The Surfer
It’s the 60th anniversary for the Invincibles and the Sunday Herald Sun speaks to the four surviving members from the unbeaten tour
Lalit Modi's condition that no team with ICL players will be allowed in the Champions League has hit English counties badly
So, after formulating base prices for all players and deciding on who the ‘icons’ are, he starts issuing coloured passes to owners for visiting the dressing-rooms, suspends umpires, hands out fines at will, and then decrees that any player associated with the ICL won’t be allowed to play in the Champions League, or he will “disqualify that team” and mind you, “no exceptions will be made under any circumstances”.
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Allan Border is as surprised as anyone to learn that his baggy green cap is being hocked by an auction house with an asking price of between A$10,000 and $15,000. "Mine?" he says. "There's no way I would sell any of that stuff."
Last night's match against Kent at the Brit Oval, which was attended by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, was watched by a capacity crowd of 23,000 and the county announced yesterday that ticket sales for their five home matches had now brought in more than £1million.
Brad Haddin is appearing in the third Test with a broken finger and Alex Brown reports in the Sydney Morning Herald about the injury.
Haddin broke the finger in his first hour as a Test wicketkeeper, but played through the first Test at Sabina Park without major incident. A subsequent infection, however, proved far more troublesome, requiring him to have his entire fingernail removed during the ensuing match in Antigua.
The one-day series between England and New Zealand begins on Sunday and Paul Holden has come up with each team's best-performed XI based purely on averages over the past two years
Mark Burgess batting at Dacca in 1970. Ugly conditions, rabid crowd, but Burgess worked with the tail to secure the draw, and our only series win in Pakistan.
Though most people involved with the first season of the IPL have thought it to be a huge success, Greg Chappell is a little sceptical about its future
It is one thing to have a successful first tournament; it is another entirely to back it up in the second and future seasons. Expectations have been raised by the initial success, so the bar will be much higher from now on. Some of the older players will be that much further removed from the rough and tumble of international cricket and may find it tougher to back up while some of the rookies will be looked at more closely by opposing teams, supporters and the media. History says that not all players will survive the greater scrutiny and the higher expectations; their own as well as those of others.
Michael Atherton, writing in The Times , has pointed out that in recent weeks, among the most hectic in the game’s history, there has been a deafening silence from the ICC.
Can you imagine any other governing body being so quiet and so ineffective while the structure and ethos of the game changes day by day? Cricket is reorganising itself along football lines, with clubs becoming as important as countries and player loyalty a thing of the past, and the ICC stands idly by.
India have won the first two matches of the tri-series in Bangladesh and Harsha Bhogle is excited by the pool of 20-25 players that selectors now have the luxury to pick from
Happily, there is competition for every spot and that means players will have to be on their toes; a quality that Indian cricket has not always been blessed with. Piyush Chawla is making the most of Harbhajan’s absence and Sehwag and Gambhir could raise questions on how much Tendulkar will be missed. At the moment though, this is an excellent fair-weather batting side and on tracks responsive to quality seam and swing bowling, the top order still needs to prove it can do without Tendulkar.