The Surfer
Dennis Lillee has been helping Shane Watson, who is recovering from a shoulder injury, refine his action and he now believes Watson is good enough to get into the Australian side on his bowling alone:
"Shane came to me because he felt he had just lost the outswing we had developed before he was hurt and he sees it as being a crucial part of his game," Lillee said.
Here we go again
There might be some grass on the wicket at Karachi’s National stadium, where the third Test will be played. In fact, the Karachi conditions traditionally favour movement of the ball, with the breeze from the adjacent sea playing a part.
A dissident group of umpires were yesterday pondering the collapse of the Association of Umpires & Scorers special meeting at the Derbyshire County Ground on Saturday
A dissident group of umpires were yesterday pondering the collapse of the Association of Umpires & Scorers special meeting at the Derbyshire County Ground on Saturday.
Hopley, a former association general secretary, said: "We're taking a couple of days to consider our options. Members were frustrated by a lack of proper organisation, which typifies the general council."
Isa Guha writes in the Bucks Free Press about her ambitions, on playing against Australia and her forthcoming trip to Lord's to face India
Tanya Aldred of The Guardian had called it as the tandoori ashes and now a Pakistani, Dr Saeed Durrani of Islamabad, in a letter to editor in the The Daily times , Pakistani daily, suggests ' Rakhi ', after rejecting words like Khak and Khakister
Cricket matches between India and Pakistan arouse great passions on both sides. Several prominent cricketers and others have suggested that these two start regular contests on the lines of the Ashes series of Test matches between arch-rivals England and Australia. The question then arises: what name should we to give to such contests? I considered – and rejected – words such as khak and khakister – for they are likely to prove difficult to pronounce for our Indian counterparts, besides being too Persianised. I then hit upon the idea of conferring upon these series of Test matches the Hindi/Urdu name Rakhi. This term not only resembles the word rakh (ashes) – but also denotes in Hindi a ‘bond’ that stands for love as well as protection.
When Sourav Ganguly ran in to the middle with the drinks and was seen egging Mahendra Singh Dhoni,involved in a battle with Shoaib Akthar, some Pakistan cricketers couldn't let go the opportunity to indulge in a banter with the former India
Harbhajan Singh joined the Pakistan team on Sunday to hear Maulana Tariq Jamil,a young preacher from the Tableeghi Jamat sect, speak
The Australian’s Malcolm Conn can’t understand why Phil Jaques, who scored 94 on debut in Melbourne, has been dropped .
Add to life's great mysteries the non-selection of Jaques for Australia's next one-day match, against Sri Lanka in Adelaide on Thursday. His failure to be included in the squad following yesterday's meeting of the four-man selection panel appears to fly in the face of its most basic charter, to choose the best possible side.
Richard Boock is full of praise of the just-retired Chris Cairns who, he considers , is a genius:
Say what you like about his temperament and injury record, his notorious battle with former coach Glenn Turner and his legacy of not quite fulfilling his extraordinary potential; at his best he was a genius.
