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How can an SRW fail?
Sometimes initials say more about a cricketer than anything the pundits can come up with. Michael Colin Cowdrey was always going to a blue-blooded bacon-and-tie wearing MCC man. Stuart Charles Glyndwr...
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Burnt wood
How can a genuine cricket lover not be deeply saddened by South Africa's most unfortunate and untimely win against England in Cape Town? After the mighty English were cruelly denied victory in the...
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Bradman's balls, Tsunami appeals, and Habibul Bashar
If it was not bad enough to hear normally distinguished gents like Ian Chappell and Mark Taylor flogging the latest piece of strictly limited edition Sir Sonald Bradman memorabilia during the broadcast...
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It's official ...
Just when you thought the International Cricket Council had got things right in organising a jamboree cricket match to raise funds for victims of the Tsunami disaster that struck South Asia, they...
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Frindall takes on the ICC
Not Cricinfo yesterday made the point that the International Cricket Council was making a mistake in granting official one-day international status to the fund-raiser in aid of tsunami victims. It...
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Why do our heroes do this to themselves?
If you love cricket, you almost certainly love cricketers as well. There’s something about the men (and occasionally women) who play the game that draws you to them. Cricket, more than any other sport,...
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14.6 million, but could have been more?
The cricket world for once stood up together as one and made its presence felt at a time when it mattered. More than 14.6 million Australian dollars were generated from the Rest of the World v Asia XI...
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Warne 106,500, Tendulkar 7,600, Sehwag 1600, Kumble 685
The World Cricket Tsunami Appeal rattled in the moolah like no other cricket charity game has. One of the interesting sidelights was the auction of the shorts players wore during the game. Shane...
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Spare the rod
If you have a stick, and want to beat someone with it, steer clear of Bangladesh. That team, more than any other in the world, needs nurture. They were given Test status four years ago, and are now on...
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Breakfast with a fallen angel
For a week now I have not been able to bring myself to write anything in these pages. Not because I have been too busy, although that could be proffered as an excuse. Not because I was under the...
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Normal service resumes
I've been away relaxing, lolling and recharging my batteries at a family wedding. But now, with Pakistan's tour of India barely weeks away, normal service resumes. There's so much to talk about, so...
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15th degree murder
The little boy stood cowering in fear as his mother went through the contents of her purse and found several currency notes missing. She went into a frenzy, knowing fully well it was her errant son who...
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Pat on the back for domestic bliss
People often talk of cricket being a religion in India. But that isn't quite right. International cricket is a religion, and cricketers who play for India are treated like gods. But very few people...
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Pot calling a kettle a pot
It's official. It's not only selectors of the subcontinent who are incompetent, bumbling, parochial, and political when choosing teams. The holiest of the holy, the Australians, are apparently just the...
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Thank you Davenell
Finally there's one person who agrees with me. Dav Whatmore, one of the men responsible for the change in approach to one-day cricket in recent times, has said the rules were fine, and it's the players...
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Dharamsala? High altitude? Hardly ...
The Pakistanis have been slightly bemused at being asked to play their warm-up match against the Indian Board President's XI at the high-altitude venue of Dharamsala. But, it could easily have been...
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Sacrilege
I know it is sacrilege to write about New Zealand when India and Pakistan are playing a series, but there's good reason. Regular readers of Not Cricinfo may sense a trend in criticism of New Zealand,...
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The Prince of Calcutta
The last few days have been hectic. Two colleagues are out on tour, three are stricken by chicken pox. And I've been having doubts about why I should be writing a blog at all when I write for Cricinfo....
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A moment for Scott Mason
Scott who?Well, in the whirl of international cricket, where one day is a long time, where the condition of Sachin Tendulkar's elbow sends an entire nation into a tizzy, spare a moment for Scott Robert...
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The honest jogger
John Wright's five years with India have finally come to an end. And you can't really grudge him his departure, his two kids, Harry and Georgie, have hardly seen their father, and understandably want...
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