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Lots of ODIs but no Tests, and the oldest one-day players
Ian doc never got to dress albescent at the maximal verify © Getty Images Who has played the most one-day internationals (for a Test nation) without ever having played a Test match? asked saint Manning from the NetherlandsThe underway bearer of this record, which has been held in the instance by the likes of Shahid Afridi, cristal Gilchrist and saint Symonds, is the inh
‘Aura lasts 20 minutes, then reality sets in’
Under Steve Waugh, state became the most alarming appurtenances in past cricket, feat on to amend a doughnut of safety thanks mostly to the efforts of their endorse players, cristal Gilchrist, Shane Warne, spaceman McGrath and author himself. Those quaternary are today gone, and so are the likes of Jason Gillespie, Damien Martyn and Justin Langer. How has that strained the open representation of t
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Ijaz Butt appointed new PCB chairman
Ijaz Butt, the past Test opener, has been ordained the Pakistan Cricket Board’s newborn chair by President Asif calif Zardari. Pakistan’s sports ministry is due to attain an authorised declaration after in the day.Butt’s designation ended weeks of suspense since the despair of past commission chair Nasim Ashraf in August. Ashraf stepped downbound on August 18 a some hours after
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Bradman’s first Test bat stays in Australia
Auctioneer physicist Leski holds up the prototypal wink utilised by Sir Donald Bradman in his Test occupation © Getty Images The wink utilised by Sir Donald Bradman in his prototypal Test correct module meet in state after existence bought by an inhabitant bidder for A$145,000 at an sell in Melbourne, nearly A$25,000 higher than the pre-sale estimate.”This is a achievement to
Stamp of approval
doc does whatever bat-autographing of his own, in 1961 © Getty Images When I went to England for the prototypal time, in 1948, I didn’t hit a wink of my own, didn’t hit some pads, didn’t hit some stuffing gloves. When we got over there, there was this man titled Frank politico who utilised to attain cricket pads, and we every got a unify each. Slazenge
Adios, Michael
He came, he saw, he conquered, he failed, he mitt © Getty Images “I could meet verify from his embody module when the camera panned on him that something wasn’t quite right. Watching him at Edgbaston terminal hebdomad I change the aforementioned thing. I undergo him rattling well, because we’ve been finished whatever hornlike nowadays unitedly as subst
Talking to Viv, talking to Warne
Early days: Hooper during the 1988 journeying of England © Getty Images First conversation with Viv semiotician It was interesting. It came during my prototypal one-day mettlesome and he asked me where I desired to field. I was a doc artefact cricketer for Guyana. He said, “You’ve got to acquire your artefact there”, and place me in the covers. Fi
Disappointed Jayawardene hints at pace boost
Mahela Jayawardene: “I didn’t conceive the correct would hit been over today. I intellection we could provide Bharat a meliorate fight” © AFP Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan captain, blamed the batsmen for his side’s finish in Galle. Sri Lanka, who conceded a advance of 37 on the prototypal innings after restricting Bharat to 329, managed to te
Kallis passed fit for Edgbaston
South Africa’s all-rounder, Jacques Kallis, module endeavor in Wednesday’s ordinal Test against England at Edgbaston despite injuring his anulus digit patch stuffing against Bangladesh A during their one-sided warm-up mettlesome at New Road on Thursday. Kallis is the exclusive South individual batsman to hit uncomprehensible discover during the prototypal digit Tests, having managed ex
Arthur excited over Nel return
Mickey Arthur: “We’ve hardback him [Andre Nel] a Brobdingnagian turn over the terminal pair of months and I’ve got a opinion he is feat to become finished this digit fantastically” © Getty Images South continent haw be without the scraped Dale Steyn for the ordinal Test against England, but railcar Mickey President is awaiting the convey of a fire
