While the Ashes triumph continues to hog the headlines, England’s inconsistent ODI performances are not taken seriously by fans and cricketers alike. Simon Barnes would like... More
This past week, during the Ahmedabad Test, Rahul Dravid crossed 11,000 runs and became the fifth highest run scorer in the five-day game. The man who once admitted that... MoreThe Ahmedabad draw was a sad advertisement for Tests, which many fear is a dying form, not least in India where the concern is even greater given the nature of pitches. For... MoreAfter slipping a long way down the pecking order, Ashish Nehra has rallied so impressively that he has become the leader of the pack, writes Peter Roebuck in Sportstar.
At... MoreChris Martin is an interesting character, not a tunnel-visioned cricket head by any stretch, writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald. Martin, his country's fourth... More
Michael Clarke pauses when asked the question. "I could sit here and lie and say I don't think about it," he tells Iain Payten of the Daily Telegraph.
When it comes to it,... More
Peter Roebuck, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, reminds everyone Australia have lost three of their past five Test series.
Amid all the backslapping, it is a point... MoreWhat does Sachin Tendulkar have that Don Bradman didn’t? asks Michael Atherton in the Times. A helmet.
The advent of protection for batsmen from the late 1970s has been the... MoreSouth Africa have tried to inspire antagonism, but are England too nice to sledge? asks Emma John in the Guardian.
They are trying to pick a fight with Andrew Strauss and... MoreThey know how to get things done properly at Lord's and I have no doubts that the planned redevelopment of the best cricket ground in the world will make it even better,... MoreGreg Baum in the Age argues that day-night games will not necessarily save Test cricket worldwide but doing nothing will certainly kill it.
Alone of the three forms, alone... MoreAfter an MCC survey shows that most fans in India, New Zealand and South Africa favour limited-overs cricket to Tests, Peter Roebuck wonders in the Sydney Morning Herald... MorePakistan cricket is not alien to crisis. From time to time we have experienced it in every era and the present one is not any different to others. Already a year in the... More |
