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Fuel was added to the pre-match tension between the World Cup finalists sides when Australian captain Ricky Ponting was kept waiting for more than an hour by his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahela Jayawardene for a promotional photoshoot on the beach

Communication gap or getting under Ponting's skin?

Delays... but only for players, not luggage

Oh dear

Ireland have been rewarded for their World Cup exploits by an invitation to a reception at Parliament Buildings upon their return home

Ireland get ready to party at Parliament

The Ireland team have only just received thousands of good luck cards and messages sent to them nearly a month ago, following their victory against Pakistan

Not too little ... but perhaps too late

It was Thursday morning when I decided to travel to Canberra for Friday's Prime Minister's XI match against the English Cricket team

I broke Marcus Trescothick

England end the drought

Andrew Miller

Bindra gets bolshy over newspaper claim

Geoff Boycott has called on Duncan Fletcher to be sacked as England coach less than a month before the start of the Ashes.

Boycott calls for Fletcher to go

One-day wins aren't supposed to mean this much are they

A deeply stirring spectacle

Over the last week, of the seven teams that visited Jaipur, it's been Pakistan who have, ironically, appeared most relaxed

Thriving on adversity

Less than a month ago, Irfan Pathan's nascent career appeared to be in danger of slamming into the buffers

Pathan dismisses the blues

If anyone thought that last week's diet of drivel would come to an end once the so-called "big guns" came out to play ..

A fudged statement of intent

New Zealand wouldn't top anyone's list of favourites for the Champions Trophy, but they have one bowling weapon that all opposition line-ups will be wary of

The Shane Bond factor

There is no doubt that to do well a team needs to have more than just eleven good players to choose from but it also pays to understand that it's a nucleus of about six who either win or lose the big tournaments.

Packing a six-shooter

Did you know that besides being an all time great batsman the Indian cricket coach is quite Viv Richards-like in qualifying as one of the top all rounders to have played in ODI's?

Wanted: batting strike rates on players' stats

The life of the modern elite cricketer is different from most of our own

It's not what you say...

Here’s a much-awaited treatise on that great mystery of cricket – swing

Swinging in confusion

What is the best way to celebrate an anniversary

A nice celebration for a 1st anniversary

It seems it has been a long time since I posted on Different Strokes and on cricket, a subject that was the reason I started blogging in the first place

Nehra and Mongia - A case of incongruous pragmatism?