'Look at his achievement, his service... his captaincy is terrific. There is no doubt about it'
Former captain Alastair Cook believes England have an "outstanding chance" to lift the World Cup on home soil, having built a squad full of proven match winners.
'I think he's (Surya) that sort of guy who just doesn't carry any baggages with him'
History is also a bit against India when it comes to results at the business end of the ICC events.
It is learnt that the Indian team's data analyst CKM Dhananjay prepared a special data analytics package doing an entire SWOT analysis of the World Cup hopefuls as well as opposition since the 2017 Champions Trophy.
India's new ODI captain Rohit Sharma wants his middle-order to be prepared in case India slump to 10 for 3 early on.
Between September of 2017 and July 2019, the spin duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav -- the famed 'Kul-Cha' of Indian cricket -- featured together in 34 out of 53 ODIs for India.
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India is scheduled to play against Pakistan in their 2019 World Cup match in Manchester on June 16.
Sarfraz and his men must heed the advice from someone who famously galvanised a traditionally fractious side to World Cup glory in 1992.
Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly has said that Pakistani batsman Sarfraz Ahmed is great as a captain and leaders like him are not born every day.
Kohli has so far led India in three ICC events -- the 2017 Champions Trophy, the 2019 50-over World Cup and the recently completed inaugural edition of the World Test Championship (WTC). In all these events, India managed to reach the closing stages, but the trophy eluded the team.
Akhtar said he was livid when he came to know that Aamir and Asif had indulged in corruption during a Test against England.
The former England captain also reckons India have 'underachieved' in ICC tournaments.
Chief Selector Inzamam-ul-Haq, announcing the World Cup squad and two reserve players, said the 11 from the 2017 Champions Trophy had been retained in the selection process.
England's makeshift one-day international team put the COVID-19 issues that hit the previous squad behind them to bowl out Pakistan for 141 runs before cruising to a clinical nine-wicket win in the series opener in Cardiff on Thursday.
Sourav Ganguly, who is set to be the new Board of Control of Cricket in India president, wants the Virat Kohli-led national team to reverse the trend of losing the knockout games in ICC events.
'When you have a win ratio of 65 per cent over the last five years, what is there to worry about?' 'How can the standard go down suddenly? For five years, you have been number one side in the world.'
The broadcaster's live streaming platform Hotstar saw 100 million daily active users during the India-Pakistan match, making it the highest-ever single day reach for the platform.
The most sought-after megastars of the current generation are primed to show their might against a bunch of enigmatic cricketers as India and Pakistan engage in an ICC T20 World Cup face-off, something that transcends the 22-yard strip.
Controversial Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal was charged on Friday for two separate breaches of the Pakistan Cricket Board's Anti-Corruption Code. He was charged for failing to disclose corrupt approaches to the PCB Vigilance and Security Department (without unnecessary delay).
Sarfaraz was removed as captain from all three formats last year in a sudden move by the Pakistan Cricket Board but made a comeback to the national squad for the tour of England due to the unusual circumstances arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yuzvendra Chahal is among the best leg-spinners in international cricket right now but he can be more effective with better use of the crease, says former Pakistan spinner Mushtaq Ahmed. Ahmed picked Chahal, Australia's Adam Zampa and Pakistan's Shadab Khan among the top leg-spinners in white-ball cricket.
Arthur suggested to the members that Shahdab Khan should replace Sarfaraz as captain in the limited-over formats while Babar Azam should be given the reins of the Test side.
Anil Kumble was also keen to retain Ashwin, who captained the side in the previous two editions.
The embattled Australian team hit a 34-year low in the ICC ODI rankings, dropping to sixth place following back-to-back defeats against England in the ongoing five-match series. With defeats to the world No. 1 ODI team in London and Cardiff, Australia slipped to 102 rankings points and sits a fraction of a point below 2017 Champions Trophy winners Pakistan.
'It's simple -- if Pakistan want to stay in the tournament, they have to bring an 'A plus' performance and win that game '
The West Indies named an unchanged 13-man squad which played a 1-1 draw against Afghanistan early this month.
Sunil Joshi has applied for the national team bowling coach's job
Liton Das and Tamim Iqbal scored a hundred each as Bangladesh thrashed Zimbabwe by 123 runs in a rain-hit third One-Day International to complete a clean sweep in the three-match series, in Sylhet, on Friday.
Former selector Sarandeep Singh called Rohit-Dhawan the 'best option' despite skipper Virat Kohli's recent interest in the slot.
A two-division league system for Test cricket could be established in three years in a bid to improve standards in the longest form of the game, International Cricket Council chief executive Dave Richardson said on Wednesday.
'A few of our players first entered WADA's Registered Testing Pool (RTP) during 2015 ICC World Cup. Our issue is NADA's handling of samples and how their Dope Control Officers (DCO) work. That is something we are not convinced about and we have told that to ICC also'
Former India batsman Yuvraj Singh claimed that the team management let him down towards the fag end of his international career and he could have played another World Cup after the 2011 heroics if he had enough backing.
With T20 leagues mushrooming around the world, ICC conceded that the challenge to root out corruption from the game is bigger than ever.
India has been confirmed as host for the 2016 Twenty20 World Cup
'It's all about playing according to the situation, if you're smart enough you will get the result you desire'
"It doesn't get more exciting," Arthur said of the hotly-anticipated contest at Old Trafford.
Jasprit Bumrah is a premier practitioner of lethal yorkers but he considers his mastery in the art form to be just about 'decent' and that too after hours of intense net practice.
Ganguly said the Indian team perhaps made the mistake of taking Pakistan lightly in the 2017 Champions Trophy final and had to bite the dust.
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