Cricket

It’s Just Not Cricket

What has become of the game that was for so long synonymous with being a gentleman? It has lurched from one scandal to another over the past twenty years with each new one being more damaging than the previous. At

Anderson to Swing in Australia?

Immediately post match England captain Andrew Strauss said “I always maintain that when the ball is swinging there is no better bowler in the world than Jimmy and he was able to put a huge amount of pressure on their

Aussies on the Roll at Lords?

It was strange watching the Australians play Pakistan at Lords, and a very sad day for cricket, especially when you look at the crowds, and compare them to what they would have drawn in Pakistan. That is however sadly the

Gotta Love Australia

Up until they made the final of the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup most people were sadly oblivious to the fact that the women’s tournament was running concurrently with the men’s. Now that Michael Clarke’s men in their first Twenty20 final

This day in sport: 07 April 2000

Hansie Cronje cricket scandal erupts A Delhi detective stumbled across a taped telephone conversation between South African captain Hansie Cronje and businessman Sanjay Chawla, sparking a controversy tat rocked international cricket. Cronje proved to be the central figure to match-fixing