Ben Stokes has expressed his sadness at news James Taylor has had to retire from cricket because of a serious heart condition. Scans revealed the Nottinghamshire batsman has Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC) on Monday.It is a condition to that suffered by former footballer Fabrice Muamba and Taylor will undergo surgery in the coming days. Having played with Taylor as a youngster and more recently with England during the winter tour of South Africa, Stokes says the 26-year-old is a loss to the game.He told Sky Sports News HQ: To have a career to end like that is a massive perspective on life, not just in cricket.Hes a young age and such a good player and has just established himself in the Test team and the one-day team. Taylor celebrates reaching his century with Jonathan Bairstow during an England ODI with South Africa in January The only nice thing to come out of it is hes still going to be able to live. Some people arent fortunate enough with the disease hes got.Ive got quite close to James over the years. Ive played a lot of Lions and England stuff with him and its quite hard to deal with. Its devastating news for English cricket. Also See: Taylor forced to retire Taylors key moments Taylor robbed of peak years Cook hopes for Taylor legacy Wholeslae Jerseys China . The home side created most of the chances but struggled to break down Braunschweigs resilient defence, resulting in the Bundesligas 1,000th scoreless draw. Wholesale MLB Jerseys . -- Jaye Marie Green shot a 4-under 68 on Thursday to increase her lead to five strokes after the second round of the LPGA Tours qualifying tournament. http://www.authenticwholesalejerseys.net/ . Nigeria beat surprise package Ethiopia 2-0 in the second leg of their playoff for a comfortable 4-1 aggregate victory. Victor Moses converted a 20th-minute penalty after an Ethiopian handball, and Victor Obinna made certain of Nigerias place in Brazil with his powerful free kick in the 82nd at UJ Esuene Stadium. Authentic Jerseys Cheap . After Gasquet beat fifth-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 7-5, 6-3, Tsonga followed up with a 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-2 win against sixth-seeded Edouard Roger-Vasselin in an all-French match. Wholesale Jerseys For Sale . There are surprises among the Vezina candidates, but most of the others are standard top-tier performers, even if the two Hart Trophy runners-ups have never been quite as good as they have been through the first half of the season. Canterbury prop Aidan Tolman has hit out at critics who say the Bulldogs dont deserve their spot in the NRLs top four.The Bulldogs quietly slipped into the top four with four rounds remaining on the back of their unconvincing win over Newcastle on Saturday and North Queenslands loss to Wests Tigers on Sunday.After a sluggish start to the season, characterised by their inability to string wins together, the Dogs have won six of their last seven games.But they were thumped 36-0 by North Queensland three weeks ago and mid-season losses to Cronulla and Canberra also have many questioning their ability to beat the competitions top sides.NRL great Darren Lockyer, for one, has said he doesnt believe the Dogs cant win the competition due to a lack of consistency and ruthlessness.That is fine by us. We dont really care what everybody writes about us, Tolman said on Monday.The media has their own agendas, for us we are going about our footy.We are not playing our best footy yet but we find ourselves in the top four and that is where we want to stay.The Dogs face Manly on Thursday night, thenn Brisbane, North Queensland and South Sydney.ddddddddddddTheir round 25 clash with defending premiers the Cowboys at Belmore Sports Grounds shapes as a season-defining clash.A few results on the weekend fell in our favour and we are there in the top four, but we still have four big games ahead, Tolman said.It would be nice to keep this momentum going into the finals. The next four games are crucial for us.Brett Morris said the Dogs were timing their run into the finals nicely.Of late we have been pretty consistent. At the start of the year we were very patchy with win, loss, win, loss, win, loss, he said.But we have managed to string wins together now and that is what you need to do if you want to make the top four.We have been winning games. We have been winning them ugly and we know there is room for improvement.International forward Greg Eastwood sat out the win over the Knights and is not due back from a hamstring injury for at least another week. ' ' '