Afghanistan hungry for tougher opposition after qualifying for 2015 World Cup

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“It is a great moment in the history of Afghanistan”

Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chief executive Noor Mohammad Murad has announced that the national team are hungry for tougher opposition after beating Kenya 2-0 to qualify for the 2015 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

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All these new-school strokes are having a negative impact on Test cricket, says Adam Gilchrist

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Gilchrist feels as if he has always been an old-school player

Former Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist believes the growing variety of new-school strokes that have been developed and perfected in Twenty20 cricket are starting to have a negative impact on Test cricket as players are snubbing the more orthodox shots that made the game so classy in the first place.

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