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February 24, 2013 Australia / India

Does MS Dhoni make Test cricket interesting?

< 1 minute readSpeaking about captaincy in his interview with the Guardian, Ian Chappell said: “I also felt – and I think this is overlooked a bit – that it was your job to make the cricket interesting for the players. In doing that, you get the best out of your best players.

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February 23, 2013 Australia / Extras

Ian Chappell’s view of squad rotation

2 minute readThere’s an interview with Ian Chappell over at The Guardian (in which he comes across very well) and there’s a couple of things in it that we want to talk about. The first is Chappell’s view of the modern world of rest and rotation: “I can understand that you’ve got

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    Bat first it is then. Thanks for pointing that out. A classic case of a sentence rewritten so many times…

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