Chris Cairns has responded positively to his axing form the NZ one day touring squad to South Africa. The decision to drop him was I believe the right one, and was the eventual consequence of Cairns’s gamble to restrict both his domestic and international cricket to only the limited overs form of the game, [...]

Within the last thirty minutes I’ve heard two different versions of John Bracewell’s decision to drop Chris Cairns from the New Zealand ODI squad to tour South Africa next month.

Malcolm speed has claimed that the ICC are not investigating match fixing allegations in India relating to the Zimbabwe hosted tri-series.
The fan in me says this is good news and the sanctity of the game is restored. The sceptic in me wonders where the ICC sees the bigger risk. A) In exposing a dodgy [...]

Cricinfo reported on Daniel Vettori’s claims that the match fixing allegations in Zimbabwe were “news to me”.
Some of those Indian dropped catches in the final of the one day triangular series would have been comical were it not for the potential they now hold to reignite this slur on the game.
What a shame it [...]