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Sri Lanka beat India easily. Will India come back again in the second game? Dileep Premachandran says Mendis is the culprit : Eight of the Indians reached double figures, but came no nearer to finding a solution to the Mendis conundrum that has ruined...
It's a convoluted piece of logic, to be sure. Apparently the BCCI has seen fit to tell Indian players not to play for any teams that have ICL players in them: "The BCCI has advised its players to stay away from counties that have ICL players...
Hold the press! The ECB has a new competition in the offing that will revolutionize the game...featuring all the counties and then some more playing Twenty20. Who would have thought that the county boards could have thought of something just so exciting...
Sri Lanka Cricket just solved a payrise problem---Ottayan says that their debts have been cleared by the upcoming India tour ---but are in all kinds of trouble over the newly scheduled tour next year to England. Looks like they're seriously considering...
Scorpicity argues that the IPL is really already over. The Royals won : Seriously they have! Because how meaningless in context are these so-called knockout rounds in the name of Semi-finals and finals are in the IPL! Why? Because a six league team just...
Q writes his 4th quarter report with not much time left for the start of the first semi-final. Shaun Marsh and Sohail Tanvir stand out with the bat and ball respectively, and Q picks out Piyush Chawla's excellent bowling too: One man hasn't made...
Mohan is a little disenchanted with the IPL , worrying about its length and ability to generate fan following, while Richard wants to rethink the league format of county cricket to make it more competitive. Continuing in the rethinking mode but this time...
Brian Carpenter links to a wonderful article by Simon Hughes on Mark Ramprakash. I too remember Ramps making his start in county cricket and thinking that he would soon dominate world cricket: Even though I belong to the apparently small group of people...
What would Twenty20 look like in the future in England? Cities, regions, or just plain old counties as it is now? The last options seems entirely unworkable given the amount of money in the IPL and ICL. Is this, finally, the end of the counties' hold...
Bhajji has been banned from the rest of the IPL this year. But all the players are paid pro rata...so the fine is around 2.67 crore rupees ! And the BCCI haven't got their hands on him yet. Meanwhile, Chrispy rounds up the action in county cricket...
Laxman and Ponting complain and the curator at Eden Park apologised for the pitch ...as D.S. Henry puts it : Well, yeah, if you ask a pair of batsmen, of course they're going to say it sucks. (It makes them look bad, what do you expect?) Did anyone...
Cricket guru, arguing that the flat pitch robs something from Sehwag's performance, describes Test cricket at Chepauk : Chepauk, in past, has been witness to some remarkable test matches, beginning with the third and final test match of the 1933 home...