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May 24 2001 Match-fixing report released AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 PAGES WITH PAUL CONDON The report certainly has got the big names talking, and the big cricketing organization sitting up and reacting. Whether anything physical will come about because of it is a another matter entirely. But hats off to Willy, I mean Paul for his efforts... MORE  March 26 2001 Sri Lanka-England series review WHO'S NEXT THEN...? I was out the night before the third and final day of the third Test, and awoke briefly to turn the radio on and find out the score. Sri Lanka were about to come out to bat a second time, and I gradually drifted of to sleep. Then bang! a wicket, bang! another wicket, and bang! Thorpe 'catches' Jayasuriya. The match is alive, and I am very much awake... MORE March 6 2001 CRICKET'S NEW GLOBAL PRESSURES As the build up to the first New Zealand-Pakistan Test is showing, the increased pressures of a rolling Test world championship are already beginning to show themselves, and the table has not even started running... MORE February 20 2001 TEST CRICKET RECEIVES A NEW SENSE OF PURPOSE Every series and every Test for May 2001, will now have more worth, even a last Test of the series, where the weaker side seem beaten, a drawn series will now be given a point... MORE January 15 2001 CRICKET MEETS THE 21st CENTURY [part 1] [part 2] Sport has become part of the entertainment industry due to commercial and capitalist ideals of the 20th century, forcing marketing to be seen as a vital source of revenue for any globally recognized sport. This is the story about cricket and its battle of tradition versus commercial values during the last 30 years, and how important the media is in its political processes. December 11 2000 ENGLAND SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST Throughout the series, England have matched their more experienced hosts, run for run, wicket for wicket. The vastly more experienced Wasim and Waqar never played together, and never quite ripped through a side like they might have done in the prime... MORE December 3 2000 STEVE WAUGH'S UNSTOPPABLES On October 14, 1999, Australia set out on their inaugural Test against Zimbabwe in Harare. That they won with relative ease by 10 wickets was nothing significant. Yet it was the first trickle that became a tidal wave in Brisbane today, as Steve Waugh led his band of determined players to a world-record breaking twelfth successive Test victory... MORE November 23 2000 'Cricket's Strange Rules' or 'How I Learned to Love the Game' A friend asked me how the cricket was going. Not the Test, or the series, just 'the cricket'. He did not ask the score, or any other details. He was aware of my passion for the game, but before knowing me had never taken much of an interest. This was mainly due to the smokescreen of rules and laws that confound and bewilder many that have neither the time nor patience to get with cricket's programme... MORE >>The best cricket links online: |
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