Shane Watson: “It’s unfortunate things have turned out this way, but everyone loves watching India-Pakistan games. I got a small opportunity to play in the PSL in 2019, the first time after playing there in 2005. It was one of the highlights of my career”
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Former Australia big-hitting all-rounder Shane Watson admitted that “it’s unfortunate” India refused to play the 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan.
Pakistan icon Shoaib Akhtar: “It is unfortunate that no Pakistani fast bowler has ever come to me for advice. Saqib is a very learned guy”
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Pakistan great Shoaib Akhtar said it is unfortunate that no fast bowlers have come to ask him for advice.
Shoaib Akhtar: “It’s unfortunate that the news (about hitting Asif with the bat) was leaked. Afridi confessed he didn’t say it. Maybe if I was there, we could have won the World Cup. Maybe. But Allah didn’t want this to happen”
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Ex-Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar admitted that it was “unfortunate that the news” about him hitting fellow seamer Mohammad Asif with a bat was leaked.
“There was nothing wrong with the game”
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Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has insisted that there was nothing suspicious about his side’s six-wicket loss to England in the third ODI in Sharjah.
“Any suggestion that the match officials had ‘an agenda’ or did anything other than perform to the best of their ability are baseless and are refuted in the strongest possible terms”
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International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has lashed out at the organisation’s president after he questioned whether the umpires had been biased during the World Cup quarter-final match featuring India and Bangladesh.
Smith will not feature in this year’s BBL
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Perth Scorchers head coach Justin Langer has confirmed that former South Africa captain Graeme Smith will not be joining the Big Bash League (BBL) defending champions for this year’s edition of the tournament.
“It was unfortunate, I think unnecessary, especially the timing”
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Former England head coach Ashley Giles has announced that the comments made about him by batsman Michael Carberry earlier this year were “unfortunate” and “unnecessary”.
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“I want to pay credit to the ICC and Cricket Australia for the work they put in to try and stop this [and to] stamp it out of our game”
Australia captain Michael Clarke and pace bowler Ryan Harris have both announced that corruption and match-fixing is something they “take personally” since it “damages the credibility of the sport”.
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Samuels will undergo surgery to repair his wrist
West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels has returned home after sustaining a wrist injury during the national team’s ongoing tour of New Zealand.
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Morkel used to be one of the best all-rounders in the cricketing world
In his heyday, South Africa’s Albie Morkel was being praised as one of the greatest all-rounders the country has ever produced and pundits were even comparing his batting abilities to that of India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but in a rather unfortunate turn of events, Morkel has now found himself on the sidelines for far too long and he admitted that “I won’t play for South Africa again”.
