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Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf has announced his retirement from international cricket in the aftermath of the PCB’s decision earlier this month to ban the former captain from the team indefinitely. Yousuf told reporters in Karachi that, “I received a letter from the PCB that my staying in the team is harmful for the team, so [...]
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori will play his 100th Test match when the Blackcaps take to the field against Australia in the second Test of the current series this weekend. Spinner, batsman, captain, selector, stand-in coach – there’s hardly a role Vettori hasn’t played with the New Zealand side since his debut as an 18-year-old [...]
Listing home Ashes series as free-to-air events would “bring about a devastating collapse in the entire fabric of cricket in England and Wales” the ECB has said. This prediction of doom and gloom, based on the ECB’s forecast of a probable loss of £137.4 million for the 2014-2017 domestic broadcast contract if the Ashes are [...]
It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks off the field for Michael Clarke, but any worries his broken engagement to model Lara Bingle might have distracted the Australia vice-captain from his cricket have been laid to rest in Wellington. Clarke finished the opening day of Australia’s first Test against New Zealand on an unbeaten 100, [...]
Kevin Pietersen has continued a frustrating run with the bat in England’s warm-up match against Bangladesh A, making two and 20 respectively in each of the visiting side’s innings. But while KP continues his chase for runs, Jonathan Trott plundered a century in the three-day match in a clear sign this South African-born player is [...]
Eoin Morgan set the second One-Day International between England and Bangladesh alight with his unbeaten 110 yesterday. And there has been more good news for the former Ireland player, who these days plays his cricket in England colours with the receipt of an incremental contract from the ECB. Morgan receives the contract after fulfilling the [...]
Tamim Iqbal’s third One-Day International century was not enough for Bangladesh to snatch an unlikely victory against England in their first match of the series. Tamim made 125, after Eoin Morgan handed him a life on 10 with a dropped catch, and finished with man of the match honours, but Bangladesh’s 228-run total was reeled [...]