Dipz Cricket World (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
So much has been written about the 20th anniversary of Sachin Tendulkar's Test debut that it's hard to know what else to say. In his 160th test he ended up reaching 30,000 international runs, 43rd test match century and 88th international century all in all in a period when he and cricket are celebrating 20 years of international cricket for such a humble player. The Little Master seems to have been...
Cricket 24x7 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
On the occasion of Sachin Tendulkar completing 20 years in international cricket , Kapil Dev opined in 'The Asian Age' that Tendulkar had under-achieved. It depends on how you look at it. For someone who started off playing so aggressively and making bowlers scared of bowling to him, Tendulkar most definitely doesn't strike fear in bowlers any more. But that's true for pretty much every player who...
Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
So, another cricket season has ended and I’ve a fractured thumb to show for it, thanks to the moonscape pitch at North Middlesex CC. However, for cricket lovers in search of a good few reads to pass the time until leather next hits willow in April 2010, the below list should provide some respite. I’m deeply sceptical of the sporting autobiography – especially by players in their mid-20s...
CricFever (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Mumbai, Oct 8 (ANI): Former Australian cricket skipper Steve Waugh has ruled out any possibility of match fixing in the controversial 6UP runs-per-over SMS game. “The game is a game where you have to predict the outcome of six balls. As a player you couldn’t possibly match-fix six balls. Everybody involved in it so that’s not [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
The Republic of Ireland v Italy at USA 94, a young Kevin Keegan and Brett Favre's miracle also feature in this week's round-up 1) If you're scoring your 200th goal in the Argentinian top flight, you might as well mark the occasion in style. What better way to do so than by nodding home the winner for Boca Juniors in a five-goal thriller at La Bombonera against Velez Sarsfield ... from 40 metres out....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Scanning the county scorecards won't be the same again after a generation of England cricketers ducked out of the game "If you're hanging on to a rising balloon, you're presented with a difficult decision – let go before it's too late or hang on and keep getting higher, posing the question: how long can you keep a grip on the rope?" Andy Caddick is a tall man. It's no surprise he managed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Harbhajan Singh has battled hard to stay afloat in international cricket whereas his nemesis from 2008, Andrew Symonds, has sunk As the world's leading cricket sides head in the direction of the Cape of Good Hope, they could do worse than remember an old African proverb: Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors. The history of the game is replete with examples of men who braved the storms to come back...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
If India win three ODIs in Sri Lanka over the coming week they will be the No1 side in the world, but does anyone really care about these tournaments? With the passage of time, it's tempting to look at the past indulgently and it isn't just Neil Harvey who claims that things were better in his day. There's a genuine tendency to look at the era that you grew up in as the golden age. My uncle will never...
Dipz Cricket World (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
These are the top 10 Ashes batsman I have enjoyed watching since 1990 onwards 1) Steve Waugh – To have an average of 58 in Ashes test shows the true class and guts of the players and that was what Steve Waugh was all about. His best innings have to be the 157 not out at The Oval on one leg in 2001 then in his last Ashes innings scored 102 at Sydney 2) Allan Border – The one batsman you...
World A-Team Cricket Forum (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
James Sutherland started as CEO of Cricket Australia in 2001, as a CEO he should know all about trends And from what I can see the performance of the Australian Cricket team during his time in charge, has been declining, slowly at first, but faster now. Disturbingly, he came out yesterday and said all the blame for Australia's failure to win this Ashes series laid with the players. Yet no mention that...
The Writers Lounge (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
The cricket Quiz will be posted every Friday and the answers to the quiz must be sent to me via email (christopherdavid007@gmail.com) on or before Wednesday. Therefore the last day for this quiz is 26th of August . Please write in the subject cricket quiz. The answers will be published every Friday with another set of questions along with the winners of previous quiz. Answers to Cricket Quiz - 1 ....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
The stage is all set for Andrew Flintoff to bow out of Test cricket as an Ashes hero in the fifth and final test There are no fairytales in sport," Steve Waugh said. He is probably right. But this week Andrew Flintoff will be doing all he can to prove him wrong. We are in Tom Tully territory. Tully was the most prolific writer of Roy of the Rovers and all the tools of his trade are to hand. The...
A Cricketing View (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Quite apart from the totally pompous denotation of the thing as a "dossier", the more i read it, the more i find myself thinking - why was this secret at all? There's absolutely nothing in there that could be regarded as any more than idle armchair observation. These are the sort of things that have been discussed ad nauseum on commentary when England have played Tests and ODI's in the recent...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
The lack of snarl and bite in the current Australian team makes one remember the grizzled campaigners of old These Australians are way too nice for their own good. With the exception of their muzzled captain, Ricky Ponting, a rehabilitated larrikin of the old school, and possibly Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus, who are not yet fully house-trained, they are seriously lacking in the essential ingredient...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
• England captain taunts Australia ahead of third Test • Ricky Ponting responds that England never had an aura Andrew Strauss has gone on the offensive ahead of tomorrow's third Test at Edgbaston, claiming Australia have lost their "aura" as England seek to move into a 2-0 lead for the first time in an Ashes series for 23 years. Ricky Ponting hit back by reminding England of their...
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