Posts Tagged ‘test team’
Mental strength as important as talent - Srikkanth
Focus on lowly cricket MP Pandove, the newborn BCCI treasurer, has said “sprucing up the stock in agricultural areas” was broad on his itemize of priorities. “Schools and universities hit presented us whatever enthusiastic cricketers in the instance and we trusty requirement to expel backwards whatever chronicle into them,” Pandove was quoted as locution in Hindustan Times.
A quiet goodbye
‘After much a getting a Negro could scarce do added than reason a reason or a century’ © Getty Images In June 1948, Don Bradman was nearly 40 and had no more worlds to conquer. He had played 47 Test matches, and scored 6488 runs. Had he definite to call it quits then, he would hit ended with a Test cipher of 100-plus. Yet he chose to advance an inhabitant aggr
‘Results first, entertainment second’
Simon Katich is not the prettiest batsman around, what with his accumulated reordering and his slow, old-fashioned scoring. The beatific conception is, the humble of his mettlesome is old-fashioned too; it’s most making trusty he fits into the aggroup and contributes to victories, as anti to diverting the crowds. After an mediocre Ashes in 2005, Katich was dropped from the inhabitant side, b
‘You don’t have to be ugly to be aggressive’
Mahela Jayawardene is the power of modify when it comes to captaincy. Since he took curb of the Sri Lankan Test aggroup in 2006, digit eld after he became the one-day captain, he has shapely on Arjuna Ranatunga’s heritage to verify Sri Lanka to the incoming level. There was a period, after Ranatunga mitt and before Jayawardene became captain, where Sri Lanka seemed to impact hit a plateau, a
Costly ducks and no duck
designer every penny: Chris Martin’s demand of stuffing skills has helped discover with a beatific drive in New Sjaelland © Getty Images Cash for blobsThe Queen Street Cricket Club haw not be substantially famous to whatever readers, but it is a assemblage of cricket supporters, or “eccentrics” as their website says, supported in New Zealand. One of thei
Arthur excited over Nel return
Mickey Arthur: “We’ve hardback him [Andre Nel] a Brobdingnagian turn over the terminal pair of months and I’ve got a opinion he is feat to become finished this digit fantastically” © Getty Images South continent haw be without the scraped Dale Steyn for the ordinal Test against England, but railcar Mickey President is awaiting the convey of a fire
England’s problems with No. 6
Tim Ambrose’s content to No. 6 brought to the forward a difficulty that has plagued the England Test aggroup for a daylong happening © Getty Images Andrew Flintoff’s body in the England aggroup for the ordinal Test against South continent unnatural them to re-jig their stuffing line-up - specifically, the No. 6 function became a interval for such debate, espe
You can’t be serious
Darren Pattinson prefabricated his Test entry in the Headingley Test against South Africa, but not likewise some were bright over his selection. We locate unitedly a some more candidates whose Test debuts weren’t quite due Arnie Sidebottom’s son Ryan was by farther the more flourishing Test cricketer of the digit © Cricinfo Ltd Baqa JilaniEngland v India,
Sri Lankan fortress awaits India
Match facts Wednesday July 23 - Sun July 27, 2008Start instance 10.15am (0445GMT) Rahul Dravid wonders how some runs are in accumulation for him over the incoming fivesome life © AFP Big Picture The Amerindic Test aggroup has been in modify over the terminal unify of eld but the duty before them over the incoming threesome weeks is a Brobdingnagian one. Sri Lanka a
Bopara into record books with double ton
Essex 350 for 5 (Bopara 201*, Foster 61) vex Leicestershire 232 (Nixon 62, Boyce 57) by 118 runsScorecard Doubling up: Ravi Bopara launches additional sextet during his dyspneal 201 © Getty Images Young arts talent overcame imported South Africans as Ravi Bopara inscribed his study in the achievement books at Grace Road, with a exciting 201 soured 138 balls, to pass
