Russel Arnold told Sky Sports that Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene will be a “massive loss” for Sri Lanka when they retire.
Sangakkara and Jayawardene played their final one-day internationals on home turf on Tuesday as Sri Lanka defeated England by 87 runs to win the seven-match series 5-2.
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England captain Charlotte Edwards is adamant her Australian cricket adventure is not distracting her from the task of retaining the Ashes next summer.
The 34-year-old has taken the opportunity this winter to test herself with Western Fury, the representative women’s cricket team of Western Australia.
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Mahela Jayawardene plans to play with style and a smile in Tuesday’s one-day international against England – his final game on home soil before he retires.
The legendary Sri Lanka batsman will be retiring after next year’s World Cup and wants to enjoy his final international match in his native city Colombo, at the Premadasa Stadium.
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Allrounder Jesse Ryder continues to be omitted from New Zealand’s first 30-man squad for next year’s Cricket World Cup.
Ryder, who last played for New Zealand in January, was seen with an outside potential for choice after powerful performances in national limited overs matches and for Essex near the close of the English summer.
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Devon Smith has replaced Chris Gayle in the West Indies squad for his or her forthcoming tour of South Africa.
The lefthander last played a Test three-and-a-half years ago but has experienced good form domestically, scoring a hundred and two half centuries in his last three matches for the Windward Islands.
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The initial Test between Australia and India will now be played in Adelaide, beginning on December 9 in a reshuffle of the series after the departure of Phillip Hughes.
Adelaide was initially due to function as the place for the next Test, beginning on December 12, but that been brought forward following the postponement of the week’s first Test in Brisbane.
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Gloucestershire have awarded batsman Ian Cockbain a new contract which keeps him at Bristol until 2017.
Cockbain has scored 1751 first class runs in the past three seasons, plus 1005 in one-day cricket and 771 in Twenty20.
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England all-rounder Ravi Bopara is looking forward to the one-day series against Sri Lanka.
The England team have had their first training session after arriving in the country on Monday ahead of the seven-match series which is part of the build-up to next year’s World Cup.
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England all-rounder Luke Wright has signed a three-year extension to his contract with Sussex which keeps him at Hove until 2018.
Wright, 29, has already been awarded a benefit year in 2015 following a fine season in county cricket.
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Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has won the prestigious ICC Cricketer of the Year award.
There was plenty for England to celebrate in the awards though. England’s Gary Ballance was named the Emerging Cricketer of the Year, Sarah Taylor the Women’s ODI Player of the Year and Katherine Brunt won the ICC Spirit of Cricket award.
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Award winning female cricketer and degree one umpire Salma Bi desires to see more girls officiating at matches.
Only 436 of the England & Wales Cricket Board’s 7800 officials are girls, although you can find plans to double that amount in another 36 months.
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England’s Gary Ballance and Ben Stokes have been shortlisted for the International Cricket Council’s emerging player of the year award.
The pair are amongst four players, with New Zealand’s Corey Anderson and Jimmy Neesham additionally up for the award.
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Australia’s inadequacies in playing twist in Asian states will take time and effort to put right, in accordance with Cricket Australia high performance leader Pat Howard.
Captain Michael Clarke acknowledged his team hadn’t learned their lesson against twist after crashing to their sixth straight defeat in the subcontinent against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates on Monday.
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Durham seam bowler Graham Onions has been granted a benefit year by the county in 2015.
The 32-year old came through the academy at Chester Le Street prior to making his first class introduction in April 2004.
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Worcestershire seamer Jack Shantry has signed a two-year contract extension, keeping him at New Road till 2017.
Shantry’s preceding deal still had a year to run but the 26-year old has been rewarded for playing a vital function in assisting the side get promoted to Division One.
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Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale has denied he is a racist and expressed remorse for his tirade towards Lancashire batsman Ashwell Prince.
The 30-year-old received a two-match ban, denying him the chance to lift the County Championship trophy, after he reportedly called Prince a “Kolpak” during last month’s Roses clash at Old Trafford.
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Former England teammate Graeme Swann has slammed Kevin Pietersen’s new autobiography, labelling it the “the biggest work of fiction since Jules Verne”.
Speaking at an awards ceremony at Lord’s, Swann denied accusations by Pietersen that he was part of a clique of bowlers who perpetuated a “bullying culture” in the England dressing room.
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Mike Watkinson has ended his long association with Lancashire after stepping down from his role as the club’s cricket director.
The 53-year-old announced he is “looking forward to a new challenge” as he confirmed he would be leaving the Red Rose county after a successful 32 years at Old Trafford.
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Middlesex batsman Sam Robson insists his England ambitions remain undimmed after missing out on a central contract.
Having opened England’s innings in all seven summer Tests, the 25-year-old was overlooked for a lucrative 12-month central deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board awarding contracts to six stars for the first time.
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Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale has been banned for two games and ordered to undertake an anger management course following an incident during last month’s County Championship clash with arch-rivals Lancashire.
The 30-year-old admitted the offence of verbally abusing South African batsman Ashwell Prince towards the end of the penultimate day of an ill-tempered Roses clash at Old Trafford.
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