28 years ago, I was rudely woken up by relatives screaming "We have won the World Cup". It is quite likely that Saturday’s final between India & Sri Lanka also ended around the same time as that game in 1983. I was well awake this time around!
I can’t recall exactly when I started following cricket with a lot of interest, but I definitely recall watching games from the 1985 World Cham...
Barring accidents, disaster, recession or disease, the World Twenty20 final should be contested by England and Australia in a few days from now.The tossers who seed sides for ICC tournaments didn’t rate Australia’s chances of even getting to the Super Eights this year, much less the final. Everyone expected England to do well-ish, but ultimately go down fighting somewhere near the end....
After both the teams were very defensive at the Gabba in Brisbane, everyone wanted the Adelaide test to be better. With a cracking flat track, most thought winning the toss could be crucial.As it turns out, it wasn’t. Ricky Ponting won the toss and the batsmen didn’t deliver much to the disappointment of aussie supporters like myself.
They got off to the worst start in 60 years when ...
This is obviously a great big time-saver of a post, so I won’t waste time setting it up or explaining it, even though that’s exactly what I just did.
Both the first South Africa-India first test at the Centurion and the Australia-England third test at the WACA are scheduled on the same days, with RSA-Ind starting 6 hours after the Ashes. A lot of the ’what to expect stuff’...
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