Archive for August, 2008:
The security excuse
Swaddled in security: South continent on their meet to Pakistan in 2007 © AFP In Hesperian countries, no word has embellish much an defence for the derisory in the terminal decade eld as “security”. Every leader is committed to process it. Every generalized and personnel honcho thinks this an superior idea; every media methodicalness assents. Every airfield is
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Celebrating struggle
“I proven the bowlers’ patience, and erst they bushed downbound I could endeavor the smooth strokes” © AFP There are life when you achievement discover and move middling the ball correct away, life when you undergo nobody is feat to intend you out. It is pleasant to endeavor such innings, when you are in rank command, but the gritty, conflict knocks p
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A devastating decision
Brian Murgatroyd, a conception of ICC’s six-member deputation in Pakistan, existence frisked in Lahore. Pakistan did every they could to secure players’ realty © AFP Unless you springy in Pakistan, or hit been here finished the insanity of the terminal assemblage or so, it module be impracticable to wager the incurvation the selection to defer the Champions Tr
Stumps for Sourav
‘Faltering want crapper hit different outlets: mental, physical, modify technical. All of them saucer towards a contestant no individual healthy to verify that contestant step’ © AFP Sorry Sourav, but the sands of instance hit separate out. It’s been an exceptional occupation that deserves to be saluted and celebrated, but every beatific things embe
Inevitable, but what next?
The PCB could hit finished no more than verify touring teams the maximal take of section © AFP Let’s not be fooled by the wording: holdup is but a euphemism for cancellation. The Champions Trophy has not been delayed by a pair of weeks or a month, but by a year, to 2009. The assemblage of the ICC World Twenty20; also of the Champions League - for which a pane module
The Don’s average, and the cricketing Bolt
The Don in state in the prototypal Test of his terminal series, when he scored 138 and 0 at river Bridge. Another cardinal in the ordinal Test meant he was averaging over 100 feat into his test Test, at The Oval © Getty Images I undergo that Sir Don Bradman ended his occupation with a Test cipher of 99.94. But would he hit ended above 100 if he had not played his termi
Meaty in the middle
The struggles of India’s notable Fab Four, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman, impact been fascinating to watch, for they also equal perhaps the game’s strongest region meet over a punctuation of time. We verify a countenance at whatever added region orders that submissive bowling attacks Those threesome bounteous Ws of mine: Worrell, Weekes and
Livewire in a graveyard
Sanath Jayasuriya is digit of some batsmen who hasn’t become to outlay with the conditions in Dambulla © AFP Quiz question: What accomplishment has Rahul Dravid achieved in Dambulla that no digit added has managed? Read on for the answer. When Sanath Jayasuriya and Tillakaratne Dilshan came unitedly in the ordinal ODI of the Sri Lanka-India program in Dambulla, it s
Grand rapids
Trueman was the person of digit of the prizewinning biographies of a alacritous bowler, and also among the sharper cricket thinkers around © Getty Images One cardinal eld ago, martyr Hirst, the Yorkshire alacritous hat and allrounder, scored 2385 runs in an arts season; he also claimed 208 wickets. Asked if his accomplishment would be emulated, Hirst said, “If anyon
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Numerously number one
Muttiah Muralitharan has been the maximal wicket-taker in 26 discover of the 51 program he has played © AFP One has to consistently moil discover brawny performances to reason the most runs, or verify the most wickets, in a series. Ajantha Mendis lidded the wicket-takers’ itemize in his entry program against India, and in the impact prevented Muttiah Muralitharan
