Kevin Pietersen has been oft criticized for being too irrational and inconsistent! But not today. He was rational and scored 115. While a few of my friends are mulling over the IPL, i thought it was time to move on in life. Everything you love might go away, but this one will come back.
Back to the test match, the Black Caps won the toss and decided to field on a typical Trent Bridge wicket. The English batsman struggled early on, with Cook, Vaughan and Collingwood getting out to bowling beauties, O’Brien being the wrecker-in-chief! The score was 86/5. KP loves …read more

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

Day 2 could easily have gone one of two ways, in fact I expected it. Possibility 1: Australia would bat like demons, score 600 before tea and reduce England to 25/4 by the close of play. Possibility 2: Australia would buckle under the pressure, get bowled out for a hundred and be forced to follow on. By the close of play, neither scenario had played out, and we were left with something rather in the middle. Hayden fell earlier, and was soon followed by Damien Martyn, but pain-in-the-arse Ponting and the irrepresisble Hussey started to build an innings for the …read more

Phil Jaques, the man responsible for scoring 2 centuries against England in three days, is actually eligible to play for England.
Born in Sydney to English parents, Jaques is a familiar figure in county cricket, where he has played for Northants, Yorkshire and Worcestershire.
As a British passport-holder he qualified as a domestic player with Northants before deciding late in 2003 that did not want to play for England because “my heart says Australia”.
(Source)
I wonder what his heart would say to a central contract and a few hundred grand a year?