The Surfer
Anybody who doubts India is one of the most nakedly capitalist societies in the world should have watched Lalit Modi, the new power-broker in Indian cricket, at work yesterday
Anybody who doubts India is one of the most nakedly capitalist societies in the world should have watched Lalit Modi, the new power-broker in Indian cricket, at work yesterday. The second Test was about to start but the talk was not of the cricket but of the commercial clout about to make India the game's powerhouse.
Bruce Pairaudeau, the former West Indies batsman, relives the memory of those dramatic hours at Eden Park 50 years ago, when New Zealand rolled his West Indies side for just 77 in the second innings, to end what is still the longest winless test
Cardigan Connor, the former Hampshire fast bowler, is in Anguilla - the cricket-mad country in the Caribbean - and heading up a team of four cyclists and two athletes for the Commonwealth Games
"In a bid to inspire them I'll make sure to bring up England's Ashes success in my pre-competition pep talk."
As the debate over the disparity in income between English counties whose grounds host Tests and those who don't rumbles on, Dennis Amiss, Warwickshire's retiring chairman, told Christopher Martin-Jenkins in The Times that there was more to the
“The non-Test grounds have a budget; they know what they are going to get from the centre. Yet they still lose money. That can’t be our fault."
Writing in the Guardian , Mike Selvey says the Australian team is in danger of becoming a laughing stock after recalling four players to play South Africa
"In backtracking, Hohns has done few favours for the credibility of a system once the envy of the world. Now the reaction is to recognise a shambles with no direction. In India we are seeing a series fought out between a blend of youth and experience on both sides, and it is invigorating to watch. Much the same applied in Pakistan before Christmas. The Australian machine, meanwhile, is becoming a laughing stock. Martyn, once acclaimed, can greet his selection with incredulity, while Brad Hodge, a double-century maker not so long since, has been discarded.
Reaction to Australia’s Test squad still dominates the newspapers and Dean Jones tells The Australian the sacking of Brad Hodge for Damien Martyn could open the door for Matthew Hayden’s one-day return .
"The World Cup is certainly not out of the question for Hayden given what we have seen over the last couple of days. With the selectors opting for Damien Martyn in the Test side again, clearly their thoughts have changed ...
The New Zealand Herald spoke with the surviving members of the NZ team about their historic victory over the West Indies 50 years ago - their first in Test cricket
As that great West Indian batsman Everton de Courcy Weekes swung his bat like an executioner's axe at the juiciest of long-hops that cloudy afternoon of March 13, 1956, 10,000 Eden Park spectators (and thousands more huddled over their wireless sets across the land) plunged into that fatal coma.
Geoffrey Boycott, never backwards in coming forwards, has sounded the clarion call for England to recall Darren Gough to the one-day squad.
He's a winner, whether it's Strictly Come Dancing or international cricket. Flintoff could do with some help at the moment and England need old heads and young legs.
John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister and an avid cricket fan, declined to have a bat against some of India's most promising fast bowlers during his visit to Dennis Lillee's MRF Pace Academy in India
"But I look with some trepidation at this new coming breed of Indian fast bowlers."
Some cricket-mad types in Estonia have taken to the ice to play the glorious game.