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Will
25-Feb-2013
Cricinfo’s own Andrew Miller interviews Kevin Pietersen in the Sunday Telegraph:
What's the toughest situation you've ever faced as a batsman?
I've played in some really tough situations since I made my debut but I honestly don't think anything will ever be as bad as walking to the wicket against South Africa at The Wanderers [in January 2005]. That was a massive series for me, I was back in the country where I'd come from and I copped so much stick, all day, every day.
Full postI've played in some really tough situations since I made my debut but I honestly don't think anything will ever be as bad as walking to the wicket against South Africa at The Wanderers [in January 2005]. That was a massive series for me, I was back in the country where I'd come from and I copped so much stick, all day, every day.
Lethal Laker's cache of 19
The Old Trafford Test between England and Pakistan starting on Thursday will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all individual cricketing deeds - Jim Laker's 19 wickets against Australia
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
The Old Trafford Test between England and Pakistan starting on Thursday will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all individual cricketing deeds - Jim Laker's 19 wickets against Australia. Read Christopher Martin-Jenkins' description of the match in The Times.
As a sporting achievement it was a freak, the cricketing equivalent of Foinavon’s victory in the Grand National, Bob Beamon’s long jump record in the 1968 Olympic Games, or Tiger Woods’s first victory in the Masters, 12 strokes clear of all the others.
The story of Saurab Chatterjee
Saurab Chatterjee was a frustrated young man after waiting three years in the Bengal team reserves.With no state-level opportunities in sight, Dr Ali Bacher had an offer he couldn't refuse - to play league cricket in South Africa, and also be the
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Saurab Chatterjee was a frustrated young man after waiting three years in the Bengal team reserves.With no state-level opportunities in sight, Dr Ali Bacher had an offer he couldn't refuse - to play league cricket in South Africa, and also be the first Indian to do so.Read what the latest star of the Gauteng Lions has to say about his experiences, in BBC News.
"I jumped at the chance. I talked to my parents (who live in Calcutta as do his three brothers and a sister) who said if the standard of cricket was good, I should take up the offer. I have played continuously for the club since then."
It didn't look right. Obviously something was going on
Ray Illingworth recalls the day Mike Atherton was accused of ball-tampering .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
Ray Illingworth recalls the day Mike Atherton was accused of ball-tampering.
The first I was aware of any problem was when the South Africa team manager, Mike Procter, came to see me on the Saturday afternoon and said: "You'd better have a look at this." I thought he was joking at first but, when I saw the TV footage of Mike Atherton with the ball, I agreed with Procter that it didn't look right
Pathan will come back stronger, wiser
'You can't keep a good man down'
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
'You can't keep a good man down'. Whatever has been written and said about Irfan Pathan's loss of form may soon be erased in memory, as he's too talented a player to be ignored, feels Peter Roebuck. Read the full piece in The Hindu.
Full postHis mind, body and spirit will recover and he will reappear not as a colt but as a thoroughbred. A fine young cricketer has come across hazards others encounter as teenagers.
Buchanan the nomad's journey with the greats
As the end of his amazing career approaches, John Buchanan shares some of the highlights with Phil Wilkins in The Sydney Morning Herald .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
As the end of his amazing career approaches, John Buchanan shares some of the highlights with Phil Wilkins in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Adam Gilchrist will be the same because of his ability to change the course of a game and what it has meant for selectors and people looking at wicketkeepers. The Alan Knotts and Rodney Marshes and Ian Healys of the world began to change the whole phenomenon of what a keeper should be and how he should bat. But Adam has obviously taken that another step further.
Flintoff injury scare rocks England
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
England are dreading the catastrophic news that Andrew Flintoff might be unfit for the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford, or worse. Here's what the papers had to say.
Far from playing again this week, Flintoff must be fearing the possibility that an arthroscopy on the left ankle will now be advised to deal with the tiny fragments of bone or crystal shown by a scan on June 5, writes Christopher Martin-Jenkins in The Times. Any operation would mean a further six weeks of rehabilitation, leaving the possibility of only two four-day games in September before final decisions are taken about his fitness to captain England in the Ashes series.
Full postLanger shocked at Sky's dominance in TV market
"Maybe I'm getting a bit philosophical but that's a major issue," Langer said.
Will
25-Feb-2013
"Maybe I'm getting a bit philosophical but that's a major issue," Langer said.
"After the impact of the Ashes I'm amazed that every kid in England isn't able to watch cricket."
Sky's coverage of the matches with Sri Lanka and Pakistan this summer is reportedly attracting an average of around 200,000 viewers, compared with the 9m Channel 4 regularly achieved during the epic Ashes series last year.
"I have been in this country for four weeks now and I've seeen maybe half an hour of cricket on TV," Langer said.
Full postLara: 'Test cricket is my game'
Brian Lara is in Dubai while West Indies take time out from the international merry-go-round, and while there he talked to local journalists about his views of the modern game, making it clear that Test cricket was where his heart lay.
Martin Williamson
25-Feb-2013
Brian Lara is in Dubai while West Indies take time out from the international merry-go-round, and while there he talked to local journalists about his views of the modern game, making it clear that Test cricket was where his heart lay.
“Test cricket is my game. It is a game I really love to play. Before being asked to captain the team for the third time, I tried to guide my career in the direction of playing more Test cricket and less one-day games."
He also gave his views on Twenty20.
"I don't think it tests the ability of players like Tests do. But it is good for the crowd. You are playing a sport, and sport is all about spectators."
Tait and Johnson test speed radar
Ben Dorries reports in The Courier-Mail about the pace race between Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Ben Dorries reports in The Courier-Mail about the pace race between Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson.
The good friends and Australia A team-mates are locked in a break-neck battle to determine the quicker man and impress national selector Merv Hughes. "We are having a great pace battle and we are feeding off each other, bowling faster and faster," Johnson said. "It's a great challenge having someone quick like Shaun bowling at the other end. It pumps me up and makes me bowl quicker."
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