Salman Iqbal: “Mark my words, when Babar Azam makes a comeback again, he will be a bigger player than any other player in the world, including Virat Kohli. He will be matched with names like Garry Sobers and Sir Viv Richard”
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Karachi Kings owner Salman Iqbal believes when Pakistan batsman Babar Azam returns to form, he will be bigger than India superstar Virat Kohli and on the same level as the legendary West Indian duo of Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Viv Richards.
Tom Moody: “Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Ian Botham, Gary Sobers, Jacques Kallis and Sir Richard Hadlee”
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Tom Moody, the former Australia batsman, picked legendary Pakistan captain Imran Khan as one of his top six all-rounders in the last 50 years.
“He’s performed well and kept working hard”
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Legendary West Indies all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers has revealed that England skipper Alastair Cook took his advice to “live calm”.
“I think T20 competitions are certainly destroying West Indies cricket”
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Legendary all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers has attributed the downfall of West Indies cricket to the growing number of domestic Twenty20 tournaments around the world.
“He’s been a wonderful inspiration to our team thus far”
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West Indies captain Jason Holder has revealed that he wants the ongoing controversy involving head coach Phil Simmons to be concluded as quickly as possible.
“He singled out that I should be able to play all around the wicket”
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West Indies batsman Darren Bravo has announced that the national team have to bat well during both innings of the upcoming Test series against New Zealand if they want to have any chance of defeating them.
“Sir Garry is the best of the best and it is great to have him join us”
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The West Indies have called in legendary pace bowler Sir Curtley Ambrose and batsman Sir Garfield Sobers to help train the national team ahead of their Test series against New Zealand, which gets underway on June 8 in Jamaica.
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Clarke won two of the most prestigious awards
Australia captain Michael Clarke has been crowned Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
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“As Sir Don Bradman said a great in one era would have been a great in any era”
Legendary India batsman Sunil Gavaskar cited the one and only Sir Donald Bradman in stating that Sachin Tendulkar “would have been successful in any era”.
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Pakistan are edging closer to an innings defeat
Despite their batting line-up collapsing towards the beginning of day, South Africa are still firmly in the driver’s seat and looking more and more likely to beat Pakistan by an innings in the second Test in Dubai.
