Move over 11 a side sport, iSixes is here. With teams of six players each, and a lot more action with just 5 overs. Seems like the Hong Kong sixes? Well, all sixes are the same. This one though, has just the Test Playing teams participating along with an All Stars and the home team of course. Sounds like nice entertainment.
Meanwhile, Anil Kumble, India’s Test Captain, as well as Shane Warne, Captain of the Rajasthan Royals, have already accepted the invitation. They would play in the all stars team.
Sixandout’s View: This is just the beginning. When people start realising …read more

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I don’t belong to the anti-sledging campaign. In fact, I have said before that sledging, if done within limits, can make the game interesting.
But did you know that sledging of any sort is completely against the laws of cricket? It clearly violates

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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