Pakistan veteran Shahid Afridi has announced he will retire from one-day internationals after next year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Afridi told a news conference on Sunday that he will focus on T20 matches after the tournament is over, as Pakistan look ahead to the ICC World Twenty20 in India in 2016.
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Australia have been fined for a slow over rate during the second Test against India in Brisbane which concluded on Saturday.
The elite panel of ICC referees found Steven Smith’s side were three overs short of their target and the skipper was fined 60 per cent of his match fee and his team-mates docked 30 per cent of their fees.
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It’s crunch time for England’s selectors as they meet to pick their one-day squad for the Tri- Series against Australia and India and the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup.
But our expert panel of Sir Ian Botham, Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton have already decided who should be on the plane come January 6 when the 15-man party flies out.
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Lord’s has been proposed as the venue for the ICC Cricket World Cup final when the tournament is staged in England and Wales in 2019 – and the ‘home of cricket’ will also host the ICC Women’s World Cup final in 2017.
The England and Wales Cricket Board will also recommend to ICC that the semi-finals in the 2019 World Cup should be allocated to Old Trafford, Manchester and Warwickshire’s home of Edgbaston, with the opening game being staged at The Oval.
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Sri Lanka wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara has been fined 15 per cent of his match fee from their victory over England on Saturday.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) imposed the penalty after deciding Sangakkara was “showing dissent at an umpire’s decision”.
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England will apply to the ICC to name a replacement for Craig Kieswetter in their first squad for the 2015 World Cup.
Kieswetter disclosed on Thursday he’d suffered a setback in his recovery from a horrible eye injury he sustained playing for Somerset last summer.
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Pakistan will start restorative work on Mohammad Hafeez’s bowling action promptly after it had been deemed illegal by the International Cricket Council.
The off-spinner was reported within a Test match against New Zealand last month, and following evaluations in England found his activity violated the ICC’s limitations on elbow extension.
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Prohibited spin pair Sachithra Senanayake and Kane Williamson happen to be cleared to bowl again the International Cricket Council (ICC) have said.
The Sri Lankan off-spinner as well as the New Zealand part time bowler were prohibited in July within the governing body’s clampdown on players with suspect bowling actions.
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Sri Lanka couple Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thisara Perera have already been fined a part of the match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct in their triumph over England on Wednesday.
Dilshan had 25 per cent of his match fee deducted for excessive appealing while Perera was given a 20 per cent punishment for conduct which was “contrary to the heart of the sport or brings the game into disrepute”.
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Sri Lanka couple Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thisara Perera have already been fined a part of the match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct in their triumph over England on Wednesday.
Dilshan had 25 per cent of his match fee deducted for excessive appealing while Perera was given a 20 per cent punishment for conduct which was “contrary to the heart of the sport or brings the game into disrepute”.
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Former England cricketer Owais Shah has expressed his shock after being named as one of 13 individuals being investigated over allegations of corruption in the Indian Premier League.
The Supreme Court of India has revealed the names – which also include ICC chief N Srinivasan, IPL Chief Operating Officer Sundar Raman, Chennai Super Kings official Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra.
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Mitchell Johnson’s ICC Cricketer of the Year accolade is just reward for turning his career around, says Dominic Cork.
Australian left-arm quick Johnson, who was also named Test Cricketer of the Year, pipped Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews as well as South Africa’s AB de Villiers to scoop the gong for a second time, having first won it in 2009.
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The Chairman of the International Cricket Council is being investigated following allegations of corruption in the Indian Premier League.
The Supreme Court of India has revealed the names of 13 individuals being investigated in the probe, including ICC chief N Srinivasan – arguably the most powerful man in 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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Saeed Ajmal’s bowling action is going to be unofficially analyzed in England on Monday.
The Pakistan off-spinner, who had been prohibited from playing by the International Cricket Council in September, is going to be analysed at an ICC-accredited lab.
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The ICC 2015 World Cup is only 100 days away!
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South Africa are back along with the ICC ODI Team Standings for the very first time in 5 years.
The Proteas’ 72-run success inside their second ODI against New Zealand on Friday was sufficient to see them recover top spot, despite the third and final ODI being washed out on Monday.
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Australian cricket head coach Darren Lehmann will stay in his job until June 2017 after signing a one-year contract extension.
Lehmann’s first contract had been due to expire in June 2016, however a great run of form – which contained a 5-0 Ashes whitewash over England – has found him lead the side to second in the ICC test positions and prompted the extension.
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Sky Sports has won the rights to show some of international cricket’s biggest events including the ICC Cricket World Cup, World Twenty20 and Champions Trophy.
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Two more international spin bowlers have been banned as the ICC crackdown on illegal actions continues.
Zimbabwe off-spinner Prosper Utseya and Bangladesh’s Sohag Gazi are the latest to be suspended after their actions were examined in Cardiff.
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