The South African T20 league, I mean the P20 league has been quite a success at home, but has failed to generate any interest elsewhere, but the same can be said to a great extent about the Aussie, the English and the New Zealand T20 leagues. Poor (read Rich) Old Allen Stanford’s T20 league is followed by more people. Even the IPL would have been as dull had some interesting things and some great cricket hadn’t happened.
I had been bickering for quite some time that I am going to write about it, as it should be written about of course. …read more

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This is one of the few things that is hard to digest. Adam Gilchrist is going to speak at the India Today Conclave. His topic is ‘It’s Not Cricket’. According to their latest press release, there’s also going to be Peter Roebuck, the famous cricket writer, on their board.
Basically, this is a seminar organized by India Today magazine where they discuss India’s achievements in the past year and how India needs to improve, etc. What Peter Roebuck and Adam Gilchrist have to offer toward India’s development is beyond my understanding.
A ticket costs like Rs. …read more

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Not much happened in the Commonwealth Bank Series start-up match, but surprisingly, we’ve quite a few things to chirp about it.
Three Moments of the Match (in ascending order):
* Sachin’s dismissal: Hit wicket is a rare form of dismissal, and it was Sachin’s first, so that makes it quite special. The bowler didn’t knew he was out until a few seconds after the stumps were hit.

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After the Perth loss, Adam Gilchrist was reported as saying:
Maybe subconsciously guys were a bit more aware of all the hysteria that was created, which I will happily go on the record and say, I think was way over the top. We won a game of cricket [but] the way we were hung out I felt like we were the ones who had started some sort of riot that had caused the deaths of people. I know it’s sport and it’s serious business [but] I really felt we were hung out to dry
I’d say, in …read more

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By Guest Blogger Baseer A. Rana

Traditional wisdom suggests that a wicket-keeper is a player who keeps wickets. In fact apart from Les Ames in the 1930s, wicket-keepers in general hadn’t really been great batsmen till the 1990s – certainly not to the extent where they could merit a place in their teams on their batting alone. Whilst that changed with the likes of Alec Stewart and Andy Flower in particular coming through, it was really the emergence of Adam Gilchrist that revolutionised the role of the wicket-keeper in …read more

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Things were looking good for Michael Clarke. First, Lara Bingle and now, T20 captaincy, but there seem to be plenty of sour grapes around.

Adam Gilchrist isn’t happy apparently

Well hurrah for this. As if the recent World Cup and particularly its final was not farcical enough already, it has just taken a turn for the bizarre. After Australia won the World Cup final, not necessarily due to being a better side, but because they could just see in the dark, Adam Gilchrist, who scored a remarkable 149 off 102 balls, admitted to “using a squash ball”. Yep. Ball tampering at its finest – Adam Gilchrist had stuffed a regular squash ball in to one of his batting gloves which he admitted to giving him better control over his …read more