The Guardian world cricket forum: who would play in an IPL dream team? | Vic...
Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly blog offering a forum for cricket-loving folk around the worldI have missed much of the Indian Premier League. This is not because I'm an embittered...
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There are parallels with the situation of the tourists a century ago but this time the dispute centres on very different issuesThere would be something appropriate about the threatened strike by...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: Pakistan needs a players' association |...
Pakistan has no equivalent to the Professional Cricket Association but it needs one if it is to make strides fowardIn the summer of 1968, inadvertently, I was privy to what I now realise was one of the...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: India holds the key to the future | Vic Marks
Tony Greig's analysis is that India holds the future of the game in the palm of her hands and everything hinges on a willingness to apply the 'spirit of cricket'I attended the Cowdrey Spirit of Cricket...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: England's chance to take first Test | Andy...
South Africa have taken a gamble by arranging so little cricket before the Oval Test and England could be set to pounceSo this is it. The highlight of the summer, when hopefully the rain that has...
View ArticleWorld cricket forum | New Zealand's quiet decline is so sad | Barney Ronay
The nation that gave us Richard Hadlee is now the least-mourned casualty of cricket's chaotic fiscal rearrangementOf all the jarringly mix-and-match bilateral series staged around the cricketing world...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: Counties have lost their Imran Khans |...
Indian umpire Sundaram Ravi's stint in England mirrors the short-term stays of the modern overseas playerThe presence of an Indian umpire plying his trade in the County Championship this month had me...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: the British repeat Olympic success | Vic Marks
Old Blundellians prove too good for French in game to celebrate cricket's one and only Olympic match in 1900In sublime Devonian conditions – a cloudless sky and a barrel of Otter Ale in the pavilion –...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: Usain Bolt set to play in Big Bash?
Usain Bolt says it will be 'a lot of fun' to try Twenty20 cricket but his participation will only confirm the BBL's status as a circusSo, the Olympics may be over but Usain Bolt is going to play in the...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: England's crown could be spun off | Richard...
With 10 spinners named in the 30-man West Indies squad for the World Twenty20, Darren Sammy's team look a serious threatFor international batsmen of a certain era, a menacing aroma meant there was no...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: Pakistan move slowly out of exile
Matches being staged in Karachi this weekend will be another major step towards acceptance for PakistanInternational cricket, albeit of the unofficial kind, is due to return to Pakistan this weekend,...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: how not to use social media
Kenwyn Williams, executive secretary of the USA Cricket Association, in a masterclass of digging a hole for yourselfHave you ever seen a bear try to make sense of a teapot? It's a terrible business....
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: So long Sourav Ganguly, an India great
The former captain had his faults but should be remembered as an inspirational figure as he bows out of the sportTalk about going out with a whimper. Reports have dribbled through to England that...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: Australia to ruthlessly sledge Amla? | Andy...
Australia will aim to 'engage South Africa's Hashim Amla in a psychological sledging war', according to a Brisbane paperAnother Test series involving South Africa, another mysterious leak. This time...
View ArticleGuardian world cricket forum: South Africa and a very different Adelaide |...
From black swans and West End draught to Hansie Cronje's spearing a stump through the door of the umpires' room – South Australia's Oval has seen it allHow appropriate that the occasional Australia...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum | Vic Marks
Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly blog offering a forum for cricket-loving folk around the worldIt may well be that Kevin Pietersen is in the right place. Last week I was at Lord's, where...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum | Mike Selvey
Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly blog offering a forum for cricket-loving folk around the worldThere is a story concerning Chris Gayle which is often retold whenever his name crops up in...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum | Vic Marks
Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly blog offering a forum for cricket-loving folk around the worldThe saga of Mitchell Starc has kept various parties either infuriated, frustrated or amused....
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum | Rob Bagchi
Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly blog offering a forum for cricket-loving folk around the worldSadly, it now looks likely that we will have to wait until mid-June and the start of the...
View ArticleThe Guardian world cricket forum: IPL profits from spice on and off-field |...
Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly blog offering a forum for cricket-loving folk around the worldThe fifth season of the Indian Premier League reaches its climax with Sunday's final in...
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