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Dean Jones, the mercurial batsman, has left this world leaving the cricketing world much poorer without his presence. Tributes have flown from current and former players throughout the world. Everyone had only good things to say about Jones. He had been a special player during his career. He was a true entertainer. I am pretty …
There was a series between England and Australia comprising of three T20s and three One Day Internationals that was played in England. The series was completed on 16 September 2020 with England winning the T20 series and Australia winning the One Day series. There were some good performances and not so good ones as well. …
Holding gets support for his ranting about the BLM movement. A few days ago, Holding had berated the English, Australian & Pakistani teams for not taking a knee during the recently concluded series. Now he seems to have found support from a couple of players. He has as well, faced opposition from another player. Hopefully, …
This article is an analysis of Rahane’s performance in Test cricket. There was a time when Rahane could not do anything wrong. He was so consistent that his wicket was valued highly as that of Kohli and certainly above Pujara. Ajinkya Rahane, the player who has played a lot of wonderful innings in his career …
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Michael Holding, who is certainly among the greatest of fast bowlers the game has ever seen, has come up with a bizarre accusation against the England, Pakistan and Australian teams for not bending the knee before every game in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Yes, the Black Lives Matter movement started because of …
Sreesanth, the mercurial former Indian medium pace bowler is trying to make a comeback into first class cricket. Sreesanth was banned after the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal. He was out of the game for more than 6 years and now he wants to be comeback to the game. Now that he has served his sentence …
Bowler friendly pitches is essential. Cricket is a game that is at its best when there is sufficient ebbs and flows throughout the game. The spectator’s interest in watching a game will increase manifold if they see that there is a balance between the bat and the ball with slight advantage to the bowlers. In …
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All of us are in the middle of a severe pandemic that has swept the globe. Several sporting competitions and several bi-lateral games have been either postponed or cancelled altogether. Legendary Tennis competitions like French Open & Wimbledon were cancelled for the year. Formula 1 which usually starts in the month of March, started in …
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Before proceeding, go through part one and two of the three part series of the flawed ICC ranking system Test Ranking Ever since the ranking system was introduced, West Indies, Australia, India, England, South Africa & Pakistan have been ranked as the best team but not necessarily in the same order. As discussed before, South …
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Before proceeding, if you can read volume one of this three part series Basis of the ranking system I am certain that the ICC did not think through the ranking system when it was introduced. It was absolutely understandable because it was the very first time and it was almost impossible to think about every …
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