The Surfer
Twenty20 has brought a new audience to cricket, and even converted some die-hard traditionalists to a newer, faster and shorter game of cricket
"It doesn't appeal to me one bit," he told The Sunday Age. "Don't expect me to go and watch Twenty20 cricket. It's too much like baseball. Not that I dislike baseball, but if you're going to watch baseball, well, go to Yankee Stadium and watch it."
'I have had four major operations and six weeks of radiotherapy and was given the all-clear last year.'
Mark Waugh writes in the Sun-Herald Australia’s best chance of winning the 2007 World Cup is to lure Shane Warne back
The culture of our sport and our society demanded that Sourav Ganguly deserved to choose his exit ; instead, his lifeline was rudely cut
Cricket statistician Ross Dundas has brought to light the remarkable fact that batsmen in this year's Ashes Tests scored half as fast again on average as batsmen in the 1972 Ashes series - 3.79 runs per six balls faced compared with a dreary 2.51
Peter Roebuck feels it's about time the Indian cricket community grew up
Australia has also been engaged by the axing of a well-loved player, a long-standing servant on the verge of breaking a record. His successor was booed when he played his first fifty over match and also on his Test debut. Hotheads demanded the chairman's resignation. Ian Healy was the dropped player. Adam Gilchrist was his replacement.
Andrew Ramsey feels that so frighteningly efficient is the modern-day cricket bat that greatest danger lurks for the bowler whose momentum and follow-through renders him a virtually defenceless target from a distance of less than 20metres.
Sculptor Lou Laumen has captured something else about Ponsford a posterior for posterity , as it were
It seems every club (and their uncle) is trying to buy their grounds these days
Pub company, Brakspear, which owned the ground, finally agreed to sell it last year and both sides exchanged contracts on Monday.
