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The best team does not always win the World Cup, but the team that wins it generally becomes a much improved side because of it. Lets look at the history. 1975 West Indies - They were a good side but not yet the force that dominated world c...(more)

World cup is around the corner and every time someone or the other chokes, and don’t we love a good choke especially if it is South Africa!South Africa 1996 - They were the form team in the group stages, defeating everyone and I serio...(more)

This has been a dull couple of weeks cricket-wise. A few ODI series winding down, but none really indicating anything more than what’s already known. Australia refuses to be written off. They have combined well against England. The la...(more)

Harsha Bhogle observed (nothing unusual) the pinch-hitter theory adopted by Mitchell Johnson in the recent ODI between the Ashes rivals - as mentioned, it was being used by many teams years ago but of late, the occurrence has redu...(more)

Recently, England’s flamboyant batsmen Kevin Pietersen was seen complaning about the scheduling in the World Cup.
That made me wonder, if the scheduling was really that bad or not. If you see the gaps that England have between two m...(more)

.The 2011 World Cup will be the third time the competition is being conducted in the Indian sub-continent. Is there anything the teams can learn from the first two editions - 1987 and 1996 - and apply as part of their strategies? Australia ...(more)

There was the prolonged vociferous and ugly appeal to the umpire, trouble with the crowd, altercation with Smith, reprimands in public by Dhoni - the South Africa tour had its share of the usual Sreesanth controversies. In a team of impecca...(more)

Similar to India’s 1 surprise pick & Sri Lanka’s 2 surprise omissions in their 2011 World Cup squads, most other teams had at least one selection that was odd.
Australia picked Brett Lee and David Hussey, who hadn’t playe...(more)

i for once in perfect agreement with the world cup squad selection...the selection seems to be an attacking one... for a change they have trusted batsmen to deliver and beefed up bowling...i was looking for one inspired, instinctive selecti...(more)

After the challenging and hard fought test series ended at 1-1, much like the one in India last year, the ODI series is also locked at 2-2 with just one game to go.
This match is BIG in more ways than one. Here are the reasons:-
1. Feel ...(more)

In the era of mental conditioning coaches, motivational speakers and advocates of visualization of goals, here is a look at some of the slogans being adopted by the various teams to help them prepare for the upcoming ICC Cricket world cup.C...(more)


While the history of cricket World Cups date back to the 70s, I only started watching cricket since the 1996 World cup. So, in the last 15 years, I have followed four World cups with varying degrees of satisfaction. 1996 and 2003 featured ...(more)

since his debut che’s (as we fondly call him at bored) case is getting bit curious with his each outing...his debut innings dismissal was strikingly unlucky...in his second innings he impressed everybody with his temperament and strok...(more)

To be frank, I have never been a Sreesanth fan. Not that I doubt the talent Sreesanth has, but its his temperament that I am not too fond of (ask Hayden and Symonds, they didn’t like it either). He was picked after a face-off with non...(more)

come durban test... and we might see a very talented cricketer in suresh raina being dropped for another talented player... cheteshwar pujara...but this post is about suresh raina... recent failures of suresh raina has not been well receive...(more)

A lot of people complain about Test cricket being boring and not having time to watch 5 days of cricket, well I would firstly like to quote Alex Bowden who says "Enduring six hours of two-an-over nothingness in the vague hope that somethin...(more)

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