ICC has decided to introduce new women competetion, Competing countries will include Australia, West Indies, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Africa, India and Pakistan.

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South Africa have announced their test squad to face Australia in three match test series at home. South Africa would be playing without Kallis after a long time. In Kallis's absence Mclaren has been included in test squad. 

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The 2014 version of the Domestic T20 Cup is due to start on the 6th of Feb. Sialkot have by far been the most successful of teams winning the tournament the most times. Lahore also have a strong squad packed with International players but it was Misbah's Faisalabad Wolves who won it last time. Follow all the progress and updates here:

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A thread I've been wanting to start for a while. After the 5th ODI, Alistair Cook and Ashley Giles confirmed that England would be sending their T20 squad for the ODIs vs West Indies. The idea is to allow the squad to spend time with one another ahead of the T20 World Cup.

Personally I feel this is an excellent idea - i've actually always felt that the ODI side and T20 side should be the same (but that's a conversation for another thread).

I saw a tweet from David Lloyd in which he completely disagreed with the decision as he felt T20 players aren't equipped for ODIs.

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Who do you rate at the better bowler, if you compare Vernon Philander and Mohammad Asif (when he was at his prime)?

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Eight years ago today, Pakistan played India at Karachi in a Test match and beat them by 341 runs to win the series 1-0. Kamran saved Pakistan from embarrassment by scoring a magnificent hundred.

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Misbah is the unluckiest captain's when it comes to toss, out of 101 games he has captained across all formats he has won the toss only 41 times ! A toss win percentage of 40.59%.

Misbah 101 Matches, 40.6%
Clarke 117 Matches, 45.3%
Rahim 52 Matches, 46.2
McCullum 64 Matches, 46.9%
Matthews 34 Matches, 47.1%
Dhoni 251 Matches, 47.2%
Sammy 104 Matches, 50.0%
Smith 283 Matches, 51.6%
Cook 76 Matches, 52.6%
Bravo 34 Matches, 52.9%
Afridi 54 Matches, 55.6%
ABDV 51 Matches, 56.9%
Taylor 51 Matches, 58.9%

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Zimbabwe turns down South Africa's invitation to play one-off test match. It's surprising that Zimbabwe has turn down an offer to play against the best test team in the world. 

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Looking at recent performances New Zealand are looking like a well settled and strong unit for limited overs cricket. They have easily out classed the current world champions and also beat SouthAfrica on the away tour. With 2015 WC and 2014 T20 WC nearing New Zealand might just be peaking at right time to surprise people at these events.

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India's performance away from home has come under heavy criticism due to their dismal performance on recent away tours. After their defeat against New Zealand, questions are arising regarding india's chances in World cup 2015. As the things stand now, India need lots of work to prepare for World cup defence.

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