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I have been gradually losing interest in cricket over the past few years. Watching cricket played by any of the subcontinental teams is always tinged with a huge element of doubt with respect to the veracity of the match. Additionally to me the shenanigans of the ICC and their general inability...

Hauritz issue to me is much like the Indian treatment of Mohammed Kaif the middle order batsman of limited ability. People knew about his ability or the lack of it right from the beginning then you played around with him right from number 3 to number 7 and finally dumped from one format when he...

Waugh had to a lot himself

Oh come on guys, Steve Waugh is in my cricket watching career the grittiest of players I have come across. With S Waugh at the crease you could never rule out a come back from any situation and it did not matter if he was batting with 9,10 or Jack. I am not a Aussie nor do I know the legends...

Iam an Indian and I more or less agree with Harmison's assesment. This is for the simple reason that till recently Ponting was totally dominating whereas Tendulkar has sort of re-discovered his form recently. But more importantly Ponting seldom gave his wicket away by a self inflicted error as...

I think coaches are hardly the issue for Australia, what surprises me as an outsider is the amazing lack of quality in the new comers to the team. I remember an era when people like Bevan, Law, Moody, etc came on and performed right away and more than the above mentioned even Hussey, Katich...

See what little of cricket I know, its said that when someone throws and the other person becomes out thats supposed to be a run out. Therefore should we not say Murali was the best fielder that ever was with over 800 run-outs to his credit?

Best since the Don is a tough ask on anyone but according to me he may come close, specially if you consider the second half of his career where he did not have the best of openers and had to get on to the rescue act many times. His biggest failures would be as a batter not scoring in India and...

Amidst all the noise about the one that has 800 run outs to his credit, people have forgotten that Rudi Koertzen has also retired after standing in 108 matches. He was a good umpire most times and generally a very consistent one as well. As good personality as one can get in these antiseptic...

According to me coaching Australia must be the toughest job for any coach. Unlike 99.9% of all other teams, Australia is the only team that has players that are actually ready for the highest level (most times- what is Marcus North doing in the team!!!!). This means the job is to ensure that...

This cuts both ways my friends, the reason why ICC is not taking action today is because its dominated at an official as well as at a financial level by people from India. That being said you cannot condone what has been happening for ages now, remember Greg Ritchie and his "brown bastards"...

I would blame inaction by boards and the wanton abuse in the middle by players more on the ICC than on individual boards. Boards today are financially so intertwined that they will not upset other cricketing boards but the ICC has to step in and empower on field umpires to mete out instant...

Pakistani pacer Mohammad Asif called Australian all-rounder Shane Watson a ‘bloody white’ during the team's tour Down Under and got away with it, according to the then team manager Abdul Raquib. Raquib told a inquiry panel probing the disastrous tour that Asif narrowly escaped getting into...

Windies win, not a chance...they don't know their ass from their elbow. I would stake it on some relative minnow winning it this time, given that the grounds and the pitches will be small and dodgy.

Symonds look quite fit for someone that's not been playing regularly. I feel he would still be a good bet for Australia if people can set their ego's aside.

Again you are missing the point, all that the author is saying is that if its an offense treat it as one for all teams, whether or not two teams agree and enjoy it or not. For example in Football or soccer if an offense is a red card or a yellow card offense its the same every where. It does not...

Dude you are stuck in a time warp and more importantly if you tried and looked at all the punishments and fines for offences real and imagined that Indians have had to pay for, you will agree that there is a reason for most Indians to feel victimised. All that is required is a single standard...

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In terms of sheer keeping talent, Prasanna Jayawardena is among the very best and he is also a very good test bat except most of his batting successes and consequently keeping successes have come in the sub continent therefore does not yet merit listing in the top rung.

The problem most would have with Haddin is on account of comparison with his predecessors like Gilchrist and Healy, but on his own at this point he is among the best in the business across all nations. In terms of talent with respect to just keeping I can't think of any one else that's close to...

Except Holding and in that era Lillee and Thomson who were not really beyond going for the batsman's body

I have seen very little of Roberts according to me it was Marshall though from what I have seen Marshall very rarely used his bouncers unless it was a wicket taking delivery so I guess its got to be Roberts?

Interesting take on this in Cricinfo by a guy based in Oz Where is the justice? http://blogs.cricinfo.com/diffstrokes/archives/2010/03/where_is_the_justice.php

Or even just smile at em like Marshall used to....

why is there a need to compare SRT with anyone else, there is another forum where people are frothing at their mouths on the relative greatness of Sachin vs Viv Richards, here people want to bring in Ponting into the equation. The point simply is that these guys are all great they have...

did you watch even one over of the game? if you did you would not call it a sandpit, for once it was a decent pitch where the ball came on to the bat although a bit slowly. If the south Africans cant play spin who is to blame for that?

there wasn't even going to be a test match let alone a series

It entirely depends on what context one is looking at, if it is playing an important part in the teams victory and scoring runs when it matters then the order is Ponting Sachin Kallis with very little difference between Kallis and Sachin But if its the sheer pleasure of watching a batsman...

At least one of the two teams could have been good, they had the stuff on paper did the Pakistani's, good bowling attack with some more than decent bowlers, with MOYO an YOKA they had decent batters around whom the team could have rallied. They imploded for reasons best known to them and...

There are quite a few Aussie ex players turned comms who are quite awful, this guy joins the band wagon - what exactly is the qualification required for these guys to get behind the mike... This malaise seems to affect a whole host of ex players from almost all cricketing nations the worst...