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. Read more… »

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. Read more… »

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. Read more… »

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. Read more… »

Let’s face it… this series is as boring as “santa barbera” and also as long and no hot babes or good wine. For teams like India and Sri Lanka, it was the test for checking out the new crop as part of the rebuilding process and for the other, a good tour to assess how well their rebuilding process have developed so far. Read more… »

This picture says it all… Welcome to Australia, mate! There is no better guy who could give a much warmer welcome to the young colts on what International cricket is, than Brett Lee right at the form of his life. And there is no better learning curve on figuring out how hard cricket is by playing with the world champions, Australia. Read more… »

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… »

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… »