Rob's Lobs

Of greed and stupidity

So the Indian board have backed Cricket Australia’s decision to charge agencies for the privilege of reporting matches, have they

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Machine-made humanity

To retain credibility, professional sport, its practitioners and audience, deserve as much justice as is humanly possible

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Dunkin’ Duncan

Here was the perfect subject: a scorned public figure with a year’s salary and a hefty publisher’s advance in his pocket, nothing to lose and an axe or 50 to grind.

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Both v Chappelli (Part 31)

On the other hand, this is a grave time in our planet’s history

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

When the Law is an ass

How reassuring, then, to read the comments of Syd Millar, chairman of the International Rugby Board, who believes his sport should be “freed up a bit” and “produce more options for players”

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

England's Brave New World (Chapter 382)

Despite the drubbing in the final ODI, England have a lot of positives to take from the series win in Sri Lanka

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Goodbye ugly duckling, hello Swann

He still needs no encouragement to open those slim shoulders and clout balls to all parts but now, as today’s innings underlined, he can place and flick, pace and judge

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Time to forgive Ramprakash

How can an England team without Ramprakash be truly representative of the nation’s cricketing talent

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Time to crunch more numbers

Now, thanks primarily to the broadcasters’ thirst for the telling stat, we have a whole new ball game: longest six, most dot-balls, even speed off the bat

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Reality bites for Flintoff

Two years ago, when comparisons with Ian Botham were all the rage, most Poms were convinced that Our Fred’s career graph would maintain its inverse relationship to that of His Beefiness

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Ten positives of the ICC World Twenty20

Four days into the first major event to showcase cricket at its most bastardised and most, if not quite all, the signs are encouraging

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

And on the seventh day...

Contrary to received wisdom, humble pie doesn’t actually taste that awful

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Five jewels for Wisden

He should be extra careful and avoid getting excited while playing, else, it may dampen his game.” So says astrologer Bejan Daruwalla’s Tarot card reading for Guyana’s gutsiest

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Warne remains at his entertaining best

Shane Warne’s list of his 50 finest flannelled fools, published in the Times over the past few days was delightful on so many counts, most notably the irate reactions

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

The heavy price of cost-cutting

It didn’t have to be this way

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

The Bell Curve

In the first ODI against India, Ian Bell scored his maiden one-day century and turned the corner separating boys from men

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Muralitharan v Bedi

Of course nobody wants to see such a case come to court, especially those of us who recall Bedi’s maverick spirit and unmatchably gorgeous action with huge affection and heartfelt gratitude

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Schofield, Schofield give us a twirl

But the suspicion remains that the traditional English mindset – cautious, pragmatic, proud, more fearful of embarrassment than failure - is at odds with the art of spin

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Of sticks and stones

But let’s not confuse the pros and cons of all this with ethics

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

The most over-rated sin

If you went to a day’s play in a Test that featured 320 runs, eight wickets and a couple of dazzling catches, would it bother you that “only” 80 overs were served up for your delectation

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

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