Top Stories: Things that made news in the cricket world today
All the news stories that hogged the headlines today.
Ryan McLaren. (Photo by Morne de Klerk/Getty Images) Ryan McLaren retires from first-class cricket
He played only a couple of Test matches for South Africa but was a major presence in the domestic circuit with an abundance of experience.
Ryan McLaren took to his official Twitter handle to announce the retirement and felt that this is the right time to move on.
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“Every dog has its day”- ICC Chief David Richardson after India’s loss against New Zealand
Under the leadership of the enigmatic Virat Kohli, India won the Test and ODI series in Australia
The visitors beat them in the first three ODIs in Napier and Mount Maunganui to take a 3-0 lead in the series.
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Sussex sign Pakistan pacer Mir Hamza for 2019 season
Sussex, on Thursday (January 31), announced the signing of Pakistan pacer Mir Hamza for nine first-class matches of the upcoming 2019 season.
He finished the game with just one wicket and has not played any game for Pakistan since then.
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BPL 2019: Alex Hales ruled out of the tournament
In the first half of the T20 extravaganza, the Riders languished at the bottom of the points table.
His superlative knock was laced with 11 boundaries and five over-boundaries and it helped the Riders win by 72 runs.
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ICC World Cup 2019: Zaheer Khan picks his Indian squad for the tournament
India will be heading for this year’s WC under the captaincy of Virat Kohli who will be the seventh skipper to lead India in the quadrennial event.
India, who have won five of their last six ODI series’, including four abroad, will be going into the tournament as one of the favourites.
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India in no danger of losing hosting rights for WC 2023: ICC CEO
He said the groups were decided on the basis of rankings and there was no credible way to make the two arch-rivals meet each other before the semis.
This will be the first time since 2011 that India and Pakistan won’t meet in the group stages.
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ICC World Cup 2019: Simon Doull picks his Indian squad for the tournament
With a lot of players competing for spots in the team, former New Zealand cricketer and current analyst Simon Doull had a say on the India squad for the mega-event.
Doull opines that a lot of the Indian players pick themselves and added that it is a fairly simple task.
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The official warm-up fixtures for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 released
Each of the ten teams participating in the tournament will get to play two warm-up games in England and Wales.
Sri Lanka isn’t the same as it was earlier and is one of the weakest teams going into the mega-event.
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Mitchell Starc is still our best new-ball bowler: Tim Paine
Mitchell Starc’s poor form with the ball perfectly sums up Australia’s dwindling fortunes in recent months.
At a time when Australian cricket is in desperate need of seniors stepping up in the absence of David Warner
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Pat Cummins plays down the possibility of leading Australia in Test cricket
His spells of 4/39 in the first innings and 6/23 in the second innings blew away the Sri Lankan
In the absence of Josh Hazlewood and with Mitchell Starc misfiring, Cummins has emerged as the spearhead of this pace attack.
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