The game we all love, however
Three cricket boards across the world are in the news over the last few days. They are the Australian board, the English board and the South African board. All of them are for different reasons. Some makes sense and some does not really. The Australian cricket board The ACB have ringed in changes in the …
Among the players who had retired in the recent past, if there was one player who the world community would like to see return to the game, who will it be? Who was that one player almost everyone thought had retired a few years too early? It will be, the one and only, the multi-talented …
Temba Bavuma, the new South African limited overs captain has expressed strong opinion about the South African limited overs team. He will captain the team until the end of the 2023 ODI World Cup. In the interim, he will also preside over the next couple of T20 World Cups. He believes that his team can …
An interesting incident took place during the 2nd ODI game between South Africa and Pakistan. Suddenly, de Kock was in the news throughout the cricketing world and for the wrong reasons. Was it really his fault? Did he intentionally deceive the batsman? Also, Ponting has revealed some strange Shaw’s preference about practise. Let me try …
Some serious ICC playing rule changes. The game of cricket has witnessed a lot of changes over the last 120 years. It probably is the most complex of all the sports. I do not think that any other sport can even come close to cricket when it comes to the myriad rules. Golf which is …
Cricket is a game that is played amongst a handful of teams and rightly so. It must stay that way probably forever. It is implicit that with only a few teams playing the game, every game remains competitive most of the time. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. There are far too many instances …
Recently, there were lot of criticism heaped upon the England cricket team for their decision to rest certain players during different legs of their Indian tour. Though there is some reasoning behind such criticism, it is not difficult to understand the logic behind such a decision. Infact, this is much needed in such uncertain times. …
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Let me try to analyse Justin Langer in trouble and Proteas problems. Justin Langer belongs to an era when Australian cricket had absolutely no peer. They were so dominant in all formats of the game that all they needed to do was to just turn up to every game to win. The multiple World Cup …
Arguably, the greatest cricketer over the last 30 year is none other than the great South African allrounder, Jacques Kallis. His performances on the field is nothing but legendary. He and Gary Sobers are the only cricketers to average more than 50 with the bat and less than 35 with the ball. The hallmark of …
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South Africa is one of the top cricketing nation in world cricket. A lot of excellent cricketers have played for the nation with quite a few of them can easily be termed as great. The likes of Jacques Kallis and AB De Villiers comes to mind. The South African team is the only nation to …