What a difference 18 months can make. On March 2nd 2004 at Napier, New Zealand wrapped up a comprehensive thrashing of SA by 5 ODI’s to 1. Last night in Port Elizabeth South Africa had already won the 5 match series by winning the third game of this series.
The pitches from what I have [...]

Ireland have won the ICC Intercontinental Cup in Kenya!
More here

I very nearly bought Steve Waugh’s new book today. Stopped short only because
a) the book is so damn heavy I didn’t want to carry it around
b) didn’t have any money
So instead, I stood reading a couple of chapters in the book shop until my wife dragged me out. The book fell open on [...]

Bob Woolmer has written an excellent piece on the technology debate running on wicket-to-wicket.
He makes the point that Hawkeye would bring a consistency to LBW decisions that is currrently lacking. I hope his views (and specifically his suggestion to host a tournament with all the tech toys being used) gain momentum within the [...]

The ICC has a goal to see cricket grow strong in the developing countries over the coming years and Ireland’s progression in the ICC Trophy would seem to be an encouraging sign.
However there are a multitude of reasons why emerging nations struggle to get a foothold into competitive international cricket and one good [...]

“We’ll win 3-0″ - full story here

Duncan Fletcher extolling the virtues of Michael Vaughan as the greatest captain on the planet has encouraged me to write this post that has been knocking around in my skull for a while.
Good captaincy (by my own traditional definition) has forever been synonymous with tactical superiority, with mental dominance, and often with nuggety rearguard [...]

Duncan Fletcher is proclaiming Michael Vaughan as
‘the best captain in the world’
Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. It’s so subjective, but what about the timing of this proclamation. The day before the team fly to Pakistan??? The day after the Ashes win he could have got away with it but not at the [...]