South African captain Graeme Smith says he will not be reading the riot act to his squad despite Tuesday’s ten-wicket defeat to England which he labelled as one of the lowest points of his career.
Donald Bradman didn’t need technology, prepared pitches or a support team to make history, says Australian bowler Nathan Bracken.
Cricket Australia (CA) says the security situation in India is completely different to that in neighbouring Pakistan despite bomb blasts causing a new worry for a scheduled visit.
Australian Cricket captain Ricky Ponting tonight called for a “carve-out” period in the calendar for Twenty20 to avoid the possibility of future generations being tempted away from playing for their country.
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Smith mulls over Nottingham mauling
In a recent television program on cricket, Mike Coward, one the game’s finest and most thoughtful writers, wondered whether Test cricket - and with it the memory of Don Bradman’s fabulous exploits - would survive in 50 years time.
Cricket legend Imran Khan said today he feared more trouble for Pakistan cricket after the Champions Trophy postponement, saying the country is run by the wrong people who are destroying everything.
Australia will today commemorate the one century that eluded Don Bradman. Cricket’s greatest player, and an icon of Australian history, will be celebrated on the day he would have turned 100.
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Don Bradman was skipper of the Invincibles, but Ricky Ponting considers him more an Untouchable.
Portraying Don Bradman on film brought actor Gary Sweet fame, and lasting expectations.
One hundred years after his birth, Sir Donald Bradman remains narrowly defined as an unremarkable man with a more than remarkable record.
It’s hard to picture Don Bradman sending 90 text messages a day but cricket’s greatest ever batsman earnt much adoration from his prolific correspondence with fans.
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Sir Donald Bradman needs no resumé. His rendezvous with history was unique, and is still without parallel. So will it always be: for today, and tomorrow. Legends are made of such stuff, and Bradman was, doubtless, a true legend.
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I made my way down to the batting cages in Chelsea, Manhattan recently to fulfill a long held curiosity about how someone brought up on cricket would adjust to hitting balls flying out of a pitching machine. And let me tell you, it wasn’t quite as easy as I’d imagined.
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Recently, while watching the last few overs of the Second Test against the West Indies, the camera lingered on Australian captain Ricky Ponting standing at second slip. I noticed him spit on the ground as he spoke to his next door neighbor, possibly Michael Clarke.
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Who says cricket is a non-contact sport? Not only can you be hit by a cricket ball, but it appears it is now okay to shoulder charge a batsman and then run them out.
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I believe international Twenty20 cricket should only be played either at a special Twenty20 World Cup or not at all. It is detracting too much from the 50-over game
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Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Damien Martyn, Justin Langer, Brad Hogg, Stuart MacGill. These are the players that have retired in the short period since the 2007 Ashes.
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Test cricket is under threat from 20/20. To the purist, it is like comparing chess with Uno. To a new market, which demands instant entertainment, it is an introduction to a wonderful game with wide media appeal.
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Is cricket in Australia in trouble, or are the selectors letting us down?
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Stuart MacGill started his career with great promise and it appeared destined that the New South Welshman would go on to achieve great things.
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Extracts from Cricinfo’s ball-by-ball commentary on Stuart MacGill’s bowling in his final Test in Antigua.
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“I’d be uncontrollable if I got seven-for in a grade game for North Sydney. God only knows what is going to happen this evening.” After taking 12 wickets in the fifth Ashes Test at the SCG in January 1999.
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I have to admit that while I have not been following the IPL closely, I was impressed to see the highlights of Brendan McCullum’s opening innings, and then also impressed to see that Gilly set a new world record for the fastest century (42 balls).
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Those who have frequented my writing on this forum would know that I once gave the IPL a demeaning glare and look of discontent. I backed the purists and claimed that such a bruha would not be worth watching. Mainly because I wasn’t sure of the skill level of the cricket that would be played.
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Twenty20 cricket will carve a boutique position in the massive American sporting market within the time it took the Swans to etch a niche in Sydney.
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The TV coverage in Australia of the IPL series in India is a disgrace. They do not show it live when they can and they show no highlights at all.
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Brendon McCullum kicked off the IPL in style last night blasting an impeccable 158 runs from just 73 balls to give the Kolkata Knight Riders the taste of first blood.
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Australia will go to the Caribbean in May to play against the West Indies in a three Test series for the Sir Frank Worrell Trophy.
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Remember who won the 2007 Caulfield Cup, or the US Masters?
