The Surfer
More frowns than smiles
17 May 2012The BCCI’s disbursement of a one-time payment to retired cricketers in acknowledgement for their services to Indian cricket has helped many players. But those who haven't got their due are unhappy. Makarand Waingankar, writing in the Hindu, says that if the scheme benefited 165 former cricketers, it has hurt cricketers who played Ranji Trophy till 1957–58 when it...
The IPL Watcher
Newsfile: May 17
Akhila Ranganna 17 May 2012Malinga six for my girlfriend – Tiwary: Kolkata Knight Riders’ batsman Manoj Tiwary hit Mumbai Indians fast bowler Lasith Malinga for a straight six in the 13th over in Mumbai on Wednesday. That six, for which Tiwary moved outside leg stump to make room and got under the length ball, was for his girlfriend. “My girlfriend had once told me...
Shot selection
A stumping to remember at Lord's
Philip Brown 16 May 2012The photographs of India wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik diving and stumping England’s Michael Vaughan were taken on September 5, 2004 at Lord’s during a one-day series. The shots were taken with a Canon body with a 500mm lens and a 1.4 teleconverter. I had in 2004 changed to Canon equipment as I believed Canon had overtaken...
The Buzz
Michael Clarke goes rallying
Carlyle Laurie 16 May 2012Australia’s captain Michael Clarke, known for his cover drive, is going to try driving of a different kind when he makes an appearance in next week’s International Rally of Queensland. Clarke will compete in two stages of the race between May 25 and 27. The rally has attracted some of the biggest names in the sport, including former world rally...
County Cricket Live 2012
LV= County Championship, Wednesday May 16
George Dobell 16 May 20126.30pm: Alan Gardner wraps the day's play At last, the batsmen have had a decent crack - which will probably only serve to deepen Mark Ramprakash's funk this evening. All seven County Championship matches went uninterrupted today and of the sides that batted first this morning, only Glamorgan failed to make it through the day. Even then, they picked up...
Inbox
The Brown Headley
16 May 2012In the 1920’s and 1930’s, West Indies cricket was in its infancy and the side was a hodgepodge of amateurs and weekend cricketers. This team was often bettered by the stronger English and Australian sides. During those forlorn decades, one world-class batsman emerged. He was the bulwark of a frail batting line-up and the team’s fortunes often rested on...
The View From Row Z
Why so angry, Mumbai?
Andrew Hughes 16 May 2012The IPL’s Fair Play League is a splendid idea, if not an original one. There is, believe it or not, a similar tally of chivalrous conduct in the English Premier League, although given that the spirit of sportsmanship in that particular competition is as fragile as a daisy seedling in the middle of a rugby pitch, the threshold for...
The Confectionery Stall
The Sobers-Kallis debate resolved for the final time ever
Andy Zaltzman 15 May 2012Andy Zaltzman goes where no man has gone before to get stats that prove who the world's best allrounder is, while also finding time to answer other readers' questions. Download the podcast here (mp3, 14.3MB, right-click to save).
IPL Inbox
IPL not a conspiracy against Test cricket
Devashish Fuloria 14 May 2012As an Englishman my initial reaction is to lambast the IPL for making a mockery of the sport played by such esteemed gentlemen as Denis Compton and Jack Hobbs. Yet the more I watch it (in place of studying, I might add), the more necessary it seems to the international game. It is beneficial for all the players who...
Pak Spin
Professor takes the T20 chair
Kamran Abbasi 14 May 2012Mohammad Hafeez, professor of the Pakistan cricket team, has now also become its Twenty20 captain. The professor’s research interests might initially be restricted to T20 international cricket but impressive early work is a logical path to a more substantial role in one-day internationals. Misbah-ul Haq, who stepped down as the T20 captain, will be equally reluctant to surrender his...
The Cricket Sadist Hour
Cricket's new head warden
Jarrod Kimber 10 May 2012America gets to vote on whether they want to be run by a Mormon with a cricketer’s name or a guy some of their country is convinced is a socialist traitor in waiting. But if they get off work on stupid Tuesday they can waddle down to their local booth and vote based on how much they care about gay...
County Cricket Matters
Help! We are not quite as smart as we think
Kenny Shovel 10 May 2012We’re the smart ones aren’t we? The intelligentsia of spectators. As out of the whole, wide, wide, world of sports, it’s cricket that has the lowest proportion of mouth-breathers amongst its support. Seriously, do you think anyone has ever taken a copy of Middlemarch with them to Wrestlemania? How often does a debate about Co Stompé’s footwork break out at...
- The IPL Watcher: Newsfile: May 16
- Posted by Shivam
- Time to play Manpreet Junega & Kuldeep Rawal. They are one of those really good finds that have not..
- The View From Row Z: Why so angry, Mumbai?
- Posted by Game_Gazer
- Probably has to do with Harbhajan I reckon :P. But, Isn't the tone of the article heckling than s..
- It Figures: ODI batting: location summary, country details and key matches
- Posted by Ramesh Kumar
- Boll, It was not just rules, pitches & boundaries--it was traditional test type field setting an..
- County Cricket Live 2012: LV= County Championship, Wednesday May 16
- Posted by Andy Barrick
- For everything he achieved, there's still a valid 'what if..' element to Vaughan's career. I still ..