I know we keep banging on about the cricket, but these are troubled times we find ourselves in. Things are so bad that the English are now lining up to sink the boots in to Ricky Ponting’s wounded warriors. Like hyenas circling a lame lion, the Poms are now coming over all brave and stout-hearted.
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Things really are crook when Poms say: bring on the Ashes
November 13, 2008 – 10:32 am
Australian cricket faces its most telling period since 1985
November 11, 2008 – 1:13 pm
Whereas a Test series starting against New Zealand in Brisbane - in November – would normally attract only marginally more interest than that accorded last night’s harness meeting at Globe Derby, the upcoming matches against the Kiwis will take on a special significance in light of what has transpired in India over the past month or two.
Having had a bust-up with [...]
The Gambhir charade shows why cricket needs a crisis summit
November 6, 2008 – 12:52 pm
In a few hours from now, we’ll know if Gautam Gambhir’s name appears on the Indian team sheet for the Fourth Test, starting today in Nagpur, in defiance of a one-match ban handed down by the International Cricket Council this week.
If the Indian opener, with the backing of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, does [...]
India learns to win the Australian way – sledging and all
October 22, 2008 – 9:50 pm
Given that Australia produced the template for success in modern cricket: make a power of runs, take a poultice of wickets and sledge the bejesus out of your opponents for five days, the Boys in Baggy Green cannot feel too aggrieved that those very same methods have brought them undone in this latest Test.
In beating Australia [...]
A Warne comeback? Maybe it’s not just spin
October 17, 2008 – 10:10 am
Hidden away in Shane Warne’s News Ltd newspaper column today is a paragraph which may reveal a clue to one of the most compelling sports stories this year: his return to Test cricket.
When the notion of a Warne comeback was first raised in May, and then again reared its head last week, most thought the [...]
Zingy Zaheer comes out swinging (but perhaps he’s got a point)
October 15, 2008 – 10:16 am
So, who are the lippy ones now? No sooner had the hubbub died down after Indian opener Virender Sehwag last week accused the Australians of cheating in January’s Sydney Test, then up pops left-armer Zaheer Khan to claim the Australians have got a pop-gun attack. And that Ponto’s boys played too defensively in the opening Test in [...]
India favourite but beware the bite on this Aussie underdog
October 8, 2008 – 10:08 am
In many ways, Australia’s tour of India – which starts tomorrow in Bangalore with the First Test – represents a watershed for the boys wearing the Baggy Green. Because, for the first time since the tour to India in February 1998 – yes, more than a decade ago – the Australians will go into a [...]
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