The Surfer
Scott Styris is set to infuriate traditionalists for the second time in a month after declaring footwork an over-rated art .
Australia ended 2005 drubbing South Africa by 10 wickets at the MCG
This year finished as did last for Australia, and the four before it, with a resounding win at the MCG. Then, it was the end of a year in which it had at last won in India and Sri Lanka, making it the champion of all teams and places. It was impossible to think then that it would lose the Ashes. Perhaps that was the problem.
In an interview with The Independent , Andrew Flintoff has spoken about the Ashes and also the effect it has had on his life
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It is fine when the interest in you is about cricket, and when things are being documented and commented on there. You expect that. But when you go home? Naïvely I did not expect there to to be God knows how many cameras outside me house. We were moving at the time. There were people outside both houses. There were blokes up ladders and in your garden trying to take pictures. It got me out of doing any lifting but there were times when I wanted to go out there and grab one of them. The missus was good. She just told me to go and sit down.
Alex Brown speaks to Muttiah Muralitharan at the end of a tough year.
Ricky Ponting uses his column in The Australian to defend his decision to delay the declaration at the WACA that cost his side time in the push for victory , and he is surprised at the amount of debate it caused.
It's not as if it was the first drawn Test ever played, or one of the rare times a side has needed to bowl out the opposition on the last day and failed to get there.
Rajan Bala wonders whether Raj Singh Durgapur, India's manager for the Pakistan tour, would be happy if his weighty views on the game are not taken notice of by the team management and does Raj have to be briefed so that he acts within his powers?
The Telegraph spoke to a Arun Lal, Ashok Malhotra, Pranab Roy and Sambaran Bannerjee about their views on Sourav and the selectors’ decision to recall him, 10 days after axing him from the Ahmedabad Test against Sri Lanka.
Ashok Mitra asks in Calcutta’s The Telegraph who are the chauvinists in the Sourav Ganguly affair?
Bengali chauvinism, stuck in its 19th century groove, is these days perhaps more to be ridiculed than condemned. Even so, there is perhaps something more than Bengali narrow-mindedness that found expression at Calcutta’s Eden Gardens where the fourth one-day international between India and South Africa was being played on November 25.