India have pulled out of their tour to New Zealand next summer. Although they say it was a mutual agreement, New Zealand Cricket have so far been silent on the issue, suggesting that it was perhaps a one sided mutual agreement.

A quick peruse of my web stats revealed that a visitor stumbled across my site by entering in the above phrase as a search string.
Why would anyone do that? And more worryingly why did it point this macabre query to my very un-macabre burnt bail?

I genuinely can’t remember how I stumbled across this, but Anita Nigam, is apparantly world renowned for her amazingly accurate cricket predictions based on the alignments of the planets.
She holds a degree in planetary alignment and star gazing from Lucknow university in India (which seems to be a real place from their website)
Anita will [...]

The next Steve Harmison might be playing cricket in High Wycombe.
No idea when this photo was taken or what the lad’s name is. He could be 50 by now for all I know, but thought it was a cool photo. Apparantly this was his first game for his school.

So the Aussies have twigged that The Barmy Army are worth 100 runs an innings and are setting the stage for a controlled number of tickets to be issued to non-antipodean fans.
Personally I doubt whether any controls they put in place will be effective in deterring committed supporters from finding a way into the [...]

The 2005/6 Ashes series in Australia is already proving a confusing affair. Details of ticketing arrangements have been delayed as Cricket Australia try and work out how to squeeze a few Aussies into their own grounds.
Adding a potentially further element of confusion is the name of the sponsor. 3 Mobile have the lucrative privelege [...]

Just to back up the claim made in the previous post!