Please find below the exact judgment statement of Justice John Hansen on the Andrew Symonds-Harbhajan Singh racial abuse hearing. Read more… »

Peter Roebuck’s article, “what price justice?” highlights some important points on the attitude of the BCCI with regard to this hearing. I couldn’t help agreeing with some of his views and thought it deemed fit. Read more… »

Well, this has to be the joke of this century in the cricketing world but it is not. Shaun Tait actually quit! Quit cricket indefinitely, citing physical and emotional exhaustion. Oh! Bloody hell, I have been screaming my head off on this burnout which was on the cards time and again, in this site and in the blogging world. Read more… »

Before the start of this series, my expectations on the performance of the Indian team would have been a series draw and sadly however hard you try to not read the score line, it shows Australia wins. So am I disappointed with the fabulous 5 ageing Indian batsmen and the young bowlers… not really? Read more… »

It was strange when I wanted to write this post, I felt it was a long time since I listened to my good old metal collection and ended up hearing the soundtrack of the Matrix movie by Ministry… the song “bad blood’, which ironically this series had its share of spills. Read more… »

Ok… this is not to be an ideal tribute or anything of that sort. To me, he is my favourite cricketer. As far as his accomplishments in the game is concerned, am sure there will be thousands of articles written on that which I will enjoy it better reading rather than writing with my half-baked skills (even that is debatable). Read more… »

Soulberry in The cricket watchers journal on how lucky a bastard is Andrew Symonds… Felt like adding some more and decided it was not worth it at all.

The recent trend among umpires has been in the areas of not being able to call foot no-ball calls consistently. The added pressure of the media and the commentators with endless replays has put quite a bit of pressure on the umpires who tend to concentrate more on the line and height at the other end for LBWs and faint edges. Read more… »

I wanted to write about this and then stumbled on this short but well written article from the Ducking Beamer’s blog on India and racism. You can read about it here.

However let’s not confuse this to the actual incident that happened and focus on some of the statements from the boards, ex-players who truly believe that India is not a racist country. Are we sweeping things under the carpet ourselves? Of course!

Once again there was much hype in the Australian media and the man himself on his speed and also that he will rip through the Indian batting like butter. Sadly he failed at everything… bowling extraordinarily fast, walking the talk or be a handful to the Indian batsmen. Read more… »