The contents of Greg Chappell’s email have sealed the lid on the small jar of remaining doubt I had about Chappell’s escalating discord with Sourav Ganguly.
In the email he is blatantly accusing Ganguly of feigning injury to avoid 20 or so overs of the new ball before returning the field to complete his modest [...]

Farewell my elitist friend. Our secret love affair is tabloid fodder. Freddie adorns the cover of Hello while KP resists scores of teenage girls admiring his biceps as Sourav tests the limits of ‘player power’ against a backdrop of burning Chappell effigies.

Test cricket now has everything to rival the glitz and gutter of football and its vogue is gutting me like a freshly served salmon.

Cricinfo is running a poll on the future of test cricket focussing largely on the viability of Bangladesh and Zimbabwe retaining test status and whether some form of two tiered approach would be in the interests of the game.

A week after the end of the ashes I am now convinced we are perched delicately on the boundary of an era. One ashes loss does not a poor team make, and neither does it make world beaters of the victors, however there are early signs that the succession planning of the ACB has been thrown a curve ball by the defeat in England.

Damien Martyn has been axed from the test sqaud for the Super Series, despite keeping his place in the one day squad.
Is Martyn unlucky?. He got a couple of howlers of decisions in the Ashes series that cut his series average down and was certainly not alone in performing below expectations.
What interests me [...]

So Murali has been to the Deepa Bar in Mumbai but has no links with the Ferrari driving stripper. That’s comforting. Apparantly he was there on ‘family business’ and only popped in the bar for a quick shandy and a pack of pork scratchings.
These musings on match fixings are so damn reminiscent of the [...]

Will the ICC Super Series take on greater meaning now that Ponting is Ashesless?
Surely nothing less than a resounding win in all 3 one dayers and the test will do anything but harm for his chances of retaining the captaincy despite the positive vibes circulating all around him right now.
I’m actually looking forward [...]

By all accounts every child in England now owns a spanking new Woodworm and will be committing the rest of their natural lives to playing cricket. The future of the game is assured because…. of England’s Ashes Heroes! Hurrah.
What tosh! I bought a tennis racquet when Jimmy Connors first won Wimbledon and it was [...]