Dickie Bird, the Denny Krane of umpiring, I love him to bits

In January of this year, Dave Richardson, the ICC’s General Manager, responded to a rising wave of umpire bashing by writing an article for Cricinfo extolling the virtues of the ICC elite panel of umpires.

A distant aunt of mine is a psychic

Domestic cricket is splattered with players that have flirted with an international career having never managed to turn the romance into a marriage.

Whether you love it or loathe it, sledging is a part of the game

If the cricketing nations of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were a design company looking to bid on a printing contract for a multinational organisation, they would by now have been told to pack up their printing press and hit the road.

If I say “Golden Arches”, you think “McDonalds”

It seems a fashionable moment in time to be having a crack at England

Poor old Mick Lewis

Cricketers can be a canny lot, prone to using any means possible to eek out an advantage, however small

The last time Australia and New Zealand attempted to co-host a sporting tournament of any significance, the result was nothing short of farcical.

For the vast majority of the crowd at Eden Park, tonight’s Twenty20 game against the West Indies was about just one thing

Raise the subject of Twenty20 cricket and you will inevitably witness a polarisation of opinion on the scale of the Red Sea parting.

That Malcolm Speed should be compared to Kofi Annan surprises me little

Okay, so I picked the particular year as a lame Monday morning pun, but my point is to try and take a peek at what the game might look like fifteen or twenty years from now.

When the cricket equipment manufacturer Kookaburra, describes the composition of their cricket balls, you can almost taste the century of history the company has behind it

New Zealand Cricket uncovered a rare gem the day they unleashed a Canterbury policeman on batsmen of the world

There’s a shirt for sale at Sportsonline.com signed by the Australian team and the members of the World XI (remember them?) The price……a tad over $4,000 of your finest Australian dollars.

I’ve loved the game of cricket ever since my father invented ‘roof-catch’

Earl Woods bred a Tiger