Williams wants it

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will hold their next Board Meeting at the Turtle Beach Hotel in Barbados on October 20.
And one of the items on the agenda will be the Cricket Committee’s recommendations for a new coach and assistant coach. David Williams, the Trinidad and Tobago coach, is hoping his credentials will be [...]

Cricket-Johnson leads Australia to rout of India

Seamer Mitchell Johnson claimed his first five-wicket haul in one-day internationals to lead Australia to a crushing nine-wicket victory over India in the fifth match of the series on Thursday.The 25-year-old took five for 26 in a display of remarkable swing bowling to bundle the hosts out for 148 in 39.4 overs.
Adam Gilchrist, who held [...]

Hair today, gone tomorrow as cricket’s governing body bottles it

We knew it couldn’t last. The tiny bit of warm afterglow that everyone was enjoying following the ICC Twenty20 championship has evaporated in the cold, harsh light of Darrell Hair’s employment tribunal hearing. Hair’s charge of racial discrimination against his employers, the ICC, has been dropped, but not before the already tarnished reputation of the [...]

WICB warns players to seek direction before joining ICL

West Indies Cricket Board president, Julian Hunte, has warned regional players to seek legal advice before signing up for the controversial Indian Cricket League.
It has been rumoured that five West Indies cricketers have been offered contracts to play in the ICL, a league which the Indian Cricket Board has refused to sanction.
“I have heard rumours [...]

I have to be guiding force for young spinners: Harbhajan

The absence of Anil Kumble from India’s one-day team has put more responsibility on the shoulders of Harbhajan Singh, now the country’s leading spinner and a man who feels Twenty20 cricket will kill the art of spin. ‘I know I have more responsibilities in the team as a senior bowler and I have to take [...]

What to do with the Big Three?

Australia are so damn good that they can make cricket boring. It took a below-par performance from them in Chandigarh – 16 wides were bad enough but that they cost 15 further runs would point to a wretched day for Adam Gilchrist behind the wicket – to bring the series, which was fast becoming a [...]

Oz media claim Sreesanth taunted Symonds in Chandigarh

S Sreesanth continues to irk the Australians and the media claimed that the volatile Kerala speedster taunted Andrew Symonds in the fourth ODI at Chandigarh.
Even though he was not part of the playing eleven in Chandigarh, the sprightly pacer allegedly made remarks after Symonds got out and Australia’s 12th man Stuart Clark had to intervene [...]

Colonel moots u-22 league

Despite his hectic schedule the chairman of national selectors Dilip Vengsarkar took some time off to check Mumbai’s bench strength for the coming season. In the city for a few hours while in transit between the two ODI venues Hyderabad and Baroda, the former Indian captain turned up to watch the finals of the under-22 [...]

Former Eden curator open to ICL offer

 It’s been less than a fortnight that the Indian cricket Board decided to do away Probir Mukherjee, one of the most experienced pitch experts in the country. And the veteran curator has thrown his options to the Indian Cricket League (ICL), in case an offer comes along.Mukherjee had been attached to the Cricket Association of [...]

Cricket-Butt unhappy with decisions, bowling and fielding

LAHORE, Pakistan, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Pakistan vice captain Salman Butt said poor umpiring decisions along with fielding lapses and lax bowling had led to his team’s poor performance in the test series against South Africa.
Pakistan are 305 runs behind after the third day and, batting last, face a tough task to save the second [...]