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Banning Pakistan cricketers for in-fighting? It’s like firing a computer programmer for being interested in Star Wars. Some things just come with the territory.
With Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan banned for life, there’s every...(more)

While the BCCI and Sunil Gavaskar himself honoured the 1983 World Cup winners, making them richer by Rs. 35 lakh each, and Ajit Wadekar’s 1971 Warriors were honoured privately, the team that triumphed in 1985 in Australia, winning t...(more)
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It’s a crisis in the Pee Cee Bee. No, not the team losing. That happens often enough. There is the bigger crisis. Not enough money to siphon.There’s a general body meeting - urgent summons is issued to key functionaries. They co...(more)

I can’t pretend to understand the machinations of the Pakistan Cricket Board on a good day, much less on a day in which two of their finest Test players have been handed life bans, two others one-year bans and everyone else massive fi...(more)

I’ve seen plenty of positive tweets from Rajasthan Royals players over the last couple of weeks, as international players have gradually made their way to India, and I’m getting a good vibe about it all.The Jaipur-based side wer...(more)

In December 2009, Sulieman Benn, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson were involved in a downright ugly altercation at the WACA test. Johnson wasn’t really the trouble-maker then, but less than three months later, during the Napier ODI ag...(more)

By Walter Williams from the West
Never before has a man with the middle name Winston featured so significantly in Australian cricket – but all that is set to change when the former Prime Minister, John Winston Howard is inaugurated to...(more)



Call me traditional, call me a company man, call me Ahab if you must, but for the life of me I can’t understand a Man of the Match award going to a player on the losing side.Surely the very definition of a Man of the Match is the guy ...(more)

The venue for my club, East Malvern CC’s, annual President’s dinner was a Greek restaurant on a balmy Sunday evening in the eponymous suburb of East Malvern in Victoria, Australia.
The decades old club, which boasts Sir Garfield...(more)
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Australia’s resting policy – a case of having their cake perhaps?
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The New Zealand vs Australia ODI series is shaping up nicely after the T20I series-levelling win by the Black Caps the other night, followed by their victory in the first ODI in Napier today.You’d expect a heated affair - the two side...(more)

Image via WikipediaToday, the main news-item of the day was about Mutthiah Muralithara - he plans to bid adieu to test matches after the West Indies tour.Few days back, it was Brett Lee.Andrew Flintoff fears that he may not play again.Earli...(more)


John Howard probably achieved plenty during his tenure as Australian prime minister. I don’t know a thing about Aussie politics, but the impression Howard gave off – a combination of Bush’s feigned blokeishness and Blair...(more)

Umpires. Match referees. Australian team management. Australian cricket board. ICC. Hahaha, ignore the last part. And the bits in front of that as well. But seriously, you guys have got to stop thinking there isn’t a problem here. You...(more)
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Sri Lanka’s iconic spin bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan, has said that he will retire from Test cricket by the end of this year (his last series will be against the West Indies) and from all other international cricket by the March next ...(more)
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