Cricket

Ponting solely to Blame?

Have standards slipped in Australian cricket under Ricky Ponting, or Tim Neilson? Ponting was very magnanimous in defeat at the Oval on Sunday evening Australian time, and betrayed his surly demeanour by being a credit to Australia and taking the

Freddy Will Play

It is amazing to think that there has been so much written about Andrew “Freddy” Flintoff and whether he will or won’t play in the final Ashes Test at the Oval. There is no doubt that the England hierarchy made

Fanatics disgrace Australia

Australia is  meant to be the country of a ‘fair go’ but the supposed “fanatics,” by admitting that they set off the fire alarm at the England cricket team’s hotel on the eve of the recent Ashes test at Headingley have overstepped

The Spirit of Cricket Alive and Well.

Good to see that cricket can still be classed as a game where the players know the difference between right and wrong and how a gentleman should react. England Captain Andrew Strauss’s decision to allow Graham Manou to replace the

Hughes a Twit? Or Victim of Technology?

So Philip Hughes twittered that he had been dropped from the Australian test cricket team, and he is being lambasted for it. Sadly the 20 year old is a victim of youth and the selectors not aware of the way