Jason Gillespie: The outcast, the leper

All right, now this has stretched way too far and way too cheap. Jason Gillespie has been stopped by cricket Australia from taking up a two-week coaching stint for some promising teenage cricketers at the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane. His affiliation for the unrecognized league ICL, was the reason for the same, which apparently is the view of the ICC. For many who are not aware of my views of the IPL-ICL 'clown fest', I am for the ICC and its members to protect its interests from unregu...

Let there be light ICC

What a downer! For the first time in this series, the game became very competitive in the match between England and India, going down 'almost' to the wire and bad light stopped play. Yeah I know... It was like getting close to an ejaculation and then being asked to make your next move in Chess. Out came the officials with their rather favorite and complicated Duckworth & Lewis African 'mumbo jumbo'. You ever wondered why these officials like the D&L mumbo jumbo so much. One, ...

Powerplay checkmate

The second one-day game between India and England lingered on boring dull passages of play, until all of a sudden everything gets shaken up with the new rules of powerplay... The batsman's powerplay of choice. The umpire hands out his signal. Butterflies flutter around crazily searching for their ex's. Buffaloes run free in the city streets grunting in orgasmic excitement. The coaches choke on their network cables. The 12th man swallows his bracelets. You get it. Everyone wakes...

20 million dollar humiliation maybe but Stanford is needed

Last week, the much talked about Stanford 20 million dollar one-off 'winner takes all' match went with disappointing results for England. They were put away like a third division club team by the Stanford Superstars. Of course, they went away looking idiotic too for all the bad press coverage for being associated with this event. The superstars in all fairness deserved to win all that money wholeheartedly, however hard I may be laughing at the English team. The crowds may have been small but the...

PCB Chief, Nasim “flip-flop” Ashraf resigns

In yet another bizarre twist to Pakistani cricket, the PCB chief steps down from his position on a day when their political president also steps down and the strange part is Gen. Musharaf's resignation had everything to do with this. Are we looking at some sworn loyalty syndrome? Or is there a lot that meets the eye in terms of his relationship and personal fortunes with the patron-in-chief? Whatever may be, it could well be the light at the end of the tunnel for Pakistan with respect to cric...