“It’s always important to start well and get the monkey off your back in terms of a big score early in your captaincy career”
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Alastair Cook has admitted that he was blown away by the impact Joe Root had in his first Test as captain.
“I’m done with international cricket. That’s a chapter in my life I’m closing”
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South Africa pace bowler Marchant de Lange has confirmed that his international career is over after he signed a three-year deal with Glamorgan.
“I would like to have seen him do one more Ashes”
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Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has revealed that he feels Alastair Cook should have stayed on as the country’s Test captain.
“I was really surprised, really happy and really excited when I saw what was happening”
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“I think he’s looking forward to the opportunity to just go and bat”
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England Test captain Joe Root has backed his predecessor Alastair Cook to “smash every record” now that he can solely focus on his batting. Continue reading
“He had some questions in the back of his mind as to how much he had left in the tank”
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England director of cricket Andrew Strauss has revealed that he had a strong feeling Alastair Cook would step down as Test captain after meeting him last month.
“Cooky is the one player who has any realistic chance of challenging Sachin Tendulkar’s run-scoring feats”
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Legendary England all-rounder Sir Ian Botham believes that Alastair Cook is capable of breaking iconic India batsman Sachin Tendulkar’s record for the most runs scored in Test history.
De Kock’s last Test for South Africa came against Bangladesh in July 2015
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South Africa have called up wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock and pace bowler Chris Morris for the second Test against England in Cape Town.
“My focus is on domestic cricket at the moment”
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Pakistan left-arm pace bowler Mohammad Amir has revealed that he is solely focused on his domestic career at the moment as his chances of getting into the national team right now are slim at best.
“I realised that he could be my go-to man to work on my game”
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Almost 12 months after playing his last Test for India, opening batsman Gautam Gambhir has had enough of sitting idly by on the sidelines and has decided to take action in order to resurrect his international career.
