No one wanted to be fined by Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistan pace bowler Hasan Ali opens up on former team director

Hasan Ali said no Pakistan player wanted to be fined by Mohammad Hafeez for sleeping in the changing room

Hasan Ali: “Once Hafeez bhai told everyone no sleeping in the dressing room, nobody slept, as they didn’t want to be fined”

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Pakistan pace bowler Hasan Ali admitted that when former team director Mohammad Hafeez told players not to sleep in the dressing room, everyone stopped doing it as they “didn’t want to be fined”.

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Slept in the kitchen, first-choice Pakistan seamer reflects how far he has come from his younger days

Pakistan seamer Haris Rauf reflected how he used to sleep in the kitchen

Pakistan seamer Haris Rauf: “My father has three brothers and all lived together. My father had one big room and when my uncles got married, my father gave his room to his brothers. Eventually, we reached the point where we were sleeping in the kitchen”

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Pakistan seamer Haris Rauf has reflected on how he was sleeping in the kitchen at one point in his life as many of his family members were living in one house.

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I will answer Australia’s cries for help during the Ashes…Oh wait no I won’t, says Ricky Ponting

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Ponting once again confirmed he was retired and will not answer Australia’s cries for help during the Ashes

Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting gave hope to millions of Australian fans for a few hours after saying that he would answer Australia’s Ashes cries by coming out of retirement and playing for them in this year’s back-to-back Ashes series.

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A BATTING WITH BIMAL BREAKING REPORT: Australia to attend two-day boot camp run by ex-Special Forces prior to Ashes series?

The national team were made to take part in the boot camp in 2006

A former Special Forces operative has offered to help the Australian national team strengthen the bond between one another after their embarrassing 4-0 whitewash against India by hosting a two-day boot camp in the United Kingdom.

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A BATTING WITH BIMAL BREAKING REPORT: Shane Warne presents his theory on who should be the leaders of Australian cricket

Lehmann would be the assistant coach in Warne’s dream team

Almost all people associate the word dream team with a star group of players that would be invincible against any opposition, but former Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne has taken the term to a whole new level after revealing his candidates for Cricket Australia’s dream team.

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A BATTING WITH BIMAL BREAKING REPORT: From rags to riches: The awe-inspiring story of Afghanistan’s Mohammad Shahzad

Shahzad’s story shows that the road to becoming an international cricketer is not always an easy one

From an early age, Afghanistan-born Mohammad Shahzad knew nothing of life beyond the refugee camp his family and he had fled to in Peshawar after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.

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