Rashid Latif: “On the road to the World Cup, we are playing 7 matches. The time is very short. If they lose, the board will blame Kirsten or Babar Azam. This is our tradition”
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Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Rashid Latif believes limited overs captain Babar Azam and white-ball head coach Gary Kirsten will be the scapegoats if the men in green fail to perform in the 2024 T20 World Cup.
“I’ve actually been against it the whole time”
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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has voiced his opposition towards day-night Tests on the day that he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in Melbourne.
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“It has been a long time where players can actually play five Test matches in a row”
Australia fast bowling coach Craig McDermott has announced it is extremely worrying that the baggy greens’ pace bowlers have a habit of breaking down midway through a series.
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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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Pattinson does have the tendency to succumb to injuries on a regular basis
It seems as if there is a curse on Australia’s pace bowlers as every time a big series comes around, one of them sustains a serious injury, and the tradition continued during the ongoing Ashes series as 23-year-old James Pattinson was ruled out for the remainder of the historic series with a stress fracture of the lower back.
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Tendulkar’s battles with Steyn in the past have been legendary
The Boxing Day Test has made its triumphant return in South Africa after Cricket South Africa (CSA) cancelled the long-running tradition last year in favour of a Twenty20 International against New Zealand, which they thought would boost attendances.
O’Brien is hoping the ICC will give Ireland full Test status sooner rather than later
Ireland batsman Niall O’Brien has announced that he hopes he is still playing international cricket when the International Cricket Council (ICC) decide to give the country full Test status.
Cook is pleased to see all the pace bowlers fully fit and back in action
England Test captain Alastair Cook believes that the overflowing stock of pace bowlers his side have will give them a huge advantage over arch-rivals Australia during the back-to-back Ashes series this year, especially since both countries have pitches that quick bowlers will thrive on.
The Boxing Day Test is a big hit with cricket fans in Australia
The Boxing Day Test has been a tradition in the cricketing world for the past number of decades and two of the world’s leading nations in Test cricket as of this moment, Australia and South Africa, are looking to square off against one another in more festive-season Test matches before 2021, which is when they are scheduled to play the next Boxing Day Test between each other.
Dravid is concerned that more and more younger players will look to play for money rather than for their country
Former Indian batting legend Rahul Dravid has called on the younger generation to keep the tradition of Test cricket alive, and not give in to the lucrative world of Twenty20 cricket.
