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“I was speaking to Brad Haddin, who I’m pretty close with in the side, and we thought it would be a good idea”
Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon let the public join in on the team’s Ashes celebrations by singing the team song “Underneath the Southern Cross I Stand“.
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Gambhir was the top-ranked Test batsman in 2009
India opening batsman Gautam Gambhir has not given up on making his international comeback and stated that he will only retire if he feels that he “can’t play international cricket anymore”.
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“I don’t know why he said that”
England batsman Joe Root has lashed out at former Australia spin king Shane Warne over the comments he made about captain Alastair Cook being “negative, boring [and] not very imaginative”, stating that “I don’t think Shane Warne’s ever said a nice thing about an England touring team”.
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“The main aim is to try and earn a call-up in time for that Indian tour [in January] if they don’t pick me for the West Indies tour”
Troubled opening batsman Jesse Ryder has announced that his “main goal is to play for New Zealand again” after he recently received a six-month ban for testing positive for a banned substance in March.
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“We had an opportunity to win the Champions Trophy and the Ashes in a short space of time and we didn’t quite take it”
England captain Alastair Cook has publicly admitted that he and his team-mates “are always going to be disappointed by the Champions Trophy final”, in which they lost to India by five runs in Birmingham.
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“The fact is we took Zimbabwe to be a weak side and underestimated them and we paid the price”
Veteran Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has still not got over the fact that Zimbabwe beat his side in an ODI and Test match when they were touring the African nation last month.
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England have only lost one Test match since the May Tests began in 2000
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has abandoned its traditional May Test matches, which has been going on since 2000, after deciding to move the national team’s two-Test series against Sri Lanka to June 2014 instead.
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“I will interfere in every aspect, but only when things are not going according to the plan”
Former Pakistan wicketkeeper Moin Khan, who was recently appointed as manager for the national team’s tour of Zimbabwe, has announced that he will be watching every player like a hawk and “will keep on” criticising them to “improve things”.
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Yovich is one of the founding members of New Zealand Croatia
New Zealand Croatia, who are a side comprising of New Zealand cricketers of Croatian descent, have set sail to the Cook Islands for their maiden tour.
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Siddle is excited to be “playing short-form cricket” again
Australia’s pace duo of James Pattinson and Peter Siddle have signed with the Melbourne Renegades for the next two seasons of the Big Bash League (BBL).
