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Former England captain Andrew Strauss has emerged as a surprise candidate to become CEO of Cricket Australia following the resignation of Kevin Roberts. Cricket Australia has been in a financial loss since the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report in The Australian , Strauss could be the next CEO of Cricket Australia. The 43-year-old had represented the county cricket for Middlesex and captained the England national team in all formats of the game. He served England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for three years as a director of cricket between 2015 to 2018. After Roberts resigned from his position of CEO, Nick Hockley was named in as an interim replacement with the governing body searching for the ideal candidate to serve as a full-time CEO. Strauss has scored 7,037 runs in 100 Tests and 4,205 runs in 127 ODIs during his playing career with England. The South Africa-born also played a crucial role as ECB director, which lead the national side to claim their maiden World Cup title la...

Former England skipper Andrew Strauss has joined Middlesex County Cricket Club's executive board, the club's official website announced. Andrew Strauss to join the club's Executive Board - find out more at http://t.co/dtnx84KSER #Middlesex150 — Middlesex Cricket (@Middlesex_CCC) April 1, 2014 Strauss , 37, the Ex-batsman for the Middlesex replaces Paul Downton. " We are absolutely thrilled that Andrew has accepted our invitation to join the board, " Middlesex chairman Ian Lovett told. "He is a Middlesex man through and through, with an outstanding reputation within the game. "Finding the right man to replace Paul Downton was always going to prove a challenge. However, in Andrew Strauss, we've found the perfect solution." Strauss played for the club for 14 years and made his first-class debut for Middlesex in 1998.

Former England skipper Andrew Strauss has joined International Cricket Council ( ICC ) on Thursday. The 35-year-old has replaced former West Indies bowler Ian Bishop Alan Isaac , The ICC president said: " I am sure that he will carry on Clive's good work and bring, like Andrew Strauss, contemporary thinking to the committee, and both understand clearly the issues facing the modern game. "

England's Test captain, Andrew Strauss has announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket. Strauss said, " After much thought over the last few weeks, I have decided to step down as England Test captain and announce my retirement from all forms of cricket." "It has clearly been a tough decision to make, but I believe that it is both in the best interests of the England cricket team and myself to step down at this stage." "The driver to all this is I haven't batted well enough for a long time. I wasn't going to improve batting-wise, I've run my race," Strauss later told the news conference." "It's one of these decisions when you know when your time is up ." The 35-year-old, made his debut in 2004 against New Zealand at Lord's. In his tests career, Strauss played 100 tests and scored 7037 runs at 40.91 in which he captained in the 50 Tests and won 24 of them.

England captain Andrew Strauss and his team mate Alastair Cook became the fifth partnership in Test history, by putting more than 5,000 runs together. 5,000 runs as partners in Tests: S Tendulkar/R Dravid (IND): 6,920 D Haynes/G Greenidge (WIS): 6,482 J Langer/M Hayden (AUS): 6,081 K Sangakkara/M Jayawardene (SRI): 5,444 A Strauss/A Cook (ENG): 5,085

London, Thursday, 4 August 2011 Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff believes the current England team lead by Andrew Strauss is much better than the 2005 Ashes-winning Michael Vaughan' s team. Flintoff was the England hero in 2005 Ashes-winning and his victory is considered the greatest achievement of recent times. Flintoff said the current team is playing better in every department. He said, " This is a better side than the one we had in 2005. The strength of it and the depth is incredible. In 2005 we had 11 players who had a memorable few weeks and played at their best for a period, but we never played together again ." Flintoff who retired due to injuries since the Ashes in 2009 said that the current team is very strong. He said, " this team is very strong. We've seen them replace players without blinking and it has made no difference to the performance and that has been happening for a while now. They are the best in the world. Not just in r...

Andrew Strauss , England cricket Team captain believes his side will become the world number one in Test cricket. After beating India by 196 runs at Lords in 1st Test, Now England has 1-0 lead in the 4 Test match series. According to the Daily Telegraph Strauss was quoted as saying " To be number one you have to grab your opportunities and I think we did that very well in this game, It's the first of a four-match series but we've demonstrated that when we play well we're a match for anyone. Now we just have to play well again." He added " We are aware that this is just the opening salvo in the series, but Lord's is a hard wicket as the game goes on and the performance was outstanding "

London, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 England Captain Andrew Strauss will play for Somerset as a practice match before the four test match series against The world's number one team India. Andrew Strauss decided to play for Somerset from 15 to 17 July before the four- test match series against India starts from july 21.

England Test captain Andrew Strauss for the Indian team to beat on its Homeground is more important than winning Ashes trophy. Strauss claimed that he had reached the top in international cricket, but his desire to let beat team India in India. The reason to beat the best team like India, considered a symbol of respect for more important than winning the Ashes trophy ever. captain said " for us Ashes is very important, but now we have to think further.I wish teams like India and South Africa to beat on their home ground ." Strauss said, I never beat India in Test Series and if England is to be the best team in the world, then we have to beat India. I definitely would like to say that for us defeat to India is more important than to go to Australia and winning the Ashes. World number one Test team India to tour West Indies in June after which India will be leaving for England .