“Losing James probably means one of the all-rounders has to bowl a few more overs, so I’m hoping that’s me”
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Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has announced that he is confident he can take over fellow all-rounder James Faulkner’s role.
Despite his muscle tightness, Philander picked up five wickets on day three
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South Africa’s team manager Mohammed Moosajee has confirmed that the pace duo of Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander will bowl on day four after both of them succumbed to muscle tightness yesterday.
“A final between Australia and India will be the ideal spectacle for the next World Cup”
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Legendary Australia captain Ricky Ponting has announced that an India-Australia final in the 2015 World Cup would be “the ideal spectacle”.
“I was thinking ‘why is he mentioning the last ball of the over before?’, and it clicked that that might be a hat-trick”
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England pace bowler Stuart Broad has revealed that he had “no idea” that he had taken a hat-trick on the first day of the second Test against Sri Lanka at Headingley.
“I don’t think over the winter that senior players helped as much as they could with taking pressure off Cooky”
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England pace bowler James Anderson has announced that the senior players in the national team have to start lending more support to captain Alastair Cook.
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“I think this wicket is pretty slow and they’ve obviously had time to adjust and get in”
With India firmly in control at the end of the third day of the first Test in Johannesburg, South Africa pace bowler Vernon Phiander has announced that if the pitch at the Wanderers was much faster, then “it would be a totally different ball game”.
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“I was screaming like my daughter”
West Indies captain Darren Sammy’s fear of flying got even worse during the team’s flight from Dunedin to Wellington after the pilots had to abort their initial landing attempt due to high winds before circling round and touching down safely.
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“I’ll put my hand up for all five, definitely”
Australia pace bowler Ryan Harris has revealed that he wants to play all five Test matches against arch-rivals England in the upcoming Ashes series, which gets underway on November 21 in Brisbane.
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“We have to bowl them out first”
Despite New Zealand holding on to a 137-run lead at the end of the third day of second Test in Mirpur, Bangladesh off-spinner Nasir Hossain believes that his team “have to keep them within a 160-run lead” and follow that up with a score of “300 or 350” in order to have any chance of winning the Test match.
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“I don’t think he’s got anything to prove and his form has been really great”
Australia Twenty20 captain George Bailey has announced he has “no doubt” that left-arm pace bowler Mitchell Johnson will make his Ashes comeback during the second leg of the historic series, which gets underway on November 21.
