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...

Accepting the ICL

Our friend Wasim has put up an elaborate and detailed post on the rather difficult issue of the ICL, its role and the way forward. http://cricketfiles.com/2008/11/21/lift-the-bans/ Hope we could all join in for a discussion over there on the way forward. Cheers

Absolute greed and Mohammed Yousuf

Mohammed Yousuf is a great player. For someone who comes across as a docile, quiet man, beneath the surface, lies all the raging testosterone of an highly ambitious, calculated and selfish man. I am absolutely amused at the number of times he has put Pakistan on to the bargaining table. And there seem to be no end to it. Totally miffed at being dropped for the Twenty-20 world cup and his not so closely held secret of captaincy aspirations, got him to shoot out words of retirement and joining...