“We need to talk about it, we need to realise how entrenched and how shadowy that this all is”
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Former New Zealand pace bowler Iain O’Brien has announced that cricketers need to report being approached by illegal bookies immediately instead of waiting for months or years before working up the courage to do so.
“I feel I have unfinished business in English T20 cricket and want to play a key role for a successful Foxes campaign”
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Leicestershire have signed former New Zealand all-rounder Scott Styris for the upcoming Natwest T20 Blast.
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“I am going to be [adopting] a new role so they may want to target that”
South Africa batsman Faf du Plessis has announced that Australia will be gunning for him during the upcoming Test series, given that he has been promoted to the number four spot on the batting order, which used to belong to all-rounder Jacques Kallis, who retired from Test cricket in December 2013.
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Vijay and Pujara both scored half-centuries
India’s batting duo of Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara both registered half-centuries as they kept the tourists firmly in control against South Africa on a shortened first day of the second Test in Durban.
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“We relied on the fact that the greats like Viv Richards and Joel Garner came from nowhere”
Legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara has announced that he is concerned about the direction in which the national team are headed, stating that “unless we make some firm decision and sort out at grass levels, we’re going to be in quagmire”.
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“Graham works very hard with each and every player on their game, and we need someone with exactly that kind of commitment”
Former Sri Lanka captain and current head selector Sanath Jayasuriya has announced that head coach Graham Ford’s successor must have the same type of tenacity he did in order for the national team to continue their winning ways.
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“I had to keep a lid on what I was really thinking”
In his forthcoming autobiography, At The Close Of Play, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting revealed that he was “seething” after “John Inverarity’s new selection committee never gave me the chance to retire from ODI cricket”.
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Rain claimed the second match of the series
Australia maintained their 1-0 lead heading into the fourth ODI after the third ODI in Edgbaston was washed out just 16 overs into England’s innings, in which they were struggling at 59/3.
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A Mumbai-based bookmaker allegedly struck a deal with Perera
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have defended all-rounder Thisara Perera, stating that he was not involved in any form of spot-fixing during this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL).
Richards was the Sixers’ head coach when they won the CLT20 last year
When Corey Richards applied for the position of Bangladesh’s fielding coach, he did not realise that he would be given more than he had bargained for as the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) also made him the interim batting coach of the national team.
