by Trevor Chesterfield
What is all this hullaballoo about the application of some sticky substance on a ball to make it swing?
For those who think it hasn't happened before Marcus Trescothick's juicy dressingroom revelations believe in the...
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The picture above involving Graeme Smith and Justin Kemp is dated back to two years ago on the eve of the one day international between South Africa and Pakistan in Mohali, India in the previous edition of the Champions Trophy. This edition, if it...
The ICC Champions trophy, next only to the ICC World Cup and which is to be held in Pakistan from September 12 to 28, might recieve a jolt if major teams decides not to send its team to play in the tournament. With the tournament to be held in a...
When all hope seems lost, there is still hope. Seems ironical? Not really. This may not be the ideal Test. But it has had enough drama from sunken hopes to revived charge, from dull despair to respite. The match is far from over. One could...
by Shreyas Bhide
Former Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist on Monday called for the Twenty20 format to be included in the Olympics. Even as the countdown for Beijing Olympics begins, Gilchrist has called for cricket to be...
This is the kind of shake up that can, at best, be called dramatic. This has been a dramatic week for cricket in England and there is much sorrow and all the joy has been put on caution.
England have unveiled a new captain, though not...
It’s official. Kevin Pietersen takes over the reins of the England captaincy. Not quite as dramatic as the manner in which both skippers stepped down on a single day after the South Africans made history and drew another nail into the heart of...
The buzz is in the air and it would seem Twenty20 is cricket’s ticket to everything it could never achieve.
The Twenty20 version of the cricket game really catapulted the viewership in South Africa for cricket to new heights. In...
It had to come yet again when Graeme Smith had made a valuable century for his team against England. Nasser Hussain handed the captaincy to Michael Vaughan overnight and now England have both captains, Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood, ...
Even India would have not expected it to come this easy. Sri Lanka had lost four crucial wickets before tea. But it appeared that they would still stretch it to the fifth day even though the result seemed inevitable. But the end came all too...
Dazed and Crestfallen:
The transformation from boring to boorish didn’t take long. Their appealing would have put sub continent teams to shame. The picture was complete when Panesar felled James Anderson in the victory...
SA Eating out of England’s hands?
Pietersen missed it going for one. Paul Collingwood would let it the opportunity to slip past. The man most unwanted in the dressing room had come to England’s aid. His retort: a gigantic six off Paul...
Swords Drawn at Dusk
Harbhajan Singh did what Ajantha Mendis did to India: wobble the line up. Sri Lanka seemed good for the going with Warnapura and Sangakkara half centuries. But the situation changed after tea to a point where Sri...
The similarities are uncanny. Two Tests that seemed to be going one way drastically changed direction after a rain burst that delayed the post tea session. The final few overs were perhaps the most intriguing sessions of play in an equal...
Tea complete:
It was uneventful end to an uneventful day. Night watchman Paul Harris managed to get bat down just in time to block the yorker to keep out the lbw challenge from Ryan Sidebottom and England. South Africa now have less than 200...
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