ICC hits a new low… Hair reinstated

In one of the most disgusting moves forced by the political arm-twisting of Cricket Australia, the ICC has reinstated Darrell Hair back into the elite panel. What is more puzzling is that the ICC has declared that Hair would not officiate in any of the Pakistan team matches, in a view to work some sort of shady compromise, which is now going to further break the rather fragile excuse of a system which is currently in place. Hair had penalized the Pakistan team for ball tampering, which led to...

Cricket Discussion forum relaunched

Hello everyone.... hope this post finds you all in good health and cheer. I was away to Bangalore to watch India's first rock festival where the likes of Megadeth and Machine head played. Machine head were their usual noisy best and Megadeth stole the show with their technical wizardry and precision... all-in-all a great experience. I have been out of touch with the cricketing world for sometime and I read the news that England won the test and the Pakistan ICL team is kicking the natives ...

India wins the commonwealth series

Finally an exciting match happened and what a match it was! Gripping, tense and good cricket all around. Australia fought fabulously to peg back India to what was turning out to be a huge 300 plus score and India put relentless pressure on the Aussie batting to scrape home. It was the cricket wasn't it? Any anybody who watched the match could have learned many things related to this trade as some good ideas in the bowling department all around by both teams were seen. If Nathan Bracken showed...

India crowned u19 world champions

Congratulations team India To be honest, more than the Commonwealth series, the u19 world cup finals was something which I was really looking forward to. India beat South Africa to clinch the championship in a rain affected match. The only sad aspect of this tournament was just like the commonwealth series, there were many matches affected by rain and a true contest was robbed. It has been three world cups in a row that India has made it to the finals and this shows that the development pr...

India takes the first swipe

For what was a long and boring commonwealth series, I was hoping for some exciting brand of cricket being played in the finals and a decent match went by with India quite easily beating the Aussies. The Indian bowlers did well to restrict the Aussies to 240 but should also be kicking themselves that they conceded so much, considering they were tottering with 3 wickets down with less than 25 runs on the board within the first 6 overs. I had earlier on this site made calls to look beyond Har...