Posts from ‘April, 2010’
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April 30, 2010
Oi, statto, NO!
A pair of recent articles in Spin Cricket magazine have got me in a huff about attempts to rank every player in Test cricket history. How dare they suck the life out of the narrative of cricket.
April 29, 2010
World Twenty20 preview
It’s only 10 months since the last edition, but I am strangely exited about this tournament in a way that it’s impossible to be about the IPL right now. The format is lean and snappy, the cricket will be competitive and it’s genuinely hard to call this one, although I am going to have a go.
April 28, 2010
Real Surrey Projekt: a slow start
I’ll be tracking the progress of Chris Adams’ Real Surrey Projekt this summer. Here’s some thoughts on a slow start to the season.
April 26, 2010
BCCI: “I was dead at the time”
The BCCI has commenced at full throttle it’s campaign to convince the world, and especially the Indian tax authorities, that it wasn’t even in the room when Lalit was being naughty, and that it definitely was nothing to do with them.
Re-inventing the wheel
Last year the ECB decided that the Pro40 had to go, yet this year Sussex are defending their title even though the competition no longer exists. Only at the ECB.
April 23, 2010
Cricket & the psychology of fear
Cricket is a game played mostly in the mind. No amount of technique and panache can compensate for the mental frailties that have reigned so tyrannically over potential throughout the years. It is the psychology of fear that makes Test cricket great.
April 22, 2010
Modi’s IPL ambition achieved
Lalit Modi’s publicly stated ambition for the IPL was for it to become bigger than football’s Premier League. A short time later and he has accomplished his ambition, but not in the manner he had in mind.
April 20, 2010
Will Lalit Modi resign today?
The Indian media are reporting that Lalit Modi will today resign his position as IPL Chairman after his part in the financial scandal that has cost an Indian minister his job and led to a full investigation of IPL finances by Indian tax authorities.
April 19, 2010
Do England want Finn for Ashes?
Steve Finn has long been highlighted as a good international prospect, and the chance that came his way through injuries in Bangladesh has heightened his reputation. But have England already got him in mind for the Ashes?
A website re-imagined
Like a half-finished Brian Wilson recording, the previous design incarnation of this site failed to live up to my notoriously fussy standards. So now a new design sweeps in like the proverbial new broom ahead of some exciting goings-on this summer.
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