Cricinfo Said:

The BCCI is unlikely to support any stringent action against Zimbabwe at the ICC’s annual meeting in Dubai next week, a top Indian board official has indicated.

This is regarding expulsion of the Zimbabwe cricket team. The Indian Cricket Setup has been known for ages as the perennial peer-helpers. The Indian Cricket Team toured Sri Lanka, South Africa and Bangladesh when they started or restarted their test journey.
So now, when the entire world (read England and South Africa) wants Zimbabwe to be kicked out of the ICC because they have a dictator who means no good (according to England and …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

Eat Cricket, Drink Cricket, Sleep Cricket
After India’s T20 championship victory, Andrew Symonds said something along the lines of T20 being a format where “the lesser sides can beat you easily”. Of course, Australia lost to Zimbabwe and then India, the two lesser sides he was referring to.

India has since kept Australia on toes in T20, and they seem to be innately made for this version.
Further, SA just lost to Windies in a T20 tie, and it wasn’t a close match by any means.
Could there be any truth to what Roy said?

Jonty Rhodes stopped more runs in his time than any other cricketer.
But did ya know when and exactly how the legend of Jonty Rhodes started? The 1992 World Cup. With Inzamam Ul Haq’s run-out.
Jonty Rhodes Run Out Inzamam – 1 Of The Best Run Outs – Click here for more free videos
Incidentally, he’s also one of the good guys in the current poll.
Now, thank me for adding to your knowledge of cricket history.

Kaneria’s physiognomy reminds me of one of my botany profs (you know who you are!) who appears to be always grinning.
I will leave it up to you guys to caption this one.
Fire away!
Photo Credits: CricInfo

Six weeks later and we’re finally nearing the end of this bizarre World Cup. Fortunately we’ve got two very tasty looking semi-finals on the cards.
Semi 1: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand, Jamaica (Tuesday 24th)
First up is Sri Lanka vs New Zealand. Sri Lanka have the been the “surprise” of the World Cup, after demolishing several big teams on their way through to the semis. Jayasuriya has been on top form with the bat, and it has been Malinga the Slinger with the ball, rather Murali, who has, by his standards, been quite sedate. Question marks have been raised over Sri …read more

Ah well. Hopeless optimism. It’s a skill and a facet of any England supporter. You have to believe. You have to want it. You have to think, that despite everything going against, that England could still prevail. You know that it’s not likely to happen, but there’s always a glimmer of hope. The latest World Cup match against South Africa was no exception. Had England won it, and beaten the West Indies, they would have progressed to the semi-finals, into a position they probably didn’t deserve. So all that was really required was one good performance, one really hard fought …read more

England are, remarkably, not down and out of this World Cup just yet. Despite playing mediocre cricket and failing to beat a decent test side, they are still in a position where virtually one match separates them from a place in the semi-finals. Should a miracle happen and a ray of sunlight somehow shined its weary beam on the England camp, then they’d have a long list of people to thank as it’s all to do with the cricket all the other teams have been playing. Apart from Australia, who have maintained their position on the untouchable pedestal, Sri Lanka, …read more

I’m not so sure that any of the people involved with the Bangladeshi squad read this site, but either way, Bangladesh have done a spectacular job in making me look very silly. No sooner had I said that Bangladesh were running out of steam and they’ve pulled their socks up and caused yet another “upset” in beating world number 1 South Africa. I’m not sure why “it” is an upset, since, as a Bangladeshi, you’re presumably not at all upset. Maybe if you’re South African. I’m English, and I’m definitely not upset. Except maybe at the state of the headlines …read more

Well the results are in from the Big Test: early indications are, it’s business as usual. But the scores don’t tell the whole story, in one of the games at least. Australia made no mistakes in defeating the West Indies, despite needing two days to do it due to heavy rain after Matt Hayden smashed another brutal century in a total of 322/6. Australia seem well aware how important the net run rate might turn out to be by keeping above a run a ball. When the West Indies got out to bat the following day, they never really looked …read more