Australia's current tour of South Africa has produced some enthralling cricket, with the contest being feisty. Graeme Smith scored a much needed 50 in Port Elizabeth while Jacques Kallis also returned to form with a classy knock, reminding us of his ...
The news that emerged on Tuesday was that the ICC had changed its mind on the number of associate teams that will take part in the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Considering the speed at which the ICC made the original decision to cull its minor members jus...
The 2011 World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh could be seen as a success and that is because the tournament had it all.
From some tense finishes such as India versus England and South Africa versus India, there were also some fine performa...
We are well into the Cricket World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- by all accounts it would seem that the organisation is very good -- unlike the Commonwealth Games earlier.
Haroon Lorgat opened his stance on the World Cup very early on ...
The ICC, not the most renowned organisation for getting things done (or doing them properly), showed some welcome grit when handing down the verdicts in the now infamous spot-fixing scandal against Pakistan's Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and former c...
Have you ever seen a film where there are two characters, each pushing their own agenda, whose paths are destined to collide because it is just so? It's a popular story arc in fictionalised works all over the world, since it gives a clear distinction...
The foundation stone of a person's character and belief system is the culmination of not just one moment, but most likely hundreds or even thousands of moments. Everything we do, and every experience we go through is comparable to an ever-changing ba...
From the mid 1970s to the end of the 1980s the world was still in a Cold War, the final embers of the Vietnam War were extinguished (but not forgotten), apartheid was still in force and the Berlin Wall was still very much a barrier to entry.
But...
Deserts are an ever-changing landscape. From one day to the next the dunes shift from place to place, rolling over the landscape made asunder with the assistance of the wind. The only constant is the sun and as an Arabic proverb states "all sunshine ...
It may be somewhat surprising when you think about how, in over 13 decades of cricket's well-documented existence, we only have one known way to judge cricketers -- batting and bowling averages. The void that this leaves is quite huge.
Measuring c...
