The off-spinner does not want to experiment during his stint for Lancashire and only wishes to get his rhythm back.
'I didn't want a situation where I could have stranded Lancashire midway through the season," the off-spinner said.
Out-of-favour India batsman Virender Sehwag and Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan will lead two MCC sides in a series of matches in the Middle East to help launch the new county season.
VVS Laxman played second fiddle to Andrew Flintoff as Lancashire thumped Derbyshire by 56 runs in the Twenty20 Cup in London. Flintoff hammered 93 from 41 balls to hog the limelight but Laxman's 45-ball 63 was no less significant as the duo shared a fourth-wicket stand of 99 to help Lancashire pile up 220 for five, their best ever Twenty20 score.
A dreadful defensive error from Arsenal's Granit Xhaka gifted Burnley an equaliser as the sides drew 1-1 at Turf Moor in the Premier League on Saturday.
The 28-year-old clobbered left-arm spinner Karl Carver six times over the rope in the 16th over to join a select group that includes Garfield Sobers, Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs, Yuvraj Singh and Lancashire's Jordan Clark, who achieved it in a second-team game against Yorkshire.
A "distraught" James Anderson apologised to his England team mates after pulling up injured on day one of the opening Ashes Test against Australia, fellow quick Stuart Broad revealed.
Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff joined Brisbane Heat on a short-term deal in the Big Bash League (BBL) on Thursday, extending his surprise return to Twenty20 cricket.
England, set a mere 206 to win, slumped to 50 for five and then 114 for eight.
England fast bowler James Anderson is doubtful for the first Test against Pakistan due to a shoulder injury, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Saturday.
India Test discard Virender Sehwag has been roped in to captain the Marylebone Cricket Club squad in a four-day Champion County match against Durham, starting March 23, in Abu Dhabi.
VVS Laxman struck a fine hundred to help Lancashire gain a 205-run lead against Warwickshire on the second day of the Division one county match at Old Trafford.
Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has hinted that he could continue his cricketing comeback with a stint in Australia's domestic Twenty20 Big Bash league.
Lancashire's Jordan Clark is only the fifth batsman to hit six sixes in one over during a professional cricket match.
England coach Peter Moores said on Sunday that he hopes Andrew Flintoff will take another step towards a return to test cricket by resuming bowling again in a county match this week.
The Australian leg spin ace resorted to bowling bouncers and throwing tantrums while leading Hampshire in an English county game against Lancashire that ended in a farce.
"It's the other end of the spectrum now ... You can't wait just to get out there on the cricket field and running around with your mates, getting stuck into training and playing games."
In a mind-boggling feat, Delhi Ranji cricketer Mohit Ahlawat smashed an incredible unbeaten 300 off just 72 balls, hitting an unbelievable 39 sixes, in a Twenty20 match at LalitaPark in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The newborns opens their eyes to see the world fighting a deadly disease.
The England fast bowler will miss the Test series because of a back injury.
The England speedsters are doubtful for the forthcoming Test series against Sri Lanka
The club took into consideration Pujara's ability to bat for long periods.
England's defeat of India inside three days in the fourth Test at Manchester's Old Trafford may not have been good news for ground authorities, who lost out on two days' worth of takings and it certainly wasn't good for the tourists.
The four-match series will mark England's first away games in the ICC World Test Championship.
The hard-hitting 30-year-old played the last of his seven Tests against Bangladesh in September 2017 and missed out on a spot in the squad for the ongoing four-match series against India.
'My bench mate at school was Shashi Kapoor and we were together from KG right up to the 10th standard.'
Murali Karthik made an impressive debut for Lancashire as he took five for 93 runs in the Frizzell County Championships match
Dinesh Mongia was dimissed for a first-ball duck for Leicestershire against Lancashire
Captain Graeme Smith led Somerset to victory over Lancashire by seven wickets to win the Twenty20 Cup
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes as 'unprecedented' levels of flooding continue to hit the already blighted north of England.
Flintoff will undergo further tests later this week after being ruled out of Lancashire's county championship match against Essex at Old Trafford, which started on Wednesday.
Though Harbhajan was supposed to join the county in April-end, an injury to his index finger delayed his departure.
The left-armer, who injured his bowling hand in a CountyChampionship match against Lancashire, was the third spinner in the 16-man team alongside Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid.
Adil Rashid was, on Tuesday, named as the sole specialist spinner in the England playing XI for the series opener against India, creating more pressure on the leg-spinner after his controversial recall to the Test side.
Scotland went down to a humiliating 10-wicket defeat to Lancashire.
Ambitious English county Somerset snapped up formidable Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardede on Thursday to partner explosive West Indian opener Chris Gayle for the domestic Twenty20 season. Jayawardene, the 38-year-old former test skipper, has scored 1,493 runs in 55 Twenty20 internationals and will feature in 12 of 14 domestic matches for the English county. "To have the top two run-scorers in the history of the World T20 walking out into the middle at Taunton is something that I hope the members and supporters will be looking forward to," Somerset director of cricket Matt Maynard said in a statement. Gayle, 36, who will play in the World Twenty20 semi-final against India later on Thursday, said in January, he would return for six Somerset matches this year after scoring 328 runs in three appearances for them last term.
Cricketer Chloe Wallwork has become the first woman to play alongside men in 125 years in Lancashire's oldest league, the Bolton Association.
Six batsmen made ducks as visiting Lancashire bowled Essex out for 20 in a second division game at Chelmsford on Friday, their lowest score in a first-class fixture. It was also the lowest score in county cricket since Essex skittled Surrey for 14 at the same ground in 1983.
With the coronavirus outbreak forcing a cricket shutdown across the world, there is speculation that the sport might initially return without fans. The global health crisis has forced England and Wales Cricket Board to suspend all professional sport till July 1 in the country and also put in doubt the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. Buttler said he is hoping for some form of cricket to return this year.
The 13-year-old Burnley fan who made a racial slur against Spurs' Son Heung-Min will be made to work in conjunction with Kick It Out and Burnley FC in the Community programs.
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