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Live Cricket Blog: Gunfight at The Premadasa Corral

5 Mar 2011

The R.Premadasa International Stadium is a graveyard for bowlers. In 1997-98, Sri Lanka racked up the world’s highest Test total, scoring 952 for 6 declared against India. The highest partnership in Test cricket of 576 for the second wicket was established by Jayasuriya and Mahanama. Join The Roar’s live cricket blog from 7.30pm The toss [...]

Australia beat Black Caps in a one-sided encounter

26 Feb 2011

Nagpur, in the exact geographical centre of India, is a long way from Christchurch and the respective teams stood in a moment’s silence reflecting on the tragedy still so fresh. Republican, a respected Roarer, was of the opinion New Zealand would lift for this encounter and Australia’s “weeping willows” middle order would crumble. John Wright, [...]

Things we can control: Sport, the great healer

24 Feb 2011

Life and death take precedence over everything. Even sport. The heavens opened and the floods around the country showed how fleeting our life can be. The earth opened up in Christchurch and we were reminded how precious life is. All these natural tragedies also showed the resilience and heroism of man. We learn to accept [...]

Zimbabwe prosper a little but Price not quite right

22 Feb 2011

If Santana was running the ICC he would be singing “Let the Children Play”. This was a soundtrack from his million-selling album Festival. This current World Cup may be the last playground for the children. Australia played Zimbabwe overnight and it was supposed to be a massacre of the innocents. Australia had only lost once [...]

The contenders for the World Cup that counts

20 Feb 2011

This is compulsory reading for the wise men at Cricket Australia: The 2015 World Cup, to be played in Australia, will be the 50 overs format and not a hybrid 45 split over impersonator. The opening ceremony in Bangladesh confirmed the enthusiasm and the passion of the subcontinent for the 50 overs format. Irrespective of [...]

Molly-coddled players need to toughen up for World Cup

17 Feb 2011

My friend on The Roar, Sheek, has accused me of being a misguided cricket tragic. If the truth be known I am struggling with the sorry state of Australian cricket. In a time where Mubarak can be overthrown because the people have had enough, there is a case in my opinion for a revolt against [...]

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Can Bangladesh survive the cut?

Ian,you posed the question Can Bangladesh survive this group? The brutal answer is No! That would be a shame because a home quarterfunal was theirs for the taking. For me this throws up some interesting questions: 1. The have siddons as the national coach but do they have coaches at the U-16 level that can instill the right technique. The idea of sending a radar gun out to the boondocks smacks of a Twenty20 approach to fostering talent. I can't blame this thinking because CA's boffins seem to think this is the way for higher honours. 2. Do they have a domestic competition that plays long form? Even two day matches like they have in grade in australia. Even India has grade matches that play over two days. And what about a national 4 day competition? 3. the work ethic of the players? Its tough work being a quick bowler in the sub-continent and is this why many turn to spin? In the end Bangladesh have passionate fans that desrve more from their team and the buck has to stop somewhere. Ashraful should be shown the door. He has been given more chances than Todd Carney. Time to go. They will find it nigh on impossible to Beat SAF AND England. Which is a shame because they started so well against India.

6 Mar 2011

Live Cricket Blog: Gunfight at The Premadasa Corral

jamesb and lopati. It was just starting to get interesting and maybe Australia did dodge a bullet. I think SL will feel the same way because in clarke and Ponting Aust. have two good players of spin. In fact the best players of spin apart from P and C are Tendulkar,Gambhir,A B De Villiers and Bell. SL could be playing some of these in a quarter or semi. Krezja had a ready made pitch yesterday and apart from one over he struggled. He turns the ball but his line is wrong. He needs to study the lines Murali and harbhajan bowl. shouldn't be that hard to get the line right. Are our spinners just a little bit slow between the ears?

6 Mar 2011

Live Cricket Blog: Gunfight at The Premadasa Corral

sean,I was looking forward to australia chasing around 250. would have been interesting to see how they handled a three pronged spin attack. i think too much is being made of their form against Zimbabwe. it was the first match nd Price bowled well. As it was they won comfortably and then destroyed NZ. I don't think they will play as the rain is still coming down and the ground cannot recover in time.

6 Mar 2011

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