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JUNE 18, 2013

Pakistan cricket

Pakistan's batting: where failure doesn't count

Hassan Cheema, in the Dawn, analyses Pakistan's batting woes following their poor showing in the Champions Trophy. One of their biggest problems, he says, is the persistence with proven failures.

Pakistan should have used the time between the 2011 World Cup until now building a team for the future. Instead, with the captain under fire before every series, conservative options have been taken and Pakistan are further away from an ideal team now than they were two years ago.

The argument made by Misbah and the selection committee has been that Pakistan need experienced batsmen; but the experience in their cases is one of failure. Pakistan now have 20 months, almost exclusively in friendly conditions, before the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. They could begin the process of building for that by removing the deadwood.

JUNE 17, 2013

England cricket

I fire myself up to get into the right zone - Anderson

James Anderson has stamped his authority as England's leading bowler in the record books. He surpassed Darren Gough to become the country's highest wicket taker in one-day internationals, a month after claiming his 300th Test victim. Sam Sheringham of the BBC catalogues Anderson's interview with his colleague Mark Chapman, in which the he talks about the skill, physical and psychological requirements of bowling quick.

"When I first got picked for Lancashire I couldn't swing the ball, so [coach] Mike Watkinson took me aside and taught me how to do it: the grip and the seam position," reveals Anderson.

"He said imagine the feel of it coming out of your hand almost like an off-spinner, your arm coming over almost like a round-arm, or low-arm. That really worked for me because I'm a feel kind of bowler.

MAY 03, 2013

What Richards and Gilchrist did for modern batting

Matt Cleary: Their styles were completely different but the result was always the same: quick runs and defeated bowlers
APRIL 08, 2013

Gayle forces the pace of change

Jon Hotten: Clad in his space-garb, his gold pads and his gridiron helmet, shoulders rippling under his muscle shirt, Chris Gayle is an implacable object, driving cricket forwards, challenging the world to produce another batsman that plays like him
OCTOBER 25, 2012

The science of batsmanship

MV Swaroop: How batting has progressed from the times of CB Fry to modern-day power-hitters like Chris Gayle
OCTOBER 12, 2012

Australian cricket

The world's longest net session

There are plenty of international batsmen who could benefit from a few more hours in the nets. Perhaps they could learn from Jade Child, a cricketer from Ricky Ponting's home town of Launceston. This week, Child earned himself a Guinness World Record for the longest net session ever when he batted for 25 hours straight.

Child, 26, started batting at 8pm on Wednesday and finished at 9pm on Thursday, not surprisingly also claiming the world record for the most balls faced in a net session along the way. The previous record stood at 12,353 deliveries and by the end, Child had faced 15,701 from a bowling machine and also from local bowlers.

"I'm tired, but I'm happy," Child told the Examiner. "The support I had was incredible, I had people here at 3am helping out when they could've been sleeping, and my wife, Ktima, has helped so much with putting everything together."

In breaking the world records, Child raised about $2000 for the Save the Tasmanian Devil programme.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The no-extravagance T20

Andrew Hughes: All that obscene money-spending and bling-flashing is left to the IPL
JULY 23, 2012

Ravi and the Dragon

Jarrod Kimber: Ravi Bopara may have just been slain by the dragon. Not the giant lizard thing, but the term some cricketers use for a drag on (see what they did there?)
MARCH 26, 2012

What's with the full tosses?

Michael Jeh: C'mon fellas, you're meant to be the best in the world and you're paid accordingly. No other profession would accept such a high ratio of execution error to this extent
MARCH 07, 2012

Ian v Greg at the Chappell backyard

Sidharth Monga: The Chappell brothers' has to be the ideal childhood, one every lover of cricket would commit heinous crimes to enjoy
OCTOBER 22, 2011

Misbah's words more positive than deeds

Kamran Abbasi: Anybody in search of final day heroics was best advised to look away from the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Pakistan toiled in attack, Sri Lanka toiled in defence
NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Is dedication dying?

Aakash Chopra: The scales are heavily tilted in favour of the ones playing in the money-spinning IPL with regard to both money and recognition, and in some cases even selection
AUGUST 16, 2010

Why Sehwag isn't so hot in ODIs

Aakash Chopra: Virender Sehwag scores consistently at a rapid pace in Test cricket but hasn't had the same success in ODIs perhaps because he feels the need to accelerate all the time
JULY 04, 2010

The importance of a good coach

Aakash Chopra: What is the easiest way of dealing with an out-of-form player?
MARCH 01, 2010

Tendulkar double ton reiterates technique

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