I apologise for the lack of posting over the last couple of weeks. I could scarcely believe that the ICC could actually put on a tournament ...Read More
Quite obviously, being convicted of ball tampering, taking performance enhancing drugs and being the thorn in the side of any decent soul wh...Read More
For a while after the England v India Test series it seemed as if Ian Chappell had been personally slighted by Matt Prior, such was the veh...Read More
The Australian team has almost been forgotten after not being involved in a serious cricket match since the completion of the World Cup. It ...Read More
Time has come for Indian cricket to stop offering excuses about why certain players have not a chance in hell of doing the basics right. Ben...Read More
Homer is incensed at the treatment meted out to, now former, Mumbai captain Nilesh Kulkarni. He asks some very valid, if not rhetorical, qu...Read More
That is not a question asked in jest. After an almighty Test series that left us all chomping at the bit for a couple of encore performance...Read More
An ingenious fund raising idea from cricketers, we feel. Australian cricketers have, in recent times, been fairly vocal about the causes th...Read More
Cricket is a team game and Team India has proven over throughout this series just how rich the dividends can be, if effective teamwork is us...Read More
Time and again, over the past nine days or so, Rahul Dravid and his Team India have been reminded of their rather sorry record after having ...Read More
Sir Alex Ferguson and his Manchester United team could well have done without the farcical sequence of events that have transpired since Uni...Read More
Australian football has come a long way since missing out on qualification for World Cup after World Cup by failing at the last hurdle. Most...Read More
Michael Atherton belongs to rare breed of former cricketers who is writes and speaks in a very lucid and authentic manner. He is one of a sm...Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, congratulations on witnessing an almighty miracle. The Indian selectors, whether by their own design or by somebody el...Read More
I wonder if Team India reads newspapers or cricket websites? If they did, the players would find their obituaries published well before the ...Read More
Under prepared, according to Australian and Everton start Tim Cahill. At a press conference where grim faces were a distant memory and big,...Read More
Over the past few weeks, The Match Referee has brought you a series of posts focusing on a number of aspects of the upcoming series between ...Read More
Less than a year ago, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was touted as the next Adam Gilchrist. Such proclamations were obviously made by the sensationali...Read More
It just so happens that every time Team India embarks on an international tour to Australia, England, South Africa or New Zealand they take ...Read More
...as opposed to five bowlers and five batsman - the preferred strategy of Indian captain Rahul Dravid. The said case is best made by a fle...Read More
It was as close-run a thing as Graham Arnold and the Socceroos would ever like to leave it. Playing a totally unfancied Oman side with no bi...Read More
Match 1 of the series in Ireland showed us what we know already: Sachin Tendulkar can still score runs and the best-before date on his caree...Read More