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Once upon a time, in a land far away, where there was no television, no radio, no internet (no NWG? Oh the horror), where Matthew Hoggard was just a glint in his great, great grandfather’s eye, where there was no Twenty20, no hawkeye,...(more)


I’ve done my best to resist the temptation to write about this, but I can hold out no more. With all the hypocritical, holier-than-thou and utterly irrelevant commentary doing the rounds of Australia’s tabloids and broadsheets o...(more)

Image via WikipediaThe IPL is scheduled to start in less than 24 hours now and there is excitement in the Twitterverse - everyone is looking forward to the next 45 days. One’s evenings are going to be busy and housewives will have pro...(more)

MUMBAI: Only Sachin Tendulkar could have cracked a double-century in ODIs, according to former Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist, who feels the stupendous achievement is a testimony to the iconic Indian batsman’s longevity in intern...(more)

ABU DHABI: Sachin Tendulkar can come only second, after legendary Don Bradman in the list of all-time great cricketers, according to former Australia captain Steve Waugh.
“Don Bradman is the greatest, there is no debate. Don is the nu...(more)
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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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