Cricket

Podcast #11 – Floorball and Hockey Take Centre Stage

As always there has been plenty to discuss in the World of sport, such as teams playing not to win as happened in the Junior Asia Cup, abandoning the toss to make cricket fairer,  and also the FFA’s failure to

Technique is the Best Form of Safety.

It was inevitable that in this world where few are prepared to accept responsibility for their own actions that sport has to protect itself by making moves to ensure the safety of those who play it, but are some of

Risking it on one turn of pitch-and-toss

Once again we have sports administrators tampering with the traditions of a game, simply because they are unable to either make or back up decisions. It was announced in the last few days that the mandatory coin toss is to

Must There Always Be A Winner?

Overnight India fought back after a draw and a loss to beat Australia’s Kookaburras in a three test Hockey series. This meant that the series was tied at one win a piece. Yet there had to be a winner! So

A Real Test

Cricket is synonymous with all that is true and honest in life, or it was. ‘It’s just not cricket’ has for years referred to having something that is unjust, or just plain wrong done to someone or something. ‘To play