unnecessary” for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to sack batsman Kevin Pietersen.
“Filtering the news of Cook’s demotion through to the Twitterspehere and other unofficial channels smacks of clumsy subterfuge or incompetence or both”
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Former England captain Andrew Strauss believes that the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) decision to sack Alastair Cook as ODI captain was “hugely disrespectful”.
“What you can’t survive as captain is scoring no runs when the team are losing and that’s what’s been happening for Alastair in one-day cricket”
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Former England captains Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton have backed the national selectors’ decision to sack Alastair Cook as ODI skipper.
Cook’s luck has finally run out
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It seems that England opener Alastair Cook has lost all his nine lives as the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) decided to appoint Eoin Morgan as the country’s new ODI captain.
