The Surfer
The unease among many surrounding the ECB's deal with BSkyB just won;t go away
Extracts from the confidential minutes of the meeting were released to the Guardian under a Freedom of Information Act request, but details of the discussion about the broadcasting rights were withheld. The minutes of the meeting held on November 23 2004 marked "restricted" reveal that Murdoch "said he would like to discuss sports, the ECB [England and Wales Cricket Board] and the broadcast of Test cricket matches"
Trevor Marshallsea says Brett Lee has gone from a befuddled quick bowler to the leader of the pack:
Lee began this series as a befuddled quick with a lean body but a ballooning average, a clouded mind as to his role in the Test side and his most effective plan of attack having caused him to misfire in the longer game.
Mike Coward feels that West Indies cricket has learned so little from history its future remains uncertain.
Ahead of India's first Test against Sri Lanka on December 2, a cricket fanatic has appealed to the court :
Suresh Babu, a cricket lover from nearby Gummidipoondi, said in his plea that the one-day international between India and South Africa here on Nov 22 had to be abandoned due to heavy showers.
As the debate of whether the ECB should have sold TV rights to satellite broadcaster BSkyB, David Brook, a former Channel 4 executive who has been leading a campaign to get the coverage back on free-to-air television, is about to address a House of
But Sky's monopoly over the summer game is bad for cricket and bad for society. Over 30 million people watched the Ashes series last summer - more than half the country. We all got caught up in the excitement. But how many fewer of us would have shared in the nation's collective joy if it had not been on terrestrial television? Would so many people have cheered the team at Trafalgar Square? Would thousands of young would-be Freddie Flintoffs have taken up cricket?
In the Sunday Telegraph Scyld Berry says that Steve Harmison's shy at Inzamam-ul-Haq could have resulted in something far worse that a run out, and warns that the time could come when players resort to fisticuffs to resolve their differences, and
A fielder will either think twice, or else will aim at the stumps with the maximum of care, if he risks being sent off the field for the rest of the innings because he has hit the batsman with a none-too-careful throw: that obnoxious practice introduced by the Australians in Steve Waugh's time.
Robert Craddock says in The Courier-Mail Australia’s allrounders need time to settle because the team has a middle-order batting problem .
Owen Slot writes on the latest biography of Hansie Cronje and adds:
... a fact that may frustrate British readers because Cronje’s story has sold so well in South Africa that the publishing company — which happens to belong to his brother, Frans — cannot print copies fast enough.
England should make an investment in the future and l et Alastair Cook open their batting in the final Test, argues Mike Gatting .
Two days after Brian Lara passed Allan Border’s world record Mike Coward writes in The Australian about the day Lara laid himself bare .