The Surfer
Australia farewelled Jane McGrath in Sydney today, with Glenn McGrath wiping away tears and his children blowing bubbles, according to news.com.au
It was 25 years ago that India won the World Cup at Lord's and the team of '83 has planned a get-together at the Long Room to celebrate the triumph
Last year at the ICC chief executives committee meeting, I was leaving the venue that is next to the Long Room and found a table-plan for that evening's charity dinner. Going through the list, I found there were some famous names who were to attend the dinner and as I checked the dates, it was, thankfully, in June, when India won the World Cup 24 years earlier. It struck me that it would be fantastic to celebrate the silver jubilee of that fantastic win with a dinner at the Long Room.
I’d been somewhat upset on seeing a significant amount of grass on the Lord’s wicket... Out of disgust, I even told some of my teammates that the conditions just weren’t fair... The state of the wicket also put paid to all the planning we’d done the previous day. .. Soon enough, though, I realised that we had to make the best of the conditions... We didn’t have a choice... Then, with the ball swinging like nobody’s business, we felt we’d definitely be in with more than a shout that afternoon. We had a ball, as it turned out.
I think he felt talent alone would be enough to get him to the top and it is only now he is realising that areas such as discipline, fitness and mental strength will play a pivotal role in moving him from promising youngster to top-class performer.
I think he felt talent alone would be enough to get him to the top and it is only now he is realising that areas such as discipline, fitness and mental strength will play a pivotal role in moving him from promising youngster to top-class performer.
Ezra Stuart of the Nation thinks the Barbados women's team being allowed to play in an Under-15 schools competition is a bad idea.
While the women may benefit from match play prior to the regional tournament in Jamaica, it could be detrimental to the boys in the long run.
In the New Zealand Herald Dylan Cleaver lets rip against the recent New Zealand debacles.
New Zealand are now in the process of writing a grim tale: How to turn a sport from boom to bust in five easy steps.
Writing in the Courier Mail , Robert Craddock shares his memories on the relationship between Glenn McGrath and his wife, Jane, who succumbed to cancer yesterday
Once on a South African tour, Glenn made her heart melt when he told her how lonely he was and how much he was missing her. "And I've gone into the kitchen and put the kettle on and put the news on, and the sport was on," Jane said. "And there he is coming down this water chute in his swimmers with his arms in the air going 'wooohooohooo' and I could have absolutely killed him. "I rang him straight back and said: 'I'd hate to see you when you're happy if that's depressed'. He hasn't done that again."
You met in 1995. When you first met, did the sparks fly?
From games of Twisti-Twosti to scraps of tarpaulin, Lawrence Booth lists six moments of invention that really changed the sport.
Harsha Bhogle, in his column in the Indian Express , writes about his memories of India's historic triumph in the 1983 World Cup.
And, as I read through an amateur analysis I had made for the Deccan Chronicle on the 4th of June, 1983, I discover that Kim Hughes had labelled India the dark horses. The fan in me had tried to make out a case for India to qualify for the semi-final and, the day after the article had appeared, an elderly man laughed at my youthful optimism. “Semi-final, ha!” he said as if I had suggested that the left might go along with the nuclear deal.
Sandeep Patil: When we started the tour and room partners were assigned, I was lucky but my room partner was so unlucky to have me as a room partner. Fortunately or unfortunately it was Sunil Gavaskar, who shared the room with me. That was the reason why Gavaskar did not score runs. I kept him awake, I kept him out and I don't know how and where he used to spend time. I clearly remember me bombarding him with questions. In fact, I asked him if would be able to even see the balls of West Indians. He asked me what do you mean by 'the balls of the West Indians?' I told him the cricket balls that will be bowled by Marshall. I had not faced West Indians then and Sunil told me that you have faced Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thompson; you will be able to see the balls. I saw the ball and I hit a six.
England lost to New Zealand in the third ODI in Bristol by 22 runs and David Gower believes that for all his promise and ability, James Anderson still has not managed to master his own inconsistencies
The way Broad bowled at Taylor was a lesson in how to build pressure on a batsman in a one-day match. Broad knows the way the Kiwi plays and he stopped him doing so by adhering to strict lines close to off stump. By the time he slipped him one of slightly fuller length, Taylor’s frustrations were there for all to see and his attempt to find a gap on the leg side merely opened another more crucial void, through which the ball found its way to the stumps.
Since stepping down from captaincy nine months ago, Rahul Dravid has lost his place in the one-day side, led the Bangalore Royal Challengers to second-last place in the IPL, had mud slung at him by franchise owner Vijay Mallya and reached the
"I have played unbroken, missing only one game in my Test career. You have to be fit and scoring consistently, or you'll get dropped at some stage - the fact that I have been able to do that is important, not so much the number itself. But it is nice to be in the company of some players you really respect and admire."
That win at Lord's redefined the country's aspirations and expectations; it imparted a new meaning to the term 'professional cricketer'; and it took cricket to the masses as never before. Some would even make bold to say India acquired the elements of 'soft power' in the summer of 1983, long before it even began to be counted among the emerging global powers.