They lost in Mohali, but no problem because it was India and it was a fluke. They lost in Nagpur, but no problem because it was India, McGra...Read More
Arjuna Ranatunga allows Sri Lankan ICL players to participate in the Sri Lankan domestic competition - the BCCI grumbles, but makes no move...Read More
Cricket Australia has been harping on about night Test matches for quite some time now. Up until now, no concrete timelines, plans or detail...Read More
Just on two years ago we offered you this . In the meantime, sure he came back and became the matchwinner he was always touted to be. His po...Read More
Words really cannot describe the horrors of seeing innocent men and women slaughtered, of elite commandos falling out of flaming windows or ...Read More
Given our recent switch to the fully commercial and totally not free http://thematchreferee.com domain and all ancillary commitments that a...Read More
He was reviled for not spinning the ball enough, for being a tiger on tailor-made tracks and a bunny on everything else and pilloried every ...Read More
$20 million, winner takes all, and the Poms leave the Caribbean with not a penny in their pockets. Kevin Pietersen believes that the misera...Read More
Bishan Singh Bedi has seldom been one to pull punches when it comes to the big issues. Bedi has remained true to form after accepting an in...Read More
Scribes of various descriptions and literary ability have been expending reams discussing whether Team India captain Anil Kumble should retu...Read More
I have stumbled across a few websites that offer live video feed of this series. The picture quality is excellent for the live feed, althoug...Read More
The announcement of match officials for a series of such enormity is always news to which I look forward. We, especially I, have been ultra ...Read More
To aid my procrastinating today, I was trawling through YouTube and found a treasure trove of Manchester United crowd chants. Having never b...Read More
This is one those special events here at The Match Referee. One of the few times during the year where, along with the footballers, we too l...Read More
This story is akin to reporting that George Bush is an idiot. Seriously now, did anybody outside of sensationalist journalists ever enterta...Read More
Just when the entire cricketing universe thought that the ICL had no show of upstaging the BCCI and its IPL, comes news that the core of the...Read More
The Delhi blasts of 13 September have yet again exposed the inadequacy and ineptitude of Indian politicians and enforcers of law and order ...Read More
That was the impression I got when I first saw Ajanta Mendis bowl today in the India v Sri Lanka Asia Cup final in Karachi. This lad has tak...Read More
I write this just after Ricky Ponting has stolen a quick single and moved on to 99, while still being unable to get any semblance of timing ...Read More
Or, more accurately, will he be accepted as one by the English public, wonders Jonathan Liew . This to me sounds like merely another example...Read More
Quite naturally, when an all-conquering side like the Australians lose a match the usual sound bites must be provided by the players and rep...Read More
The beanpole that is world cricket, that is. Before I come back down to Earth, can I just say that his spell on the fourth day against Ricky...Read More