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Written by Jarrod Kimber
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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Ian Chappell is pushing a familiar wagon.
Warne as captain.
Once Ian gets a woody over a girl, it doesn’t matter if she becomes a
nun, the man still talks about it about what he thinks it would have
been like to bonk her for the next 30 years.
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Written by Mark Smith
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Sunday, 04 May 2008 |
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Through the good services
of the extraordinary search engine on Cricinfo.com, I found out today
that - between June 1952 and June 1965, England played a total of 120
test matches.
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Written by Jaideep Varma
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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They say T20 lowers the
bar in cricket, and allows brawn to triumph over brain. It is a highly
suspect observation, because that is damning a format of a sport which
has not really had enough time to be tested yet. But there is no doubt
that the IPL event, with its focus on “entertainment” and money, has
lowered IQ levels to increase eyeballs and media hype.
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Written by Jim Ribbans
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
How did it come to this?
A game that captivated, entertained and reveled in the majesty of its
own rich history now seems just a faltering footstep away from total
collapse, a sport stifled under the weight of its own bulging pockets.
Forgive the hyperbole but, in the light of the ICC’s decision to
suspend their CEO Malcolm Speed, I feel a little colorful language is
in order.
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Written by Mark Smith
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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I really can't get excited about the Indian Premier League (IPL)
To my mind, strip away the lights, noise and action, and when you get
down to it, it's really just one group of mercenary all-stars playing
against another. That's not using 'mercenary' in it's perjorative form,
just simply stating fact. That sort of format is alright as a one off -
maybe as a charity game for Tsunami relief as we saw at The Oval a few
years ago, but 59 games over six weeks just smacks of complete and
utter overkill.
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Written by Jaideep Varma
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
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The real value of the T20 format is this – players can parade their natural talent more than ever before.
A batsman can flaunt the results of hand-eye coordination without using
his mind too much. A bowler can go flat out in his four overs and try
all sorts of things without fear of too much censure.
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Written by Jim Ribbans
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
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As has been widely
acknowledged, in acres of newsprint and millions of pixels, cricket
seems to be going through a somewhat turbulent period at present.
With the rise of T20, and its star studded progeny the IPL, global
cricket’s ‘great and good’ have been taxed by some increasingly
troubling questions of late: Is there too much money in the game? Are
we witnessing the death of Test cricket? Are things about to change
forever?
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Written by Jim Ribbans
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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You can almost feel the
ache that surrounds English cricket at the moment, the sense that
everybody is just biding their time and getting the job done until a
certain A. Flintoff rides back into to town to make everything ok again.
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