CricFever (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Sydney, Nov.14 (ANI): The West Indies cricket team has plenty of talent, but the time has come to put it out of its misery, feels noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck. In an article for the Sydney Morning Herald Roebuck argues that as far as the sport is concerned, Caribbean unity is on the wane, and that [...]
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The West Indies cricket team has plenty of talent, but the time has come to put it out of its misery, feels noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.
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Sydney, Nov.14 - ANI: The West Indies cricket team has plenty of talent, but the time has come to put it out of its misery, feels noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.
CricFever (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sydney, Nov.4 (ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has criticised the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for re-appointing Jamiacan star Chris Gayle as the team’s skipper for the tour Down Under, saying that he was an undeserving candidate for the post, and that Trinidadian Darren Ganga would have been a better [...]
Sify (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sydney: Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has criticised the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for re-appointing Jamiacan star Chris Gayle as the team's skipper for the tour Down Under, saying
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has criticised the West Indies Cricket Board for re-appointing Chris Gayle as the team's skipper.
A Cricketing View (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
I've posted this video before, but do watch these two strokes starting at 1:43 and 8:07 in this video. These are classical, supremely orthodox strokes, but another man could not even dream of beginning to learn to bat like this. Both are frontfoot drives, but in conception and practice it would be an insult to merely call them frontfoot drives. They are the strokes of a genius. The risk is huge in...
India Uncut (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Here’s Peter Roebuck talking about the three stages of a cricketer’s development—but I believe it also applies to writers: It begins with natural ability that takes a fellow as far as it can. Then comes a period of introspection in which the complications of the game are encountered and, to a greater or lesser degree, resolved. Finally the player reaches the final stage of a hazardous...
Sport Minded (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
The Ashes is often celebrated as the biggest and best cricket contest; it has the potential to make or break any gifted individual. Mitchell Johnson baffling form so far this series is an implacable godsend for Andrew Strauss’ men and after his frightening form against South Africa last winter, the England team must be relieved that he is not just struggling he’s struggling badly. Johnson...
Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
What? I check SBS’s TV schedule and find that something’s kicked the Tour off SBS1? What could that be? Some cricket match in Cardiff? Yep, The Ashes begin tonight. As Peter Roebuck notes, England have a decent team, while Australia’s preparation has been poor: Excitement is mounting because local supporters know that their [...]
Newspost Online (Free subscription) | 16/02/2009
Sydney, Feb.16 (ANI): Having beaten Australia in Australia, the South Africans would naturally be cocksure about using their home advantage to challenge Ricky Pontings team and dislodge it from its championship pedestal, feels cricket columnist Peter Roebuck. In a column for the Sydney Morning Herald, Roebuck predicts a compelling series in South Africa. While stating that the [...]
Newspost Online (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Sydney, Jan.1 (ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck is of the view that the Australian cricket team has forgotten what it means to win. While admitting that the team still has some very fine players in Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke and Michael Hussey, Roebuck believes that the application of absurd tactics since the Nagpur Test [...]
Good Read (Free subscription) | 27/12/2008
Peter Roebuck Every festive season this column chooses its Test team of the year. Our side is chosen entirely on the basis of performances in 2008. Specialists will be chosen in every position. Of course figures cannot completely be isolated from their surroundings. To that end Tests involving Bangladesh have been removed. Gautam Gambhir and Graeme Smith will open the innings. Gambhir scored three...
The Corridor (a cricket blog) (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
I enjoy Peter Roebuck’s writing, but this is taking things a little far, don’t you think? Talking about MS Dhoni, he says: He came to cricket as might a passenger at a train station, reached captaincy, runs, fame and riches not as some ruined child or as a street urchin destined to cover himself in bracelets [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Melbourne: Ricky Ponting has hit back at Cricket Australia for letting the national team down during the infamous racism row involving Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds and also lashed out at eminent columnist Peter Roebuck for launching ...
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