Joyce (left) and Murtagh (right) have both retired from Twenty20 cricket
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Ireland batsman Ed Joyce and pace bowler Tim Murtagh have both decided to retire from Twenty20 cricket due to the fact that the national team are set to play more ODIs and make their Test debut in the near future.
“I’m really excited to be a Fox this season and I’m looking to make some valuable contributions with both bat and ball”
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New Zealand all-rounder Grant Elliott has agreed to sign with Leicestershire and represent the club in this year’s Natwest T20 Blast.
“It has always been an ambition of mine to play county cricket and I was delighted when Gloucestershire expressed an interest in me joining them”
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Gloucestershire have signed Victoria wicketkeeper-batsman Peter Handscomb as one of their overseas players for the upcoming county season.
“It doesn’t seem playing for our country is paramount where these players are concerned”
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West Indies chief selector Clive Lloyd believes that the country’s cricket structure has been “messed up” by Twenty20 cricket.
“I want to go out of ODIs with self-respect and with my fans wanting more from me”
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Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has revealed that he will retire from ODIs after the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
“We just jump into a country and then we are gone”
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Legendary West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, who is now the chairman of selectors, believes that itineraries nowadays are just too “crammed”.
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“My job [as director] is to ensure that everything is in order”
India’s director of cricket, Ravi Shastri, has announced that he is working on building a good relationship with the national selectors ahead of the India’s tour of Australia and the 2015 World Cup.
“I can’t help feeling that we have already reached the tipping point as far as Test cricket is concerned”
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Former England captain Andrew Strauss has admitted that he is concerned about the future of Test cricket and believes that Twenty20 cricket will dominate the sport within the next 20 years.
“I know I have made the right choice”
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Legendary South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis has announced that he retired at the right time and did not make a spur of the moment decision.
“I want to focus completely on building a strong team that is capable of winning back the title for Pakistan”
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Pakistan Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi has revealed that he may consider quitting other formats to solely focus on Twenty20 cricket.
