In light of the mayhem in Guwahati it would be quite tempting to ponder the factors that conspire to come together to ignite a riot. Tempting to try some serious analysis of what turned a cricket crowd into a frustrated angry throng.
Tempting to discuss the relevance of the socioeconomic factors affecting [...]

The State Championship final (aka the centre piece of the New Zealand domestic cricket calendar) between Wellington and Central Districts saw crowd trouble yesterday at the basin reserve.
The trouble was, there was no crowd.
The attendance apparently peaked at 30 but for most of the days were in single figures. I’m not at all [...]

For some reason the spammers are taking a shine lately to the burnt bail and I’m spending more time whacking out comments to buy weird sounding drugs than I am actually posting.
So bear with me while I build up defences. I’m switching off comments for now until I get my head around it.
Update: thanks [...]

Apparantly this is the real meaning of the acronym, BCCI. Not the Board of Control for Cricket India, but the cops who wielded their batons and injured a nine year old boy and his mum in the process.
If this report is accurate, then it would appear that the baton charge by police at the [...]

England in India, One day series 2006.
3-0 down in a seven match series is not exactly the best start one could hope for. I haven’t checked the odds at the bookies on England winning the series but they must be getting good.
In fact, anything less than 100-1 would be daylight robbery really. Maybe England [...]

I put this post up just now on Different Strokes.
Work’s hectic gotta run.