The Surfer
And he became Lawrence woe!
According to some, he is the best-ever batsman never to realise his full potential
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
According to some, he is the best-ever batsman never to realise his full potential. Lawrence George Rowe remains the biggest enigma of West Indies cricket. Mid-Day's Sanjjeev K Samyal caught up with him in Jamaica.
It was the beauty of the strokes… the flair, the timing, good hands, good feet, good eyes that co-ordinate the kind of ease against fast bowling that makes it look slow; the nimble footwork to get down the track to spinners like (Bishan) Bedi, (Erapalli) Prasanna and (BS) Chandrashekar and play them with ease. I think that’s what made the crowds come and see me. In this stadium (Sabina Park, Jamaica), I have played probably more memorable knocks than any other batsman in the West Indies.
When Scotland beat Australia
It may not have happened in St Kitts yesterday, but it has happened once before in history
Andrew Miller
25-Feb-2013
It may not have happened in St Kitts yesterday, but it has happened once before in history. The Herald's correspondent, Neil Drysdale, reflects on the moment in 1882 when the world order was turned upside-down.
The occasion is worth celebrating, not least because, exactly a month later, the majority of these same Australians were involved in one of the most significant acts in sporting history when they beat England at The Oval and proved the catalysts for a subsequent 125 years of ferocious Ashes rivalry
Australians angry over Sunny's outburst
"Sunil Gavaskar's increasingly puritanical tone reached new levels of ridiculousness when he said Australia's cricketers would be in danger of being belted if they carried on in a bar as they do on the cricket field,” writes Chloe Saltau in The
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
"Sunil Gavaskar's increasingly puritanical tone reached new levels of ridiculousness when he said Australia's cricketers would be in danger of being belted if they carried on in a bar as they do on the cricket field,” writes Chloe Saltau in The Age.
"The former Indian captain and apparent moral guardian of the game made a second outburst about the behaviour of Ricky Ponting's team in response to the skipper's objection to his earlier criticism - that the Australians are disliked around the world because of ugly on-field behaviour."
Allan Border and Darren Lehmann are also upset.
Jon Pierik writes in the Herald Sun pressure is mounting on Australia to stop their tour to Zimbabwe in September.
Full postMy salad days with West Indies' summer knights
Jamie Alter
25-Feb-2013
Was it planned, or is it a symbolic fluke that today's Caribbean cricket carnival begins on the 40th anniversary of Sir Frank Worrell's death? Frank Keating, in the Guardian, fondly looks back at the
Caribbean influence in the most rich and significantly memorable passages of his cricket watching.
The West Indies today, and for the next two months, unites as a single entity - as it only does in its cricketing - to show its collective soul and spirit. You could say that no man was a more crucial catalyst than Sir Frank in establishing and stabilising the very cohesive essence of West Indies cricket, which is actually made up, of course, from a scattered comity of islands in the Gulf of Mexico each with disparate governance, character and cultures.
Symonds won't be rushed
Andrew Symonds has started throwing cricket balls and remains on track for Australia’s group match against South Africa, according to Jon Pierik in the Herald Sun .
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
Andrew Symonds has started throwing cricket balls and remains on track for Australia’s group match against South Africa, according to Jon Pierik in the Herald Sun.
"If the second game was South Africa we might have looked at rushing him a bit more," Ricky Ponting said. "If you listen to him, he thinks he is ready to play now. We just have to look after him.”
Tasmania are gearing up for their first Pura Cup final at home and in Hobart’s Mercury, Cameron Hodgkins, the Bellerive Oval curator, describes the pitch he is preparing.
South Australia finished the season with only one win – from their last game – and Richard Earle writes in The Advertiser that Wayne Phillips, the coach, might be in trouble.
Full postShocks and surprises
AFP runs through some of the World Cup upsets , starting with Sri Lanka's win over India in 1979
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
AFP runs through some of the World Cup upsets, starting with Sri Lanka's win over India in 1979. Zimbabwe, West Indies, Australia and Bangladesh also play key parts in the tournament upsets.
In the Sydney Morning Herald Trevor Marshallsea writes about the importance of Stuart MacGill in the Pura Cup final.
Full postScribes in the sun
Tim de Lisle has written an enjoyable piece in today's Independent profiling some of the national newspaper correspondents from Britain
Will Luke
25-Feb-2013
Tim de Lisle has written an enjoyable piece in today's Independent profiling some of the national newspaper correspondents from Britain.
Mike Selvey
Admire the greats at the Farewell Cup
Ricky Ponting, in his column in The Australian , rates the modern greats who will probably be playing their final World Cup .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Ricky Ponting, in his column in The Australian, rates the modern greats who will probably be playing their final World Cup.
Perhaps this tournament should be rebadged the Farewell Cup, for it also is the final crack at limited-overs cricket's ultimate prize for Lara, Tendulkar and Pollock. West Indies captain Lara and India star Tendulkar are the two best batsmen I have played against. I have rated Sachin slightly ahead because technically I thought he was a bit tighter, but Lara on his day is probably more damaging.
Lyall Johnson writes in The Age about Cameron White’s disappointing end to the summer.
Full postHanging out in Berbice
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
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The region of Berbice in Guyana is historical for the number of West Indies cricketers it has produced of East Indian origin - Rohan Kanhai and Shivnarine Chanderpaul to name a few. Rahul Bhattacharya, the acclaimed author of Pundits from Pakistan spent a week there in the beautiful flat mud villages, sampling the three essential passions of Berbician life: Hindi film and music, alcohol, and cricket.
Rahul also chronicles in brief, the history of the struggles of the East Indian inhabitants in the region, how cricket was the ultimate healer as well as the means of gaining the recognition they
deserved.
For the East Indians – “coolies, illiterate labourers; many of us went to school barefooted – Kanhai as well”, Kanhai's every stroke was a stroke of liberation. Against India his success was “a triumph over the pretentious, cruel rigidities of the homeland and its dubious obsessions with purity and cant”.
Sink or swim
Will Luke
25-Feb-2013
England’s preparations for the World Cup have gone well, Andrew Strauss says, though Monty Panesar has fallen victim of his own enthusiasm. In the sea.
…a gentle swim in the sea at the end of a long day is perfect for relieving tired muscles and relaxing weary minds. Also, after 12 months of constant injury worries, the only real concern we have encountered so far was when Monty Panesar tried to join a few of the better swimmers on a journey to a nearby island, and had to be rescued halfway across.