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The headline “What makes a better cricket captain?” will say it all. From time immemorial, cricketers have questioned applauded, ridiculed, abused and appreciated the presence of a leader and in the game of a cricket—spoken about their captain. In this article, I have tried to find out what makes a good captain..? “You have to [...]

 It was a day that many feared would not arrive at all after seeing the conditions that prevailed for most part of the day at Edgbaston, Birmingham. However, the match began much close to the session after tea and Australia elected to bat on a wicket that many feared had some juice early on for [...]

Ashes 2009 3rd Test preview England will be entering the third Ashes Test on Thursday at Edgbaston against a low Australians and will be extremely confident of their talismanic titan Andrew Flintoff but sans the services of Kevin Pietersen even as Australia look to level the series at 1-1. Freddie’s spell on the day 5 [...]

Not long ago, players and administrators dreaded this and now a former star has gone ahead and called for ‘ball-tempering’. South African fast bowler Allan Donald in an interview to Cricinfo.com had mentioned that the International Cricket Council should legalise ball tampering to prevent the growing hegemony of batsmen in world cricket. “The ICC would [...]

Well, the media and the fans are busy writing an obituary for Australian left-arm medium pacer Mitchell Johnson even as the Aussie lad is busy preparing for the third Test at Edgbaston. Johnson has been struggling with just 8 wickets for 331 runs in the opening two Tests in the ongoing Ashes, and it got no better [...]

Former Australian star batsman Justin Langer wants to come out of retirement. The opener has expressed his desire to play at the Ashes. This statement will gain a lot of weightage especially at a time when Australian opener Phil Hughes is under tremendous pressure to perform. Hughes, who had a brilliant Test series against the [...]

Well, the first part of the news was expected while the second part did stump for sure. Dada aka Sourav Ganguly is most certain to be back as the captain while former India coach John Wright will be taking over as the coach of Kolkata Knight Riders in the third edition of the Indian Premier [...]

 So, the Englishmen ensured that they ‘Lord’ed over the mighty Australians in a classic encounter to snatch a 1-0 lead in the Ashes series and will be going to Edgbaston as a confident lot. Despite countless cricket series held across the orb year after year, a mock obituary caricatured by Sporting Times way back in [...]

Agreed, Sachin Tendulkar’s records have been on the finger tips of most cricket lovers under the sun. I also fully agree that Sir Donald Bradman was and will remain the greatest batting legend by the sheer weight of runs scored but I have not seen the great man bat (only on videos) but I vouch [...]

Andrew bids adieu to Test cricket England’s talismanic leader Andrew Flintoff bid adieu to the game to a packed conference room but the burly all-rounder shall continue to play a key role in the Twenty20 format and in the One-dayers for England. Freddie is expected to be proved fit for the Test starting on Thursday [...]