Ashes 2010 preview with Lawrence Booth and Jarrod Kimber in Amit Masram’s Cricket Central show

Lawrence Booth, acclaimed English cricket writer and award winning Daily Mail columnist and Jarrod Kimber , the maverick Australian writer preview the Ashes 2010 series, predict the player to watch out for and the plan to win the Ashes with Amit Masram on the Cricket Central show .Ashes 2010 preview with Lawrence Booth and Jarrod … Continue reading Ashes 2010 preview with Lawrence Booth and Jarrod Kimber in Amit Masram’s Cricket Central show

Balls matter !

    India retained the Border Gavaskar trophy against Australia and further consolidated their number one ranking in test matches .The test series, having produced results in both the test matches , amid popular fear of pale draw ,made the battle between bat and ball pulsating, The joy of test cricket is back with reverse … Continue reading Balls matter !

VVS Laxman –Love for Australia continues to grow

The Australian skipper Ricky Ponting fades away in history after failing to register a win against India. This is one of the few boxes that still need to be ticked on this illustrious résume.Come November, when the Ashes gets underway, all this disappointment will be gone and Ricky Ponting will have renewed his motivation to … Continue reading VVS Laxman –Love for Australia continues to grow

Will Test Cricket pass the stiff test ? With English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff ‘s retirement from test cricket , what was just a premonition is now looking an unpleasant reality . The commercials of T-20 beast is hovering to wolf down test cricket, with favours from injuries and excessive cricket .The timing of the decision … Continue reading

Ponting will be tested England carried the advantage of freak escape into the second test and ended the Lords jinx with a 115 runs victory and a 1-0 lead in the Ashes. .This is hard test cricket for you .And the wrecker in chief was Andrew Flintoff who sent out 10 high quality overs unchanged, … Continue reading

By this time Yuvraj Singh should have been a regular in the Indian middle order and a certainty in the Test Team, after eight seasons of international cricket and a proven match winner. However, he still turns over in bed, plump up his pillow, with the inscrutable question; does he belong to the test level? … Continue reading

Legacy of umpires under threat! Change is inevitable goes the cliché .The game of cricket has certainly seen lots of these in the recent past .But the one that will have a lasting impact would be the present proposal of reviewing a decision of the on field umpires .Prima-facie , it may look promising and … Continue reading

Banned ! Revolution in the cricket is not unheard of and the bats haven’t remained far behind too in the race. Certainly, these days even mishits and edges clear the fence comfortably for a six. This is enough to give an idea of the strength of the modern bats.With the International cricket chiefs have forbidden … Continue reading

Track Statistics! They say the matches are won in the mind and by playing hard competitive cricket. Pitches really do not matter much. Is it? In the recently concluded series pitches were different on all three occasions.Starting the first match with a perfect placid track which became memorable with Sehwags triple century , ended in … Continue reading