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Posted on November 28, 2011
The pitch at Wankhede Stadium used for last weeks drab (with the exception of the 5th day) 3rd test between India and West Indies raised more than a few eyebrows from interested observers (outside of India in particular). There appears to be a school of thought doing the rounds that the pitch was produced purely for Sachin to get his 100th international century....
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Posted on November 26, 2011
Before Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) met Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) over three years ago in their first bout, I incorrectly predicted that Cotto would defeat Margarito easier than expected . However, I feel that my original prediction may have been correct were it not for the "helping hands" that plaster of Paris provided for Margarito. I have no hard (no pun intended) evidence ...
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Posted on November 16, 2011
Lord Condon, once the head of the ICC's anti-corruption unit, has upset plenty in England over his comments that match fixing was rife in English county cricket in the 1980's. He also claimed that tests and world cup matches were being fixed routinely in the late 1990's and that every international team, at some stage, had someone doing some funny stuff. I don't dispute for a minute that there is ...
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Posted on November 15, 2011
More attempts at killing test cricket in Kolkata this morning. Bad light stops play before lunch at Eden Gardens, a ground that has recently had massive amounts spent on it and could probably do with the revenue brought in by those people left who are still remotely interested in wanting to watch test cricket - and more importantly, a ground with floodlights.. I understand that Darren Sammy was on...
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Posted on November 13, 2011
I got up this morning to see the sad news that Peter Roebuck had died late last night. I'm not going to go into the reasons why he might have killed himself, that is for another day, and there is clearly a lot more to come out with regard to the circumstances leading up to his suicide. There is a couple of points that have struck me today reading all the tributes to Roebuck. One is the exceptional...
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Posted on November 10, 2011
Oh how disappointed I am with what Peter Siddle did today. We were so close to seeing Australia totally humiliated at Newlands, at 21/9, I was convinced that Australia would set the lowest ever test score in the history of cricket. For a few brief few moments the dream was alive, but just like he did in the 1st innings, Peter Siddle dug in and hung around for long enough to a job for his team just...
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Posted on November 10, 2011
KP has been using his Twitter account to again let his feelings be known. Today he tweeted.... Hate having to watch SA v AUS test match muted.. Cork in studio-MUTE!! Wessels commentating-MUTE!! Both as bad as Nick Knight.....
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Posted on November 9, 2011
Former sports editor of the News of the World, Paul McCarthy was...
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Posted on November 8, 2011
What a position the West Indies were in at the start of play today. At the end of Day 2 they were over a hundred runs in front, with 2 wickets down. A solid 275-300 runs in their...
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Posted on November 8, 2011
When you get a label, it can well and truly stick. When I got up this morning I went on line to check the cricket scores and while I was logged on, I had a quick look on my twitter account. I noticed on my timeline that there was a few Pakistan fans remarking about Sri Lanka's lack of urgency in attempting to set a total to give themselves the maximum amount of time to bowl out Pakistan and level ...
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